YOLSO: You Only Look Small Object

Small object detection is challenging and far from satisfactory. Most general object detectors suffer from two critical issues with small objects: (1) Feature extractor based on classification network cannot express the characteristics of small objects reasonably due to insufficient appearance information of targets and a large amount of background interference around them. (2) The detector requires a much higher location accuracy for small objects than for general objects. This paper proposes an effective and efficient small object detector YOLSO to address the above problems. For feature representation, we analyze the drawbacks in previous backbones and present a Half-Space Shortcut(HSSC) module to build a background-aware backbone. Furthermore, a coarse-to-fine Feature Pyramid Enhancement(FPE) module is introduced for layer-wise aggregation at a granular level to enhance the semantic discriminability. For loss function, we propose an exponential L1 loss to promote the convergence of regression, and a focal IOU loss to focus on prime samples with high classification confidence and high IOU. Both of them significantly improves the location accuracy of small objects. The proposed YOLSO sets state-of-the-art results on two typical small object datasets, MOCOD and VeDAI, at a speed of over 200 FPS. In the meantime, it also outperforms the baseline YOLOv3 by a wide margin on the common COCO dataset.     

Combustion properties of H2/N2/O2/steam mixtures

The present work reports new experimental and numerical results of the combustion properties of hydrogen based mixtures diluted by nitrogen and steam. Spherical expanding flames have been studied in a spherical bomb over a large domain of equivalence ratios, initial temperatures and dilutions at an initial pressure of 100 kPa (T_ini = 296, 363, 413 K; N₂/O₂ = 3.76, 5.67, 9; %Steam = 0, 20, 30). From these experiments, the laminar flame speed $S_L^0$, the Markstein length L’, the activation energy Ea and the Zel'dovich β number have been determined. These parameters were also simulated using COSILAB^® in order to verify the validity of the Mével et al. [1] detailed kinetic mechanism. Other parameters as the laminar flame thickness δ and the effective Lewis number Le_eff were also simulated. These new results aim at providing an extended database that will be very useful in the hydrogen combustion hazard assessment for nuclear reactor power plant new design.     

The deformation and fracture of balloons

Inflation of balloons provides a straightforward way of achieving large biaxial deformations. Previous studies have shown that when a balloon bursts, crack propagation occurs at very high speed – much higher than would be expected from the low strain modulus and elastic wave velocity of the rubber. The present paper is concerned with studies of the deformation and fracture of cylindrical balloons. On inflation, the deformations of such a balloon pass through an unstable region but subsequently increase monotonically with pressure. In this relatively high pressure region, the ratio of the longitudinal and circumferential extension ratios is broadly in accord with expectations from high-strain elasticity theory when the ratio of the corresponding stresses is taken into account. On bursting, crack speeds up to around 300 m/s in this region. It is shown that these speeds are in accord with large increase in incremental moduli for the highly-strained rubber. Marked changes in crack tip profile observed at very high crack speeds are consistent with control of the rate of growth by inertia rather than by the viscoelastic properties of the rubber (as is believed to be the case at lower speeds). Consistent with this, various elastomers having different glass transition temperatures show similar crack growth behaviour in the very high speed region.     

大气状态下AFM阳极氧化加工Si的研究

Si纳米氧化线是构筑基于Si的纳米器件的基础。通过AFM针尖诱导阳极氧化加工的n型Si(100)的实验得到凸出的n型Si(100)氧化物高度和偏置电压成线性关系,与针尖扫描速度成负对数关系,并在前人的基础上深化了AFM针尖诱导氧化加工的机理和理论模型,得到了合适的加工条件为偏压8 V和扫描速度1μm/s。     

HART通信协议在汽油机速度测量和监控方面的应用

首先介绍了HART通信协议及他的优点，然后介绍了HART通信协议在汽油机测速方面的软件实现。该软件主要采用目前流行的VB编程语言。可设计出界面友好、功能强大的测量和监控软件。     

新型的芯片间互连用CMOS/BiCMOS驱动器

从改善不同类型 IC芯片之间的电平匹配和驱动能力出发 ,设计了几例芯片间接口 (互连 )用 CMOS/Bi CMOS驱动电路 ,并提出了采用 0 .5 μm Bi CMOS工艺 ,制备所设计驱动器的技术要点和元器件参数。实验结果表明所设计驱动器既具有双极型电路快速、大电流驱动能力的特点 ,又具备 CMOS电路低压、低功耗的长处 ,因而它们特别适用于低电源电压、低功耗高速数字通信电路和信息处理系统。     

计算机网络安全与防火墙技术

随着信息技术的高速发展和网络信息量的飞速膨胀，同时应有的安全防范措施相对薄弱，因此，非法入侵、对数据进行篡改和窃听等事件时有发生。本文就保证信息安全阐述了网络安全的必要性，论述了网络防火墙安全技术的功能、主要技术、配置、安全措施和防火墙设计思路等。     

Uniform bounds under increment conditions

We apply a majorizing measure theorem of Talagrand to obtain uniform bounds for sums of random variables satisfying increment conditions of the type considered in Gál-Koksma Theorems. We give some applications.

     

环境影响及计算机设备可靠性

和所有设备一样，计算机设备也是在一定环境中工作的，各种环境因素无时不对设备产生影响。要使计算机设备在各种环境中保持良好的性能，必须了解各种环境对计算机设备影响的机理和过程，分析在环境因素中那些因素是影响计算机设备的主要因素及其力度、频率、周期等，以便采取措施保护计算机设备正常工作。简要介绍除温度外，各种环境因素对计算机设备的影响。     

遥感相机自动检焦技术研究

将基于图像处理的自动检焦技术应用于线阵CCD推扫成像的空间遥感相机中。图像法检焦的关键在于对焦评价函数的选取。通常对焦评价函数是在摄影目标不变的情况下得出的,而推扫成像的线阵CCD相机在任意时刻所拍摄的景物都是不同的,这就给对焦评价函数的选取增加了难度。用功率谱的方法对任意景物在空间频域进行分析表明,功率谱对于自然景物具有一定的不变性。由此建立了基于功率谱的对焦评价函数,采用小波去噪与亮度归一化相结合的图像预处理技术有效地去除了图像噪声和亮度变化对对焦精度的影响。通过对功率谱评价函数进行加权处理,提高了对焦评价函数曲线的灵敏度。仿真实验表明了所构造的对焦评价函数是可行的。