Shijiazhuang
A Unified Platform for At-Home Post-Stroke Rehabilitation Enabled by Wearable Technologies and Artificial Intelligence
Tang, Chenyu, Zhang, Ruizhi, Gao, Shuo, Zhao, Zihe, Zhang, Zibo, Wang, Jiaqi, Li, Cong, Chen, Junliang, Dai, Yanning, Wang, Shengbo, Juan, Ruoyu, Li, Qiaoying, Xie, Ruimou, Chen, Xuhang, Zhou, Xinkai, Xia, Yunjia, Chen, Jianan, Lu, Fanghao, Li, Xin, Wang, Ninglli, Smielewski, Peter, Pan, Yu, Zhao, Hubin, Occhipinti, Luigi G.
Hubin Zhao (hubin.zhao@ucl.ac.uk), and Luigi G. Occhipinti (lgo23@cam.ac.uk) Abstract At-home rehabilitation for post-stroke patients presents significant challenges, as continuous, personalized care is often limited outside clinical settings. Additionally, the absence of comprehensive solutions addressing diverse rehabilitation needs in home environments complicates recovery efforts. Here, we introduce a smart home platform that integrates wearable sensors, ambient monitoring, and large language model (LLM)-powered assistance to provide seamless health monitoring and intelligent support. The system leverages machine learning enabled plantar pressure arrays for motor recovery assessment (94% classification accuracy), a wearable eye-tracking module for cognitive evaluation, and ambient sensors for precise smart home control (100% operational success, <1 s latency). Additionally, the LLM-powered agent, Auto-Care, offers real-time interventions, such as health reminders and environmental adjustments, enhancing user satisfaction by 29%. This work establishes a fully integrated platform for long-term, personalized rehabilitation, offering new possibilities for managing chronic conditions and supporting aging populations. Stroke is the third leading cause of disability worldwide, affecting more than 101 million people [1, 2]. Post-stroke recovery is not only a prolonged process but also a resource-intensive one, imposing significant economic and caregiving burdens on families and healthcare systems--a challenge exacerbated by global aging [5]. For many patients, the home becomes a critical environment for rehabilitation, as opportunities for continuous and personalized care are limited outside of clinical settings [6].
Learning Time Slot Preferences via Mobility Tree for Next POI Recommendation
Huang, Tianhao, Pan, Xuan, Cai, Xiangrui, Zhang, Ying, Yuan, Xiaojie
Next Point-of-Interests (POIs) recommendation task aims to provide a dynamic ranking of POIs based on users' current check-in trajectories. The recommendation performance of this task is contingent upon a comprehensive understanding of users' personalized behavioral patterns through Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) data. While prior studies have adeptly captured sequential patterns and transitional relationships within users' check-in trajectories, a noticeable gap persists in devising a mechanism for discerning specialized behavioral patterns during distinct time slots, such as noon, afternoon, or evening. In this paper, we introduce an innovative data structure termed the ``Mobility Tree'', tailored for hierarchically describing users' check-in records. The Mobility Tree encompasses multi-granularity time slot nodes to learn user preferences across varying temporal periods. Meanwhile, we propose the Mobility Tree Network (MTNet), a multitask framework for personalized preference learning based on Mobility Trees. We develop a four-step node interaction operation to propagate feature information from the leaf nodes to the root node. Additionally, we adopt a multitask training strategy to push the model towards learning a robust representation. The comprehensive experimental results demonstrate the superiority of MTNet over ten state-of-the-art next POI recommendation models across three real-world LBSN datasets, substantiating the efficacy of time slot preference learning facilitated by Mobility Tree.
AMANet: Advancing SAR Ship Detection with Adaptive Multi-Hierarchical Attention Network
Ma, Xiaolin, Cheng, Junkai, Li, Aihua, Zhang, Yuhua, Lin, Zhilong
Recently, methods based on deep learning have been successfully applied to ship detection for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. Despite the development of numerous ship detection methodologies, detecting small and coastal ships remains a significant challenge due to the limited features and clutter in coastal environments. For that, a novel adaptive multi-hierarchical attention module (AMAM) is proposed to learn multi-scale features and adaptively aggregate salient features from various feature layers, even in complex environments. Specifically, we first fuse information from adjacent feature layers to enhance the detection of smaller targets, thereby achieving multi-scale feature enhancement. Then, to filter out the adverse effects of complex backgrounds, we dissect the previously fused multi-level features on the channel, individually excavate the salient regions, and adaptively amalgamate features originating from different channels. Thirdly, we present a novel adaptive multi-hierarchical attention network (AMANet) by embedding the AMAM between the backbone network and the feature pyramid network (FPN). Besides, the AMAM can be readily inserted between different frameworks to improve object detection. Lastly, extensive experiments on two large-scale SAR ship detection datasets demonstrate that our AMANet method is superior to state-of-the-art methods.
A Clustering Framework for Unsupervised and Semi-supervised New Intent Discovery
Zhang, Hanlei, Xu, Hua, Wang, Xin, Long, Fei, Gao, Kai
New intent discovery is of great value to natural language processing, allowing for a better understanding of user needs and providing friendly services. However, most existing methods struggle to capture the complicated semantics of discrete text representations when limited or no prior knowledge of labeled data is available. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel clustering framework, USNID, for unsupervised and semi-supervised new intent discovery, which has three key technologies. First, it fully utilizes unsupervised or semi-supervised data to mine shallow semantic similarity relations and provide well-initialized representations for clustering. Second, it designs a centroid-guided clustering mechanism to address the issue of cluster allocation inconsistency and provide high-quality self-supervised targets for representation learning. Third, it captures high-level semantics in unsupervised or semi-supervised data to discover fine-grained intent-wise clusters by optimizing both cluster-level and instance-level objectives. We also propose an effective method for estimating the cluster number in open-world scenarios without knowing the number of new intents beforehand. USNID performs exceptionally well on several benchmark intent datasets, achieving new state-of-the-art results in unsupervised and semi-supervised new intent discovery and demonstrating robust performance with different cluster numbers.
DiffusionSat: A Generative Foundation Model for Satellite Imagery
Khanna, Samar, Liu, Patrick, Zhou, Linqi, Meng, Chenlin, Rombach, Robin, Burke, Marshall, Lobell, David, Ermon, Stefano
Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results on many modalities including images, speech, and video. However, existing models are not tailored to support remote sensing data, which is widely used in important applications including environmental monitoring and crop-yield prediction. Satellite images are significantly different from natural images - they can be multi-spectral, irregularly sampled across time - and existing diffusion models trained on images from the Web do not support them. Furthermore, remote sensing data is inherently spatio-temporal, requiring conditional generation tasks not supported by traditional methods based on captions or images. In this paper, we present DiffusionSat, to date the largest generative foundation model trained on a collection of publicly available large, high-resolution remote sensing datasets. As text-based captions are sparsely available for satellite images, we incorporate the associated metadata such as geolocation as conditioning information. Our method produces realistic samples and can be used to solve multiple generative tasks including temporal generation, superresolution given multi-spectral inputs and in-painting. Our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods for satellite image generation and is the first large-scale generative foundation model for satellite imagery. Diffusion models have achieved state of the art results in image generation (Sohl-Dickstein et al., 2015; Ho et al., 2020; Dhariwal & Nichol, 2021; Kingma et al., 2021; Song & Ermon, 2019; 2020). Large scale models such as Stable Diffusion Rombach et al. (2022) (SD) have been trained on Internet-scale image-text datasets to generate high-resolution images from user-provided captions.
Learning Discriminative Representations and Decision Boundaries for Open Intent Detection
Zhang, Hanlei, Xu, Hua, Zhao, Shaojie, Zhou, Qianrui
Open intent detection is a significant problem in natural language understanding, which aims to identify the unseen open intent while ensuring known intent identification performance. However, current methods face two major challenges. Firstly, they struggle to learn friendly representations to detect the open intent with prior knowledge of only known intents. Secondly, there is a lack of an effective approach to obtaining specific and compact decision boundaries for known intents. To address these issues, this paper presents an original framework called DA-ADB, which successively learns distance-aware intent representations and adaptive decision boundaries for open intent detection. Specifically, we first leverage distance information to enhance the distinguishing capability of the intent representations. Then, we design a novel loss function to obtain appropriate decision boundaries by balancing both empirical and open space risks. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed distance-aware and boundary learning strategies. Compared to state-of-the-art methods, our framework achieves substantial improvements on three benchmark datasets. Furthermore, it yields robust performance with varying proportions of labeled data and known categories.