Through a study of multi-gas mixture datasets, we show that in multi-component spectral analysis, the number of functional or non-functional principal components required to retain the essential information is the same as the number of independent constituents in the mixture set. Due to the mutual in-dependency among different gas molecules, near one-to-one projection from the principal component to the mixture constituent can be established, leading to a significant simplification of spectral quantification. Further, with the knowledge of the molar extinction coefficients of each constituent, a complete principal component set can be extracted from the coefficients directly, and few to none training samples are required for the learning model. Compared to other approaches, the proposed methods provide fast and accurate spectral quantification solutions with a small memory size needed.

Body Mass Index (BMI), age, height and weight are important indicators of human health conditions, which can provide useful information for plenty of practical purposes, such as health care, monitoring and re-identification. Most existing methods of health indicator prediction mainly use front-view body or face images. These inputs are hard to be obtained in daily life and often lead to the lack of robustness for the models, considering their strict requirements on view and pose. In this paper, we propose to employ gait videos to predict health indicators, which are more prevalent in surveillance and home monitoring scenarios. However, the study of health indicator prediction from gait videos using deep learning was hindered due to the small amount of open-sourced data. To address this issue, we analyse the similarity and relationship between pose estimation and health indicator prediction tasks, and then propose a paradigm enabling deep learning for small health indicator datasets by pre-training on the pose estimation task. Furthermore, to better suit the health indicator prediction task, we bring forward Global-Local Aware aNd Centrosymmetric Encoder (GLANCE) module. It first extracts local and global features by progressive convolutions and then fuses multi-level features by a centrosymmetric double-path hourglass structure in two different ways. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed paradigm achieves state-of-the-art results for predicting health indicators on MoVi, and that the GLANCE module is also beneficial for pose estimation on 3DPW.

In natural language processing (NLP), the context of a word or sentence plays an essential role. Contextual information such as the semantic representation of a passage or historical dialogue forms an essential part of a conversation and a precise understanding of the present phrase or sentence. However, the standard attention mechanisms typically generate weights using query and key but ignore context, forming a Bi-Attention framework, despite their great success in modeling sequence alignment. This Bi-Attention mechanism does not explicitly model the interactions between the contexts, queries and keys of target sequences, missing important contextual information and resulting in poor attention performance. Accordingly, a novel and general triple-attention (Tri-Attention) framework expands the standard Bi-Attention mechanism and explicitly interacts query, key, and context by incorporating context as the third dimension in calculating relevance scores. Four variants of Tri-Attention are generated by expanding the two-dimensional vector-based additive, dot-product, scaled dot-product, and bilinear operations in Bi-Attention to the tensor operations for Tri-Attention. Extensive experiments on three NLP tasks demonstrate that Tri-Attention outperforms about 30 state-of-the-art non-attention, standard Bi-Attention, contextual Bi-Attention approaches and pretrained neural language models1.

Time series motif discovery has been a fundamental task to identify meaningful repeated patterns in time series. Recently, time series chains were introduced as an expansion of time series motifs to identify the continuous evolving patterns in time series data. Informally, a time series chain (TSC) is a temporally ordered set of time series subsequences, in which every subsequence is similar to the one that precedes it, but the last and the first can be arbitrarily dissimilar. TSCs are shown to be able to reveal latent continuous evolving trends in the time series, and identify precursors of unusual events in complex systems. Despite its promising interpretability, unfortunately, we have observed that existing TSC definitions lack the ability to accurately cover the evolving part of a time series: the discovered chains can be easily cut by noise and can include non-evolving patterns, making them impractical in real-world applications. Inspired by a recent work that tracks how the nearest neighbor of a time series subsequence changes over time, we introduce a new TSC definition which is much more robust to noise in the data, in the sense that they can better locate the evolving patterns while excluding the non-evolving ones. We further propose two new quality metrics to rank the discovered chains. With extensive empirical evaluations, we demonstrate that the proposed TSC definition is significantly more robust to noise than the state of the art, and the top ranked chains discovered can reveal meaningful regularities in a variety of real world datasets.

基于文本的人检索的核心问题是如何弥合多模式数据之间的异质差距。以前的许多方法，用于学习以\ textbf {交叉模式分布共识预测（CDCP）}方式学习潜在的常见歧管映射范式。当将某个模态分布到公共歧管中的映射特征时，相反模态的特征分布是完全不可见的。也就是说，如何实现跨模式分布共识，以便将多模式特征嵌入和对齐构建的跨模式公共歧管中，这完全取决于模型本身的经验，而不是实际情况。通过这种方法，不可避免的是，多模式数据在共同的歧管中不能很好地对齐，这最终导致了次优的检索性能。为了克服此\ textbf {CDCP困境}，我们提出了一种称为lbul的新颖算法，以学习基于文本的人检索的一致的跨模式公共歧管（C $^{3} $ M）。正如中文的谚语所说，我们方法的核心思想是``\ textit {san si er hou xing}'，即\ textbf {thee thee thee thee thee you lap leak（lbul）}。 LBUL的常见歧管映射机制包含一个看起来的步骤和跳跃步骤。与基于CDCP的方法相比，LBUL考虑了视觉和文本方式的分布特征，然后将数据从某种模式嵌入到C $^{3} $ M中以获得更固体的交叉模式分布共识，从而获得了优质检索准确性。我们对两个基于文本的人检索数据集Cuhk-Pedes和RSTPREID评估了建议的方法。实验结果表明，所提出的LBUL胜过先前的方法，并实现了最新的性能。

给定自然语言描述，基于文本的人检索旨在从大规模人物图像数据库中识别目标人的图像。现有方法通常面对\ textbf {颜色过度盟军问题}，这意味着在匹配跨模式数据时，模型在很大程度上依赖颜色信息。实际上，颜色信息是检索的重要决策，但是对颜色的过度依赖会分散模型从其他关键线索（例如纹理信息，结构信息等）中分散注意力，从而导致了次优的检索表现。为了解决这个问题，在本文中，我们建议\ textbf {c} apture \ textbf {a} ll-round \ textbf {i} nformation \ textbf {b} eyond \ textbf {c} olor（c} olor（ ）通过用于基于文本的人检索的共同优化的多分支体系结构。 CAIBC包含三个分支，包括RGB分支，灰度（GRS）分支和颜色（CLR）分支。此外，为了以平衡和有效的方式充分使用全方位信息，采用了相互学习机制来启用三个分支，这些分支可以参与信息的各个方面，以相互交流和学习。进行了广泛的实验分析，以评估我们在\ textbf {有监督}和\ textbf {弱监督}基于文本的人检索的\ textbf {pertexbf {pertegbf {pertegbf {cuhk-pedes和rstpreid数据集上的提议的CAIBC方法，这表明CAIBC显着超过现有的方法和现有方法。在这三个任务上实现最先进的性能。

最近，在一步的Panoptic细分方法上越来越关注，旨在有效地旨在在完全卷积的管道内共同分割实例和材料。但是，大多数现有的工作直接向骨干功能提供给各种分段头，忽略语义和实例分割的需求不同：前者需要语义级别的判别功能，而后者需要跨实例可区分的功能。为了缓解这一点，我们建议首先预测用于增强骨干特征的不同位置之间的语义级和实例级相关性，然后分别将改进的鉴别特征馈送到相应的分割头中。具体地，我们将给定位置与所有位置之间的相关性组织为连续序列，并将其预测为整体。考虑到这种序列可以非常复杂，我们采用离散的傅里叶变换（DFT），一种可以近似由幅度和短语参数化的任意序列的工具。对于不同的任务，我们以完全卷积的方式从骨干网上生成这些参数，该参数通过相应的任务隐含地优化。结果，这些准确和一致的相关性有助于产生符合复杂的Panoptic细分任务的要求的合理辨别特征。为了验证我们的方法的有效性，我们对几个具有挑战性的Panoptic细分数据集进行实验，并以45.1美元\％PQ和ADE20K为32.6美元\％PQ实现最先进的绩效。

后门深度学习（DL）模型的行为通常在清洁输入上，但在触发器输入时不端行为，因为后门攻击者希望为DL模型部署构成严重后果。最先进的防御是限于特定的后门攻击（源无关攻击）或在该机器学习（ML）专业知识或昂贵的计算资源中不适用于源友好的攻击。这项工作观察到所有现有的后门攻击都具有不可避免的内在弱点，不可转换性，即触发器输入劫持劫持模型，但不能对另一个尚未植入同一后门的模型有效。通过此密钥观察，我们提出了不可转换性的反向检测（NTD）来识别运行时在运行时的模型欠测试（MUT）的触发输入。特定，NTD允许潜在的回溯静电预测输入的类别。同时，NTD利用特征提取器（FE）来提取输入的特征向量，并且从其预测类随机拾取的一组样本，然后比较FE潜在空间中的输入和样本之间的相似性。如果相似性低，则输入是对逆势触发输入;否则，良性。 FE是一个免费的预训练模型，私下从开放平台保留。随着FE和MUT来自不同来源，攻击者非常不可能将相同的后门插入其中两者。由于不可转换性，不能将突变处工作的触发效果转移到FE，使NTD对不同类型的后门攻击有效。我们在三个流行的定制任务中评估NTD，如面部识别，交通标志识别和一般动物分类，结果确认NDT具有高效率（低假验收率）和具有低检测延迟的可用性（低误报率）。

Different people speak with diverse personalized speaking styles. Although existing one-shot talking head methods have made significant progress in lip sync, natural facial expressions, and stable head motions, they still cannot generate diverse speaking styles in the final talking head videos. To tackle this problem, we propose a one-shot style-controllable talking face generation framework. In a nutshell, we aim to attain a speaking style from an arbitrary reference speaking video and then drive the one-shot portrait to speak with the reference speaking style and another piece of audio. Specifically, we first develop a style encoder to extract dynamic facial motion patterns of a style reference video and then encode them into a style code. Afterward, we introduce a style-controllable decoder to synthesize stylized facial animations from the speech content and style code. In order to integrate the reference speaking style into generated videos, we design a style-aware adaptive transformer, which enables the encoded style code to adjust the weights of the feed-forward layers accordingly. Thanks to the style-aware adaptation mechanism, the reference speaking style can be better embedded into synthesized videos during decoding. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method is capable of generating talking head videos with diverse speaking styles from only one portrait image and an audio clip while achieving authentic visual effects. Project Page: https://github.com/FuxiVirtualHuman/styletalk.

Text classification, a core component of task-oriented dialogue systems, attracts continuous research from both the research and industry community, and has resulted in tremendous progress. However, existing method does not consider the use of label information, which may weaken the performance of text classification systems in some token-aware scenarios. To address the problem, in this paper, we introduce the use of label information as label embedding for the task of text classification and achieve remarkable performance on benchmark dataset.