Improving Transferability of Adversarial Patches on Face Recognition with Generative Models

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Zihao Xiao, Xianfeng Gao, Chilin Fu, Yinpeng Dong, Wei Gao | Summary: Face recognition is greatly improved by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Recently, these face recognition models have been used for identity authentication in security sensitive applications. However, deep CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial patches, which […]


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Reinforcement Learning-based Dialogue Guided Event Extraction to Exploit Argument Relations

Kavli Affiliate: Lihong Wang | First 5 Authors: Qian Li, Hao Peng, Jianxin Li, Jia Wu, Yuanxing Ning | Summary: Event extraction is a fundamental task for natural language processing. Finding the roles of event arguments like event participants is essential for event extraction. However, doing so for real-life event descriptions is challenging because an […]


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Tuning acoustic impedance in load-bearing structures

Kavli Affiliate: Chiara Daraio | First 5 Authors: Sai Sharan Injeti, Paolo Celli, Kaushik Bhattacharya, Chiara Daraio, | Summary: Acoustic transparency is the capability of a medium to transmit mechanical waves to adjacent media, without scattering. This characteristic can be achieved by carefully engineering the acoustic impedance of the medium — a combination of wave […]


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Quasiballistic electron transport in cryogenic SiGe HBTs studied using an exact, semi-analytic solution to the Boltzmann equation

Kavli Affiliate: Austin J. Minnich | First 5 Authors: Nachiket R. Naik, Austin J. Minnich, , , | Summary: Silicon-germanium heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) are of interest as low-noise microwave amplifiers due to their competitive noise performance and low cost relative to III-V devices. The fundamental noise performance limits of HBTs are thus of interest, […]


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Element-specific electronic and structural dynamics using transient X-ray spectroscopy

Kavli Affiliate: Scott K. Cushing | First 5 Authors: Hanzhe Liu, Isabel M. Klein, Jonathan M. Michelsen, Scott K. Cushing, | Summary: Transient X-ray absorption techniques can measure ultrafast dynamics of the elemental edges in a material or multiple layer junction, giving them immense potential for deconvoluting concurrent processes. However, the interpretation of the photoexcited […]


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Attend and select: A segment selective transformer for microblog hashtag generation

Kavli Affiliate: Lihong Wang | First 5 Authors: Qianren Mao, Xi Li, Bang Liu, Shu Guo, Peng Hao | Summary: Hashtag generation aims to generate short and informal topical tags from a microblog post, in which tokens or phrases form the hashtags. These tokens or phrases may originate from primary fragmental textual pieces (e.g., segments) […]


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All-optical Quantum State Engineering for Rotation-symmetric Bosonic States

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi | First 5 Authors: Rajveer Nehra, Miller Eaton, Olivier Pfister, Alireza Marandi, | Summary: Continuous-variable quantum information processing through quantum optics offers a promising platform for building the next generation of scalable fault-tolerant information processors. To achieve quantum computational advantages and fault tolerance, non-Gaussian resources are essential. In this work, we […]


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Probing Strong Coupling between a Microwave Cavity and a Spin Ensemble with Raman Heterodyne Spectroscopy

Kavli Affiliate: Andrei Faraon | First 5 Authors: Gavin G. G. King, Peter S. Barnett, John G. Bartholomew, Andrei Faraon, Jevon J. Longdell | Summary: Raman heterodyne spectroscopy is a powerful tool for characterizing the energy and dynamics of spins. The technique uses an optical pump to transfer coherence from a spin transition to an […]


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NTIRE 2021 Challenge on Quality Enhancement of Compressed Video: Methods and Results

Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Ren Yang, Radu Timofte, Jing Liu, Yi Xu, Xinjian Zhang | Summary: This paper reviews the first NTIRE challenge on quality enhancement of compressed video, with a focus on the proposed methods and results. In this challenge, the new Large-scale Diverse Video (LDV) dataset is employed. The […]


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