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Douglas Creighton

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arXiv2026

NeuroStrata: An Electroencephalographic Connectivity-Aware Deep Representation Learning Framework for Dynamic Brain Network Analysis of Mental Stress

This study introduces NeuroStrata, a connectivity-aware deep representation learning framework for EEG-based mental stress analysis using Time-Varying Partial Directed Coherence (TV-PDC). Unlike conventional EEG classification approaches based on static features, NeuroStrata models the temporal evolution of frequency-specific directed connectivity across distributed brain regions. EEG signals from the 32-channel SAM 40 dataset recorded during mental arithmetic tasks were used to generate TV-PDC connectivity maps. These maps were processed using pretrained Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs) to extract deep connectivity embeddings, which were subsequently classified using lightweight machine learning models. Experimental results demonstrate that beta-band connectivity provides the highest discriminative capability, achieving a peak accuracy of 97.3% using the LAION-CLIP-ViT-L14 backbone with a Support Vector Machine classifier, while alpha-band connectivity exhibits consistently stable performance across model configurations. Connectivity analysis revealed prominent frontal-driven alpha influences and centrally integrated beta connectivity patterns associated with stress-related neural dynamics. Temporal evaluation further indicated that classification performance stabilizes in mid-to-late temporal windows, suggesting progressive consolidation of stress-related connectivity signatures. The proposed framework integrates time-varying effective connectivity modelling with deep representation learning to provide an interpretable and automated approach for EEG-based mental stress analysis.

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arXiv2025

Rewiring Human Brain Networks via Lightweight Dynamic Connectivity Framework: An EEG-Based Stress Validation

In recent years, Electroencephalographic analysis has gained prominence in stress research when combined with AI and Machine Learning models for validation. In this study, a lightweight dynamic brain connectivity framework based on Time Varying Directed Transfer Function is proposed, where TV DTF features were validated through ML based stress classification. TV DTF estimates the directional information flow between brain regions across distinct EEG frequency bands, thereby capturing temporal and causal influences that are often overlooked by static functional connectivity measures. EEG recordings from the 32 channel SAM 40 dataset were employed, focusing on mental arithmetic task trials. The dynamic EEG-based TV-DTF features were validated through ML classifiers such as Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, Gradient Boosting, Adaptive Boosting, and Extreme Gradient Boosting. Experimental results show that alpha-TV-DTF provided the strongest discriminative power, with SVM achieving 89.73% accuracy in 3-class classification and with XGBoost achieving 93.69% accuracy in 2 class classification. Relative to absolute power and phase locking based functional connectivity features, alpha TV DTF and beta TV DTF achieved higher performance across the ML models, highlighting the advantages of dynamic over static measures. Feature importance analysis further highlighted dominant long-range frontal parietal and frontal occipital informational influences, emphasizing the regulatory role of frontal regions under stress. These findings validate the lightweight TV-DTF as a robust framework, revealing spatiotemporal brain dynamics and directional influences across different stress levels.

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arXiv2024

HSViT: Horizontally Scalable Vision Transformer

Due to its deficiency in prior knowledge (inductive bias), Vision Transformer (ViT) requires pre-training on large-scale datasets to perform well. Moreover, the growing layers and parameters in ViT models impede their applicability to devices with limited computing resources. To mitigate the aforementioned challenges, this paper introduces a novel horizontally scalable vision transformer (HSViT) scheme. Specifically, a novel image-level feature embedding is introduced to ViT, where the preserved inductive bias allows the model to eliminate the need for pre-training while outperforming on small datasets. Besides, a novel horizontally scalable architecture is designed, facilitating collaborative model training and inference across multiple computing devices. The experimental results depict that, without pre-training, HSViT achieves up to 10% higher top-1 accuracy than state-of-the-art schemes on small datasets, while providing existing CNN backbones up to 3.1% improvement in top-1 accuracy on ImageNet. The code is available at https://github.com/xuchenhao001/HSViT.

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arXiv2023

Deep Learning Techniques for Video Instance Segmentation: A Survey

Video instance segmentation, also known as multi-object tracking and segmentation, is an emerging computer vision research area introduced in 2019, aiming at detecting, segmenting, and tracking instances in videos simultaneously. By tackling the video instance segmentation tasks through effective analysis and utilization of visual information in videos, a range of computer vision-enabled applications (e.g., human action recognition, medical image processing, autonomous vehicle navigation, surveillance, etc) can be implemented. As deep-learning techniques take a dominant role in various computer vision areas, a plethora of deep-learning-based video instance segmentation schemes have been proposed. This survey offers a multifaceted view of deep-learning schemes for video instance segmentation, covering various architectural paradigms, along with comparisons of functional performance, model complexity, and computational overheads. In addition to the common architectural designs, auxiliary techniques for improving the performance of deep-learning models for video instance segmentation are compiled and discussed. Finally, we discuss a range of major challenges and directions for further investigations to help advance this promising research field.

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arXiv2016

Quantifying Heteroskedasticity via Bhattacharyya Distance

Heteroskedasticity is a statistical anomaly that describes differing variances of error terms in a time series dataset. The presence of heteroskedasticity in data imposes serious challenges for forecasting models and many statistical tests are not valid in the presence of heteroskedasticity. Heteroskedasticity of the data affects the relation between the predictor variable and the outcome, which leads to false positive and false negative decisions in the hypothesis testing. Available approaches to study heteroskedasticity thus far adopt the strategy of accommodating heteroskedasticity in the time series and consider it an inevitable source of noise. In these existing approaches, two forecasting models are prepared for normal and heteroskedastic scenarios and a statistical test is to determine whether or not the data is heteroskedastic. This work-in-progress research introduces a quantifying measurement for heteroskedasticity. The idea behind the proposed metric is the fact that a heteroskedastic time series features a uniformly distributed local variances. The proposed measurement is obtained by calculating the local variances using linear time invariant filters. A probability density function of the calculated local variances is then derived and compared to a uniform distribution of theoretical ultimate heteroskedasticity using statistical divergence measurements. The results demonstrated on synthetic datasets shows a strong correlation between the proposed metric and number of variances locally estimated in a heteroskedastic time series.

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