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Wang, X. (author), Feng, S. (author), Zhu, Jihua (author), Hasegawa-Johnson, Mark (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author)This paper proposes a new model, referred to as the show and speak (SAS) model that, for the first time, is able to directly synthesize spoken descriptions of images, bypassing the need for any text or phonemes. The basic structure of SAS is an encoder-decoder architecture that takes an image as input and predicts the spectrogram of speech that...conference paper 2021
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Wang, H. (author), Cucu Laurenciu, N. (author), Jiang, Y. (author), Cotofana, S.D. (author)Designing and implementing artificial systems that can be interfaced with the human brain or that can provide computational ability akin to brain's processing information efficient style is crucial for understanding human brain fundamental operating principles and to unleashing the full potential of brain-inspired computing. As basic neural...conference paper 2020
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Wang, Ruocha (author), Groeneveld, B.S. (author), Albers, Leonore (author), Desmet, P.M.A. (author)Adolescents and Young Adults (AYAs) with Cancer are making the transition from childhood to adulthood while handling the burden of cancer. During this extraordinarily challenging time in their growth and development, sexuality and intimacy, an important aspect of AYAs’ wellbeing, are often insufficiently addressed by the healthcare providers,...conference paper 2020
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Wang, H. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Liu, X. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Microwave heating is a promising heating technology for the maintenance, recycling and deicing of pavement structures. Many experimental studies have been conducted to investigate the microwave heating properties of asphalt mixtures in the laboratory. However, very few studies investigated the application of microwave heating on asphalt...conference paper 2020
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Apostolidis, P. (author), Wang, H. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Liu, X. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Oxidative aging is a complex phenomenon in bitumen and its fundamental understanding is needed to optimize paving materials with long-lasting characteristics. This research reports on a diffuse-reaction model for predicting the oxidation of bituminous binders over time and under different conditions. As known, the oxidation of bitumen is...conference paper 2020
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Wang, H. (author), Apostolidis, P. (author), Zhang, H. (author), Liu, X. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author)Fundamental models should be developed and utilized in order to facilitate the chemo-mechanical design of modified binder systems for paving applications but not only. Especially, the fact that the incorporation of new chemical substances used as bio-based modifiers or alternative binders is attracting great interest to replace traditional...conference paper 2020
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Wang, N. (author), Verzijlbergh, R.A. (author), Heijnen, P.W. (author), Herder, P.M. (author)This paper reviews the literature on the modeling approaches on decentralized energy investment and operation in the prosumer era. The study has several contributions. Firstly, it adds investment models into the review which have not been previously reviewed for decentralized energy modeling. Secondly, a modeling framework consisting of four...conference paper 2020
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Wang, X. (author), Qiao, T. (author), Zhu, Jihua (author), Hanjalic, A. (author), Scharenborg, O.E. (author)An estimated half of the world’s languages do not have a written form, making it impossible for these languages to benefit from any existing text-based technologies. In this paper, a speech-to-image generation (S2IG) framework is proposed which translates speech descriptions to photo-realistic images without using any text information, thus...conference paper 2020
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Wang, Z. (author)Cycling is a heated topic in social media and a political hotspot in São Paulo. The implementation of bicycles took place in the city after the cooperation agreement signed by the Municipal Bureau of International and the Institute for Transportation and development policy in 2009. The recent 10-year development of the cycling infrastructure...conference paper 2020
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Cui, Minhao (author), Wang, Q. (author), Xiong, Jie (author)Visible Light Communication (VLC) is a promising technology for future wireless communications. By modulating the visible light - -that has about 10,000x larger frequency band than that of radios - -to transmit data, VLC has the potential to provide ultra-high-speed wireless connectivities. However, it also has limitations such as i)...conference paper 2020
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Köstler, Klemens (author), Gobardhan, Rommy (author), Ceria, A. (author), Wang, H. (author)We model airport congestion contagion as an SIS spreading process on an airport transportation network to explain airport vulnerability. The vulnerability of each airport is derived from the US Airport Network data as its congestion probability. We construct three types of airline networks to capture diverse features such as the frequency and...conference paper 2020
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Zhan, X. (author), Hanjalic, A. (author), Wang, H. (author)In this paper, we explore how to effectively suppress the diffusion of (mis)information via blocking/removing the temporal contacts between selected node pairs. Information diffusion can be modelled as, e.g., an SI (Susceptible-Infected) spreading process, on a temporal social network: an infected (information possessing) node spreads the...conference paper 2020
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Liu, Dong (author), Song, Xiaowei (author), Wang, X. (author)In recent years, permanent magnet superconducting (PMSC) generators have become a candidate for applying superconducting (SC) generators in large direct-drive wind turbines. This configuration keeps the SC armature winding and its cooling system stationary and eliminates rotational cooling couplings. However, the low excitation by permanent...conference paper 2020
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Zheng, Huarong (author), Jin, Chen (author), Luo, Xiling (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Wang, Yuexuan (author)The demand for transport between terminals within port areas, known as inter terminal transport (ITT), is increasing. This paper proposes a dynamic rolling horizon scheduling strategy for ITT using waterborne Autonomous Guided Vessels (waterborne AGVs). The strategy is dynamic in that it can handle the dynamically arriving ITT requests and...conference paper 2020
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Chen, N. (author), van Arem, B. (author), Wang, M. (author)This paper aims to optimize on-ramp merging processes for connected automated vehicles by utilizing an existing hierarchical control architecture including a decision-maker and an operational controller. The decision-maker employs surrogate linear models to predict future vehicular acceleration analytically and computes a merging sequence to...conference paper 2020
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Wang, Q. (author), Beysens, Jona (author), Singelee, Dave (author), Pollin, Sofie (author)We propose a concept of coverage-bounding and 'visual' wireless communication-HODOR 1-to secure the Internet of Things (IoT). Coverage-bounding means the communication coverage is controlled accurately in 3-dimensions. 'Visual' implies that the communication coverage and process are visible to user, representing an important and user-friendly...conference paper 2020
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Zhu, Y. (author), Wang, H. (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)Real-time railway traffic management is important for the daily operations of railway systems. It predicts and resolves operational conflicts caused by events like excessive passenger boardings/alightings. Traditional optimization methods for this problem are restricted by the size of the problem instances. Therefore, this paper proposes a...conference paper 2020
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Wang, Z. (author), Luo, D. (author), Cats, O. (author), Verma, T. (author)Hierarchy is regarded as a natural phenomenon of public transport networks (PTN). The imbalanced distribution of passenger flow result in a hierarchical structure of PTN and it is also related to the development of technology and the introduction of new modes. However, there is still a lack of knowledge on how to identify the hierarchical...conference paper 2020
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Zhong, J. (author), Liu, Zhigang (author), Wang, H. (author), Liu, W. (author), Yang, Cheng (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author)Brace Sleeve (BS) plays an essential role in connecting and fixing cantilevers of railway catenary systems. It needs to be monitored to ensure the safety of railway operations. In the literature, image processing techniques that can localize BSs from inspection images are proposed. However, the boxes produced by existing methods can contain...conference paper 2020