Civil Aviation University of China

About: Civil Aviation University of China is a education organization based out in Tianjin, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Air traffic control & Civil aviation. The organization has 5647 authors who have published 4559 publications receiving 29825 citations. The organization is also known as: Zhōngguó Mínháng Dàxué.

The sixth visual object tracking VOT2018 challenge results

Abstract: The Visual Object Tracking challenge VOT2018 is the sixth annual tracker benchmarking activity organized by the VOT initiative. Results of over eighty 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 and a “real-time” experiment simulating a situation where a tracker processes images as if provided by a continuously running sensor. A long-term tracking subchallenge has been introduced to the set of standard VOT sub-challenges. The new subchallenge focuses on long-term tracking properties, namely coping with target disappearance and reappearance. A new dataset has been compiled and a performance evaluation methodology that focuses on long-term tracking capabilities has been adopted. The VOT toolkit has been updated to support both standard short-term and the new long-term tracking subchallenges. 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 (http://votchallenge.net).

An Improved Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm Based on Hybrid Strategies for Scheduling Problem

Abstract: In this paper, an improved ant colony optimization (ICMPACO) algorithm based on the multi-population strategy, co-evolution mechanism, pheromone updating strategy, and pheromone diffusion mechanism is proposed to balance the convergence speed and solution diversity, and improve the optimization performance in solving the large-scale optimization problem. In the proposed ICMPACO algorithm, the optimization problem is divided into several sub-problems and the ants in the population are divided into elite ants and common ants in order to improve the convergence rate, and avoid to fall into the local optimum value. The pheromone updating strategy is used to improve optimization ability. The pheromone diffusion mechanism is used to make the pheromone released by ants at a certain point, which gradually affects a certain range of adjacent regions. The co-evolution mechanism is used to interchange information among different sub-populations in order to implement information sharing. In order to verify the optimization performance of the ICMPACO algorithm, the traveling salesmen problem (TSP) and the actual gate assignment problem are selected here. The experiment results show that the proposed ICMPACO algorithm can effectively obtain the best optimization value in solving TSP and effectively solve the gate assignment problem, obtain better assignment result, and it takes on better optimization ability and stability.

Detection of Power Line Insulator Defects Using Aerial Images Analyzed With Convolutional Neural Networks

Abstract: As the failure of power line insulators leads to the failure of power transmission systems, an insulator inspection system based on an aerial platform is widely used. Insulator defect detection is performed against complex backgrounds in aerial images, presenting an interesting but challenging problem. Traditional methods, based on handcrafted features or shallow-learning techniques, can only localize insulators and detect faults under specific detection conditions, such as when sufficient prior knowledge is available, with low background interference, at certain object scales, or under specific illumination conditions. This paper discusses the automatic detection of insulator defects using aerial images, accurately localizing insulator defects appearing in input images captured from real inspection environments. We propose a novel deep convolutional neural network (CNN) cascading architecture for performing localization and detecting defects in insulators. The cascading network uses a CNN based on a region proposal network to transform defect inspection into a two-level object detection problem. To address the scarcity of defect images in a real inspection environment, a data augmentation method is also proposed that includes four operations: 1) affine transformation; 2) insulator segmentation and background fusion; 3) Gaussian blur; and 4) brightness transformation. Defect detection precision and recall of the proposed method are 0.91 and 0.96 using a standard insulator dataset, and insulator defects under various conditions can be successfully detected. Experimental results demonstrate that this method meets the robustness and accuracy requirements for insulator defect detection.

Multiple solutions for nonhomogeneous Schrödinger–Kirchhoff type equations involving the fractional p -Laplacian in $${\mathbb {R}}^N$$ R N

Abstract: In this paper we investigate the existence of multiple solutions for the nonhomogeneous fractional p-Laplacian equations of Schrodinger–Kirchhoff type $$\begin{aligned} M\left( \iint _{R^{2N}}\frac{|u(x)-u(y)|^p}{|x-y|^{N+ps}}dxdy\right) (-\varDelta )^s_pu+V(x)|u|^{p-2}u=f(x,u)+g(x) \end{aligned}$$ in $${\mathbb {R}}^N$$ , where $$(-\varDelta )^s_p$$ is the fractional p-Laplacian operator, with $$0

An Improved Quantum-Inspired Differential Evolution Algorithm for Deep Belief Network

Abstract: Deep belief network (DBN) is one of the most representative deep learning models. However, it has a disadvantage that the network structure and parameters are basically determined by experiences. In this article, an improved quantum-inspired differential evolution (MSIQDE), namely MSIQDE algorithm based on making use of the merits of the Mexh wavelet function, standard normal distribution, adaptive quantum state update, and quantum nongate mutation, is proposed to avoid premature convergence and improve the global search ability. Then, the MSIQDE with global optimization ability is used to optimize the parameters of the DBN to construct an optimal DBN model, which is further applied to propose a new fault classification, namely MSIQDE-DBN method. Finally, the vibration data of rolling bearings from the Case Western Reserve University and a real-world engineering application are carried out to verify the performance of the MSIQDE-DBN method. The experimental results show that the MSIQDE takes on better optimization performance, and the MSIQDE-DBN can obtain higher classification accuracy than the other comparison methods.