Image denoising algorithm based on multi-channel GAN by Hongyan WANG, Xiao YANG, Yanchao JIANG, Zumin WANG

“…Aiming at the issue that the noise generated during image acquisition and transmission would degrade the ability of subsequent image processing, a generative adversarial network (GAN) based multi-channel image denoising algorithm was developed.The noisy color image could be separated into red-green-blue (RGB) three channels via the proposed approach, and then the denoising could be implemented in each channel on the basis of an end-to-end trainable GAN with the same architecture.The generator module of GAN was constructed based on the U-net derivative network and residual blocks such that the high-level feature information could be extracted effectively via referring to the low-level feature information to avoid the loss of the detail information.In the meantime, the discriminator module could be demonstrated on the basis of fully convolutional neural network such that the pixel-level classification could be achieved to improve the discrimination accuracy.Besides, in order to improve the denoising ability and retain the image detail as much as possible, the composite loss function could be depicted by the illustrated denoising network based on the following three loss measures, adversarial loss, visual perception loss, and mean square error (MSE).Finally, the resultant three-channel output information could be fused by exploiting the arithmetic mean method to obtain the final denoised image.Compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms, experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can remove the image noise effectively and restore the original image details considerably.…”
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La Jeune Grecque de David d’Angers ou le rêve brisé by Philippe Durey

“…Little-known in France because of the secondary place of sculpture vis-à-vis painting in the cultural consciousness of the contemporary public concerning the nineteenth century, as well as because of the poor representation in the Louvre (as in most of the great fine art museums) of the works of David d’Angers, Reviving Greece nevertheless occupies a central place in French sculpture of the first half of the nineteenth century. …”
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Discovering emergent connections in quantum physics research via dynamic word embeddings by Felix Frohnert, Xuemei Gu, Mario Krenn, Evert van Nieuwenburg

“…To encourage cross-talk among these different specialized areas, data-driven approaches using machine learning have recently shown promise to uncover meaningful connections between research concepts, promoting cross-disciplinary innovation. Current state-of-the-art approaches represent concepts using knowledge graphs and frame the task as a link prediction problem, where connections between concepts are explicitly modeled. …”
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LW-YOLO11: A Lightweight Arbitrary-Oriented Ship Detection Method Based on Improved YOLO11 by Jianwei Huang, Kangbo Wang, Yue Hou, Jiahe Wang

“…The experimental results show that the proposed method has the advantages of light structure and high accuracy, and the ship detection performance is better than the state-of-the-art detection methods. Compared with YOLO11n, it improves 3.1% of mAP@0.5 and 3.3% of mAP@0.5:0.95 on the HRSC2016 dataset and 1.9% of mAP@0.5 and 1.3% of mAP@0.5:0.95 on the MMShip dataset.…”
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An intelligent hybrid approach combining fuzzy C-means and the sperm whale algorithm for cyber attack detection in IoT networks by E. I. Elsedimy, Sara M. M. AboHashish

“…The proposed FCM-SWA model does better than related and state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy, detection rate, precision rate, and F1-scores, as shown by experiments on the NSL-KDD, AWID, and BoT-IoT datasets.…”
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What Is the Radiation Impact of Extreme Solar Energetic Particle Events on Mars? by Jian Zhang, Jingnan Guo, Mikhail I. Dobynde

“…We thus consider the influence of the atmospheric depths on the Martian radiation levels including the absorbed dose, dose equivalent, and (human‐)body effective dose induced by SEPs at varying heights above and below the Martian surface. The state‐of‐the‐art Atmospheric Radiation Interaction Simulator based on GEometry And Tracking Monte‐Carlo method has been employed for simulating particle interactions with the Martian atmosphere and terrain. …”
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Estimation of Ultimate Bearing Capacity in Rock-Socketed Piles Using Optimized Machine Learning Approaches by Ali Hassan, Hamza Rashid

“…To enhance the model's precision, the study incorporates two state-of-the-art meta-heuristic algorithms, the Artificial Hummingbird Algorithm (AHA) and the Improved Grey Wolf Optimizer (IGWO), into the analysis. …”
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Automated Pavement Crack Damage Detection Using Deep Multiscale Convolutional Features by Weidong Song, Guohui Jia, Hong Zhu, Di Jia, Lin Gao

“…Compared with other state-of-the-art methods, the CrackSeg performs more efficiently, and robustly for automated pavement crack detection.…”
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The new age and conventional communication by Marco Roodt

“…The question is are we making it professionally or are we practising an unnecessary art and science? Let us, explore this issue by looking objectively at some pertinent communication industry (not IT) mind teasers, turning them into statements and then arguing the realities surrounding them. …”
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Między autonomią a hybrydycznością. Wprowadzenie do sztuki nowych mediów by Ryszard W. Kluszczyński

“…Sztuka nowych mediów, której początki autor tekstu lokuje w połowie lat 50. minionego stulecia, rozwijała się bowiem od fazy autonomicznych, funkcjonujących równolegle dyscyplin artystycznych, zbudowanych wokół poszczególnych technologii (np. sztuka cybernetyczna, robotyczna, ewolucyjna, generatywna, sztuka rzeczywistości wirtualnej, net art), dla których komputer spełniał funkcję metamedium, do fazy hybrydycznych, wielowymiarowych powiązań międzymedialnych i transdyscyplinarnych. …”
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Pipeline FFT Architectures Optimized for FPGAs by Bin Zhou, Yingning Peng, David Hwang

“…The implementation results achieved better performance with lower resource usage than prior art. The 16-bit 1024-point FFT with the R22SDF architecture had a maximum clock frequency of 95.2 MHz and used 2802 slices on the Spartan-3, a throughput per area ratio of 0.034 Msamples/s/slice. …”
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Gregorio de los Ríos at the Casa del Campo by Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz

“…Giving grace to the beauty of the nature given by God pagans and Christians would have understood this objective of an art which gives sense to human being. With Gregorio de los Ríos’ work, neglected by the historians, it is the Spanish influence on flower gardens, that we aim to question, from an aesthetical, political, scientific and metaphysical point of view.…”
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Improving spleen segmentation in ultrasound images using a hybrid deep learning framework by Ali Karimi, Javad Seraj, Fatemeh Mirzadeh Sarcheshmeh, Kasra Fazli, Amirali Seraj, Parisa Eslami, Mohamadreza Khanmohamadi, Helia Sajjadian Moosavi, Hadi Ghattan Kashani, Abdoulreza Sajjadian Moosavi, Masoud Shariat Panahi

“…Our method has been validated on this dataset, and the experimental results show that it outperforms existing state-of-the-art models. Specifically, our approach achieved a mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 94.17% and a mean Dice (mDice) score of 96.82%, surpassing models such as Splenomegaly Segmentation Network (SSNet), U-Net, and Variational autoencoder based methods. …”
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Characterizing the role of vehicular cloud computing in road traffic management by Iftikhar Ahmad, Rafidah Md Noor, Ihsan Ali, Muhammad Imran, Athanasios Vasilakos

“…A comparison of the current state-of-the-art traffic management systems is performed in terms of parameters, such as vehicular ad hoc network infrastructure, Internet dependency, cloud management, scalability, traffic flow control, and emerging services. …”
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From the Bosniak collection to the Central Library of the Bosniak national minority (Caprag department of the Vlado Gotovac Sisak Public Library) by Ivana Zorko

“…Aim: It is to show how, on the basis of several dozen books by Bosniak authors and titles that analyze topics from various areas of Islamic culture, science and art, a rich library emerged. Approach/methodology/design: The article is chronological – it tracks, from its early days, the changes in the collection, the space and the events, i.e., programs and activities. …”
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The Ghent Hybrid model in NuWro: a new neutrino single-pion production model in the GeV regime by Qiyu Yan, Kajetan Niewczas, Alexis Nikolakopoulos, Raúl González-Jiménez, Natalie Jachowicz, Xianguo Lu, Jan Sobczyk, Yangheng Zheng

“…Thus, it is crucial to integrate state-of-the-art single-pion production models with Monte Carlo simulations to prepare for the upcoming systematics-dominated landscape of neutrino measurements. …”
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Appling the Roulette Wheel Selection Approach to Address the Issues of Premature Convergence and Stagnation in the Discrete Differential Evolution Algorithm by Asaad Shakir Hameed, Haiffa Muhsan B. Alrikabi, Abeer A. Abdul–Razaq, Zakir Hussain Ahmed, Huda Karem Nasser, Modhi Lafta Mutar

“…Our comparative study based on the statistical analysis shows that the DDE algorithm that uses the proposed techniques is more efficient than the traditional DDE algorithm and the state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Subject and Object in the Space of the Word: Roman Ingarden and Cognitive Linguistics by Elżbieta Tabakowska

“…And yet many of fundamental principles that underlie cognitivist theories of language and grammar can be found in Ingarden’s writings, notably in his The Cognition of the Literary Work of Art, first published in 1937 – exactly half a century before the year 1987, the annus mirabilis of Cognitive Linguistics, when its founding fathers published their groundbreaking monographs. …”
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Breaking the Frame: Arabesque and Metric Complexity in the Sunrise Scene from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé (1912) by Gurminder Kaur Bhogal

“…The arabesque is a type of ornament that achieved considerable popularity during the Art Nouveau movement of the fin/debut-de-siècle. …”
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Variational Autoencoder-Based Framework for Retail Sales Prediction by Fuyu Li, Lei Wang, Bo Jin

“…Extensive experiments conducted in collaboration with a national retail chain in China demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art baseline methods and is practical for various operational and management tasks.…”
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