结合非负张量表示与扩展隐Dirichlet分配模型的图像标注

由于"语义鸿沟"的存在,自动图像标注是一项极具挑战性的工作。考虑到图像低层视觉特征与高层语义概念的差异,分别从图像表示与语义建模两个方面来实现自动图像标注。在图像表示方面,提出了一种正则化约束下的非负张量表示方法,用以提取符合人眼视觉直观理解的图像高阶结构特征。在语义建模方面,提出了一种三层贝叶斯模型——扩展隐Dirichlet分配。该模型利用隐变量来实现图像与标注词的关联,并通过一种基于变分推理的期望最大值方法来估计参数。实验结果表明,ELDA模型在大规模数据库NUS-WIDE上的标注结果相较于现有方法有了显著的提高。     

基于自注意力和类监督的遥感图像跨模态检索

针对智能化联合作战场景中,情报分析人员对海量无标签遥感图像进行信息检索时面临的大数据问题,提出适用于遥感图像的文本-视觉跨模态检索技术框架,并对其中核心的跨模态检索模型进行针对性改进,构建一种基于自注意力模块和类监督约束联合训练的深度学习模型。通过引入类监督指导的全局-局部视觉特征提取模块、主导语义掩码建模的文本特征提取模块,以及融合文本-视觉语义信息的交叉提取模块,提升检索效果,实现在无图像描述标签情况下的文本-视觉跨模态语义检索。公开数据集上与相关算法的对比实验,证明该方案的先进性与可行性。     

对象边框标注数据的弱监督图像语义分割

针对图像语义分割应用中像素级标注数据费时昂贵的问题,主要研究以对象边框标注数据为代表的弱监督模型下的图像语义分割方法。使用基于金字塔的密集采样全卷积网络提取图像的像素级特征,并用GrabCut算法转化对弱监督数据进行数据标记,通过将图像特征和标记数据进行联合训练,构建了基于金字塔密集采样全卷积网络的对象边框标注弱监督图像语义分割模型,并在公开数据集上进行了验证。实验结果表明,所构建的弱监督模型与DET3-Proposed模型、全矩形转化模型以及Bbox-Seg模型相比,达到了更好的分割效果。     

一种基于语义推理的多智能体协同功能设计框架

在功能设计知识本体表示模型的基础上，提出了一种基于语义推理的多智能体协同功能设计框架。该框架分为两个部分，其中，基于Multi-agent的通信协作平台将OWL本体嵌入到FIPAACL中以实现产品设计Agent之间的设计知识通信；基于本体的功能建模方法则将本体表示与本体推理结合以支持功能设计本体的存储与检索。最后，对该框架所包含的协同功能设计本体语义推理模型进行了分析与实现，以证明所建议框架的有效性。     

军事通信领域上下文本体建模及不确定性推理

为支持军事通信业务的智能化,研究了军事通信业务上下文信息的表示和推理,提出了一种表示业务上下文信息的语法结构、语义以及上下文元信息的本体建模方法。并利用贝叶斯网络理论,提出了一种支持不确定性推理的业务上下文认知模型的构建方法,最后通过案例分析验证了模型和结论的合理性。     

图像标注研究及其在情报处理中的应用

图像数据具有直观、信息量丰富等特点。图像标注方法通过获取图像特征,训练语言模型,实现用自然语言自动描述图像信息。简要介绍了图像标注方法的分类及其相关关键技术。研究表明,通过对大规模图像的自动描述,能更好地管理、分析海量图像信息,能高效地对图像进行分类、检索。结合特定的信息处理技术,图像标注可用于发现有价值的情报信息,为国防安全、战略决策等提供信息支撑。     

军事通信领域上下文本体建模及不确定性推理＊

为支持军事通信业务的智能化,研究了军事通信业务上下文信息的表示和推理,提出了一种表示业务上下文信息的语法结构、语义以及上下文元信息的本体建模方法。并利用贝叶斯网络理论,提出了一种支持不确定性推理的业务上下文认知模型的构建方法,最后通过案例分析验证了模型和结论的合理性。     

一种基于圆阵列标定板的光栅投影系统标定方法

针对光栅投影系统中棋盘格标定板角点检测时易受图像噪声和模糊影响,提出了一种新颖的基于圆阵列标定板的光栅投影系统标定方法.利用摄像机的非线性成像模型,设计了一种基于透视变换和圆心排序的圆心自动匹配算法,实现了圆心像素坐标与对应世界坐标的匹配;将投影仪视作逆向摄像机构成双目立体视觉模型,借助采集的水平与垂直光栅图像,利用九...     

红外成像自动目标识别技术研究--计算模型与数据流程

红外自动目标识别是当前智能化图像处理及应用开发的前沿关键技术,其研究进展与计算机视觉的发展水平紧密相关。人类视觉系统是计算机视觉的原始模型,其视觉感知机理的研究将有助于揭示视觉表象的本质,进而为准确描述图像特征信息提供科学而可靠的依据。主要从视觉感知模型、感知功能模块响应特性、视觉对比灵敏度等方面对视觉感知基本原理加以综合分析,并力图利用这些功能卓越的信息处理机制阐明一种具有普适性的视觉计算模型———目标-背景表征模型。在此基础上,将背景区域感知与目标特征分析相结合,提出了自适应信号检测、目标特征识别和运动轨迹跟踪的层次化数据处理流程,从而为红外自动目标识别技术提供一条新的探索途径。     

具有分流型抑制机制的视网膜细胞神经网络模型及其应用

视觉细胞之间存在的侧抑制机制能够对接收到的视觉信息进行选择性的提取。运用数学方法模拟视觉细胞之间存在的这种生理机制,提出了一种具有分流型抑制机制的视网膜细胞神经网络模型(SIRCNN),分析了该模型的稳定性,给出了等价电路图,并且基于此模型提出了一种边缘检测算法。将该算法应用于图像边缘检测中,试验结果表明,这种以生物视觉感知机理为基础的神经计算方法可有效地增强图像反差,检测图像边缘。由于细胞神经网络具有高速并行运算、便于硬件实现等特点,因此这种方法在图像实时处理中也具有很大的潜力和应用前景。     

Terrorism,insurgency, kidnapping,and security in Africa's energy sector

Energy continues to serve as the bedrock of modern economies and the main driver of modern society. For Africa, the production and supply of energy resources such as crude oil, natural gas, uranium, coal, biomass, biofuels and other renewables are an important source of employment, rents, taxes, royalties and profits. This sector brings in several tens of billions of dollars of revenue annually. The production and delivery of such resources, however, depend on critical infrastructures such as pipelines, refineries, processing plants, terminals, rigs, electrical energy pylons, substations, pump stations, vessels, and tankers. These infrastructures have been attacked by terrorists, insurgents, vandals and saboteurs, all of whom see them as targets against which to register their grievances and extract concessions from the state. This paper is a chronological account of some of the documented incidents of terrorism, insurgency, kidnapping, destruction, sabotage, and human casualties suffered in the oil and gas sectors in Africa between 1999 and 2012. It is based on data extracted from the databases of the RAND Database of World Terrorism Incidents and the University of Maryland's Global Terrorism Database (GTD).     

Helping hands: civil–military cooperation and Italy's military operation abroad

In the Post-Bipolar Era the growing complexity of the military operations requires a new approach for the resolution of international crises. Since the end of the Cold War, peace support operations (PSO) have become the mainstay and principal occupation of most Western armies. At the same time, Italy has been one of the most important actors in such an area. The article focuses on the cooperation between military and civil components (a process called CIMIC) as a key variable in the Italian PSOs. We will analyse in detail the main lessons learned from past military interventions as well as the general context in which new tendencies are taking place. The maintaining of a minimum security frame becomes essential to fulfil activities ‘collateral’ to the mission: reconstructing services and infrastructure, food distribution, water and medication, law and order, de-mining, training of local forces, and supporting local institutions. These are the main tasks to obtain thrust and support from the population.     

Tacit support for terrorism: The rapprochement between the USSR and Palestinian guerrilla organizations following the 1967 war

This article demonstrates the inconsistent and wavering Soviet attitude towards national liberation movements in general and the Palestinian organizations in particular. Until the late 1960s, the Soviets viewed these organizations with suspicion, hesitating to engage in political dialogue with them. However, in the 1970s, political and military events in the region, as well as modifications in the Kremlin's Cold War strategies, led to a general shift towards the Middle East in Soviet foreign policy. Soviet leaders showed increased willingness to provide certain Palestinian organizations with arms with which to conduct terrorist activities against Israeli, pro-Israeli, Jewish and Western targets. The article explores the complex relations between Palestinian organizations and the USSR in the field of international terror. The study also exposes and analyzes the nature and content of Soviet–Palestinian arms dialogues and transactions. It provides clear evidence that Soviet policymakers and other luminaries were fully informed of, and sometimes directly involved in, these transactions and dialogues at the highest levels.     

A1 Qaeda and the radical Islamic challenge to western strategy

The September 11 global crisis prompted by the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon raises major questions concerning the nature and trajectory of terrorism in the post-Cold War global order. Hitherto, terrorism has been largely debated by analysts at the level of nation states. Terrorist and insurgent movements have also been largely anchored in nationalist and ethnic power bases even when they have sought to mobilise a transnational ideological appeal on religious or class grounds. There have been a few exceptions to this pattern such as the alliance between the German Baader-Meinhof group and the Japanese Red Army Faction, but even such international alliances as this did not, until at least the 1980s, presage anything like a global terrorist network necessitating a global strategic response. This study examines terrorism and global strategic responses.     

Helping hands: external support for the KNU insurgency in Burma

This article analyses to what extent the Burmese KNU insurgency made use of external support from states, refugees, and diasporas. Based on extensive fieldwork it is concluded that support from neighbouring states and refugees has for years kept the Karen rebellion alive. Western countries perceived forms of resistance to the illegitimate Burmese regime as just and have therefore played a crucial role in the continuation of conflict in Karen State. It is important that policymakers and donors as well as executing organizations continue to reflect critically on the way they exercise their work.     

基于GTST-DMLD-ESD的装备RMS建模仿真

装备的RMS是装备的重要设计参数,是影响战备完好和保障能力的关键因素.引入GTST-DMLD作为主要建模工具,建立起装备系统的RMS描述模型,以ESD为补充和扩展,对维修过程进行建模.并以GTST-DMLD-ESD模型作为装备RMS仿真的核心,对装备RMS仿真模型的总体框架进行了研究,并对各模块进行了较为详细的探讨.     

The UK,interrogation and Iraq, 2003–2008

The UK’s interrogation operations during the conflict in Iraq (2003–2008) are often portrayed by the media as involving significant amounts of mistreatment. This article demonstrates that these practices are not necessarily representative of the UK’s interrogation operations across this conflict. In doing so it contributes to the limited literature on the practice of interrogation and on the UK’s combat operations in Iraq. The UK’s interrogation capability, and therefore its intelligence-gathering capability, is shown to have rested primarily with the military’s Joint Forward Interrogation Team (JFIT). The JFIT suffered from limitations to the number, training and experience of its interrogators and interpreters. It is argued that maintaining a permanent, higher level of preparedness for interrogation by the British armed forces is desirable.     

Remembering and forgetting Mirambo: Histories of war in modern Africa

ABSTRACT

While the study of organised violence is considered essential to understanding the history of the West, and accordingly imbued with various layers of meaning and remembrance, war is widely regarded as inimical to the modern nation in Africa and stable development more broadly. Using examples drawn from primarily from East Africa, this paper considers the ways in which warfare in the deeper (‘precolonial’) past has been framed and envisioned in recent decades, in particular by governments whose own roots lie in revolutionary armed struggle and who began life as guerrilla movements. While in some cases particular elements of the deeper past were indeed mobilised in pursuit of contemporary political goals, in many other scenarios histories of precolonial violence were beheld as problematic and unworthy of remembrance. This paper highlights the paradox and ambiguity which has attended the memory of key aspects of Africa’s deeper past.     

Cyber sheiks and grassroots jihadis: the war in Syria and the devolution of the Bosnian Salafi communities

ABSTRACT

What was the scope of the Bosnian jihadi participation in the war in Syria? Did the Bosnian volunteers tend to join one particular faction? Why did the Bosnian youngsters decide to join the holy war in the Levant? Was this an organized and hierarchical process or was this a grassroots movement? Last, were all the Salafis in Bosnia supportive of this dynamic or did this process cause internal frictions? These are some of the questions that this research will try to answer.