Machine learning algorithms are widely used to interpret well logging data.To enhance the algorithms'robustness,shuffling the well logging data is an unavoidable feature engineering before training models.However,...Machine learning algorithms are widely used to interpret well logging data.To enhance the algorithms'robustness,shuffling the well logging data is an unavoidable feature engineering before training models.However,latent information stored between different well logging types and depth is destroyed during the shuffle.To investigate the influence of latent information,this study implements graph convolution networks(GCNs),long-short temporal memory models,recurrent neural networks,temporal convolution networks,and two artificial neural networks to predict the microbial lithology in the fourth member of the Dengying Formation,Moxi gas field,central Sichuan Basin.Results indicate that the GCN model outperforms other models.The accuracy,F1-score,and area under curve of the GCN model are 0.90,0.90,and 0.95,respectively.Experimental results indicate that the time-series data facilitates lithology prediction and helps determine lithological fluctuations in the vertical direction.All types of logs from the spectral in the GCN model and also facilitates lithology identification.Only on condition combined with latent information,the GCN model reaches excellent microbialite classification resolution at the centimeter scale.Ultimately,the two actual cases show tricks for using GCN models to predict potential microbialite in other formations and areas,proving that the GCN model can be adopted in the industry.展开更多
Recommendation Information Systems(RIS)are pivotal in helping users in swiftly locating desired content from the vast amount of information available on the Internet.Graph Convolution Network(GCN)algorithms have been ...Recommendation Information Systems(RIS)are pivotal in helping users in swiftly locating desired content from the vast amount of information available on the Internet.Graph Convolution Network(GCN)algorithms have been employed to implement the RIS efficiently.However,the GCN algorithm faces limitations in terms of performance enhancement owing to the due to the embedding value-vanishing problem that occurs during the learning process.To address this issue,we propose a Weighted Forwarding method using the GCN(WF-GCN)algorithm.The proposed method involves multiplying the embedding results with different weights for each hop layer during graph learning.By applying the WF-GCN algorithm,which adjusts weights for each hop layer before forwarding to the next,nodes with many neighbors achieve higher embedding values.This approach facilitates the learning of more hop layers within the GCN framework.The efficacy of the WF-GCN was demonstrated through its application to various datasets.In the MovieLens dataset,the implementation of WF-GCN in LightGCN resulted in significant performance improvements,with recall and NDCG increasing by up to+163.64%and+132.04%,respectively.Similarly,in the Last.FM dataset,LightGCN using WF-GCN enhanced with WF-GCN showed substantial improvements,with the recall and NDCG metrics rising by up to+174.40%and+169.95%,respectively.Furthermore,the application of WF-GCN to Self-supervised Graph Learning(SGL)and Simple Graph Contrastive Learning(SimGCL)also demonstrated notable enhancements in both recall and NDCG across these datasets.展开更多
Medical image segmentation plays an important role in clinical diagnosis,quantitative analysis,and treatment process.Since 2015,U-Net-based approaches have been widely used formedical image segmentation.The purpose of...Medical image segmentation plays an important role in clinical diagnosis,quantitative analysis,and treatment process.Since 2015,U-Net-based approaches have been widely used formedical image segmentation.The purpose of the U-Net expansive path is to map low-resolution encoder feature maps to full input resolution feature maps.However,the consecutive deconvolution and convolutional operations in the expansive path lead to the loss of some high-level information.More high-level information can make the segmentationmore accurate.In this paper,we propose MU-Net,a novel,multi-path upsampling convolution network to retain more high-level information.The MU-Net mainly consists of three parts:contracting path,skip connection,and multi-expansive paths.The proposed MU-Net architecture is evaluated based on three different medical imaging datasets.Our experiments show that MU-Net improves the segmentation performance of U-Net-based methods on different datasets.At the same time,the computational efficiency is significantly improved by reducing the number of parameters by more than half.展开更多
Knowledge graph(KG) link prediction aims to address the problem of missing multiple valid triples in KGs. Existing approaches either struggle to efficiently model the message passing process of multi-hop paths or lack...Knowledge graph(KG) link prediction aims to address the problem of missing multiple valid triples in KGs. Existing approaches either struggle to efficiently model the message passing process of multi-hop paths or lack transparency of model prediction principles. In this paper,a new graph convolutional network path semantic-aware graph convolution network(PSGCN) is proposed to achieve modeling the semantic information of multi-hop paths. PSGCN first uses a random walk strategy to obtain all-hop paths in KGs,then captures the semantics of the paths by Word2Sec and long shortterm memory(LSTM) models,and finally converts them into a potential representation for the graph convolution network(GCN) messaging process. PSGCN combines path-based inference methods and graph neural networks to achieve better interpretability and scalability. In addition,to ensure the robustness of the model,the value of the path thresholdKis experimented on the FB15K-237 and WN18RR datasets,and the final results prove the effectiveness of the model.展开更多
The relationship between users and items,which cannot be recovered by traditional techniques,can be extracted by the recommendation algorithm based on the graph convolution network.The current simple linear combinatio...The relationship between users and items,which cannot be recovered by traditional techniques,can be extracted by the recommendation algorithm based on the graph convolution network.The current simple linear combination of these algorithms may not be sufficient to extract the complex structure of user interaction data.This paper presents a new approach to address such issues,utilizing the graph convolution network to extract association relations.The proposed approach mainly includes three modules:Embedding layer,forward propagation layer,and score prediction layer.The embedding layer models users and items according to their interaction information and generates initial feature vectors as input for the forward propagation layer.The forward propagation layer designs two parallel graph convolution networks with self-connections,which extract higher-order association relevance from users and items separately by multi-layer graph convolution.Furthermore,the forward propagation layer integrates the attention factor to assign different weights among the hop neighbors of the graph convolution network fusion,capturing more comprehensive association relevance between users and items as input for the score prediction layer.The score prediction layer introduces MLP(multi-layer perceptron)to conduct non-linear feature interaction between users and items,respectively.Finally,the prediction score of users to items is obtained.The recall rate and normalized discounted cumulative gain were used as evaluation indexes.The proposed approach effectively integrates higher-order information in user entries,and experimental analysis demonstrates its superiority over the existing algorithms.展开更多
Traffic prediction is a necessary function in intelligent transporta-tion systems to alleviate traffic congestion.Graph learning methods mainly focus on the spatiotemporal dimension,but ignore the nonlinear movement o...Traffic prediction is a necessary function in intelligent transporta-tion systems to alleviate traffic congestion.Graph learning methods mainly focus on the spatiotemporal dimension,but ignore the nonlinear movement of traffic prediction and the high-order relationships among various kinds of road segments.There exist two issues:1)deep integration of the spatiotempo-ral information and 2)global spatial dependencies for structural properties.To address these issues,we propose a nonlinear spatiotemporal optimization method,which introduces hypergraph convolution networks(HGCN).The method utilizes the higher-order spatial features of the road network captured by HGCN,and dynamically integrates them with the historical data to weigh the influence of spatiotemporal dependencies.On this basis,an extended Kalman filter is used to improve the accuracy of traffic prediction.In this study,a set of experiments were conducted on the real-world dataset in Chengdu,China.The result showed that the proposed method is feasible and accurate by two different time steps.Especially at the 15-minute time step,compared with the second-best method,the proposed method achieved 3.0%,11.7%,and 9.0%improvements in RMSE,MAE,and MAPE,respectively.展开更多
In recent years,human motion prediction has become an active research topic in computer vision.However,owing to the complexity and stochastic nature of human motion,it remains a challenging problem.In previous works,h...In recent years,human motion prediction has become an active research topic in computer vision.However,owing to the complexity and stochastic nature of human motion,it remains a challenging problem.In previous works,human motion prediction has always been treated as a typical inter-sequence problem,and most works have aimed to capture the temporal dependence between successive frames.However,although these approaches focused on the effects of the temporal dimension,they rarely considered the correlation between different joints in space.Thus,the spatio-temporal coupling of human joints is considered,to propose a novel spatio-temporal network based on a transformer and a gragh convolutional network(GCN)(STTG-Net).The temporal transformer is used to capture the global temporal dependencies,and the spatial GCN module is used to establish local spatial correlations between the joints for each frame.To overcome the problems of error accumulation and discontinuity in the motion prediction,a revision method based on fusion strategy is also proposed,in which the current prediction frame is fused with the previous frame.The experimental results show that the proposed prediction method has less prediction error and the prediction motion is smoother than previous prediction methods.The effectiveness of the proposed method is also demonstrated comparing it with the state-of-the-art method on the Human3.6 M dataset.展开更多
Traffic flow prediction plays a key role in the construction of intelligent transportation system.However,due to its complex spatio-temporal dependence and its uncertainty,the research becomes very challenging.Most of...Traffic flow prediction plays a key role in the construction of intelligent transportation system.However,due to its complex spatio-temporal dependence and its uncertainty,the research becomes very challenging.Most of the existing studies are based on graph neural networks that model traffic flow graphs and try to use fixed graph structure to deal with the relationship between nodes.However,due to the time-varying spatial correlation of the traffic network,there is no fixed node relationship,and these methods cannot effectively integrate the temporal and spatial features.This paper proposes a novel temporal-spatial dynamic graph convolutional network(TSADGCN).The dynamic time warping algorithm(DTW)is introduced to calculate the similarity of traffic flow sequence among network nodes in the time dimension,and the spatiotemporal graph of traffic flow is constructed to capture the spatiotemporal characteristics and dependencies of traffic flow.By combining graph attention network and time attention network,a spatiotemporal convolution block is constructed to capture spatiotemporal characteristics of traffic data.Experiments on open data sets PEMSD4 and PEMSD8 show that TSADGCN has higher prediction accuracy than well-known traffic flow prediction algorithms.展开更多
Speech signals play an essential role in communication and provide an efficient way to exchange information between humans and machines.Speech Emotion Recognition(SER)is one of the critical sources for human evaluatio...Speech signals play an essential role in communication and provide an efficient way to exchange information between humans and machines.Speech Emotion Recognition(SER)is one of the critical sources for human evaluation,which is applicable in many real-world applications such as healthcare,call centers,robotics,safety,and virtual reality.This work developed a novel TCN-based emotion recognition system using speech signals through a spatial-temporal convolution network to recognize the speaker’s emotional state.The authors designed a Temporal Convolutional Network(TCN)core block to recognize long-term dependencies in speech signals and then feed these temporal cues to a dense network to fuse the spatial features and recognize global information for final classification.The proposed network extracts valid sequential cues automatically from speech signals,which performed better than state-of-the-art(SOTA)and traditional machine learning algorithms.Results of the proposed method show a high recognition rate compared with SOTAmethods.The final unweighted accuracy of 80.84%,and 92.31%,for interactive emotional dyadic motion captures(IEMOCAP)and berlin emotional dataset(EMO-DB),indicate the robustness and efficiency of the designed model.展开更多
The most widely farmed fruit in the world is mango.Both the production and quality of the mangoes are hampered by many diseases.These diseases need to be effectively controlled and mitigated.Therefore,a quick and accu...The most widely farmed fruit in the world is mango.Both the production and quality of the mangoes are hampered by many diseases.These diseases need to be effectively controlled and mitigated.Therefore,a quick and accurate diagnosis of the disorders is essential.Deep convolutional neural networks,renowned for their independence in feature extraction,have established their value in numerous detection and classification tasks.However,it requires large training datasets and several parameters that need careful adjustment.The proposed Modified Dense Convolutional Network(MDCN)provides a successful classification scheme for plant diseases affecting mango leaves.This model employs the strength of pre-trained networks and modifies them for the particular context of mango leaf diseases by incorporating transfer learning techniques.The data loader also builds mini-batches for training the models to reduce training time.Finally,optimization approaches help increase the overall model’s efficiency and lower computing costs.MDCN employed on the MangoLeafBD Dataset consists of a total of 4,000 images.Following the experimental results,the proposed system is compared with existing techniques and it is clear that the proposed algorithm surpasses the existing algorithms by achieving high performance and overall throughput.展开更多
Action recognition has been recognized as an activity in which individuals’behaviour can be observed.Assembling profiles of regular activities such as activities of daily living can support identifying trends in the ...Action recognition has been recognized as an activity in which individuals’behaviour can be observed.Assembling profiles of regular activities such as activities of daily living can support identifying trends in the data during critical events.A skeleton representation of the human body has been proven to be effective for this task.The skeletons are presented in graphs form-like.However,the topology of a graph is not structured like Euclideanbased data.Therefore,a new set of methods to perform the convolution operation upon the skeleton graph is proposed.Our proposal is based on the Spatial Temporal-Graph Convolutional Network(ST-GCN)framework.In this study,we proposed an improved set of label mapping methods for the ST-GCN framework.We introduce three split techniques(full distance split,connection split,and index split)as an alternative approach for the convolution operation.The experiments presented in this study have been trained using two benchmark datasets:NTU-RGB+D and Kinetics to evaluate the performance.Our results indicate that our split techniques outperform the previous partition strategies and aremore stable during training without using the edge importance weighting additional training parameter.Therefore,our proposal can provide a more realistic solution for real-time applications centred on daily living recognition systems activities for indoor environments.展开更多
With the increasing complexity of industrial automation,planetary gearboxes play a vital role in largescale equipment transmission systems,directly impacting operational efficiency and safety.Traditional maintenance s...With the increasing complexity of industrial automation,planetary gearboxes play a vital role in largescale equipment transmission systems,directly impacting operational efficiency and safety.Traditional maintenance strategies often struggle to accurately predict the degradation process of equipment,leading to excessive maintenance costs or potential failure risks.However,existing prediction methods based on statistical models are difficult to adapt to nonlinear degradation processes.To address these challenges,this study proposes a novel condition-based maintenance framework for planetary gearboxes.A comprehensive full-lifecycle degradation experiment was conducted to collect raw vibration signals,which were then processed using a temporal convolutional network autoencoder with multi-scale perception capability to extract deep temporal degradation features,enabling the collaborative extraction of longperiod meshing frequencies and short-term impact features from the vibration signals.Kernel principal component analysis was employed to fuse and normalize these features,enhancing the characterization of degradation progression.A nonlinear Wiener process was used to model the degradation trajectory,with a threshold decay function introduced to dynamically adjust maintenance strategies,and model parameters optimized through maximum likelihood estimation.Meanwhile,the maintenance strategy was optimized to minimize costs per unit time,determining the optimal maintenance timing and preventive maintenance threshold.The comprehensive indicator of degradation trends extracted by this method reaches 0.756,which is 41.2%higher than that of traditional time-domain features;the dynamic threshold strategy reduces the maintenance cost per unit time to 55.56,which is 8.9%better than that of the static threshold optimization.Experimental results demonstrate significant reductions in maintenance costs while enhancing system reliability and safety.This study realizes the organic integration of deep learning and reliability theory in the maintenance of planetary gearboxes,provides an interpretable solution for the predictive maintenance of complex mechanical systems,and promotes the development of condition-based maintenance strategies for planetary gearboxes.展开更多
The development of brain-computer interfaces(BCI)based on motor imagery(MI)has greatly improved patients’quality of life with movement disorders.The classification of upper limb MI has been widely studied and applied...The development of brain-computer interfaces(BCI)based on motor imagery(MI)has greatly improved patients’quality of life with movement disorders.The classification of upper limb MI has been widely studied and applied in many fields,including rehabilitation.However,the physiological representations of left and right lower limb movements are too close and activated deep in the cerebral cortex,making it difficult to distinguish their features.Therefore,classifying lower limbs motor imagery is more challenging.In this study,we propose a feature extraction method based on functional connectivity,which utilizes phase-locked values to construct a functional connectivity matrix as the features of the left and right legs,which can effectively avoid the problem of physiological representations of the left and right lower limbs being too close to each other during movement.In addition,considering the topology and the temporal characteristics of the electroencephalogram(EEG),we designed a temporal-spatial convolutional network(TSGCN)to capture the spatiotemporal information for classification.Experimental results show that the accuracy of the proposed method is higher than that of existing methods,achieving an average classification accuracy of 73.58%on the internal dataset.Finally,this study explains the network mechanism of left and right foot MI from the perspective of graph theoretic features and demonstrates the feasibility of decoding lower limb MI.展开更多
With network attack technology continuing to develop,traditional anomaly traffic detection methods that rely on feature engineering are increasingly insufficient in efficiency and accuracy.Graph Neural Network(GNN),a ...With network attack technology continuing to develop,traditional anomaly traffic detection methods that rely on feature engineering are increasingly insufficient in efficiency and accuracy.Graph Neural Network(GNN),a promising Deep Learning(DL)approach,has proven to be highly effective in identifying intricate patterns in graph⁃structured data and has already found wide applications in the field of network security.In this paper,we propose a hybrid Graph Convolutional Network(GCN)⁃GraphSAGE model for Anomaly Traffic Detection,namely HGS⁃ATD,which aims to improve the accuracy of anomaly traffic detection by leveraging edge feature learning to better capture the relationships between network entities.We validate the HGS⁃ATD model on four publicly available datasets,including NF⁃UNSW⁃NB15⁃v2.The experimental results show that the enhanced hybrid model is 5.71%to 10.25%higher than the baseline model in terms of accuracy,and the F1⁃score is 5.53%to 11.63%higher than the baseline model,proving that the model can effectively distinguish normal traffic from attack traffic and accurately classify various types of attacks.展开更多
critical for guiding treatment and improving patient outcomes.Traditional molecular subtyping via immuno-histochemistry(IHC)test is invasive,time-consuming,and may not fully represent tumor heterogeneity.This study pr...critical for guiding treatment and improving patient outcomes.Traditional molecular subtyping via immuno-histochemistry(IHC)test is invasive,time-consuming,and may not fully represent tumor heterogeneity.This study proposes a non-invasive approach using digital mammography images and deep learning algorithm for classifying breast cancer molecular subtypes.Four pretrained models,including two Convolutional Neural Networks(MobileNet_V3_Large and VGG-16)and two Vision Transformers(ViT_B_16 and ViT_Base_Patch16_Clip_224)were fine-tuned to classify images into HER2-enriched,Luminal,Normal-like,and Triple Negative subtypes.Hyperparameter tuning,including learning rate adjustment and layer freezing strategies,was applied to optimize performance.Among the evaluated models,ViT_Base_Patch16_Clip_224 achieved the highest test accuracy(94.44%),with equally high precision,recall,and F1-score of 0.94,demonstrating excellent generalization.MobileNet_V3_Large achieved the same accuracy but showed less training stability.In contrast,VGG-16 recorded the lowest performance,indicating a limitation in its generalizability for this classification task.The study also highlighted the superior performance of the Vision Transformer models over CNNs,particularly due to their ability to capture global contextual features and the benefit of CLIP-based pretraining in ViT_Base_Patch16_Clip_224.To enhance clinical applicability,a graphical user interface(GUI)named“BCMS Dx”was developed for streamlined subtype prediction.Deep learning applied to mammography has proven effective for accurate and non-invasive molecular subtyping.The proposed Vision Transformer-based model and supporting GUI offer a promising direction for augmenting diagnostic workflows,minimizing the need for invasive procedures,and advancing personalized breast cancer management.展开更多
Graph neural networks(GNN)have shown strong performance in node classification tasks,yet most existing models rely on uniform or shared weight aggregation,lacking flexibility in modeling the varying strength of relati...Graph neural networks(GNN)have shown strong performance in node classification tasks,yet most existing models rely on uniform or shared weight aggregation,lacking flexibility in modeling the varying strength of relationships among nodes.This paper proposes a novel graph coupling convolutional model that introduces an adaptive weighting mechanism to assign distinct importance to neighboring nodes based on their similarity to the central node.Unlike traditional methods,the proposed coupling strategy enhances the interpretability of node interactions while maintaining competitive classification performance.The model operates in the spatial domain,utilizing adjacency list structures for efficient convolution and addressing the limitations of weight sharing through a coupling-based similarity computation.Extensive experiments are conducted on five graph-structured datasets,including Cora,Citeseer,PubMed,Reddit,and BlogCatalog,as well as a custom topology dataset constructed from the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset(OULAD)educational platform.Results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves good classification accuracy,while significantly reducing training time through direct second-order neighbor fusion and data preprocessing.Moreover,analysis of neighborhood order reveals that considering third-order neighbors offers limited accuracy gains but introduces considerable computational overhead,confirming the efficiency of first-and second-order convolution in practical applications.Overall,the proposed graph coupling model offers a lightweight,interpretable,and effective framework for multi-label node classification in complex networks.展开更多
With the rapid development of the Artificial Intelligence of Things(AIoT),convolutional neural networks(CNNs)have demonstrated potential and remarkable performance in AIoT applications due to their excellent performan...With the rapid development of the Artificial Intelligence of Things(AIoT),convolutional neural networks(CNNs)have demonstrated potential and remarkable performance in AIoT applications due to their excellent performance in various inference tasks.However,the users have concerns about privacy leakage for the use of AI and the performance and efficiency of computing on resource-constrained IoT edge devices.Therefore,this paper proposes an efficient privacy-preserving CNN framework(i.e.,EPPA)based on the Fully Homomorphic Encryption(FHE)scheme for AIoT application scenarios.In the plaintext domain,we verify schemes with different activation structures to determine the actual activation functions applicable to the corresponding ciphertext domain.Within the encryption domain,we integrate batch normalization(BN)into the convolutional layers to simplify the computation process.For nonlinear activation functions,we use composite polynomials for approximate calculation.Regarding the noise accumulation caused by homomorphic multiplication operations,we realize the refreshment of ciphertext noise through minimal“decryption-encryption”interactions,instead of adopting bootstrapping operations.Additionally,in practical implementation,we convert three-dimensional convolution into two-dimensional convolution to reduce the amount of computation in the encryption domain.Finally,we conduct extensive experiments on four IoT datasets,different CNN architectures,and two platforms with different resource configurations to evaluate the performance of EPPA in detail.展开更多
Parkinson’s disease(PD)is a debilitating neurological disorder affecting over 10 million people worldwide.PD classification models using voice signals as input are common in the literature.It is believed that using d...Parkinson’s disease(PD)is a debilitating neurological disorder affecting over 10 million people worldwide.PD classification models using voice signals as input are common in the literature.It is believed that using deep learning algorithms further enhances performance;nevertheless,it is challenging due to the nature of small-scale and imbalanced PD datasets.This paper proposed a convolutional neural network-based deep support vector machine(CNN-DSVM)to automate the feature extraction process using CNN and extend the conventional SVM to a DSVM for better classification performance in small-scale PD datasets.A customized kernel function reduces the impact of biased classification towards the majority class(healthy candidates in our consideration).An improved generative adversarial network(IGAN)was designed to generate additional training data to enhance the model’s performance.For performance evaluation,the proposed algorithm achieves a sensitivity of 97.6%and a specificity of 97.3%.The performance comparison is evaluated from five perspectives,including comparisons with different data generation algorithms,feature extraction techniques,kernel functions,and existing works.Results reveal the effectiveness of the IGAN algorithm,which improves the sensitivity and specificity by 4.05%–4.72%and 4.96%–5.86%,respectively;and the effectiveness of the CNN-DSVM algorithm,which improves the sensitivity by 1.24%–57.4%and specificity by 1.04%–163%and reduces biased detection towards the majority class.The ablation experiments confirm the effectiveness of individual components.Two future research directions have also been suggested.展开更多
In the burgeoning field of anomaly detection within attributed networks,traditional methodologies often encounter the intricacies of network complexity,particularly in capturing nonlinearity and sparsity.This study in...In the burgeoning field of anomaly detection within attributed networks,traditional methodologies often encounter the intricacies of network complexity,particularly in capturing nonlinearity and sparsity.This study introduces an innovative approach that synergizes the strengths of graph convolutional networks with advanced deep residual learning and a unique residual-based attention mechanism,thereby creating a more nuanced and efficient method for anomaly detection in complex networks.The heart of our model lies in the integration of graph convolutional networks that capture complex structural relationships within the network data.This is further bolstered by deep residual learning,which is employed to model intricate nonlinear connections directly from input data.A pivotal innovation in our approach is the incorporation of a residual-based attention mech-anism.This mechanism dynamically adjusts the importance of nodes based on their residual information,thereby significantly enhancing the sensitivity of the model to subtle anomalies.Furthermore,we introduce a novel hypersphere mapping technique in the latent space to distinctly separate normal and anomalous data.This mapping is the key to our model’s ability to pinpoint anomalies with greater precision.An extensive experimental setup was used to validate the efficacy of the proposed model.Using attributed social network datasets,we demonstrate that our model not only competes with but also surpasses existing state-of-the-art methods in anomaly detection.The results show the exceptional capability of our model to handle the multifaceted nature of real-world networks.展开更多
Vehicle re-identification involves matching images of vehicles across varying camera views.The diversity of camera locations along different roadways leads to significant intra-class variation and only minimal inter-c...Vehicle re-identification involves matching images of vehicles across varying camera views.The diversity of camera locations along different roadways leads to significant intra-class variation and only minimal inter-class similarity in the collected vehicle images,which increases the complexity of re-identification tasks.To tackle these challenges,this study proposes AG-GCN(Attention-Guided Graph Convolutional Network),a novel framework integrating several pivotal components.Initially,AG-GCN embeds a lightweight attention module within the ResNet-50 structure to learn feature weights automatically,thereby improving the representation of vehicle features globally by highlighting salient features and suppressing extraneous ones.Moreover,AG-GCN adopts a graph-based structure to encapsulate deep local features.A graph convolutional network then amalgamates these features to understand the relationships among vehicle-related characteristics.Subsequently,we amalgamate feature maps from both the attention and graph-based branches for a more comprehensive representation of vehicle features.The framework then gauges feature similarities and ranks them,thus enhancing the accuracy of vehicle re-identification.Comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analyses on two publicly available datasets verify the efficacy of AG-GCN in addressing intra-class and inter-class variability issues.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41872150,U2344209 and U19B6003)the PetroChina Southwest Oil and Gasfield Company(No.2020-54365)。
文摘Machine learning algorithms are widely used to interpret well logging data.To enhance the algorithms'robustness,shuffling the well logging data is an unavoidable feature engineering before training models.However,latent information stored between different well logging types and depth is destroyed during the shuffle.To investigate the influence of latent information,this study implements graph convolution networks(GCNs),long-short temporal memory models,recurrent neural networks,temporal convolution networks,and two artificial neural networks to predict the microbial lithology in the fourth member of the Dengying Formation,Moxi gas field,central Sichuan Basin.Results indicate that the GCN model outperforms other models.The accuracy,F1-score,and area under curve of the GCN model are 0.90,0.90,and 0.95,respectively.Experimental results indicate that the time-series data facilitates lithology prediction and helps determine lithological fluctuations in the vertical direction.All types of logs from the spectral in the GCN model and also facilitates lithology identification.Only on condition combined with latent information,the GCN model reaches excellent microbialite classification resolution at the centimeter scale.Ultimately,the two actual cases show tricks for using GCN models to predict potential microbialite in other formations and areas,proving that the GCN model can be adopted in the industry.
基金This work was supported by the Kyonggi University Research Grant 2022.
文摘Recommendation Information Systems(RIS)are pivotal in helping users in swiftly locating desired content from the vast amount of information available on the Internet.Graph Convolution Network(GCN)algorithms have been employed to implement the RIS efficiently.However,the GCN algorithm faces limitations in terms of performance enhancement owing to the due to the embedding value-vanishing problem that occurs during the learning process.To address this issue,we propose a Weighted Forwarding method using the GCN(WF-GCN)algorithm.The proposed method involves multiplying the embedding results with different weights for each hop layer during graph learning.By applying the WF-GCN algorithm,which adjusts weights for each hop layer before forwarding to the next,nodes with many neighbors achieve higher embedding values.This approach facilitates the learning of more hop layers within the GCN framework.The efficacy of the WF-GCN was demonstrated through its application to various datasets.In the MovieLens dataset,the implementation of WF-GCN in LightGCN resulted in significant performance improvements,with recall and NDCG increasing by up to+163.64%and+132.04%,respectively.Similarly,in the Last.FM dataset,LightGCN using WF-GCN enhanced with WF-GCN showed substantial improvements,with the recall and NDCG metrics rising by up to+174.40%and+169.95%,respectively.Furthermore,the application of WF-GCN to Self-supervised Graph Learning(SGL)and Simple Graph Contrastive Learning(SimGCL)also demonstrated notable enhancements in both recall and NDCG across these datasets.
基金The authors received Sichuan Science and Technology Program(No.18YYJC1917)funding for this study.
文摘Medical image segmentation plays an important role in clinical diagnosis,quantitative analysis,and treatment process.Since 2015,U-Net-based approaches have been widely used formedical image segmentation.The purpose of the U-Net expansive path is to map low-resolution encoder feature maps to full input resolution feature maps.However,the consecutive deconvolution and convolutional operations in the expansive path lead to the loss of some high-level information.More high-level information can make the segmentationmore accurate.In this paper,we propose MU-Net,a novel,multi-path upsampling convolution network to retain more high-level information.The MU-Net mainly consists of three parts:contracting path,skip connection,and multi-expansive paths.The proposed MU-Net architecture is evaluated based on three different medical imaging datasets.Our experiments show that MU-Net improves the segmentation performance of U-Net-based methods on different datasets.At the same time,the computational efficiency is significantly improved by reducing the number of parameters by more than half.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61876144).
文摘Knowledge graph(KG) link prediction aims to address the problem of missing multiple valid triples in KGs. Existing approaches either struggle to efficiently model the message passing process of multi-hop paths or lack transparency of model prediction principles. In this paper,a new graph convolutional network path semantic-aware graph convolution network(PSGCN) is proposed to achieve modeling the semantic information of multi-hop paths. PSGCN first uses a random walk strategy to obtain all-hop paths in KGs,then captures the semantics of the paths by Word2Sec and long shortterm memory(LSTM) models,and finally converts them into a potential representation for the graph convolution network(GCN) messaging process. PSGCN combines path-based inference methods and graph neural networks to achieve better interpretability and scalability. In addition,to ensure the robustness of the model,the value of the path thresholdKis experimented on the FB15K-237 and WN18RR datasets,and the final results prove the effectiveness of the model.
基金supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for Higher Education Institutions of Heilongjiang Province(145209126)the Heilongjiang Province Higher Education Teaching Reform Project under Grant No.SJGY20200770.
文摘The relationship between users and items,which cannot be recovered by traditional techniques,can be extracted by the recommendation algorithm based on the graph convolution network.The current simple linear combination of these algorithms may not be sufficient to extract the complex structure of user interaction data.This paper presents a new approach to address such issues,utilizing the graph convolution network to extract association relations.The proposed approach mainly includes three modules:Embedding layer,forward propagation layer,and score prediction layer.The embedding layer models users and items according to their interaction information and generates initial feature vectors as input for the forward propagation layer.The forward propagation layer designs two parallel graph convolution networks with self-connections,which extract higher-order association relevance from users and items separately by multi-layer graph convolution.Furthermore,the forward propagation layer integrates the attention factor to assign different weights among the hop neighbors of the graph convolution network fusion,capturing more comprehensive association relevance between users and items as input for the score prediction layer.The score prediction layer introduces MLP(multi-layer perceptron)to conduct non-linear feature interaction between users and items,respectively.Finally,the prediction score of users to items is obtained.The recall rate and normalized discounted cumulative gain were used as evaluation indexes.The proposed approach effectively integrates higher-order information in user entries,and experimental analysis demonstrates its superiority over the existing algorithms.
文摘Traffic prediction is a necessary function in intelligent transporta-tion systems to alleviate traffic congestion.Graph learning methods mainly focus on the spatiotemporal dimension,but ignore the nonlinear movement of traffic prediction and the high-order relationships among various kinds of road segments.There exist two issues:1)deep integration of the spatiotempo-ral information and 2)global spatial dependencies for structural properties.To address these issues,we propose a nonlinear spatiotemporal optimization method,which introduces hypergraph convolution networks(HGCN).The method utilizes the higher-order spatial features of the road network captured by HGCN,and dynamically integrates them with the historical data to weigh the influence of spatiotemporal dependencies.On this basis,an extended Kalman filter is used to improve the accuracy of traffic prediction.In this study,a set of experiments were conducted on the real-world dataset in Chengdu,China.The result showed that the proposed method is feasible and accurate by two different time steps.Especially at the 15-minute time step,compared with the second-best method,the proposed method achieved 3.0%,11.7%,and 9.0%improvements in RMSE,MAE,and MAPE,respectively.
基金This work was supported in part by the Key Program of NSFC(Grant No.U1908214)Program for Innovative Research Team in University of Liaoning Province(LT2020015)+1 种基金the Support Plan for Key Field Innovation Team of Dalian(2021RT06)the Science and Technology Innovation Fund of Dalian(Grant No.2020JJ25CY001).
文摘In recent years,human motion prediction has become an active research topic in computer vision.However,owing to the complexity and stochastic nature of human motion,it remains a challenging problem.In previous works,human motion prediction has always been treated as a typical inter-sequence problem,and most works have aimed to capture the temporal dependence between successive frames.However,although these approaches focused on the effects of the temporal dimension,they rarely considered the correlation between different joints in space.Thus,the spatio-temporal coupling of human joints is considered,to propose a novel spatio-temporal network based on a transformer and a gragh convolutional network(GCN)(STTG-Net).The temporal transformer is used to capture the global temporal dependencies,and the spatial GCN module is used to establish local spatial correlations between the joints for each frame.To overcome the problems of error accumulation and discontinuity in the motion prediction,a revision method based on fusion strategy is also proposed,in which the current prediction frame is fused with the previous frame.The experimental results show that the proposed prediction method has less prediction error and the prediction motion is smoother than previous prediction methods.The effectiveness of the proposed method is also demonstrated comparing it with the state-of-the-art method on the Human3.6 M dataset.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant:62176086).
文摘Traffic flow prediction plays a key role in the construction of intelligent transportation system.However,due to its complex spatio-temporal dependence and its uncertainty,the research becomes very challenging.Most of the existing studies are based on graph neural networks that model traffic flow graphs and try to use fixed graph structure to deal with the relationship between nodes.However,due to the time-varying spatial correlation of the traffic network,there is no fixed node relationship,and these methods cannot effectively integrate the temporal and spatial features.This paper proposes a novel temporal-spatial dynamic graph convolutional network(TSADGCN).The dynamic time warping algorithm(DTW)is introduced to calculate the similarity of traffic flow sequence among network nodes in the time dimension,and the spatiotemporal graph of traffic flow is constructed to capture the spatiotemporal characteristics and dependencies of traffic flow.By combining graph attention network and time attention network,a spatiotemporal convolution block is constructed to capture spatiotemporal characteristics of traffic data.Experiments on open data sets PEMSD4 and PEMSD8 show that TSADGCN has higher prediction accuracy than well-known traffic flow prediction algorithms.
文摘Speech signals play an essential role in communication and provide an efficient way to exchange information between humans and machines.Speech Emotion Recognition(SER)is one of the critical sources for human evaluation,which is applicable in many real-world applications such as healthcare,call centers,robotics,safety,and virtual reality.This work developed a novel TCN-based emotion recognition system using speech signals through a spatial-temporal convolution network to recognize the speaker’s emotional state.The authors designed a Temporal Convolutional Network(TCN)core block to recognize long-term dependencies in speech signals and then feed these temporal cues to a dense network to fuse the spatial features and recognize global information for final classification.The proposed network extracts valid sequential cues automatically from speech signals,which performed better than state-of-the-art(SOTA)and traditional machine learning algorithms.Results of the proposed method show a high recognition rate compared with SOTAmethods.The final unweighted accuracy of 80.84%,and 92.31%,for interactive emotional dyadic motion captures(IEMOCAP)and berlin emotional dataset(EMO-DB),indicate the robustness and efficiency of the designed model.
文摘The most widely farmed fruit in the world is mango.Both the production and quality of the mangoes are hampered by many diseases.These diseases need to be effectively controlled and mitigated.Therefore,a quick and accurate diagnosis of the disorders is essential.Deep convolutional neural networks,renowned for their independence in feature extraction,have established their value in numerous detection and classification tasks.However,it requires large training datasets and several parameters that need careful adjustment.The proposed Modified Dense Convolutional Network(MDCN)provides a successful classification scheme for plant diseases affecting mango leaves.This model employs the strength of pre-trained networks and modifies them for the particular context of mango leaf diseases by incorporating transfer learning techniques.The data loader also builds mini-batches for training the models to reduce training time.Finally,optimization approaches help increase the overall model’s efficiency and lower computing costs.MDCN employed on the MangoLeafBD Dataset consists of a total of 4,000 images.Following the experimental results,the proposed system is compared with existing techniques and it is clear that the proposed algorithm surpasses the existing algorithms by achieving high performance and overall throughput.
文摘Action recognition has been recognized as an activity in which individuals’behaviour can be observed.Assembling profiles of regular activities such as activities of daily living can support identifying trends in the data during critical events.A skeleton representation of the human body has been proven to be effective for this task.The skeletons are presented in graphs form-like.However,the topology of a graph is not structured like Euclideanbased data.Therefore,a new set of methods to perform the convolution operation upon the skeleton graph is proposed.Our proposal is based on the Spatial Temporal-Graph Convolutional Network(ST-GCN)framework.In this study,we proposed an improved set of label mapping methods for the ST-GCN framework.We introduce three split techniques(full distance split,connection split,and index split)as an alternative approach for the convolution operation.The experiments presented in this study have been trained using two benchmark datasets:NTU-RGB+D and Kinetics to evaluate the performance.Our results indicate that our split techniques outperform the previous partition strategies and aremore stable during training without using the edge importance weighting additional training parameter.Therefore,our proposal can provide a more realistic solution for real-time applications centred on daily living recognition systems activities for indoor environments.
基金funded by scientific research projects under Grant JY2024B011.
文摘With the increasing complexity of industrial automation,planetary gearboxes play a vital role in largescale equipment transmission systems,directly impacting operational efficiency and safety.Traditional maintenance strategies often struggle to accurately predict the degradation process of equipment,leading to excessive maintenance costs or potential failure risks.However,existing prediction methods based on statistical models are difficult to adapt to nonlinear degradation processes.To address these challenges,this study proposes a novel condition-based maintenance framework for planetary gearboxes.A comprehensive full-lifecycle degradation experiment was conducted to collect raw vibration signals,which were then processed using a temporal convolutional network autoencoder with multi-scale perception capability to extract deep temporal degradation features,enabling the collaborative extraction of longperiod meshing frequencies and short-term impact features from the vibration signals.Kernel principal component analysis was employed to fuse and normalize these features,enhancing the characterization of degradation progression.A nonlinear Wiener process was used to model the degradation trajectory,with a threshold decay function introduced to dynamically adjust maintenance strategies,and model parameters optimized through maximum likelihood estimation.Meanwhile,the maintenance strategy was optimized to minimize costs per unit time,determining the optimal maintenance timing and preventive maintenance threshold.The comprehensive indicator of degradation trends extracted by this method reaches 0.756,which is 41.2%higher than that of traditional time-domain features;the dynamic threshold strategy reduces the maintenance cost per unit time to 55.56,which is 8.9%better than that of the static threshold optimization.Experimental results demonstrate significant reductions in maintenance costs while enhancing system reliability and safety.This study realizes the organic integration of deep learning and reliability theory in the maintenance of planetary gearboxes,provides an interpretable solution for the predictive maintenance of complex mechanical systems,and promotes the development of condition-based maintenance strategies for planetary gearboxes.
基金supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62172368the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province under Grant LR22F020003.
文摘The development of brain-computer interfaces(BCI)based on motor imagery(MI)has greatly improved patients’quality of life with movement disorders.The classification of upper limb MI has been widely studied and applied in many fields,including rehabilitation.However,the physiological representations of left and right lower limb movements are too close and activated deep in the cerebral cortex,making it difficult to distinguish their features.Therefore,classifying lower limbs motor imagery is more challenging.In this study,we propose a feature extraction method based on functional connectivity,which utilizes phase-locked values to construct a functional connectivity matrix as the features of the left and right legs,which can effectively avoid the problem of physiological representations of the left and right lower limbs being too close to each other during movement.In addition,considering the topology and the temporal characteristics of the electroencephalogram(EEG),we designed a temporal-spatial convolutional network(TSGCN)to capture the spatiotemporal information for classification.Experimental results show that the accuracy of the proposed method is higher than that of existing methods,achieving an average classification accuracy of 73.58%on the internal dataset.Finally,this study explains the network mechanism of left and right foot MI from the perspective of graph theoretic features and demonstrates the feasibility of decoding lower limb MI.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.62103434)National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars(Grant No.62176263).
文摘With network attack technology continuing to develop,traditional anomaly traffic detection methods that rely on feature engineering are increasingly insufficient in efficiency and accuracy.Graph Neural Network(GNN),a promising Deep Learning(DL)approach,has proven to be highly effective in identifying intricate patterns in graph⁃structured data and has already found wide applications in the field of network security.In this paper,we propose a hybrid Graph Convolutional Network(GCN)⁃GraphSAGE model for Anomaly Traffic Detection,namely HGS⁃ATD,which aims to improve the accuracy of anomaly traffic detection by leveraging edge feature learning to better capture the relationships between network entities.We validate the HGS⁃ATD model on four publicly available datasets,including NF⁃UNSW⁃NB15⁃v2.The experimental results show that the enhanced hybrid model is 5.71%to 10.25%higher than the baseline model in terms of accuracy,and the F1⁃score is 5.53%to 11.63%higher than the baseline model,proving that the model can effectively distinguish normal traffic from attack traffic and accurately classify various types of attacks.
基金funded by the Ministry of Higher Education(MoHE)Malaysia through the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme—Early Career Researcher(FRGS-EC),grant number FRGSEC/1/2024/ICT02/UNIMAP/02/8.
文摘critical for guiding treatment and improving patient outcomes.Traditional molecular subtyping via immuno-histochemistry(IHC)test is invasive,time-consuming,and may not fully represent tumor heterogeneity.This study proposes a non-invasive approach using digital mammography images and deep learning algorithm for classifying breast cancer molecular subtypes.Four pretrained models,including two Convolutional Neural Networks(MobileNet_V3_Large and VGG-16)and two Vision Transformers(ViT_B_16 and ViT_Base_Patch16_Clip_224)were fine-tuned to classify images into HER2-enriched,Luminal,Normal-like,and Triple Negative subtypes.Hyperparameter tuning,including learning rate adjustment and layer freezing strategies,was applied to optimize performance.Among the evaluated models,ViT_Base_Patch16_Clip_224 achieved the highest test accuracy(94.44%),with equally high precision,recall,and F1-score of 0.94,demonstrating excellent generalization.MobileNet_V3_Large achieved the same accuracy but showed less training stability.In contrast,VGG-16 recorded the lowest performance,indicating a limitation in its generalizability for this classification task.The study also highlighted the superior performance of the Vision Transformer models over CNNs,particularly due to their ability to capture global contextual features and the benefit of CLIP-based pretraining in ViT_Base_Patch16_Clip_224.To enhance clinical applicability,a graphical user interface(GUI)named“BCMS Dx”was developed for streamlined subtype prediction.Deep learning applied to mammography has proven effective for accurate and non-invasive molecular subtyping.The proposed Vision Transformer-based model and supporting GUI offer a promising direction for augmenting diagnostic workflows,minimizing the need for invasive procedures,and advancing personalized breast cancer management.
基金Support by Sichuan Science and Technology Program[2023YFSY0026,2023YFH0004]Guangzhou Huashang University[2024HSZD01,HS2023JYSZH01].
文摘Graph neural networks(GNN)have shown strong performance in node classification tasks,yet most existing models rely on uniform or shared weight aggregation,lacking flexibility in modeling the varying strength of relationships among nodes.This paper proposes a novel graph coupling convolutional model that introduces an adaptive weighting mechanism to assign distinct importance to neighboring nodes based on their similarity to the central node.Unlike traditional methods,the proposed coupling strategy enhances the interpretability of node interactions while maintaining competitive classification performance.The model operates in the spatial domain,utilizing adjacency list structures for efficient convolution and addressing the limitations of weight sharing through a coupling-based similarity computation.Extensive experiments are conducted on five graph-structured datasets,including Cora,Citeseer,PubMed,Reddit,and BlogCatalog,as well as a custom topology dataset constructed from the Open University Learning Analytics Dataset(OULAD)educational platform.Results demonstrate that the proposed model achieves good classification accuracy,while significantly reducing training time through direct second-order neighbor fusion and data preprocessing.Moreover,analysis of neighborhood order reveals that considering third-order neighbors offers limited accuracy gains but introduces considerable computational overhead,confirming the efficiency of first-and second-order convolution in practical applications.Overall,the proposed graph coupling model offers a lightweight,interpretable,and effective framework for multi-label node classification in complex networks.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China No.62362008the Major Scientific and Technological Special Project of Guizhou Province([2024]014).
文摘With the rapid development of the Artificial Intelligence of Things(AIoT),convolutional neural networks(CNNs)have demonstrated potential and remarkable performance in AIoT applications due to their excellent performance in various inference tasks.However,the users have concerns about privacy leakage for the use of AI and the performance and efficiency of computing on resource-constrained IoT edge devices.Therefore,this paper proposes an efficient privacy-preserving CNN framework(i.e.,EPPA)based on the Fully Homomorphic Encryption(FHE)scheme for AIoT application scenarios.In the plaintext domain,we verify schemes with different activation structures to determine the actual activation functions applicable to the corresponding ciphertext domain.Within the encryption domain,we integrate batch normalization(BN)into the convolutional layers to simplify the computation process.For nonlinear activation functions,we use composite polynomials for approximate calculation.Regarding the noise accumulation caused by homomorphic multiplication operations,we realize the refreshment of ciphertext noise through minimal“decryption-encryption”interactions,instead of adopting bootstrapping operations.Additionally,in practical implementation,we convert three-dimensional convolution into two-dimensional convolution to reduce the amount of computation in the encryption domain.Finally,we conduct extensive experiments on four IoT datasets,different CNN architectures,and two platforms with different resource configurations to evaluate the performance of EPPA in detail.
基金The work described in this paper was fully supported by a grant from Hong Kong Metropolitan University(RIF/2021/05).
文摘Parkinson’s disease(PD)is a debilitating neurological disorder affecting over 10 million people worldwide.PD classification models using voice signals as input are common in the literature.It is believed that using deep learning algorithms further enhances performance;nevertheless,it is challenging due to the nature of small-scale and imbalanced PD datasets.This paper proposed a convolutional neural network-based deep support vector machine(CNN-DSVM)to automate the feature extraction process using CNN and extend the conventional SVM to a DSVM for better classification performance in small-scale PD datasets.A customized kernel function reduces the impact of biased classification towards the majority class(healthy candidates in our consideration).An improved generative adversarial network(IGAN)was designed to generate additional training data to enhance the model’s performance.For performance evaluation,the proposed algorithm achieves a sensitivity of 97.6%and a specificity of 97.3%.The performance comparison is evaluated from five perspectives,including comparisons with different data generation algorithms,feature extraction techniques,kernel functions,and existing works.Results reveal the effectiveness of the IGAN algorithm,which improves the sensitivity and specificity by 4.05%–4.72%and 4.96%–5.86%,respectively;and the effectiveness of the CNN-DSVM algorithm,which improves the sensitivity by 1.24%–57.4%and specificity by 1.04%–163%and reduces biased detection towards the majority class.The ablation experiments confirm the effectiveness of individual components.Two future research directions have also been suggested.
文摘In the burgeoning field of anomaly detection within attributed networks,traditional methodologies often encounter the intricacies of network complexity,particularly in capturing nonlinearity and sparsity.This study introduces an innovative approach that synergizes the strengths of graph convolutional networks with advanced deep residual learning and a unique residual-based attention mechanism,thereby creating a more nuanced and efficient method for anomaly detection in complex networks.The heart of our model lies in the integration of graph convolutional networks that capture complex structural relationships within the network data.This is further bolstered by deep residual learning,which is employed to model intricate nonlinear connections directly from input data.A pivotal innovation in our approach is the incorporation of a residual-based attention mech-anism.This mechanism dynamically adjusts the importance of nodes based on their residual information,thereby significantly enhancing the sensitivity of the model to subtle anomalies.Furthermore,we introduce a novel hypersphere mapping technique in the latent space to distinctly separate normal and anomalous data.This mapping is the key to our model’s ability to pinpoint anomalies with greater precision.An extensive experimental setup was used to validate the efficacy of the proposed model.Using attributed social network datasets,we demonstrate that our model not only competes with but also surpasses existing state-of-the-art methods in anomaly detection.The results show the exceptional capability of our model to handle the multifaceted nature of real-world networks.
基金funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant number:62172292).
文摘Vehicle re-identification involves matching images of vehicles across varying camera views.The diversity of camera locations along different roadways leads to significant intra-class variation and only minimal inter-class similarity in the collected vehicle images,which increases the complexity of re-identification tasks.To tackle these challenges,this study proposes AG-GCN(Attention-Guided Graph Convolutional Network),a novel framework integrating several pivotal components.Initially,AG-GCN embeds a lightweight attention module within the ResNet-50 structure to learn feature weights automatically,thereby improving the representation of vehicle features globally by highlighting salient features and suppressing extraneous ones.Moreover,AG-GCN adopts a graph-based structure to encapsulate deep local features.A graph convolutional network then amalgamates these features to understand the relationships among vehicle-related characteristics.Subsequently,we amalgamate feature maps from both the attention and graph-based branches for a more comprehensive representation of vehicle features.The framework then gauges feature similarities and ranks them,thus enhancing the accuracy of vehicle re-identification.Comprehensive qualitative and quantitative analyses on two publicly available datasets verify the efficacy of AG-GCN in addressing intra-class and inter-class variability issues.
