事件摄像机是运动激活的传感器，可捕获像素级照明的变化，而不是具有固定帧速率的强度图像。与标准摄像机相比，它可以在高速运动和高动态范围场景中提供可靠的视觉感知。但是，当相机和场景之间的相对运动受到限制时，例如在静态状态下，事件摄像机仅输出一点信息甚至噪音。尽管标准相机可以在大多数情况下，尤其是在良好的照明条件下提供丰富的感知信息。这两个相机完全是互补的。在本文中，我们提出了一种具有鲁棒性，高智能和实时优化的基于事件的视觉惯性镜（VIO）方法，具有事件角度，基于线的事件功能和基于点的图像功能。提出的方法旨在利用人为场景中的自然场景和基于线路的功能中的基于点的功能，以通过设计良好设计的功能管理提供更多其他结构或约束信息。公共基准数据集中的实验表明，与基于图像或基于事件的VIO相比，我们的方法可以实现卓越的性能。最后，我们使用我们的方法演示了机上闭环自动驾驶四极管飞行和大规模室外实验。评估的视频在我们的项目网站上介绍：https：//b23.tv/oe3qm6j

越来越多的自然语言处理研究（NLP）和自然语言理解（NLU）正在研究从大语言模型的嵌入一词中学习或编码的人类知识。这是了解哪些知识语言模型捕获的一步，类似于人类对语言和交流的理解。在这里，我们调查了单词（即价，唤醒，主导地位）的影响以及如何在大型神经网络中预先训练的单词嵌入中编码。我们将人类标记的数据集用作地面真理，并对四种单词嵌入方式进行了各种相关和分类测试。嵌入在静态或上下文化方面有所不同，以及在训练和微调阶段优先考虑特定信息的程度。我们的分析表明，嵌入Vanilla Bert模型的单词并未明显编码英语单词的影响信息。只有在与情绪相关的任务上进行微调或包含来自情感丰富的环境的额外上下文化信息时，只有在bert模型进行微调时，相应的嵌入方式可以编码更相关的影响信息。

过去几十年来，地球观察卫星（EOSS）迅速增加，导致EOSS计划的复杂性日益增加。由于大区域观察的广泛应用，本文旨在解决大型地区目标的EOSS观察计划问题。首先开发了采用投影参考平面和多边形裁剪技术的快速覆盖计算方法。然后，我们为调度问题制定了非线性整数编程模型，其中基于开发的覆盖范围计算方法计算目标函数。提出了一种基于贪婪初始化的重新采样粒子群优化（GI-RPSO）算法来解决该模型。所采用的贪婪初始化策略和粒子重采样方法有助于在进化过程中产生有效的解决方案。最后，进行了广泛的实验，以说明所提出方法的有效性和可靠性。与传统的粒子群优化和广泛使用的贪婪算法相比，所提出的GI-RPSO可以分别提高计划结果5.42％和15.86％。

Twitter机器人检测已成为打击错误信息，促进社交媒体节制并保持在线话语的完整性的越来越重要的任务。最先进的机器人检测方法通常利用Twitter网络的图形结构，在面对传统方法无法检测到的新型Twitter机器人时，它们表现出令人鼓舞的性能。但是，现有的Twitter机器人检测数据集很少是基于图形的，即使这些基于图形的数据集也遭受有限的数据集量表，不完整的图形结构以及低注释质量。实际上，缺乏解决这些问题的大规模基于图的Twitter机器人检测基准，严重阻碍了基于图形的机器人检测方法的开发和评估。在本文中，我们提出了Twibot-22，这是一个综合基于图的Twitter机器人检测基准，它显示了迄今为止最大的数据集，在Twitter网络上提供了多元化的实体和关系，并且与现有数据集相比具有更好的注释质量。此外，我们重新实施35代表性的Twitter机器人检测基线，并在包括Twibot-22在内的9个数据集上进行评估，以促进对模型性能和对研究进度的整体了解的公平比较。为了促进进一步的研究，我们将所有实施的代码和数据集巩固到Twibot-22评估框架中，研究人员可以在其中始终如一地评估新的模型和数据集。 Twibot-22 Twitter机器人检测基准和评估框架可在https://twibot22.github.io/上公开获得。

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel imaging modality that has been widely utilized in ophthalmology and neuroscience studies to observe retinal vessels and microvascular systems. However, publicly available OCTA datasets remain scarce. In this paper, we introduce the largest and most comprehensive OCTA dataset dubbed OCTA-500, which contains OCTA imaging under two fields of view (FOVs) from 500 subjects. The dataset provides rich images and annotations including two modalities (OCT/OCTA volumes), six types of projections, four types of text labels (age / gender / eye / disease) and seven types of segmentation labels (large vessel/capillary/artery/vein/2D FAZ/3D FAZ/retinal layers). Then, we propose a multi-object segmentation task called CAVF, which integrates capillary segmentation, artery segmentation, vein segmentation, and FAZ segmentation under a unified framework. In addition, we optimize the 3D-to-2D image projection network (IPN) to IPN-V2 to serve as one of the segmentation baselines. Experimental results demonstrate that IPN-V2 achieves an ~10% mIoU improvement over IPN on CAVF task. Finally, we further study the impact of several dataset characteristics: the training set size, the model input (OCT/OCTA, 3D volume/2D projection), the baseline networks, and the diseases. The dataset and code are publicly available at: https://ieee-dataport.org/open-access/octa-500.

In the process of projecting the surface of a three-dimensional object onto a two-dimensional surface, due to the perspective distortion, the image on the surface of the object will have different degrees of distortion according to the level of the surface curvature. This paper presents an imprecise method for flattening this type of distortion on the surface of a regularly curved body. The main idea of this method is to roughly estimate the gridded surface subdivision that can be used to describe the surface of the three-dimensional object through the contour curve of the two-dimensional image of the object. Then, take each grid block with different sizes and shapes inversely transformed into a rectangle with exactly the same shape and size. Finally, each of the same rectangles is splicing and recombining in turn to obtain a roughly flat rectangle. This paper will introduce and show the specific process and results of using this method to solve the problem of bending page flattening, then demonstrate the feasibility and limitations of this method.

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes, and one of the major causes of vision impairment in the global population. As the early-stage manifestation of DR is usually very mild and hard to detect, an accurate diagnosis via eye-screening is clinically important to prevent vision loss at later stages. In this work, we propose an ensemble method to automatically grade DR using ultra-wide optical coherence tomography angiography (UW-OCTA) images available from Diabetic Retinopathy Analysis Challenge (DRAC) 2022. First, we adopt the state-of-the-art classification networks, i.e., ResNet, DenseNet, EfficientNet, and VGG, and train them to grade UW-OCTA images with different splits of the available dataset. Ultimately, we obtain 25 models, of which, the top 16 models are selected and ensembled to generate the final predictions. During the training process, we also investigate the multi-task learning strategy, and add an auxiliary classification task, the Image Quality Assessment, to improve the model performance. Our final ensemble model achieved a quadratic weighted kappa (QWK) of 0.9346 and an Area Under Curve (AUC) of 0.9766 on the internal testing dataset, and the QWK of 0.839 and the AUC of 0.8978 on the DRAC challenge testing dataset.

The orthogonality constraints, including the hard and soft ones, have been used to normalize the weight matrices of Deep Neural Network (DNN) models, especially the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT), to reduce model parameter redundancy and improve training stability. However, the robustness to noisy data of these models with constraints is not always satisfactory. In this work, we propose a novel two-stage approximately orthogonal training framework (TAOTF) to find a trade-off between the orthogonal solution space and the main task solution space to solve this problem in noisy data scenarios. In the first stage, we propose a novel algorithm called polar decomposition-based orthogonal initialization (PDOI) to find a good initialization for the orthogonal optimization. In the second stage, unlike other existing methods, we apply soft orthogonal constraints for all layers of DNN model. We evaluate the proposed model-agnostic framework both on the natural image and medical image datasets, which show that our method achieves stable and superior performances to existing methods.

The rapid development of aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) within recent decades shows great potential for real-world society. The current ABSA works, however, are mostly limited to the scenario of a single text piece, leaving the study in dialogue contexts unexplored. In this work, we introduce a novel task of conversational aspect-based sentiment quadruple analysis, namely DiaASQ, aiming to detect the sentiment quadruple of target-aspect-opinion-sentiment in a dialogue. DiaASQ bridges the gap between fine-grained sentiment analysis and conversational opinion mining. We manually construct a large-scale, high-quality Chinese dataset and also obtain the English version dataset via manual translation. We deliberately propose a neural model to benchmark the task. It advances in effectively performing end-to-end quadruple prediction and manages to incorporate rich dialogue-specific and discourse feature representations for better cross-utterance quadruple extraction. We finally point out several potential future works to facilitate the follow-up research of this new task. The DiaASQ data is open at https://github.com/unikcc/DiaASQ

Cross-view geo-localization aims to spot images of the same location shot from two platforms, e.g., the drone platform and the satellite platform. Existing methods usually focus on optimizing the distance between one embedding with others in the feature space, while neglecting the redundancy of the embedding itself. In this paper, we argue that the low redundancy is also of importance, which motivates the model to mine more diverse patterns. To verify this point, we introduce a simple yet effective regularization, i.e., Dynamic Weighted Decorrelation Regularization (DWDR), to explicitly encourage networks to learn independent embedding channels. As the name implies, DWDR regresses the embedding correlation coefficient matrix to a sparse matrix, i.e., the identity matrix, with dynamic weights. The dynamic weights are applied to focus on still correlated channels during training. Besides, we propose a cross-view symmetric sampling strategy, which keeps the example balance between different platforms. Albeit simple, the proposed method has achieved competitive results on three large-scale benchmarks, i.e., University-1652, CVUSA and CVACT. Moreover, under the harsh circumstance, e.g., the extremely short feature of 64 dimensions, the proposed method surpasses the baseline model by a clear margin.