In response to climate change,the global energy structure is undergoing a substantial transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy resources,fostering the development of a decarbonized economy.Low-carbon energ...In response to climate change,the global energy structure is undergoing a substantial transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy resources,fostering the development of a decarbonized economy.Low-carbon energy production plays a crucial role in this transition,with solar energy emerging as a particularly promising alternative.展开更多
The goal of street-to-aerial cross-view image geo-localization is to determine the location of the query street-view image by retrieving the aerial-view image from the same place.The drastic viewpoint and appearance g...The goal of street-to-aerial cross-view image geo-localization is to determine the location of the query street-view image by retrieving the aerial-view image from the same place.The drastic viewpoint and appearance gap between the aerial-view and the street-view images brings a huge challenge against this task.In this paper,we propose a novel multiscale attention encoder to capture the multiscale contextual information of the aerial/street-view images.To bridge the domain gap between these two view images,we first use an inverse polar transform to make the street-view images approximately aligned with the aerial-view images.Then,the explored multiscale attention encoder is applied to convert the image into feature representation with the guidance of the learnt multiscale information.Finally,we propose a novel global mining strategy to enable the network to pay more attention to hard negative exemplars.Experiments on standard benchmark datasets show that our approach obtains 81.39%top-1 recall rate on the CVUSA dataset and 71.52%on the CVACT dataset,achieving the state-of-the-art performance and outperforming most of the existing methods significantly.展开更多
Chengtun Mining recently released its financial report,recording a rapid growth in both operating income and net profit.In 2016,the company achieved operating income of RMB 12.710 billion,up by 90.78%year-on-year,
Resource extraction and nature conservation are often seen as opposing concepts.Traditionally,from the viewpoint of nature conservationists,they are only positively associated when rehabilitation efforts are made to r...Resource extraction and nature conservation are often seen as opposing concepts.Traditionally,from the viewpoint of nature conservationists,they are only positively associated when rehabilitation efforts are made to restore biodiversity in degraded lands due to extractive activities.Despite these conflicting relationships,in UNESCO Global Geoparks(UGGps),mining and quarrying can act as opening windows in the Earth’s surface exposing geoheritage.展开更多
基金The Zhejiang Province Natural Science Foundation,approval no.Q22D018818,supported the researchThe Academy of Finland project“Bright-Biotic Damage Mapping with Ultrawide Spectral Range LiDARs for Sustainable Forest Growth(353363)”also financially supported this research.
文摘In response to climate change,the global energy structure is undergoing a substantial transformation from fossil fuels to renewable energy resources,fostering the development of a decarbonized economy.Low-carbon energy production plays a crucial role in this transition,with solar energy emerging as a particularly promising alternative.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Number:62106177supported by the Central University Basic Research Fund of China(No.2042020KF0016)supported by the supercomputing system in the Supercomputing Center of Wuhan University.
文摘The goal of street-to-aerial cross-view image geo-localization is to determine the location of the query street-view image by retrieving the aerial-view image from the same place.The drastic viewpoint and appearance gap between the aerial-view and the street-view images brings a huge challenge against this task.In this paper,we propose a novel multiscale attention encoder to capture the multiscale contextual information of the aerial/street-view images.To bridge the domain gap between these two view images,we first use an inverse polar transform to make the street-view images approximately aligned with the aerial-view images.Then,the explored multiscale attention encoder is applied to convert the image into feature representation with the guidance of the learnt multiscale information.Finally,we propose a novel global mining strategy to enable the network to pay more attention to hard negative exemplars.Experiments on standard benchmark datasets show that our approach obtains 81.39%top-1 recall rate on the CVUSA dataset and 71.52%on the CVACT dataset,achieving the state-of-the-art performance and outperforming most of the existing methods significantly.
文摘Chengtun Mining recently released its financial report,recording a rapid growth in both operating income and net profit.In 2016,the company achieved operating income of RMB 12.710 billion,up by 90.78%year-on-year,
基金supported by Portuguese national funding awarded by FCT—Foundation for Science and Technology,I.P.,projects UIDB/04683/2020 and UIDP/04683/2020a grant from the Palaeontology,Geoheritage and Applications European Master Program(Erasmus+Programme of the European Union)conceded to the first author。
文摘Resource extraction and nature conservation are often seen as opposing concepts.Traditionally,from the viewpoint of nature conservationists,they are only positively associated when rehabilitation efforts are made to restore biodiversity in degraded lands due to extractive activities.Despite these conflicting relationships,in UNESCO Global Geoparks(UGGps),mining and quarrying can act as opening windows in the Earth’s surface exposing geoheritage.
