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- Kristanl, Matej, et al.
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The Seventh Visual Object Tracking VOT2019 Challenge Results
- 2019
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In: 2019 IEEE/CVF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION WORKSHOPS (ICCVW). - : IEEE COMPUTER SOC. - 9781728150239 ; , s. 2206-2241
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The Visual Object Tracking challenge VOT2019 is the seventh annual tracker benchmarking activity organized by the VOT initiative. Results of 81 trackers are presented; many are state-of-the-art trackers published at major computer vision conferences or in journals in the recent years. The evaluation included the standard VOT and other popular methodologies for short-term tracking analysis as well as the standard VOT methodology for long-term tracking analysis. The VOT2019 challenge was composed of five challenges focusing on different tracking domains: (i) VOT-ST2019 challenge focused on short-term tracking in RGB, (ii) VOT-RT2019 challenge focused on "real-time" short-term tracking in RGB, (iii) VOT-LT2019 focused on long-term tracking namely coping with target disappearance and reappearance. Two new challenges have been introduced: (iv) VOT-RGBT2019 challenge focused on short-term tracking in RGB and thermal imagery and (v) VOT-RGBD2019 challenge focused on long-term tracking in RGB and depth imagery. The VOT-ST2019, VOT-RT2019 and VOT-LT2019 datasets were refreshed while new datasets were introduced for VOT-RGBT2019 and VOT-RGBD2019. The VOT toolkit has been updated to support both standard short-term, long-term tracking and tracking with multi-channel imagery. Performance of the tested trackers typically by far exceeds standard baselines. The source code for most of the trackers is publicly available from the VOT page. The dataset, the evaluation kit and the results are publicly available at the challenge website(1).
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- Barrenäs, Fredrik, et al.
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Interleukin-15 response signature predicts RhCMV/SIV vaccine efficacy
- 2021
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In: PLoS Pathogens. - : Public Library of Science (PLoS). - 1553-7366 .- 1553-7374. ; 17:7
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) challenge of rhesus macaques (RMs) vaccinated with strain 68-1 Rhesus Cytomegalovirus (RhCMV) vectors expressing SIV proteins (RhCMV/SIV) results in a binary outcome: stringent control and subsequent clearance of highly pathogenic SIV in similar to 55% of vaccinated RMs with no protection in the remaining 45%. Although previous work indicates that unconventionally restricted, SIV-specific, effector-memory (EM)-biased CD8(+) T cell responses are necessary for efficacy, the magnitude of these responses does not predict efficacy, and the basis of protection vs. non-protection in 68-1 RhCMV/SIV vector-vaccinated RMs has not been elucidated. Here, we report that 68-1 RhCMV/SIV vector administration strikingly alters the whole blood transcriptome of vaccinated RMs, with the sustained induction of specific immune-related pathways, including immune cell, toll-like receptor (TLR), inflammasome/cell death, and interleukin-15 (IL-15) signaling, significantly correlating with subsequent vaccine efficacy. Treatment of a separate RM cohort with IL-15 confirmed the central involvement of this cytokine in the protection signature, linking the major innate and adaptive immune gene expression networks that correlate with RhCMV/SIV vaccine efficacy. This change-from-baseline IL-15 response signature was also demonstrated to significantly correlate with vaccine efficacy in an independent validation cohort of vaccinated and challenged RMs. The differential IL-15 gene set response to vaccination strongly correlated with the pre-vaccination activity of this pathway, with reduced baseline expression of IL-15 response genes significantly correlating with higher vaccine-induced induction of IL-15 signaling and subsequent vaccine protection, suggesting that a robust de novo vaccine-induced IL-15 signaling response is needed to program vaccine efficacy. Thus, the RhCMV/SIV vaccine imparts a coordinated and persistent induction of innate and adaptive immune pathways featuring IL-15, a known regulator of CD8(+) T cell function, that support the ability of vaccine-elicited unconventionally restricted CD8(+) T cells to mediate protection against SIV challenge.
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- Deng, J., et al.
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Pose synchronization of rigid body networks with switching topologies
- 2015
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In: 2015 34th Chinese Control Conference (CCC). - : IEEE Computer Society. - 9789881563897 ; , s. 7639-7644
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Coordination control of multiple rigid bodies attracts much attention of researchers due to its wide applications. This paper presents the pose synchronization problem of the moving rigid bodies whose dynamics is described by the group SE(3). The case of bidirectional neighbor graphs with switching interconnection topologies is considered. We design a distributed control law based on relative rotation matrices and relative positions between the neighboring rigid bodies, and show that the SE(3) reaches pose synchronization if and only if the neighbor graphs are infinitely jointly connected, which relaxes the theoretical results in the existing literature.
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- Song, Wenjun, et al.
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Distributed control for intrinsic reduced attitude formation with ring inter-agent graph
- 2016
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In: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. - : IEEE conference proceedings. - 9781479978861 ; , s. 5599-5604
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates the reduced attitude formation control problem for a group of rigid-body agents using only relative attitude information. Under both undirected and directed ring inter-agent graph, it is shown that when reversing the sign of a classic consensus control, different formations depending on the parity of the group size are achieved asymptotically. Specifically, the reduced attitudes converge to a pair of antipodal points with even number of agents, and distribute uniformly on a great circle with odd number of agents. To show the effectiveness of the proposed control law, illustrative examples are provided.
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- Song, Wenjun, et al.
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Intrinsic reduced attitude formation with ring inter-agent graph
- 2017
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In: Automatica. - : Elsevier BV. - 0005-1098 .- 1873-2836. ; 85, s. 193-201
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates the reduced attitude formation control problem for a group of rigid-body agents using feedback based on relative attitude information. Under both undirected and directed cycle graph topologies, it is shown that reversing the sign of a classic consensus protocol yields asymptotical convergence to formations whose shape depends on the parity of the group size. Specifically, in the case of even parity the reduced attitudes converge asymptotically to a pair of antipodal points and distribute equidistantly on a great circle in the case of odd parity. Moreover, when the inter-agent graph is an undirected ring, the desired formation is shown to be achieved from almost all initial states.
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- Song, Wenjun, et al.
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Relative attitude formation control of multi-agent systems
- 2017
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In: International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1049-8923 .- 1099-1239. ; 27:18, s. 4457-4477
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper investigates the relative attitude formation control problem for a group of rigid-body agents using relative attitude information on SO(3). On the basis of the gradient of a potential function, a family of distributed angular velocity control laws, which differ in the sense of a geodesic distance dependent function, is proposed. With directed and switching interaction topologies, the desired relative attitude formation is showed to be achieved asymptotically provided that the topology is jointly quasi-strongly connected. Moreover, several sufficient conditions for the desired formation to be achieved exponentially and almost globally are given. Additionally, numerical examples are provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed distributed control laws.
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- Thunberg, Johan, et al.
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Distributed attitude synchronization control of multi-agent systems with switching topologies
- 2014
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In: Automatica. - : Elsevier BV. - 0005-1098 .- 1873-2836. ; 50:3, s. 832-840
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper addresses the attitude synchronization problem in multi-agent systems with directed and switching interconnection topologies. Two cases for the synchronization problem are discussed under different assumptions about the measurable information. In the first case the agents can measure their rotations relative to a global reference coordinate frame, whilst in the second case they can only measure the relative rotations between each other. Two intuitive distributed control laws based on the axis-angle representations of the rotations are proposed for the two cases, respectively. The invariance of convex balls in SO(3) is guaranteed. Moreover, attitude synchronization is ensured under the well-known mild switching assumptions, the joint strong connection for the first case and joint quasi-strong connection for the second case. To show the effectiveness of the proposed control schemes, illustrative examples are provided.
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- Wang, Bohan, et al.
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Low-temperature and flexible strategy to in-situ fabricate ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites via doping and tuning solid-state reaction
- 2023
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In: JOURNAL OF ADVANCED CERAMICS. - : Tsinghua University Press. - 2226-4108 .- 2227-8508. ; 12:6, s. 1238-1257
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Synthetic zircon (ZrSiO4) ceramics are typically fabricated at elevated temperatures (over 1500 degrees C), which would lead to high manufacturing cost. Meanwhile, reports about preparing ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites via controlling the solid-state reaction between zirconia (ZrO2) and silica (SiO2) are limited. In this work, we proposed a low-temperature strategy to flexibly design and fabricate ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites via doping and tuning the solid-state reaction. Two ceramic composites and ZrSiO4 ceramics were in-situ prepared by reactive fast hot pressing (FHP) at approximately 1250 degrees C based on the proposed strategy, i.e., a ZrSiO4-SiO2 dual-phase composite with bicontinuous interpenetrating and hierarchical microstructures, a ZrSiO4-ZrO2 dual-phase composite with a microstructure of ZrO2 submicron- and nano-particles embedded in a micron ZrSiO4 matrix, and ZrSiO4 ceramics with a small amount of residual ZrO2 nanoparticles. The results showed that the phase compositions, microstructure configurations, mechanical properties, and wear resistance of the materials can be flexibly regulated by the proposed strategy. Hence, ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites with different properties can be easily fabricated based on different application scenarios. These findings would offer useful guidance for researchers to flexibly fabricate ZrSiO4-based ceramic composites at low temperatures and tailor their microstructures and properties through doping and tuning the solid-state reaction.
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