Publications by authors named "Yaran Chen"

Recent works have demonstrated that transformer can achieve promising performance in computer vision, by exploiting the relationship among image patches with self-attention. They only consider the attention in a single feature layer, but ignore the complementarity of attention in different layers. In this article, we propose broad attention to improve the performance by incorporating the attention relationship of different layers for vision transformer (ViT), which is called BViT.

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Multisensor fusion-based road segmentation plays an important role in the intelligent driving system since it provides a drivable area. The existing mainstream fusion method is mainly to feature fusion in the image space domain which causes the perspective compression of the road and damages the performance of the distant road. Considering the bird's eye views (BEVs) of the LiDAR remains the space structure in the horizontal plane, this article proposes a bidirectional fusion network (BiFNet) to fuse the image and BEV of the point cloud.

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Although neural the architecture search (NAS) can bring improvement to deep models, it always neglects precious knowledge of existing models. The computation and time costing property in NAS also means that we should not start from scratch to search, but make every attempt to reuse the existing knowledge. In this article, we discuss what kind of knowledge in a model can and should be used for a new architecture design.

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Efficient neural architecture search (ENAS) achieves novel efficiency for learning architecture with high-performance via parameter sharing and reinforcement learning (RL). In the phase of architecture search, ENAS employs deep scalable architecture as search space whose training process consumes most of the search cost. Moreover, time-consuming model training is proportional to the depth of deep scalable architecture.

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The 3-D object detection is crucial for many real-world applications, attracting many researchers' attention. Beyond 2-D object detection, 3-D object detection usually needs to extract appearance, depth, position, and orientation information from light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and camera sensors. However, due to more degrees of freedom and vertices, existing detection methods that directly transform from 2-D to 3-D still face several challenges, such as exploding increase of anchors' number and inefficient or hard-to-optimize objective.

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β1,4-GalT1 is a type II membrane glycosyltransferase. It catalyzes the production of lactose in the lactating mammary gland and is supposedly also involved in the galactosylation of terminal GlcNAc of complex-type N-glycans. In-vitro studies of the bovine β4Gal-T1 homolog showed that replacing a single residue of tyrosine with leucine at position 289 alters the donor substrate specificity from UDP-Gal to UDP-N-acetyl-galactosamine (UDP-GalNAc).

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Purpose: The gastrointestinal tract is home to thousands of commensal bacterial species. Therefore, competition for nutrients is paramount for successful bacterial pathogen invasion of intestinal ecosystems. The human pathogen Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the severe diarrhoeal disease, cholera, is able to colonize the small intestine, which is protected by mucus.

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Bacteria have developed capacities to deal with different stresses and adapt to different environmental niches. The human pathogen , the causative agent of the severe diarrheal disease cholera, utilizes the transcriptional regulator OxyR to activate genes related to oxidative stress resistance, including peroxiredoxin PrxA, in response to hydrogen peroxide. In this study, we identified another OxyR homolog in , which we named OxyR2, and we renamed the previous OxyR OxyR1.

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