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CLIPC8: Face liveness detection algorithm based on image-text pairs and contrastive learning

Face recognition technology is widely used in the financial field, and various types of liveness attack behaviors need to be addressed. Existing liveness detection algorithms are trained on specific training datasets and tested on testing datasets, but their performance and robustness in transferring to unseen datasets are relatively poor. To tackle this issue, we propose a face liveness detection method based on image-text pairs and contrastive learning, dividing liveness attack problems in the financial field into eight categories and using text information to describe the images of these eight types of attacks. The text encoder and image encoder are used to extract feature vector representations for the classification description text and face images, respectively. By maximizing the similarity of positive samples and minimizing the similarity of negative samples, the model learns shared representations between images and texts. The proposed method is capable of effectively detecting specific liveness attack behaviors in certain scenarios, such as those occurring in dark environments or involving the tampering of ID card photos. Additionally, it is also effective in detecting traditional liveness attack methods, such as printing photo attacks and screen remake attacks. The zero-shot capabilities of face liveness detection on five public datasets, including NUAA, CASIA-FASD, Replay-Attack, OULU-NPU and MSU-MFSD also reaches the level of commercial algorithms. The detection capability of proposed algorithm was verified on 5 types of testing datasets, and the results show that the method outperformed commercial algorithms, and the detection rates reached 100% on multiple datasets. Demonstrating the effectiveness and robustness of introducing image-text pairs and contrastive learning into liveness detection tasks as proposed in this paper.

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SiGeo: Sub-One-Shot NAS via Information Theory and Geometry of Loss Landscape

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has become a widely used tool for automating neural network design. While one-shot NAS methods have successfully reduced computational requirements, they often require extensive training. On the other hand, zero-shot NAS utilizes training-free proxies to evaluate a candidate architecture's test performance but has two limitations: (1) inability to use the information gained as a network improves with training and (2) unreliable performance, particularly in complex domains like RecSys, due to the multi-modal data inputs and complex architecture configurations. To synthesize the benefits of both methods, we introduce a "sub-one-shot" paradigm that serves as a bridge between zero-shot and one-shot NAS. In sub-one-shot NAS, the supernet is trained using only a small subset of the training data, a phase we refer to as "warm-up." Within this framework, we present SiGeo, a proxy founded on a novel theoretical framework that connects the supernet warm-up with the efficacy of the proxy. Extensive experiments have shown that SiGeo, with the benefit of warm-up, consistently outperforms state-of-the-art NAS proxies on various established NAS benchmarks. When a supernet is warmed up, it can achieve comparable performance to weight-sharing one-shot NAS methods, but with a significant reduction ($\sim 60$\%) in computational costs.

cs.LG↗

Nuclear decay anomalies as a signature of axion dark matter

A number of nuclear decay anomalies have been reported in the literature, which purport to show periodic variations in the decay rates of certain radioisotopes. If these reports reflect reality, they would necessitate a seismic shift in our understanding of fundamental physics. We provide the first mechanism to explain these findings, via the misalignment mechanism of QCD axion dark matter, wherein oscillations of the effective $θ$ angle induce periodic variation in nuclear binding energies and hence decay rates. As we expect this effect to be most pronounced in low-$Q$ systems, we analyse 12 years of tritium decay data ($Q\simeq$ 18.6 keV) taken at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. Finding no statistically significant excess, we exclude axion decay constants below $9.4\times10^{12} - 1.8\times10^{10}$ GeV (95% confidence level) for masses in the $1.7\times{10}^{-23} - 8.7\times 10^{-21}$ eV range.

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Computational-design Enabled Wearable and Tunable Metamaterials via Freeform Auxetics for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Metamaterials hold significant promise for enhancing the imaging capabilities of MRI machines as an additive technology, due to their unique ability to enhance local magnetic fields. However, despite their potential, the metamaterials reported in the context of MRI applications have often been impractical. This impracticality arises from their predominantly flat configurations and their susceptibility to shifts in resonance frequencies, preventing them from realizing their optimal performance. Here, we introduce a computational method for designing wearable and tunable metamaterials via freeform auxetics. The proposed computational-design tools yield an approach to solving the complex circle packing problems in an interactive and efficient manner, thus facilitating the development of deployable metamaterials configured in freeform shapes. With such tools, the developed metamaterials may readily conform to a patient's kneecap, ankle, head, or any part of the body in need of imaging, and while ensuring an optimal resonance frequency, thereby paving the way for the widespread adoption of metamaterials in clinical MRI applications.

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Measuring the Hubble constant with coalescences of binary neutron star and neutron star-black hole: bright sirens \& dark sirens

The observations of gravitational wave (GW) provide us a new probe to study the universe. GW events can be used as standard sirens if their redshifts are measured. Normally, stardard sirens can be divided into bright/dark sirens according to whether the redshifts are measured by electromagnetic (EM) counterpart observations. Firstly, we investigate the capability of the 2.5-meter Wide-Field Survey Telescope (WFST) to take follow-up observations of kilonova counterparts. For binary neutron star (BNS) bright sirens, WFST is expected to observe 10-20 kilonovae per year in the second-generation (2G) GW detection era. As for neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers, when a BH spin is extremely high and the NS is stiff, the observation rate is $\sim10$ per year. Combining optical and GW observations, the bright sirens are expected to constrain the Hubble constant $H_0$ to $\sim2.8\%$ in five years of observations. As for dark sirens, tidal effects of neutron stars (NSs) during merging time provide us a cosmological model-independent approach to measure the redshifts of GW sources. Then we investigate the applications of tidal effects in redshift measurements. We find in 3G era, the host galaxy groups of around 45\% BNS mergers at $z<0.1$ can be identified through this method, if the EOS is ms1, which is roughly equivalent to the results from luminosity distant constraints. Therefore, tidal effect observations provide a reliable and cosmological model-independent method of identifying BNS mergers' host galaxy groups. Using this method, the BNS/NSBH dark sirens can constrain $H_0$ to 0.2\%/0.3\% over a five-year observation period.

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Image Recognition of Oil Leakage Area Based on Logical Semantic Discrimination

Implementing precise detection of oil leaks in peak load equipment through image analysis can significantly enhance inspection quality and ensure the system's safety and reliability. However, challenges such as varying shapes of oil-stained regions, background noise, and fluctuating lighting conditions complicate the detection process. To address this, the integration of logical rule-based discrimination into image recognition has been proposed. This approach involves recognizing the spatial relationships among objects to semantically segment images of oil spills using a Mask RCNN network. The process begins with histogram equalization to enhance the original image, followed by the use of Mask RCNN to identify the preliminary positions and outlines of oil tanks, the ground, and areas of potential oil contamination. Subsequent to this identification, the spatial relationships between these objects are analyzed. Logical rules are then applied to ascertain whether the suspected areas are indeed oil spills. This method's effectiveness has been confirmed by testing on images captured from peak power equipment in the field. The results indicate that this approach can adeptly tackle the challenges in identifying oil-contaminated areas, showing a substantial improvement in accuracy compared to existing methods.

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Rankitect: Ranking Architecture Search Battling World-class Engineers at Meta Scale

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has demonstrated its efficacy in computer vision and potential for ranking systems. However, prior work focused on academic problems, which are evaluated at small scale under well-controlled fixed baselines. In industry system, such as ranking system in Meta, it is unclear whether NAS algorithms from the literature can outperform production baselines because of: (1) scale - Meta ranking systems serve billions of users, (2) strong baselines - the baselines are production models optimized by hundreds to thousands of world-class engineers for years since the rise of deep learning, (3) dynamic baselines - engineers may have established new and stronger baselines during NAS search, and (4) efficiency - the search pipeline must yield results quickly in alignment with the productionization life cycle. In this paper, we present Rankitect, a NAS software framework for ranking systems at Meta. Rankitect seeks to build brand new architectures by composing low level building blocks from scratch. Rankitect implements and improves state-of-the-art (SOTA) NAS methods for comprehensive and fair comparison under the same search space, including sampling-based NAS, one-shot NAS, and Differentiable NAS (DNAS). We evaluate Rankitect by comparing to multiple production ranking models at Meta. We find that Rankitect can discover new models from scratch achieving competitive tradeoff between Normalized Entropy loss and FLOPs. When utilizing search space designed by engineers, Rankitect can generate better models than engineers, achieving positive offline evaluation and online A/B test at Meta scale.

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GICI-LIB: A GNSS/INS/Camera Integrated Navigation Library

Accurate navigation is essential for autonomous robots and vehicles. In recent years, the integration of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), Inertial Navigation System (INS), and camera has garnered considerable attention due to its robustness and high accuracy in diverse environments. However, leveraging the full capacity of GNSS is cumbersome because of the diverse choices of formulations, error models, satellite constellations, signal frequencies, and service types, which lead to different precision, robustness, and usage dependencies. To clarify the capacity of GNSS algorithms and accelerate the development efficiency of employing GNSS in multi-sensor fusion algorithms, we open source the GNSS/INS/Camera Integration Library (GICI-LIB), together with detailed documentation and a comprehensive land vehicle dataset. A factor graph optimization-based multi-sensor fusion framework is established, which combines almost all GNSS measurement error sources by fully considering temporal and spatial correlations between measurements. The graph structure is designed for flexibility, making it easy to form any kind of integration algorithm. For illustration, Real-Time Kinematic (RTK), Precise Point Positioning (PPP), and four RTK-based algorithms from GICI-LIB are evaluated using our dataset and public datasets. Results confirm the potential of the GICI system to provide continuous precise navigation solutions in a wide spectrum of urban environments.

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Holistic Evaluation of GPT-4V for Biomedical Imaging

In this paper, we present a large-scale evaluation probing GPT-4V's capabilities and limitations for biomedical image analysis. GPT-4V represents a breakthrough in artificial general intelligence (AGI) for computer vision, with applications in the biomedical domain. We assess GPT-4V's performance across 16 medical imaging categories, including radiology, oncology, ophthalmology, pathology, and more. Tasks include modality recognition, anatomy localization, disease diagnosis, report generation, and lesion detection. The extensive experiments provide insights into GPT-4V's strengths and weaknesses. Results show GPT-4V's proficiency in modality and anatomy recognition but difficulty with disease diagnosis and localization. GPT-4V excels at diagnostic report generation, indicating strong image captioning skills. While promising for biomedical imaging AI, GPT-4V requires further enhancement and validation before clinical deployment. We emphasize responsible development and testing for trustworthy integration of biomedical AGI. This rigorous evaluation of GPT-4V on diverse medical images advances understanding of multimodal large language models (LLMs) and guides future work toward impactful healthcare applications.

eess.IV↗

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface & Edge -- An Introduction of an EM manipulation structure on obstacles' edge

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) or metasurface is one of the important enabling technologies in mobile cellular networks that can effectively enhance the signal coverage performance in obstructed regions, and it is generally deployed on surfaces different from obstacles to redirect electromagnetic (EM) waves by reflection, or covered on objects' surfaces to manipulate EM waves by refraction. In this paper, Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface & Edge (RISE) is proposed to extend RIS' abilities of reflection and refraction over surfaces to diffraction around obstacles' edge for better adaptation to specific coverage scenarios. Based on that, this paper analyzes the performance of several different deployment locations and EM manipulation structure designs for different coverage scenarios. Then a novel EM manipulation structure deployed at the obstacles' edge is proposed to achieve static EM environment modification. Simulations validate the preference of the schemes for different scenarios and the new structure achieves better coverage performance than other typical structures in the static scheme.

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Supercavity Modes in Stacked Identical Mie-resonant Metasurfaces

Modes with a high-$Q$ factor are crucial for photonic metadevices with advanced functionalities. In sharp contrast to recent techniques which generate a supercavity mode by bound states in the continuum via symmetry breaking, we reveal a general and new route, by stacking two parallel and identical Mie-resonant metasurfaces with an air separation. The supercavity mode can be designed by the established theoretical model by overlapping Mie resonant modes with tailor-made Fabry-Pérot modes. The simplified system, with free-space field concentration which can exist in plane as well as out of plane of the metasurfaces, provides for ease of integration with added matter, creating exciting different opportunities for the study of fundamental light-matter coupling. This work deepens our understanding of light manipulation using metasurfaces. It paves a different and general route for generating supercavity modes which can be easily engineered and controlled for different applications of all dielectric metaoptics.

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A numerical tool for efficient analysis and optimization of offshore wind turbine jacket substructure considering realistic boundary and loading conditions

The jacket substructure is a critical component of the offshore wind turbine (OWT) that is the interface between the transition piece at the top and the grouted connection. This paper presents a comprehensive study on the optimization of a jacket substructure to achieve greater cost efficiency while maintain acceptable structural performance. A fast parametric finite element modelling (FEM) approach for jacket substructures was firstly proposed. The generated models took into account realistic loading conditions, including self-weight, wind load and section-dependent wave load, and soil-pile interaction. Parametric studies were conducted afterwards to investigate the trends of the mass and response of the jacket substructure with respect to the variation of geometric and sectional parameters. Optimizations of the jacket substructure were carried out using parametric optimization and numerical genetic algorithm (GA) optimization under three different optimization strategies corresponding to three groups of objective and constraint functions. The trends obtained by parametric analysis were used to guide the parameter selection in parametric optimization, while a rank-based mutation GA was established with the proposed efficient FEM embedded in as the solver to the optimization objective and constraint functions. Parametric optimization gained its advantage in computational efficiency, and the mass reduction were 6.2%,10% and 14.8% for the three strategies respectively. GA optimization was more aggressive as the mass reductions were 16.8%,22.3% and 34.3% for the three strategies, but was relatively more computational intense. The two proposed optimization methods and the three optimization strategies are both expected to be applied in practical engineering design of OWT jacket substructure with good optimization output and high computational efficiency.

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TBDLNet: a network for classifying multidrug-resistant and drug-sensitive tuberculosis

This paper proposes applying a novel deep-learning model, TBDLNet, to recognize CT images to classify multidrug-resistant and drug-sensitive tuberculosis automatically. The pre-trained ResNet50 is selected to extract features. Three randomized neural networks are used to alleviate the overfitting problem. The ensemble of three RNNs is applied to boost the robustness via majority voting. The proposed model is evaluated by five-fold cross-validation. Five indexes are selected in this paper, which are accuracy, sensitivity, precision, F1-score, and specificity. The TBDLNet achieves 0.9822 accuracy, 0.9815 specificity, 0.9823 precision, 0.9829 sensitivity, and 0.9826 F1-score, respectively. The TBDLNet is suitable for classifying multidrug-resistant tuberculosis and drug-sensitive tuberculosis. It can detect multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis as early as possible, which helps to adjust the treatment plan in time and improve the treatment effect.

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Pressure-induced non-monotonic crossover of steady relaxation dynamics in a metallic glass

Relaxation dynamics, as a key to understand glass formation and glassy properties, remains an elusive and challenging issue in condensed matter physics. In this work, in situ high-pressure synchrotron high-energy x-ray photon correlation spectroscopy has been developed to probe the atomic-scale relaxation dynamics of a cerium-based metallic glass during compression. Although the sample density continuously increases, the collective atomic motion initially slows down as generally expected and then counter-intuitively accelerates with further compression (density increase), showing an unusual non-monotonic pressure-induced steady relaxation dynamics crossover at ~3 GPa. Furthermore, by combining in situ high-pressure synchrotron x-ray diffraction, the relaxation dynamics anomaly is evidenced to closely correlate with the dramatic changes in local atomic structures during compression, rather than monotonically scaling with either sample density or overall stress level. These findings could provide new insight into relaxation dynamics and their relationship with local atomic structures of glasses.

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Symmetry-dependent dielectric screening of optical phonons in monolayer graphene

Quantised lattice vibrations (i.e., phonons) in solids are robust and unambiguous fingerprints of crystal structures and of their symmetry properties. In metals and semimetals, strong electron-phonon coupling may lead to so-called Kohn anomalies in the phonon dispersion, providing an image of the Fermi surface in a non-electronic observable. Kohn anomalies become prominent in low-dimensional systems, in particular in graphene, where they appear as sharp kinks in the in-plane optical phonon branches. However, in spite of intense research efforts on electron-phonon coupling in graphene and related van der Waals heterostructures, little is known regarding the links between the symmetry properties of optical phonons at and near Kohn anomalies and their sensitivity towards the local environment. Here, using inelastic light scattering (Raman) spectroscopy, we investigate a set of custom-designed graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures, wherein dielectric screening is finely controlled at the atomic layer level. We demonstrate experimentally and explain theoretically that, depending exclusively on their symmetry properties, the two main Raman modes of graphene react differently to the surrounding environment. While the Raman-active near-zone-edge optical phonons in graphene undergo changes in their frequencies due to the neighboring dielectric environment, the in-plane, zone-centre optical phonons are symmetry-protected from the influence of the latter. These results shed new light on the unique electron-phonon coupling properties in graphene and related systems and provide invaluable guidelines to characterise dielectric screening in van der Waals heterostructures and moiré superlattices.

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VIP -- Variational Inversion Package with example implementations of Bayesian tomographic imaging

Bayesian inference has become an important tool to solve inverse problems and to quantify uncertainties in their solutions. Variational inference is a method that provides probabilistic, Bayesian solutions efficiently by using optimization. In this study we present a Python Variational Inversion Package (VIP), to solve inverse problems using variational inference methods. The package includes automatic differential variational inference (ADVI), Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) and stochastic SVGD (sSVGD), and provides implementations of 2D travel time tomography and 2D full waveform inversion including test examples and solutions. Users can solve their own problems by supplying an appropriate forward function and a gradient calculation code. In addition, the package provides a scalable implementation which can be deployed easily on a desktop machine or using modern high performance computational facilities. The examples demonstrate that VIP is an efficient, scalable, extensible and user-friendly package, and can be used to solve a wide range of low or high dimensional inverse problems in practice.

physics.geo-ph↗

Synergy between CSST galaxy survey and gravitational-wave observation: Inferring the Hubble constant from dark standard sirens

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences encode the absolute luminosity distances of GW sources. Once the redshifts of GW sources are known, one can use the distance-redshift relation to constrain cosmological parameters. One way to obtain the redshifts is to localize GW sources by GW observations and then use galaxy catalogs to determine redshifts from a statistical analysis of redshift information of the potential host galaxies, commonly referred to as the dark siren method. The third-generation (3G) GW detectors are planned to work in the 2030s and will observe numerous compact binary coalescences. Using these GW events as dark sirens requires high-quality galaxy catalogs from future sky survey projects. The China Space Station Telescope (CSST) will be launched in 2024 and will observe billions of galaxies within a 17500 deg$^2$ survey area with redshift up to $z\sim 4$, providing photometric and spectroscopic galaxy catalogs. In this work, we simulate the CSST galaxy catalogs and the 5-year GW data from the 3G GW detectors and combine them to infer the Hubble constant ($H_0$). Our results show that the measurement precision of $H_0$ could reach the sub-percent level, meeting the standard of precision cosmology. We conclude that the synergy between CSST and the 3G GW detectors is of great significance in measuring the Hubble constant.

astro-ph.CO↗

A Human Motion Compensation Framework for a Supernumerary Robotic Arm

Supernumerary robotic arms (SRAs) can be used as the third arm to complement and augment the abilities of human users. The user carrying a SRA forms a connected kinodynamic chain, which can be viewed as a special class of floating-base robot systems. However, unlike general floating-base robot systems, human users are the bases of SRAs and they have their subjective behaviors/motions. This implies that human body motions can unintentionally affect the SRA's end-effector movements. To address this challenge, we propose a framework to compensate for the human whole-body motions that interfere with the SRA's end-effector trajectories. The SRA system in this study consists of a 6-degree-of-freedom lightweight arm and a wearable interface. The wearable interface allows users to adjust the installation position of the SRA to fit different body shapes. An inertial measurement unit (IMU)-based sensory interface can provide the body skeleton motion feedback of the human user in real time. By simplifying the floating-base kinematics model, we design an effective motion planner by reconstructing the Jacobian matrix of the SRA. Under the proposed framework, the performance of the reconstructed Jacobian method is assessed by comparing the results obtained with the classical nullspace-based method through two sets of experiments.

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