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Learning Transferable Facial Emotion Representations from Large-Scale Semantically Rich Captions
Licai Sun, Xingxun Jiang, Haoyu Chen, Yante Li, Zheng Lian, Biu Liu, Yuan Zong, Wenming Zheng, Jukka M. Lepp\"anen, Guoying Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21015

Learning Transferable Facial Emotion Representations from Large-Scale Semantically Rich Captions
Current facial emotion recognition systems are predominately trained to predict a fixed set of predefined categories or abstract dimensional values. This constrained form of supervision hinders generalization and applicability, as it reduces the rich and nuanced spectrum of emotions into oversimplified labels or scales. In contrast, natural language provides a more flexible, expressive, and interpretable way to represent emotions, offering a much broader source of supervision. Yet, leveraging s…

Swedish television is broadcasting live from Budapest Pride.
https://www.svtplay.se/video/ed66A3X/svt-nyheter-direkt/pride-rekordmanga-trotsar-forbudet

SVT Nyheter Direkt – Pride - rekordmånga trotsar förbudet
Ungerns premiärminister har infört ett nytt förbud mot dagens Prideparad i Budapest. Trots risken för höga böter väntas rekordmånga delta. SVTs utsända rapporterar från paraden.

ReXGroundingCT: A 3D Chest CT Dataset for Segmentation of Findings from Free-Text Reports
Mohammed Baharoon, Luyang Luo, Michael Moritz, Abhinav Kumar, Sung Eun Kim, Xiaoman Zhang, Miao Zhu, Mahmoud Hussain Alabbad, Maha Sbayel Alhazmi, Neel P. Mistry, Kent Ryan Kleinschmidt, Brady Chrisler, Sathvik Suryadevara, Sri Sai Dinesh Jaliparthi, Noah Michael Prudlo, Mark David Marino, Jeremy Palacio, Rithvik Akula, Hong-Yu Zhou, Ibrahim Ethem Hamamci, Scott J. Adams, Hassan Rayhan AlOmaish, P…

ReXGroundingCT: A 3D Chest CT Dataset for Segmentation of Findings from Free-Text Reports
We present ReXGroundingCT, the first publicly available dataset to link free-text radiology findings with pixel-level segmentations in 3D chest CT scans that is manually annotated. While prior datasets have relied on structured labels or predefined categories, ReXGroundingCT captures the full expressiveness of clinical language represented in free text and grounds it to spatially localized 3D segmentation annotations in volumetric imaging. This addresses a critical gap in medical AI: the abilit…

Stumbled across my old NeXT "floptical" disc while looking through old boxes at the office! I've been wondering where this had gone for a few decades now: I have archives of most of my files from 1992 (when we founded Omni) through the present, but this was where I had archived my active files for several of the years prior.
Now to see if any of our NeXT cubes still has a working magneto-optical drive that can read this data…

Dependency Network-Based Portfolio Design with Forecasting and VaR Constraints
Zihan Lin, Haojie Liu, Randall R. Rojas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20039 https://

Dependency Network-Based Portfolio Design with Forecasting and VaR Constraints
This study proposes a novel portfolio optimization framework that integrates statistical social network analysis with time series forecasting and risk management. Using daily stock data from the S&P 500 (2020-2024), we construct dependency networks via Vector Autoregression (VAR) and Forecast Error Variance Decomposition (FEVD), transforming influence relationships into a cost-based network. Specifically, FEVD breaks down the VAR's forecast error variance to quantify how much each stock's shock…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.05440 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@ar…

Enabling GPU Portability into the Numba-JITed Monte Carlo Particle Transport Code MC/DC
The Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron Transport is developing Monte Carlo / Dynamic Code (MC/DC) as a portable Monte Carlo neutron transport package for rapid numerical methods exploration on CPU- and GPU-based high-performance computers. In this paper, we describe MC/DC's current event-based GPU algorithm as well as the just-in-time (JIT) compilation scheme we use to enable GPU operability on Nvidia and AMD GPUs from MC/DC's Python source. To analyze performance, we conduct runtime tests…

Assessing the Reliability and Validity of a Balance Mat for Measuring Postural Stability: A Combined Robot-Human Approach
Abishek Shrestha, Damith Herath, Angie Fearon, Maryam Ghahramani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18943

Assessing the Reliability and Validity of a Balance Mat for Measuring Postural Stability: A Combined Robot-Human Approach
Postural sway assessment is important for detecting balance problems and identifying people at risk of falls. Force plates (FP) are considered the gold standard postural sway assessment method in laboratory conditions, but their lack of portability and requirement of high-level expertise limit their widespread usage. This study evaluates the reliability and validity of a novel Balance Mat (BM) device, a low-cost portable alternative that uses optical fibre technology. The research includes two …

TUS-REC2024: A Challenge to Reconstruct 3D Freehand Ultrasound Without External Tracker
Qi Li, Shaheer U. Saeed, Yuliang Huang, Mingyuan Luo, Zhongnuo Yan, Jiongquan Chen, Xin Yang, Dong Ni, Nektarios Winter, Phuc Nguyen, Lucas Steinberger, Caelan Haney, Yuan Zhao, Mingjie Jiang, Bowen Ren, SiYeoul Lee, Seonho Kim, MinKyung Seo, MinWoo Kim, Yimeng Dou, Zhiwei Zhang, Yin Li, Tomy Varghese, Dean C. Barratt, Matthew J. Clarkson, Tom Vercauteren, Yipeng Hu

TUS-REC2024: A Challenge to Reconstruct 3D Freehand Ultrasound Without External Tracker
Trackerless freehand ultrasound reconstruction aims to reconstruct 3D volumes from sequences of 2D ultrasound images without relying on external tracking systems, offering a low-cost, portable, and widely deployable alternative for volumetric imaging. However, it presents significant challenges, including accurate inter-frame motion estimation, minimisation of drift accumulation over long sequences, and generalisability across scanning protocols. The TUS-REC2024 Challenge was established to ben…

It’s a shame Fairphone has moved away from minijacks. It stopped me from buying Fairphone 5, and they are staying the course. They have good reasons, but I just don’t want to deal with adapters. Minijacks are just the most reliable way to play audio on a portable device full stop.

Great list of boxes to tick to get marketing support for your game from Nintendo, PlayStation, and Xbox (featured on first party channels):
https://piratepr.com/treasure-trove/how-to-get-marketing-support-for-your-g…

How to get marketing support for your game from Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox? - Pirate PR
So you’re releasing a multiplatform game and after having mastered the medieval-looking back-end of Steam, you are now ready to […]