Engel Stout (curverepair8)
The manual monitoring of young infants suffering from diseases like reflux is significant, since infants can hardly articulate their feelings. In this work, we propose a video-based infant monitoring system for the analysis of infant expressions and states, approaching real-time performance. The expressions of interest consist of discomfort, unhappy, joy and neutral, whereas states include sleep, pacifier and open mouth. Benefiting from the expression analysis, the discomfort moments can also be used and correlated with a symptom-related disease, such as a reflux measurement for the diagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux. The system consists of three components infant expressions and states detection, object tracking and detection compensation. The proposed system is based on combining expression detection using Fast R-CNN with a compensated detection using analyzing information from the previous frame and utilizing a Hidden Markov Model. The experimental results show a mean average precision of 81.9% and 84.8% for 4 infant expressions and 3 states evaluated with both clinical and daily datasets. Meanwhile, the average precision for discomfort detection achieves up to 90%.In 2019, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases reached the highest number in the US since 1992. Medical misinformation, such as antivaccine content propagating through social media, is associated with increases in vaccine delay and refusal. Our overall goal is to develop an automatic detector for antivaccine messages to counteract the negative impact that antivaccine messages have on the public health. Very few extant detection systems have considered multimodality of social media posts (images, texts, and hashtags), and instead focus on textual components, despite the rapid growth of photo-sharing applications (e.g., Instagram). As a result, existing systems are not sufficient for detecting antivaccine messages with heavy visual components (e.g., images) posted on these newer platforms. To solve this problem, we propose a deep learning network that leverages both visual and textual information. A new semantic-and task-level attention mechanism was created to help our model to focus on the essential contents of a post that signal antivaccine messages. The proposed model, which consists of three branches, can generate comprehensive fused features for predictions. Moreover, an ensemble method is proposed to further improve the final prediction accuracy. To evaluate the proposed model's performance, a real-world social media dataset that consists of more than 30,000 samples was collected from Instagram between January 2016 and October 2019. Our 30 experiment results demonstrate that the final network achieves above 97% testing accuracy and outperforms other relevant models, demonstrating that it can detect a large amount of antivaccine messages posted daily. The implementation code is available at https//github.com/wzhings/antivaccine_detection.Complex-valued data are ubiquitous in signal and image processing applications, and complex-valued representations in deep learning have appealing theoretical properties. While these aspects have long been recognized, complex-valued deep learning continues to lag far behind its real-valued counterpart. We propose a principled geometric approach to complex-valued deep learning. Complex-valued data could often be subject to arbitrary complex-valued scaling; as a result, real and imaginary components could covary. Instead of treating complex values as two independent channels of real values, we recognize their underlying geometry we model the space of complex numbers as a product manifold of nonzero scaling and planar rotations. Arbitrary complex-valued scaling naturally becomes a group of transitive actions on this manifold. We propose to extend the property instead of the form of real-valued functions to the complex domain. We define convolution as the weighted Fréchet mean on the manifold that is equivariant to the gr