Reviewerly/exHarmony huggingface dataset:
An Extended Study of Human-like Behavior under Adversarial Training

Neural networks have a number of shortcomings. Amongst the severest ones is the sensitivity to distribution shifts which allows models to be easily fooled into wrong predictions by small perturbations to inputs that are often imperceivable to humans and do not have to carry semantic meaning. Adversarial training poses a partial solution to address this issue by training models on worst-case perturbations. Yet, recent work has also pointed out that the reasoning in neural networks is different from humans. Humans identify objects by shape, while neural nets mainly employ texture cues. Exemplarily, a model trained on photographs will likely fail to generalize to datasets containing sketches. Interestingly, it was also shown that adversarial training seems to favorably increase the shift toward shape bias. In this work, we revisit this observation and provide an extensive analysis of this effect on various architectures, the common $\ell_2$- and $\ell_\infty$-training, and Transformer-based models. Further, we provide a possible explanation for this phenomenon from a frequency perspective.
Visual motion analysis of the player's finger

This work is about the extraction of the motion of fingers, in their three articulations, of a keyboard player from a video sequence. The relevance of the problem involves several aspects, in fact, the extraction of the movements of the fingers may be used to compute the keystroke efficiency and individual joint contributions, as showed by Werner Goebl and Caroline Palmer in the paper 'Temporal Control and Hand Movement Efficiency in Skilled Music Performance'. Those measures are directly related to the precision in timing and force measures. A very good approach to the hand gesture recognition problem has been presented in the paper ' Real-Time Hand Gesture Recognition Using Finger Segmentation'. Detecting the keys pressed on a keyboard is a task that can be complex because of the shadows that can degrade the quality of the result and possibly cause the detection of not pressed keys. Among the several approaches that already exist, a great amount of them is based on the subtraction of frames in order to detect the movements of the keys caused by their pressure. Detecting the keys that are pressed could be useful to automatically evaluate the performance of a pianist or to automatically write sheet music of the melody that is being played.
Open Set Action Recognition via Multi-Label Evidential Learning

Existing methods for open-set action recognition focus on novelty detection that assumes video clips show a single action, which is unrealistic in the real world. We propose a new method for open set action recognition and novelty detection via MUlti-Label Evidential learning (MULE), that goes beyond previous novel action detection methods by addressing the more general problems of single or multiple actors in the same scene, with simultaneous action(s) by any actor. Our Beta Evidential Neural Network estimates multi-action uncertainty with Beta densities based on actor-context-object relation representations. An evidence debiasing constraint is added to the objective function for optimization to reduce the static bias of video representations, which can incorrectly correlate predictions and static cues. We develop a learning algorithm based on a primal-dual average scheme update to optimize the proposed problem. Theoretical analysis of the optimization algorithm demonstrates the convergence of the primal solution sequence and bounds for both the loss function and the debiasing constraint. Uncertainty and belief-based novelty estimation mechanisms are formulated to detect novel actions. Extensive experiments on two real-world video datasets show that our proposed approach achieves promising performance in single/multi-actor, single/multi-action settings.
DR.CPO: Diversified and Realistic 3D Augmentation via Iterative Construction, Random Placement, and HPR Occlusion

In autonomous driving, data augmentation is commonly used for improving 3D object detection. The most basic methods include insertion of copied objects and rotation and scaling of the entire training frame. Numerous variants have been developed as well. The existing methods, however, are considerably limited when compared to the variety of the real world possibilities. In this work, we develop a diversified and realistic augmentation method that can flexibly construct a whole-body object, freely locate and rotate the object, and apply self-occlusion and external-occlusion accordingly. To improve the diversity of the whole-body object construction, we develop an iterative method that stochastically combines multiple objects observed from the real world into a single object. Unlike the existing augmentation methods, the constructed objects can be randomly located and rotated in the training frame because proper occlusions can be reflected to the whole-body objects in the final step. Finally, proper self-occlusion at each local object level and external-occlusion at the global frame level are applied using the Hidden Point Removal (HPR) algorithm that is computationally efficient. HPR is also used for adaptively controlling the point density of each object according to the object's distance from the LiDAR. Experiment results show that the proposed DR.CPO algorithm is data-efficient and model-agnostic without incurring any computational overhead. Also, DR.CPO can improve mAP performance by 2.08% when compared to the best 3D detection result known for KITTI dataset. The code is available at https://github.com/SNU-DRL/DRCPO.git
Procedure for improving cross-resonance noise resistance using pulse-level control

Current implementations of superconducting qubits are often limited by the low fidelities of multi-qubit gates. We present a reproducible and runtime-efficient pulse-level approach for calibrating an improved cross-resonance gate CR($\theta$) for arbitrary $\theta$. This CR($\theta$) gate can be used to produce a wide range of other two-qubit gates via the application of standard single-qubit gates. By performing an interleaved randomised benchmarking experiment, we demonstrate that our approach leads to a significantly higher noise resistance than the circuit-level approach currently used by IBM. Hence, our procedure provides a genuine improvement for applications where noise remains a limiting factor.
Tube-Link: A Flexible Cross Tube Framework for Universal Video Segmentation

Video segmentation aims to segment and track every pixel in diverse scenarios accurately. In this paper, we present Tube-Link, a versatile framework that addresses multiple core tasks of video segmentation with a unified architecture. Our framework is a near-online approach that takes a short subclip as input and outputs the corresponding spatial-temporal tube masks. To enhance the modeling of cross-tube relationships, we propose an effective way to perform tube-level linking via attention along the queries. In addition, we introduce temporal contrastive learning to instance-wise discriminative features for tube-level association. Our approach offers flexibility and efficiency for both short and long video inputs, as the length of each subclip can be varied according to the needs of datasets or scenarios. Tube-Link outperforms existing specialized architectures by a significant margin on five video segmentation datasets. Specifically, it achieves almost 13% relative improvements on VIPSeg and 4% improvements on KITTI-STEP over the strong baseline Video K-Net. When using a ResNet50 backbone on Youtube-VIS-2019 and 2021, Tube-Link boosts IDOL by 3% and 4%, respectively.
MEANS OF CREATING THE COMIC IN B. BRECHT'S NOVEL "THE BUSINESS AFFAIRS OF MR JULIUS CAESAR"

In the article, the author makes an attempt to identify the laughter types and to give them a literary characteristic, as well as to determine the means used for their creation in order to explain the artistic nature of the comic, being a peculiarity of this work of the outstanding German writer. The research is based on the original text and its Ukrainian translation. The theoretical considerations rely on the analysis of existing in modern literary studies statements regarding the artistic features of B. Brecht's work, in particular regarding the properties of his laughter, which is often outlined by researchers as an artistic trope that performs the function of expressing the artwork idea. The author of the article substantiates and illustrates her reflections with relevant quotations from the text of the novel. Since the laughter in this work actually has an ideological basis, the peculiarities of the embodiment of the work idea with the help of artistic figures, which in their essence are varieties of the comic, are paid a special attention to. B. Brecht builds the ideological background of the novel by means of characters’ remarks and thoughts, action, plot, as well as at the level of artistic images, the descriptions of nature in particular. Despite the incompleteness of this novel, its idea is clearly outlined by B. Brecht. It is developed with the help of various laughter types - from hidden irony and humour to grotesque and caustic satire and, according to researchers, sometimes to sarcasm and sardonic laughter. The author of the article proves the evolving nature of laughter in B. Brecht's novel "The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar" and also makes an assumption: under the condition of this work completeness, laughter would have undergone new alterations and transformations and, at the end of the story, it would have potentially reached its apogee. On the plot level it would coincide with the moment of the final debunking of the myths about Caesar, in whose image one can read a satire on the mercantile, corrupt world and dirty politics drenched in money. Another peculiarity of the ideological background of this satirical novel is the fact that despite the tragic nature of any war (the novel deals with various wars waged by the Romans), B. Brecht finds artistic means to ridicule even the war and everything occurring around it. He also completely destroys created by historiography myths about great conquests and great conquerors, nullifying the pathos in which the narratives of historiographical sources about Rome and its rulers are shrouded. He shows in particular the conquerors’ baseness and at the same time does not deviate from the comic register of his story.
DER VERWUDETЕ SOKRATES BY BERTOLT BRECHT: PECULIARITIES OF NARRATIVE SYSTEM

Poetics is used to characterize the fictional and philosophical concept of B. Brecht’s short story, as well as the narrative means employed to create the image of protagonist – philosopher Socrates who finds himself in a crisis during the battle with Persians. The paper reveals the sense-creating role of the short story composition. It is demonstrated that in terms of narration type the story can be divided into two unequal parts: the first part is a (quasi) encyclopaedia article where Socrates is depicted as a philosopher and educator, a courageous person who met his end with dignity and a brave warrior. The second part consists of a number of visual images-stories that can be conditionally named as follows: “Socrates before the battle”, “Socrates and a small shield”, “Socrates criticizes suppliers”, “Soldiers and Socrates at halt”, “Commander’s shout”, “Battle landscape”, “Memories and reflections of irritated Socrates about his evening conversation with a young foolish aristocrat who commanded cavalry”; “The aristocrat details his battle plan”; “Socrates’ ironic attitude to this plan and his thinking about it”; “Escape”, “Imitation of the attack against Persians”, “Wounded Socrates is carried away”, “Socrates and his wife”, “Socrates glory”, “Philosophical musings of Socrates-pacifist about the causes of war”. The peculiarities of B. Brecht’s narrative system are studied.&#x0D; One of them is that every paragraph centered around Socrates is an expressive image which can be realized on the canvas, on the stage and in the cinema. It was found that every scene, in its dynamics, reveals the protagonist’s character, his ways of thinking and krainia under different circumstances. It was established that the scenes of Socrates’ escape and the imitation of the army attack against the Persians are the most dynamic.
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PECULIARITIES OF INTERPERSONAL INTERACTION CREATION BY TECHNICAL PROFILE STUDENTS OF DIFFERENT GENDER

The article is devoted to the problem of interpersonal interaction of technical profile students. In particular, the results of a comparative study of the peculiarities of interpersonal interaction creation by technical profile students of different genders are described.&#x0D; In the article, interaction is considered as a process of direct or indirect interaction of subjects with each other, which creates their mutual state and relations. According to the results of the empirical research, it was found that male students of a technical profile have a dominant tendency in interaction, while girls have a tendency to be sensitive and friendly. Common to both boys and girls is a high level of sociability, which contributes to the emergence of attraction. Technical profile students have a high level of striving for people and a relatively significant fear of being rejected. At the same time, boys and girls have certain differences in the manifestation of affiliative tendencies. Girls are more eager to establish friendships with others than boys, but they are also more afraid of being rejected in communication and interaction than boys.&#x0D; Determining the peculiarities of the interpersonal interaction creation, which are inherent to male and female technical profile students, proved that male students have an active desire to win leadership positions, social recognition, and a high status in the system of interpersonal relations. They are able to take responsibility and to be persistent in their beliefs, to insist on their own. Instead, girls have an internal desire to accept group standards, values, traditions, a desire to form emotional connections with the surrounding people, that is, the ability to make contact. Such traits as modesty, timidity, shyness, and the ability to forgive are inherent to them. Girls strive to take care of close people, show tolerance towards others.&#x0D; We came to the conclusion that male and female technical profile students have different specifics of interpersonal interaction creation, in particular, they have different factors of interpersonal interaction and strategies for interpersonal relationships creation.
«PORTRAIT» OF THE PSYCHE ON THE BACKGROUND OF THE PHYSICAL WORLD: SUBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT AND FREEDOM OF CHOICE ARE DRIVERS OF THE INFORMATION PROCESS IN THE BRAIN

Behaviorist psychology, following analytical philosophy, which was formed on the unquestioning belief in the ability of classical physical determinism to explain even the nature of mental phenomena, sometimes declared the mental to be an artifact of the physical activity of the brain, sometimes reduced it to the physical as such. Sometimes psychologists and philosophers simply stated the fundamentally incomprehensible nature of the mental – like the Kantian «thing in itself». But psychology, since it became aware of itself, has not forgotten to investigate, describe and interpret mental phenomena and processes. However, even in our times, enlightened by respectable theories, the «spirit» of secrecy and incomprehensibility of the ontological foundations of the mental is still present in psychology. And this clearly does not contribute to raising the status of psychology as a well-conceptually formed science, despite the undeniable ontological scale of the object of its research – the psyche.&#x0D; So, here, in order to discover these ontological foundations of the psychic, we have considered the psychic against the background of two fundamental factors. One of them is the physical world surrounding living beings (including humans), to which the psychic should adapt them. The second is the properties of neural networks of the brain (also, by the way, physically functioning), the activity of which is directly related to the realization of the mental itself. This enables us not only to determine the issue of the ontological nature of the mental, i.e., the way and specificity of its existence and functioning, but also to identify the main mechanism of the procedurality of the mental during information processing. The quintessence of this mechanism is that it occurs thanks to two key aspects of the mental information process in the brain. This is, first of all, the ability of living beings with a sufficiently highly organized brain to subjectively assess the biological (and later in evolution and social) value of objects and phenomena in their physical environment. And secondly, it is the subjective selection of information stored in the brain for the purpose of integration of accumulated experience, which is functionally related to the ability to subjectively evaluate. This mechanism allows such living beings to respond to probable, new external stimuli with their behavioral novelty (creative activity). Therefore, mental proceduralism should become unthinkable without taking into account the factors of subjective evaluation and freedom of choice. And freedom of choice is, first of all, a mental aspect of processing information, and as a result, and precisely because it is a valuable phenomenon, it is also a social value – whether in the form of freedom of religion, or political freedoms, or freedom of speech , or something else like this.
STUDENTS-PSYCHOLOGIST’S SELF-ACTUALIZATION INDICATORS EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

The article analyzes the results of the theoretical and empirical study of students-psychologist’s self-actualization indicators. A generalized theoretical analysis of the individual self-actualization phenomenon, its components and the connection with the professional formation process of a psychologist-specialist is presented.&#x0D; The results of an empirical study of students-psychologist’s self-actualization indicators in the context of their professional formation are analyzed. It is summarized that future specialists are characterized by medium indicators of self-actualization and personality maturity, with sufficiently increased orientations of future specialists towards manifestations of contact, perception of their own Self, a valuable component of self-actualization and orientation towards a humanistic perception of human nature, orientation towards knowledge. It has been found that students-psychologists are characterized by a predominance of achievement motivation, attitude towards their own Self, and the ability to be in contact with communication partners. Identified trends are analyzed in the context of compliance with the requirements for the professional activity of a psychologist.
A new type of fuzzy systems in terms of vague partitions

This paper focuses on simplifying the structure of fuzzy systems and improving the precision. By regarding the fuzzy rule base as a mapping from the vague partition on the input universe to the vague partition on the output universe, we first design a new type of fuzzy system using the complete and continuous fuzzy rule base in terms of vague partitions. We then exploit Weierstrass’s approximation theorem to show that this new type of fuzzy system can approximate any real continuous function on a closed interval to arbitrary accuracy and provide the corresponding approximation accuracy with respect to infinite norms. We also provide two numerical examples to illustrate the effectiveness of this new type of fuzzy system. Both theoretical and numerical results show that this new type of fuzzy system achieves the quite approximation effect with a few fuzzy rules.
ANALYSIS OF TEXT AUGMENTATION ALGORITHMS IN ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS

The work is devoted to the development of an organizational model of the machine translation system of artificial languages. The main goal is the analysis of text augmentation algorithms, which are significant elements of the developed machine translation system at the stage of improvement of new dictionaries created on the basis of already existing dictionaries. In the course of the work was developed a model of the machine translation system, created dictionaries based on texts and based on already existing dictionaries using augmentation methods such as back translation and crossover; improved dictionary based on algorithms of n-grams, Knuth-Morris-Pratt and word search in the text (such as binary search, tree search, sqrt decomposition). In addition, the work implements the possibility of using the prepared dictionary for translation. Obtained results can improve existing systems of machine translation of the text of artificial languages. Practical significance of this work is the analysis and improvement of text augmentation algorithms by changing the prefix tree type. Compared to the conventional algorithm, the improved algorithm reduced the memory usage by almost 13 times, which allows it to be used on much larger test data. This was achieved by changing the internal system of the node of the prefix tree from constant references to an expandable list.
NEW APPROACH TO BOOK CIPHER: WEB PAGES AS A CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY

Research relevance: Since ancient times, people have widely used methods of concealment and coding during information sharing, and ensuring the protection of information is currently relevant. Encryption methods are developing daily in order to ensure the reliable protection of confidential information and the exchange of data on the network. The subject and purpose of the research are to develop an encryption method, which is based on the ideology of book cipher and uses web pages as a cryptographic key, in the organization of a secure exchange of information. The following tasks are solved in the article: The article provides information about book cipher and analyzes modern methods of book cipher, as well as proposes a novel encryption method involving the use of web pages as a cryptographic key. Research methods: In the paper methods of analysis and synthesis are used. Obtained results and conclusions: The possibility of transforming the book cipher is proved, and a novel encryption method involving the use of web pages as a cryptographic key is proposed. The article also provides a comparison between the proposed encryption method involving the use of Internet pages as a cryptographic key with the classic book cipher method.
Impact of potentially toxic elements on pines in a former ore processing mine: Exploitation of hyperspectral response from needle and canopy scales

Anthropic potentially toxic element (PTE) releases can lead to persistent pollution in soil. Monitoring PTEs by their detection and quantification on large scale is of great interest. The vegetation exposed to PTEs can exhibit a reduction of physiological activities, structural damage … Such vegetation trait changes impact the spectral signature in the reflective domain 0.4-2.5 μm. The objective of this study is to characterize the impact of PTEs on the spectral signature of two pine species (Aleppo and Stone pines) in the reflective domain and ensure their assessment. The study focuses on nine PTEs: As, Cr, Cu, Fe, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Zn. The spectra are measured by an in-field spectrometer and an aerial hyperspectral instrument on a former ore processing site. They are completed by measurements related to vegetation traits at needle and tree scales (photosynthetic pigments, dry matter, morphometry …) to define the most sensitive vegetation parameter to each PTE in soil. A result of this study is that chlorophylls and carotenoids are the most correlated to PTE contents. Context-specific spectral indices are specified and used to assess metal contents in soil by regression. These new vegetation indices are compared at needle and canopy scales to literature indices. Most of the PTE contents are predicted at both scales with Pearson correlation scores between 0.6 and 0.9, depending on species and scale.