MoNet : deep motion exploitation for video object segmentation by Xiao, Huaxin, Feng, Jiashi, Lin, Guosheng, Liu, Yu, Zhang, Maojun

“…Integrating the proposed two motion exploitation components with a standard segmentation network, MoNet provides new state-of-the-art performance on three competitive benchmark datasets.…”
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Multi-objective optimal power flow solutions using a constraint handling technique of evolutionary algorithms by Biswas, Partha Pratim, Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam, Mallipeddi, Rammohan, Amaratunga, Gehan A. J.

“…The algorithm MOEA/D-SF is applied to standard IEEE 30-bus and IEEE 57-bus test systems. …”
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A fully digital physical unclonable function based temperature sensor for secure remote sensing by Cao, Yuan, Guo, Yunyi, Liu, Benyu, Ge, Wei, Zhu, Min, Chang, Chip Hong

“…The RO frequency corresponding to the sensed temperature is fed into a randomizer seeded by the input challenge to select new RO pairs for comparison to generate a random, unique and physically unclonable digital tag, which is valid for a selected input challenge to a target device at a particular temperature. Using only standard logic cells and a very simple structure, the proposed temperature sensor can be easily implemented on FPGA and integrated into other digital systems. …”
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Neural machine translation for discourse phenomena by Shen, Youlin

“…Furthermore, the evaluation criteria used for most NMT models are standard automatic metrics like BLEU scores. These metrics are poorly adapted to evaluate models’ performance on discourse phenomena. …”
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Enhanced feature fusion through irrelevant redundancy elimination in intra-class and extra-class discriminative correlation analysis by Wu, Zuobin, Mao, Kezhi, Ng, Gee-Wah

“…One issue with the above standard CCA-based feature fusion is that the reduced feature sets generated by PCA or LDA may neglect certain correlation information among different feature sets which is useful for CCA, and this in turn may degrade the following classification performance. …”
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Reconfigurable 2.4-/5-GHz dual-band transmitter front-end supporting 1024-QAM for WLAN 802.11ax application in 40-nm CMOS by Liu, Bei, Quan, Xing, Boon, Chirn Chye, Khanna, Devrishi, Choi, Pilsoon, Yi, Xiang

“…At 2.442 GHz, the transmitter delivers 8.1-dBm average output power for 40-MHz, 1024-quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) 802.11ax signal while meeting the standard specification of error vector magnitude (EVM) below − 35 dB. …”
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Design of a wideband variable-gain amplifier with self-compensated transistor for accurate dB-linear characteristic in 65 nm CMOS technology by Kong, Lingshan, Liu, Hang, Zhu, Xi, Boon, Chirn Chye, Li, Chenyang, Liu, Zhe, Yeo, Kiat Seng

“…To prove the concept, the designed VGA is fabricated in a standard 65 nm CMOS technology. The measured results show that the voltage gain of the designed VGA can be controlled from -19 dB to 21 dB with a gain error less than 1 dB. …”
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Duel of the titans : the Romulus and Remus families of lightweight AEAD algorithms by Iwata, Tetsu, Khairallah, Mustafa, Minematsu, Kazuhiko, Peyrin, Thomas

“…The former uses a tweakable block cipher (TBC) as internal primitive and can be proven secure in the standard model. The later uses a block cipher (BC) as internal primitive and can be proven secure in the ideal cipher model. …”
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New techniques for searching differential trails in Keccak by Liu, Guozhen, Qiu, Weidong, Tu, Yi

“…Keccak-f is the permutation used in the NIST SHA-3 hash function standard. Inspired by the previous exhaustive differential trail search methods by Mella et al. at ToSC 2017, we introduce in this paper new algorithms to cover 3-round trail cores with propagation weight at least 53, up from the previous best weight 45. …”
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Choroidal neovascularization : mechanisms of endothelial dysfunction by Yeo, Natalie Jia Ying, Chan, Ebenezer Jia Jun, Cheung, Christine

“…Although current gold standard therapy using inhibitors of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) have achieved initial successes, some drawbacks include the lack of long-term restoration of visual acuity, as well as a subset of the patients being refractory to existing treatment, alluding us and others to hypothesize upon VEGF-independent mechanisms. …”
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Framework for the estimation of safe wake separation distance between same-track multi-rotor UAS by Wang, John Chung-Hung, Nathanael, Joshua C., Ng, Ee Meng, Ng, Bing Feng, Low, Kin Huat

“…The current paper proposes a hybridComputational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)-Flight Dynamics simulationworkflow to analyze the necessity of wake-vortex based separation standard for multi-rotor air-vehicles within the UTM controlled airspace. …”
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High-throughput and area-optimized architecture for rBRIEF feature extraction by Pham, Thinh Hung, Tran, Phong, Lam, Siew-Kei

“…The performance of these applications depends on the distinctiveness of the visual feature descriptors used, and the speed at which they can be extracted from video frames. When combined with standard key-point detectors, the rotation-aware binary robust independent elementary features (rBRIEF) descriptor has been shown to outperform its counterparts. …”
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Gold-diaphragm based Fabry-Perot ultrasonic sensor for partial discharge detection and localization by Zhang, Wei, Lu, Ping, Ni, Wenjun, Xiong, Wanze, Liu, Deming, Zhang, Jiangshan

“…Experimental results illustrate a well acoustic response from 20 kHz to 150 kHz when standard ultrasonic signals applied. The frequency range covers the acoustic frequencies derived from PD process. …”
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Human exposure and risk assessment of recycling incineration bottom ash for land reclamation : a showcase coupling studies of leachability, transport modeling and bioaccumulation by Yin, Ke, Chan, Wei Ping, Dou, Xiaomin, Ahamed, Ashiq, Lisak, Grzegorz, Chang, Victor Wei-Chung

“…IBA leachability was firstly investigated using various laboratory standard leaching methods while conducted a large-scale field trial experiment for mutual confirmation, suggesting that maximum leached amounts may be achieved when liquid to solid (L/S) ratio increases to 10. …”
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Vanadium redox flow battery with slotted porous electrodes and automatic rebalancing demonstrated on a 1 kW system level by Bhattarai, Arjun, Wai, Nyunt, Schweiss, Rüdiger, Whitehead, Adam, Scherer, Günther G., Ghimire, Purna Chandra, Lim, Tuti Mariana, Hng, Huey Hoon

“…The use of hydraulic shunt resulted in a constant capacity over 250 cycles while the use of flow channels on the porous electrodes resulted in ∼40% reduction in pressure drop, compared to a stack with standard felts. The reduction in pressure drop by employing flow channels reduced the pump power proportionally. …”
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Compressed representation for higher-level meme space evolution : a case study on big knapsack problems by Feng, Liang, Gupta, Abhishek, Ong, Yew-Soon

“…The results provide strong encouragement for further exploration, in order to establish meme evolution as the gold standard in big optimization.…”
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CytoPAN-Portable cellular analyses for rapid point-of-care cancer diagnosis by Min, Jouha, Chin, Lip Ket, Oh, Juhyun, Landeros, Christian, Vinegoni, Claudio, Lee, Jeeyeon, Lee, Soo Jung, Park, Jee Young, Liu, Ai Qun, Castro, Cesar M., Lee, Hakho, Im, Hyungsoon, Weissleder, Ralph

“…A combination of FNA and CytoPAN offers faster, less invasive cancer diagnoses than the current standard (core biopsy and histopathology). This approach should enable the ability to more rapidly diagnose breast cancer in global and remote settings.…”
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A single-stage dual-output tri-mode AC-DC regulator for inductively powered application by Low, Qiong Wei, Siek, Liter

“…The tri-mode dual-output design was fabricated in standard 0.18μm CMOS process. It delivers a maximum output power of 114mW. …”
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Functionalized MXene enabled sustainable water harvesting and desalination by Fei, Jipeng, Koh, See Wee, Tu, Wengguang, Ge, Junyu, Hamid, Rezaeyan, Hou, Shuai, Duan Hongwei, Lam, Yee Cheong, Li, Hong

“…Moreover, the salt rejection rate for high salinity seawater (original Na+ concentration is 18 000 mg L−1) reaches up to 97.5%, generating drinkable water that meets the WHO standard. The new photothermal membrane absorber is cost-effective, scalable, washable, and stable under harsh conditions; holding great promise for practical solar desalination applications.…”
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Multiscale microstructural heterogeneity and mechanical property scatter in Inconel 718 produced by directed energy deposition by Yeoh, Yong Chen, Macchi. Guido, Jain, Ekta, Gaskey, Bernard, Raman, Sudharshan, Tay, Grace, Verdi, Davide, Patran, Alin, Grande, Antonio Mattia, Seita, Matteo

“…We find that the high energy input employed when using high deposition rates is conducive to significant microstructure heterogeneity along both the build and transversal directions, which stems from the asymmetric cooling rates generated by the deposition strategy used. We also find that standard heat treatments employed on Inconel 718 are not suitable to homogenize the microstructure. …”
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