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Freezing of Gait (FoG) is a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease (PD), manifesting as a brief, episodic absence, or marked reduction in walking, despite a patient’s intention to move. Clinical assessment of FoG events from manual observations by experts is both time-consuming and highly subjective. Therefore, machine learning-based FoG identification methods would be desirable. In this article, we address this task as a fine-grained human action recognition problem based on vision inputs. A...

Deep learning (DL) based image processing methods have been successfully applied to low-dose x-ray images based on the assumption that the feature distribution of the training data is consistent with that of the test data. However, low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) images from different commercial scanners may contain different amounts and types of image noise, violating this assumption. Moreover, in the application of DL based image processing methods to LDCT, the feature distributions of LDC...

This paper considers task scheduling in solarpowered Internet of things (IoT) networks where devices are capable of sharing energy wirelessly. Our aim is to minimize the completion time of all tasks. We outline a novel mixed integer linear program (MILP) to schedule tasks and determine whether devices share their harvested energy via radio frequency (RF) in each time slot. The MILP considers the coupling between the energy level at devices across time slots. It also considers the dependency of t...

The core issue in semi-supervised learning (SSL) lies in how to effectively leverage unlabeled data, whereas most existing methods tend to put a great emphasis on the utilization of high-confidence samples yet seldom fully explore the usage of low-confidence samples. In this article, we aim to utilize low-confidence samples in a novel way with our proposed mutex-based consistency regularization, namely MutexMatch. Specifically, the high-confidence samples are required to exactly predict “what ...

Cross-domain person re-identification (Re-ID) is a challenging and important task in monitoring safety and procedure compliance of industrial work places. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to reduce background induced domain shift for adaptive person Re-ID. Specifically, a foreground-background joint clustering module is proposed to extract discriminative foreground and background features and an attention-based feature disentanglement module is designed to reduce the interference of bac...

This paper investigates a new challenging problem called defensive few-shot learning in order to learn a robust few-shot model against adversarial attacks. Simply applying the existing adversarial defense methods to few-shot learning cannot effectively solve this problem. This is because the commonly assumed sample-level distribution consistency between the training and test sets can no longer be met in the few-shot setting. To address this situation, we develop a general defensive few-shot lear...

This paper considers collection and processing of data by solar-powered servers operating in an Internet of Things (IoT) network. Specifically, these servers aim to cooperatively maximize the amount of data collected from devices and computed over multiple time slots. To achieve this aim, they must consider computation deadline, time-varying energy arrivals at sensor devices and other servers. To this end, this paper outlines a mixed integer linear program (MILP), which can be used to optimize t...

Robotic process automation can streamline business workflows by eliminating tedious manual tasks without requiring you to completely re-engineer legacy systems.

A text semantic classification is an essential approach to recognising the verbal intention of online learners, empowering reliable understanding and inquiry for the regulations of knowledge construction amongst students. However, online learning is increasingly switching from static watching patterns to the collaborative discussion. The current deep learning models, such as CNN and RNN, are ineffective in classifying verbal content contextually. Moreover, the contribution of verbal elements to ...

This work discuss the task of automatically detecting satire instances in short articles. It is the study of extracting the most optimal features by using a deep learning architecture combined with carefully handcrafted contextual features. It is found that a few sets can perform well when they are used independently, but the others not so much. However, even the latter sets become very useful after the combination process with the former sets. This shows that each of the feature sets are signif...