Micro-Attention Branch, a Flexible Plug-In That Enhances Existing 3D ConvNets

3D ConvNets with Optical Flow Based Regularization

Video classification using 3D convolutional neural networks still lags behind models with simple classifiers on top of rich, hand-engineered, spatio-temporal features for a number of prominent action recognition datasets. Many of these hand-designed features are built on top of estimates of optical flow. Thus we propose an extension to the 3D convolutional neural network model that incorporates...

A 3d Micro-Plane Model for Shape Memory Alloys

are compared with the experimental results. In these test results the shape memory alloys behavior as: super elasticity under various temperatures, loading rate effects, asymmetry in tension and pressure, various loops of loading and unloading, hydrostatic pressure effects, different proportional tension-shear biaxial loading and unloading, and also deviation from normality due to non-proportio...

Architecture for a Component-Based, Plug-In Micro-payment System

Micro-payment systems have the potential to provide non-intrusive, high-volume and low-cost pay-as-you-use services for a wide variety of webbased applications. However, adding micro-payment support to web-sites is usually time-consuming and intrusive, both to the web site’s software architecture and its user interface implementation. We describe a plug-in, component model for adding micro-paym...

A Flexible Micro Protocol Framework

Liquid plug propagation in flexible microchannels: A small airway model.

In the present study, we investigate the effect of wall flexibility on the plug propagation and the resulting wall stresses in small airway models with experimental measurements and numerical simulations. Experimentally, a flexible microchannel was fabricated to mimic the flexible small airways using soft lithography. Liquid plugs were generated and propagated through the microchannels. The loc...