Unhealthy dietary habits are considered as the primary cause of multiple chronic diseases such as obesity and diabetes. The automatic food intake monitoring system has the potential to improve the quality of life (QoF) of people with dietary related diseases through dietary assessment. In this work, we propose a novel contact-less radar-based food intake monitoring approach. Specifically, a Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) radar sensor is employed to recognize fine-grained eating and drinking gestures. The fine-grained eating/drinking gesture contains a series of movement from raising the hand to the mouth until putting away the hand from the mouth. A 3D temporal convolutional network (3D-TCN) is developed to detect and segment eating and drinking gestures in meal sessions by processing the Range-Doppler Cube (RD Cube). Unlike previous radar-based research, this work collects data in continuous meal sessions. We create a public dataset that contains 48 meal sessions (3121 eating gestures and 608 drinking gestures) from 48 participants with a total duration of 783 minutes. Four eating styles (fork & knife, chopsticks, spoon, hand) are included in this dataset. To validate the performance of the proposed approach, 8-fold cross validation method is applied. Experimental results show that our proposed 3D-TCN outperforms the model that combines a convolutional neural network and a long-short-term-memory network (CNN-LSTM), and also the CNN-Bidirectional LSTM model (CNN-BiLSTM) in eating and drinking gesture detection. The 3D-TCN model achieves a segmental F1-score of 0.887 and 0.844 for eating and drinking gestures, respectively. The results of the proposed approach indicate the feasibility of using radar for fine-grained eating and drinking gesture detection and segmentation in meal sessions.

We propose a framework for learning a fragment of probabilistic computation tree logic (pCTL) formulae from a set of states that are labeled as safe or unsafe. We work in a relational setting and combine ideas from relational Markov Decision Processes with pCTL model-checking. More specifically, we assume that there is an unknown relational pCTL target formula that is satisfied by only safe states, and has a horizon of maximum $k$ steps and a threshold probability $\alpha$. The task then consists of learning this unknown formula from states that are labeled as safe or unsafe by a domain expert. We apply principles of relational learning to induce a pCTL formula that is satisfied by all safe states and none of the unsafe ones. This formula can then be used as a safety specification for this domain, so that the system can avoid getting into dangerous situations in future. Following relational learning principles, we introduce a candidate formula generation process, as well as a method for deciding which candidate formula is a satisfactory specification for the given labeled states. The cases where the expert knows and does not know the system policy are treated, however, much of the learning process is the same for both cases. We evaluate our approach on a synthetic relational domain.

开放域对话框的自动评估仍然是一个未解决的问题。此外，现有方法与人类注释没有密切相关。本文使用后续行动提出了一种新的自动化评估方法：我们衡量语言模型将继续使用固定的后续行动继续对话的可能性（例如，在这里不真正相关，您想说什么）。与现有的十二种方法进行比较时，我们的新评估与人类评估的最高相关性。

灵巧的操纵仍然是机器人技术中的一个空缺问题。为了协调研究界为解决这个问题的努力，我们提出了共同的基准。我们设计和构建了机器人平台，该平台托管在MPI上供智能系统托管，可以远程访问。每个平台由三个能够敏捷物体操纵的机器人手指组成。用户能够通过提交自动执行的代码（类似于计算群集）来远程控制平台。使用此设置，i）我们举办机器人竞赛，来自世界任何地方的团队访问我们的平台以应对具有挑战性的任务ii）我们发布了在这些比赛中收集的数据集（包括数百个机器人小时），而我们为研究人员提供了访问自己项目的这些平台。

尽管近期因因果推断领域的进展，迄今为止没有关于从观察数据的收集治疗效应估算的方法。对临床实践的结果是，当缺乏随机试验的结果时，没有指导在真实情景中似乎有效的指导。本文提出了一种务实的方法，以获得从观察性研究的治疗效果的初步但稳健地估算，为前线临床医生提供对其治疗策略的信心程度。我们的研究设计适用于一个公开问题，估算Covid-19密集护理患者的拳击机动的治疗效果。

已经开发了概率模型检查，用于验证具有随机和非季度行为的验证系统。鉴于概率系统，概率模型检查器占用属性并检查该系统中的属性是否保持。因此，概率模型检查提供严谨的保证。然而，到目前为止，概率模型检查专注于所谓的模型，其中一个状态由符号表示。另一方面，通常需要在规划和强化学习中进行关系抽象。各种框架处理关系域，例如条带规划和关系马尔可夫决策过程。使用命题模型检查关系设置需要一个地接地模型，这导致了众所周知的状态爆炸问题和难以承承性。我们提出了PCTL-Rebel，一种用于验证关系MDP的PCTL属性的提升模型检查方法。它延长了基于关系模型的强化学习技术的反叛者，朝着关系PCTL模型检查。 PCTL-REBEL被提升，这意味着而不是接地，模型利用对称在关系层面上整体的一组对象。从理论上讲，我们表明PCTL模型检查对于具有可能无限域的关系MDP可判定，条件是该状态具有有界大小。实际上，我们提供算法和提升关系模型检查的实现，并且我们表明提升方法提高了模型检查方法的可扩展性。

Dexterous操作是机器人中的一个具有挑战性和重要问题。虽然数据驱动方法是一个有希望的方法，但由于流行方法的样本效率低，当前基准测试需要模拟或广泛的工程支持。我们为Trifinger系统提供基准，这是一个开源机器人平台，用于灵巧操纵和2020年真正的机器人挑战的重点。在挑战中取得成功的基准方法可以一般被描述为结构性政策，因为它们结合了经典机器人和现代政策优化的元素。这种诱导偏差的包含促进样品效率，可解释性，可靠性和高性能。该基准测试的关键方面是验证跨模拟和实际系统的基线，对每个解决方案的核心特征进行彻底消融研究，以及作为操纵基准的挑战的回顾性分析。本工作的代码和演示视频可以在我们的网站上找到（https://sites.google.com/view/benchmark-rrc）。

Advances in computer vision and machine learning techniques have led to significant development in 2D and 3D human pose estimation from RGB cameras, LiDAR, and radars. However, human pose estimation from images is adversely affected by occlusion and lighting, which are common in many scenarios of interest. Radar and LiDAR technologies, on the other hand, need specialized hardware that is expensive and power-intensive. Furthermore, placing these sensors in non-public areas raises significant privacy concerns. To address these limitations, recent research has explored the use of WiFi antennas (1D sensors) for body segmentation and key-point body detection. This paper further expands on the use of the WiFi signal in combination with deep learning architectures, commonly used in computer vision, to estimate dense human pose correspondence. We developed a deep neural network that maps the phase and amplitude of WiFi signals to UV coordinates within 24 human regions. The results of the study reveal that our model can estimate the dense pose of multiple subjects, with comparable performance to image-based approaches, by utilizing WiFi signals as the only input. This paves the way for low-cost, broadly accessible, and privacy-preserving algorithms for human sensing.

Due to the environmental impacts caused by the construction industry, repurposing existing buildings and making them more energy-efficient has become a high-priority issue. However, a legitimate concern of land developers is associated with the buildings' state of conservation. For that reason, infrared thermography has been used as a powerful tool to characterize these buildings' state of conservation by detecting pathologies, such as cracks and humidity. Thermal cameras detect the radiation emitted by any material and translate it into temperature-color-coded images. Abnormal temperature changes may indicate the presence of pathologies, however, reading thermal images might not be quite simple. This research project aims to combine infrared thermography and machine learning (ML) to help stakeholders determine the viability of reusing existing buildings by identifying their pathologies and defects more efficiently and accurately. In this particular phase of this research project, we've used an image classification machine learning model of Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) to differentiate three levels of cracks in one particular building. The model's accuracy was compared between the MSX and thermal images acquired from two distinct thermal cameras and fused images (formed through multisource information) to test the influence of the input data and network on the detection results.

The advances in Artificial Intelligence are creating new opportunities to improve lives of people around the world, from business to healthcare, from lifestyle to education. For example, some systems profile the users using their demographic and behavioral characteristics to make certain domain-specific predictions. Often, such predictions impact the life of the user directly or indirectly (e.g., loan disbursement, determining insurance coverage, shortlisting applications, etc.). As a result, the concerns over such AI-enabled systems are also increasing. To address these concerns, such systems are mandated to be responsible i.e., transparent, fair, and explainable to developers and end-users. In this paper, we present ComplAI, a unique framework to enable, observe, analyze and quantify explainability, robustness, performance, fairness, and model behavior in drift scenarios, and to provide a single Trust Factor that evaluates different supervised Machine Learning models not just from their ability to make correct predictions but from overall responsibility perspective. The framework helps users to (a) connect their models and enable explanations, (b) assess and visualize different aspects of the model, such as robustness, drift susceptibility, and fairness, and (c) compare different models (from different model families or obtained through different hyperparameter settings) from an overall perspective thereby facilitating actionable recourse for improvement of the models. It is model agnostic and works with different supervised machine learning scenarios (i.e., Binary Classification, Multi-class Classification, and Regression) and frameworks. It can be seamlessly integrated with any ML life-cycle framework. Thus, this already deployed framework aims to unify critical aspects of Responsible AI systems for regulating the development process of such real systems.