This paper presents a low cost PMOS-based 8T (P-8T) SRAM Compute-In-Memory (CIM) architecture that efficiently per-forms the multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations between 4-bit input activations and 8-bit weights. First, bit-line (BL) charge-sharing technique is employed to design the low-cost and reliable digital-to-analog conversion of 4-bit input activations in the pro-posed SRAM CIM, where the charge domain analog computing provides variation tolerant and linear MAC outputs. The 16 local arrays are also effectively exploited to implement the analog mul-tiplication unit (AMU) that simultaneously produces 16 multipli-cation results between 4-bit input activations and 1-bit weights. For the hardware cost reduction of analog-to-digital converter (ADC) without sacrificing DNN accuracy, hardware aware sys-tem simulations are performed to decide the ADC bit-resolutions and the number of activated rows in the proposed CIM macro. In addition, for the ADC operation, the AMU-based reference col-umns are utilized for generating ADC reference voltages, with which low-cost 4-bit coarse-fine flash ADC has been designed. The 256X80 P-8T SRAM CIM macro implementation using 28nm CMOS process shows that the proposed CIM shows the accuracies of 91.46% and 66.67% with CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 dataset, respectively, with the energy efficiency of 50.07-TOPS/W.

由于相邻的节点之间的相互作用，在类不平衡的图形数据下学习无偏的节点表示具有挑战性。现有研究的共同点是，它们根据其总数（忽略图中的节点连接）来补偿次要类节点“作为组”，这不可避免地增加了主要节点的假阳性病例。我们假设这些假阳性病例的增加受到每个节点周围的标签分布的高度影响，并通过实验确认。此外，为了解决这个问题，我们提出了拓扑意识的利润率（TAM），以反映学习目标的本地拓扑。我们的方法将每个节点的连通性模式与类平均反向零件进行比较，并根据此相应地适应边缘。我们的方法始终在具有代表性GNN体系结构的各种节点分类基准数据集上表现出优于基线的优势。

混合方案表明混合一对样品以创造增强的训练样本，并最近获得了相当大的关注，以提高神经网络的普遍性。混合的简单和广泛使用的扩展是与区域辍学方法相结合：从样品中除去随机贴片并用另一个样品的特征替换。尽管它们的简单性和有效性，但这些方法易于由于它们的随机性而产生有害样品。为了解决这个问题，最近提出了“最大显着性”策略：只选择最具信息性的功能以防止这种现象。然而，他们现在缺乏样品多样化，因为它们总是确定具有最大显着性的区域，将偏置注入增强数据。在本文中，我们展示了一种新颖，简单的混合变体，捕获了两个世界的最佳变化。我们的想法是两倍。通过将特征的随机抽查和“将它们嫁接到另一个样本”，我们的方法有效地产生了多样化但有意义的样本。其第二种成分是通过以显着校准的方式混合标签来生产接枝样品的标签，这整流了随机抽样程序引入的监督误导。我们在CiFar，微小想象成和Imagenet数据集下的实验表明，我们的方案不仅在分类准确性方面优于当前的最先进的增强策略，但在数据损坏等压力条件下也是优越的对象遮挡。

图形结构的数据集通常具有不规则的图表尺寸和连接，渲染使用最近的数据增强技术，例如混合，困难。为了解决这一挑战，我们在名为曲线图移植的图形级别提供了第一个混合图形增强方法，其在数据空间中混合了不规则图。要在图形的各种尺度上定义，我们的方法将子结构标识为可以保留本地信息的混合单元。由于没有特殊考虑上下文的​​基于混合的方法易于产生噪声样本，因此我们的方法明确地使用节点显着信息来选择有意义的子图并自适应地确定标签。我们在多个图形分类基准数据集中广泛地验证了我们多样化的GNN架构，来自不同尺寸的各种图形域。实验结果显示了我们对其他基本数据增强基线的方法的一致优势。我们还证明了曲线图移植在鲁棒性和模型校准方面提高了性能。

The automated segmentation and tracking of macrophages during their migration are challenging tasks due to their dynamically changing shapes and motions. This paper proposes a new algorithm to achieve automatic cell tracking in time-lapse microscopy macrophage data. First, we design a segmentation method employing space-time filtering, local Otsu's thresholding, and the SUBSURF (subjective surface segmentation) method. Next, the partial trajectories for cells overlapping in the temporal direction are extracted in the segmented images. Finally, the extracted trajectories are linked by considering their direction of movement. The segmented images and the obtained trajectories from the proposed method are compared with those of the semi-automatic segmentation and manual tracking. The proposed tracking achieved 97.4% of accuracy for macrophage data under challenging situations, feeble fluorescent intensity, irregular shapes, and motion of macrophages. We expect that the automatically extracted trajectories of macrophages can provide pieces of evidence of how macrophages migrate depending on their polarization modes in the situation, such as during wound healing.

Data-centric AI has shed light on the significance of data within the machine learning (ML) pipeline. Acknowledging its importance, various research and policies are suggested by academia, industry, and government departments. Although the capability of utilizing existing data is essential, the capability to build a dataset has become more important than ever. In consideration of this trend, we propose a "Data Management Operation and Recipes" that will guide the industry regardless of the task or domain. In other words, this paper presents the concept of DMOps derived from real-world experience. By offering a baseline for building data, we want to help the industry streamline its data operation optimally.

According to the rapid development of drone technologies, drones are widely used in many applications including military domains. In this paper, a novel situation-aware DRL- based autonomous nonlinear drone mobility control algorithm in cyber-physical loitering munition applications. On the battlefield, the design of DRL-based autonomous control algorithm is not straightforward because real-world data gathering is generally not available. Therefore, the approach in this paper is that cyber-physical virtual environment is constructed with Unity environment. Based on the virtual cyber-physical battlefield scenarios, a DRL-based automated nonlinear drone mobility control algorithm can be designed, evaluated, and visualized. Moreover, many obstacles exist which is harmful for linear trajectory control in real-world battlefield scenarios. Thus, our proposed autonomous nonlinear drone mobility control algorithm utilizes situation-aware components those are implemented with a Raycast function in Unity virtual scenarios. Based on the gathered situation-aware information, the drone can autonomously and nonlinearly adjust its trajectory during flight. Therefore, this approach is obviously beneficial for avoiding obstacles in obstacle-deployed battlefields. Our visualization-based performance evaluation shows that the proposed algorithm is superior from the other linear mobility control algorithms.

This paper proposes a new regularization algorithm referred to as macro-block dropout. The overfitting issue has been a difficult problem in training large neural network models. The dropout technique has proven to be simple yet very effective for regularization by preventing complex co-adaptations during training. In our work, we define a macro-block that contains a large number of units from the input to a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). Rather than applying dropout to each unit, we apply random dropout to each macro-block. This algorithm has the effect of applying different drop out rates for each layer even if we keep a constant average dropout rate, which has better regularization effects. In our experiments using Recurrent Neural Network-Transducer (RNN-T), this algorithm shows relatively 4.30 % and 6.13 % Word Error Rates (WERs) improvement over the conventional dropout on LibriSpeech test-clean and test-other. With an Attention-based Encoder-Decoder (AED) model, this algorithm shows relatively 4.36 % and 5.85 % WERs improvement over the conventional dropout on the same test sets.

Affect understanding capability is essential for social robots to autonomously interact with a group of users in an intuitive and reciprocal way. However, the challenge of multi-person affect understanding comes from not only the accurate perception of each user's affective state (e.g., engagement) but also the recognition of the affect interplay between the members (e.g., joint engagement) that presents as complex, but subtle, nonverbal exchanges between them. Here we present a novel hybrid framework for identifying a parent-child dyad's joint engagement by combining a deep learning framework with various video augmentation techniques. Using a dataset of parent-child dyads reading storybooks together with a social robot at home, we first train RGB frame- and skeleton-based joint engagement recognition models with four video augmentation techniques (General Aug, DeepFake, CutOut, and Mixed) applied datasets to improve joint engagement classification performance. Second, we demonstrate experimental results on the use of trained models in the robot-parent-child interaction context. Third, we introduce a behavior-based metric for evaluating the learned representation of the models to investigate the model interpretability when recognizing joint engagement. This work serves as the first step toward fully unlocking the potential of end-to-end video understanding models pre-trained on large public datasets and augmented with data augmentation and visualization techniques for affect recognition in the multi-person human-robot interaction in the wild.

Training agents via off-policy deep reinforcement learning (RL) requires a large memory, named replay memory, that stores past experiences used for learning. These experiences are sampled, uniformly or non-uniformly, to create the batches used for training. When calculating the loss function, off-policy algorithms assume that all samples are of the same importance. In this paper, we hypothesize that training can be enhanced by assigning different importance for each experience based on their temporal-difference (TD) error directly in the training objective. We propose a novel method that introduces a weighting factor for each experience when calculating the loss function at the learning stage. In addition to improving convergence speed when used with uniform sampling, the method can be combined with prioritization methods for non-uniform sampling. Combining the proposed method with prioritization methods improves sampling efficiency while increasing the performance of TD-based off-policy RL algorithms. The effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated by experiments in six environments of the OpenAI Gym suite. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves a 33%~76% reduction of convergence speed in three environments and an 11% increase in returns and a 3%~10% increase in success rate for other three environments.