在本文中，我们提出了一种算法，以在动态场景的两对图像之间插值。尽管在过去的几年中，在框架插值方面取得了重大进展，但当前的方法无法处理具有亮度和照明变化的图像，即使很快将图像捕获也很常见。我们建议通过利用现有的光流方法来解决这个问题，这些方法对照明的变化非常健壮。具体而言，使用使用现有预训练的流动网络估算的双向流，我们预测了从中间帧到两个输入图像的流。为此，我们建议将双向流编码为由超网络提供动力的基于坐标的网络，以获得跨时间的连续表示流。一旦获得了估计的流，我们就会在现有的混合网络中使用它们来获得最终的中间帧。通过广泛的实验，我们证明我们的方法能够比最新的框架插值算法产生明显更好的结果。

Fast and easy handheld capture with guideline: closest object moves at most D pixels between views Promote sampled views to local light field via layered scene representation Blend neighboring local light fields to render novel views

最近的方法（例如材料gan）已使用无条件的gan来生成每像素材料图，或作为从输入照片重建材料之前的材料。这些模型可以生成各种随机材料外观，但没有任何将生成材料限制为特定类别或控制生成材料的粗体结构的机制，例如砖墙上的精确砖布局。此外，从单个输入照片中重建的材料通常具有伪像，并且通常不可易换，这限制了它们在实际内容创建管道中的使用。我们提出了Tilegen，这是一种针对SVBRDFS的生成模型，该模型特定于材料类别，始终可易换，并且在提供的输入结构模式上有条件。 Tilegen是Stylegan的变体，其架构经过修改以始终生成可易于的（周期性）材料图。除了标准的“样式”潜在代码外，Tilegen还可以选择拍摄条件图像，从而使用户直接控制材料的主要空间（和可选的颜色）功能。例如，在砖块中，用户可以指定砖布局和砖块，或者在皮革材料中，皱纹和褶皱的位置。我们的反渲染方法可以通过优化找到一种材料，从而感知到单个目标照片。这种重建也可以以用户提供的模式为条件。所得的材料是可拆卸的，可以大于目标图像，并且可以通过改变条件来编辑。

The number of international benchmarking competitions is steadily increasing in various fields of machine learning (ML) research and practice. So far, however, little is known about the common practice as well as bottlenecks faced by the community in tackling the research questions posed. To shed light on the status quo of algorithm development in the specific field of biomedical imaging analysis, we designed an international survey that was issued to all participants of challenges conducted in conjunction with the IEEE ISBI 2021 and MICCAI 2021 conferences (80 competitions in total). The survey covered participants' expertise and working environments, their chosen strategies, as well as algorithm characteristics. A median of 72% challenge participants took part in the survey. According to our results, knowledge exchange was the primary incentive (70%) for participation, while the reception of prize money played only a minor role (16%). While a median of 80 working hours was spent on method development, a large portion of participants stated that they did not have enough time for method development (32%). 25% perceived the infrastructure to be a bottleneck. Overall, 94% of all solutions were deep learning-based. Of these, 84% were based on standard architectures. 43% of the respondents reported that the data samples (e.g., images) were too large to be processed at once. This was most commonly addressed by patch-based training (69%), downsampling (37%), and solving 3D analysis tasks as a series of 2D tasks. K-fold cross-validation on the training set was performed by only 37% of the participants and only 50% of the participants performed ensembling based on multiple identical models (61%) or heterogeneous models (39%). 48% of the respondents applied postprocessing steps.

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been utilized for various natural language processing (NLP) tasks lately. The ability to encode corpus-wide features in graph representation made GNN models popular in various tasks such as document classification. One major shortcoming of such models is that they mainly work on homogeneous graphs, while representing text datasets as graphs requires several node types which leads to a heterogeneous schema. In this paper, we propose a transductive hybrid approach composed of an unsupervised node representation learning model followed by a node classification/edge prediction model. The proposed model is capable of processing heterogeneous graphs to produce unified node embeddings which are then utilized for node classification or link prediction as the downstream task. The proposed model is developed to classify stock market technical analysis reports, which to our knowledge is the first work in this domain. Experiments, which are carried away using a constructed dataset, demonstrate the ability of the model in embedding extraction and the downstream tasks.

In this paper, we propose a robust election simulation model and independently developed election anomaly detection algorithm that demonstrates the simulation's utility. The simulation generates artificial elections with similar properties and trends as elections from the real world, while giving users control and knowledge over all the important components of the elections. We generate a clean election results dataset without fraud as well as datasets with varying degrees of fraud. We then measure how well the algorithm is able to successfully detect the level of fraud present. The algorithm determines how similar actual election results are as compared to the predicted results from polling and a regression model of other regions that have similar demographics. We use k-means to partition electoral regions into clusters such that demographic homogeneity is maximized among clusters. We then use a novelty detection algorithm implemented as a one-class Support Vector Machine where the clean data is provided in the form of polling predictions and regression predictions. The regression predictions are built from the actual data in such a way that the data supervises itself. We show both the effectiveness of the simulation technique and the machine learning model in its success in identifying fraudulent regions.

This letter explains an algorithm for finding a set of base functions. The method aims to capture the leading behavior of the dataset in terms of a few base functions. Implementation of the A-star search will help find these functions, while the gradient descent optimizes the parameters of the functions at each search step. We will show the resulting plots to compare the extrapolation with the unseen data.

共处的触觉传感是一种基本的启发技术，用于灵巧操纵。然而，可变形的传感器在机器人，握住的对象和环境之间引入了复杂的动力学，必须考虑进行精细操纵。在这里，我们提出了一种学习软触觉传感器膜动力学的方法，该动力学解释了由握把对象和环境之间的物理相互作用引起的传感器变形。我们的方法将膜的感知3D几何形状与本体感受反应扳手结合在一起，以预测以机器人作用为条件的未来变形。从膜的几何形状和反应扳手中回收了抓握的物体姿势，从触觉观察模型中解耦相互作用动力学。我们在两个现实世界的接触任务上基准了我们的方法：用握把标记和手中旋转的绘画。我们的结果表明，明确建模膜动力学比基准实现了更好的任务性能和对看不见的对象的概括。

深入强化学习（DRL）用于开发自主优化和定制设计的热处理过程，这些过程既对微观结构敏感又节能。与常规监督的机器学习不同，DRL不仅依赖于数据中的静态神经网络培训，但是学习代理人会根据奖励和惩罚元素自主开发最佳解决方案，并减少或没有监督。在我们的方法中，依赖温度的艾伦 - 卡恩模型用于相转换，用作DRL代理的环境，是其获得经验并采取自主决策的模型世界。 DRL算法的试剂正在控制系统的温度，作为用于合金热处理的模型炉。根据所需的相位微观结构为代理定义了微观结构目标。训练后，代理可以为各种初始微观结构状态生成温度时间曲线，以达到最终所需的微观结构状态。详细研究了代理商的性能和热处理概况的物理含义。特别是，该试剂能够控制温度以从各种初始条件开始达到所需的微观结构。代理在处理各种条件方面的这种能力为使用这种方法铺平了道路，也用于回收的导向热处理过程设计，由于杂质的侵入，初始组合物可能因批量而异，以及用于设计节能热处理。为了检验这一假设，将无罚款的代理人与考虑能源成本的代理人进行了比较。对能源成本的罚款是针对找到最佳温度时间剖面的代理的附加标准。

农作物管理，包括氮（N）受精和灌溉管理，对农作物产量，经济利润和环境产生了重大影响。尽管存在管理指南，但要在特定的种植环境和农作物中找到最佳的管理实践是挑战。先前的工作使用加强学习（RL）和作物模拟器来解决该问题，但是训练有素的政策要么具有有限的性能，要么在现实世界中不可部署。在本文中，我们提出了一种智能作物管理系统，该系统通过RL，模仿学习（IL）同时优化N受精和灌溉，并使用农业技术决策系统（DSSAT）进行了作物模拟。我们首先使用Deep RL，尤其是Deep Q-Network来培训需要从模拟器中的所有状态信息作为观测值（表示为完整观察）的管理政策。然后，我们援引IL来培训管理政策，这些政策只需要有限的国家信息，这些信息可以通过模仿以前的RL训练有素的政策在全面观察中轻松获得的国家（表示为部分观察）。我们在佛罗里达州使用玉米的案例研究进行实验，并将受过训练的政策与玉米管理指南进行比较。我们在全面观察和部分观察中训练有素的政策取得了更好的结果，从而获得更高的利润或类似的利润，而环境影响较小。此外，部分观察管理政策在使用易于使用的信息时直接在现实世界中部署。