Dalian University of Technology

About: Dalian University of Technology is a education organization based out in Dalian, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Finite element method. The organization has 60890 authors who have published 71921 publications receiving 1188356 citations. The organization is also known as: Dàlián Lǐgōng Dàxué.

Learning Uncertain Convolutional Features for Accurate Saliency Detection

Abstract: Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have delivered superior performance in many computer vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel deep fully convolutional network model for accurate salient object detection. The key contribution of this work is to learn deep uncertain convolutional features (UCF), which encourage the robustness and accuracy of saliency detection. We achieve this via introducing a reformulated dropout (R-dropout) after specific convolutional layers to construct an uncertain ensemble of internal feature units. In addition, we propose an effective hybrid upsampling method to reduce the checkerboard artifacts of deconvolution operators in our decoder network. The proposed methods can also be applied to other deep convolutional networks. Compared with existing saliency detection methods, the proposed UCF model is able to incorporate uncertainties for more accurate object boundary inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed saliency model performs favorably against state-ofthe-art approaches. The uncertain feature learning mechanism as well as the upsampling method can significantly improve performance on other pixel-wise vision tasks.

Effect of Different Dye Baths and Dye-Structures on the Performance of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Triphenylamine Dyes

Abstract: A series of triphenylamine dyes were designed and synthesized as photosensitizers for the application of organic dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Different substituted phenylene units, 2,2′;5′,2′′-terthiophene (TT) and dithieno[3,2-b;2′,3′-d]thiophene (DTT) serve as the π-spacers, and the electron acceptors employ the cyanoacrylic acid or rhodanine-3-acetic acid units. Detailed investigation on the relationship between the dye structure, and photophysical, photoelectrochemical properties and performance of DSSCs is described here. By substituting the phenylene group with electron-withdrawing units as π-spacers or replacing the cyanoacrylic acid with rhodanine-3-acetic acid units as electron acceptors, the bathochromic shift of absorption spectra are achieved. The significant differences in the redox potential of these dyes are also influenced by small structure changes. Furthermore, the different dye baths for semiconductor sensitization have a crucial effect on the performance of the DSSCs due to the ...

Structural Health Monitoring in mainland China: Review and Future Trends

Abstract: Structural health monitoring (SHM) technology has been successfully applied to understand the loads, environment actions, and behaviors of a structure subjected to various actions through solving a...

Low-cost dye-sensitized solar cell based on nine kinds of carbon counter electrodes

Abstract: Nine kinds of carbon materials were introduced into dye-sensitized solar cells (DSCs) system as counter electrodes (CEs). We also compared the electrochemical catalytic activity of these carbon materials with Pt for the reduction of triiodide to iodide by measuring cyclic voltammetry (CV), electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and Tafel-polarization curve. The nine kinds of carbon materials in this work included synthesized well-ordered mesoporous carbon (Com), activated carbon (Ca), carbon black (Cb), conductive carbon (Cc), carbon dye (Cd), carbon fiber (Cf), carbon nanotube (Cn), discarded toner of a printer (Cp) and fullerene (C60). All carbon materials showed electrochemical catalytic activity for triiodide reduction in the DSCs system. In particular, the synthesized Com showed excellent electrochemical catalytic activity which can be comparable to the performance of Pt. After optimizing the proportion of TiO2 added into the carbon paste and the spray time of the carbon paste, the DSCs based on these carbon CEs achieved energy conversion efficiencies of 2.8–7.5%. The results demonstrate that carbon material is a promising substitute for the expensive Pt CE for low-cost DSCs.