Zhen Wei

Siyi Zhang, Cheng Liu, Xiang Li et al.

The current trend of automating inspections at substations has sparked a surge in interest in the field of transformer image recognition. However, due to restrictions in the number of parameters in existing models, high-resolution images can't be directly applied, leaving significant room for enhancing recognition accuracy. Addressing this challenge, the paper introduces a novel improvement on deep self-attention networks tailored for this issue. The proposed model comprises four key components: a foundational network, a region proposal network, a module for extracting and segmenting target areas, and a final prediction network. The innovative approach of this paper differentiates itself by decoupling the processes of part localization and recognition, initially using low-resolution images for localization followed by high-resolution images for recognition. Moreover, the deep self-attention network's prediction mechanism uniquely incorporates the semantic context of images, resulting in substantially improved recognition performance. Comparative experiments validate that this method outperforms the two other prevalent target recognition models, offering a groundbreaking perspective for automating electrical equipment inspections.

Weiying Lin, Che Liu, Xin Zhang et al.

Implementing precise detection of oil leaks in peak load equipment through image analysis can significantly enhance inspection quality and ensure the system's safety and reliability. However, challenges such as varying shapes of oil-stained regions, background noise, and fluctuating lighting conditions complicate the detection process. To address this, the integration of logical rule-based discrimination into image recognition has been proposed. This approach involves recognizing the spatial relationships among objects to semantically segment images of oil spills using a Mask RCNN network. The process begins with histogram equalization to enhance the original image, followed by the use of Mask RCNN to identify the preliminary positions and outlines of oil tanks, the ground, and areas of potential oil contamination. Subsequent to this identification, the spatial relationships between these objects are analyzed. Logical rules are then applied to ascertain whether the suspected areas are indeed oil spills. This method's effectiveness has been confirmed by testing on images captured from peak power equipment in the field. The results indicate that this approach can adeptly tackle the challenges in identifying oil-contaminated areas, showing a substantial improvement in accuracy compared to existing methods.

Dongya Jia, Zhuo Chen, Jiawei Chen et al.

Several recent studies have attempted to autoregressively generate continuous speech representations without discrete speech tokens by combining diffusion and autoregressive models, yet they often face challenges with excessive computational loads or suboptimal outcomes. In this work, we propose Diffusion Transformer Autoregressive Modeling (DiTAR), a patch-based autoregressive framework combining a language model with a diffusion transformer. This approach significantly enhances the efficacy of autoregressive models for continuous tokens and reduces computational demands. DiTAR utilizes a divide-and-conquer strategy for patch generation, where the language model processes aggregated patch embeddings and the diffusion transformer subsequently generates the next patch based on the output of the language model. For inference, we propose defining temperature as the time point of introducing noise during the reverse diffusion ODE to balance diversity and determinism. We also show in the extensive scaling analysis that DiTAR has superb scalability. In zero-shot speech generation, DiTAR achieves state-of-the-art performance in robustness, speaker similarity, and naturalness.