DiffusionSTR: Diffusion Model for Scene Text Recognition

This paper presents Diffusion Model for Scene Text Recognition (DiffusionSTR), an end-to-end text recognition framework using diffusion models for recognizing text in the wild. While existing studies have viewed the scene text recognition task as an image-to-text transformation, we rethought it as a text-text one under images in a diffusion model. We show for the first time that the diffusion model can be applied to text recognition. Furthermore, experimental results on publicly available datasets show that the proposed method achieves competitive accuracy compared to state-of-the-art methods.Comment: Accepted to ICIP 202

Spatial variations in the molecular diversity of dissolved organic matter in water moving through a boreal forest in eastern Finland

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FA Team at the NTCIR-17 UFO Task

The FA team participated in the Table Data Extraction (TDE) and Text-to-Table Relationship Extraction (TTRE) task of the NTCIR-17 Understanding of Non-Financial Objects in Financial Reports (UFO). This paper reports our approach to solving the problem and discusses the official results. We successfully utilized various enhancement techniques based on the ELECTRA language model to extract valuable data from tables. Our efforts resulted in an impressive TDE accuracy rate of 93.43\%, positioning us in second place on the Leaderboard rankings. This outstanding achievement is a testament to our proposed approach's effectiveness. In the TTRE task, we proposed the rule-based method to extract meaningful relationships between the text and tables task and confirmed the performance.conference pape

FA Team at the NTCIR-17 UFO Task

The FA team participated in the Table Data Extraction (TDE) and Text-to-Table Relationship Extraction (TTRE) tasks of the NTCIR-17 Understanding of Non-Financial Objects in Financial Reports (UFO). This paper reports our approach to solving the problems and discusses the official results. We successfully utilized various enhancement techniques based on the ELECTRA language model to extract valuable data from tables. Our efforts resulted in an impressive TDE accuracy rate of 93.43 %, positioning us in second place on the Leaderboard rankings. This outstanding achievement is a testament to our proposed approach's effectiveness. In the TTRE task, we proposed the rule-based method to extract meaningful relationships between the text and tables task and confirmed the performance.Comment: To be appeared at the NTCIR-17 Conferenc

Black humic acid dynamics during natural reforestation of Japanese pampas grass (Miscanthus sinensis)

The dynamics of the polyaromatic structures of black humic acids (HAs), which are presumably derived from charred materials, are of significant interest for the global carbon cycle. However, the details of those dynamics are not yet well understood. We investigated differences in the degree of darkness (A600/C values), isotopic ratios (δ13C, δ15N, and Δ14C values), and 13C NMR spectra of size-separated black HAs extracted from Japanese volcanic ash soils in order to estimate the variations in the polyaromatic structures of black HAs during ca. 100 years of natural reforestation of Japanese pampas grassland. For several hundred years, all the study sites were managed similarly as grassland by burning. Subsequently, their management differed: at site G (Miscanthus sinensis: C4 plant), maintenance as of the time of this study was still performed by mowing, while at sites P (Pinus densiflora: C3 plant) and Q (Quercus crispula: C3 plant), maintenance was discontinued ca. 30 and 100 years ago, respectively. Thus, the sites range from grassland (site G) to coniferous forest (site P) to broad-leaved forest (site Q). For all HA size fractions at all sites, we found that δ13C values correlate positively with δ15N values, although the gradients are much lower for fractions of small to medium molecular size than for fractions of medium to large molecular size (denoted as lower-size and higher-size fractions, respectively). Overall, for the lower-size fractions, the contribution ratio of C4-plant-derived carbon shows a significant positive correlation with A600/C values and a negative correlation with Δ14C values, and their aromatic characteristics are greater than those of higher-size fractions within the same black HA. Furthermore, the relative proportion of lower-size fractions decreases with reforestation, especially from site P to Q. The δ13C values for all size fractions are similar for sites G and P, but are relatively low for site Q. The aryl C contents of the lower-size fractions are lower and the O-alkyl C contents and the aliphaticity (alkyl C:O-alkyl ratio) are clearly higher for sites P and Q than for site G. These results strongly suggest that stimulation of HA biodegradation might be achievable by continuous input of new plant litter during reforestation, even for lower-size HA polyaromatic structures, despite the fact that lower-size HAs biodegrade more slowly than higher-size HAs

Acute cardiovascular changes in women undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF), a systematic review and meta-analysis

Objectives: Ovarian stimulation during fertility treatment leads to profound maternal physiological changes. Women undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF) may be at an increased risk of future cardiovascular morbidity, though little is known about the effects on maternal cardiovascular function. We aim to systematically review whether IVF treatment is associated with changes in maternal haemodynamic parameters, and the effects of different protocols. Study Design: A systematic review and meta-analysis of English language studies identified on Medline and EMBASE database, between 1978, to 2019. Search terms: IVF, maternal haemodynamics, and cardiovascular. Studies reporting on ovulation induction, intrauterine insemination, and oocyte donation were excluded. Methodological quality was assessed by using the adapted Critical Appraisal Skills Programme (CASP) checklist. A meta-analysis was conducted for blood pressure and heart rate on patients undergoing the long GnRH agonist protocol according to Cochrane guidelines. We considered four time points in the IVF cycle, in chronological order: pre-treatment, pituitary down regulation, peak oestradiol and the luteal phase. Results: Nine suitable studies were identified; four fulfilled the criteria for meta-analysis. Two studies measuring heart rate found a significant increase in heart rate from pituitary down-regulation to peak estradiol levels, which was supported by the meta-analysis (3.78 \ub1 2.18 (p= < 0.0001)). Three studies reported a significant decrease in blood pressure from baseline, with those suitable for meta-analysis showing a significant decrease in mean arterial pressure (-2.08 \ub1 1.79 (p= < 0.0001)). Cardiac functional changes were reported for all studies and the changes depended on the type of protocol used. Conclusions: In Vitro Fertilisation leads to acute changes in maternal haemodynamics at different time points of the stimulation protocol. We found an increase in heart rate from pituitary down-regulation to peak estradiol levels and a significant decrease in blood pressure from baseline or pituitary down-regulation to the luteal phase. Cardiac functional changes were reported for all studies on the agonist protocol, but no significant changes were found using the antagonist protocol. It remains unclear as to whether these acute changes were associated with pregnancy complications or chronic cardiovascular sequelae

メチルパーオキシルラジカルの近赤外ダイオードレーザー分光

金沢大学理学部研究課題/領域番号:02740246, 研究期間(年度):1990出典：研究課題「メチルパーオキシルラジカルの近赤外ダイオードレーザー分光」課題番号02740246（KAKEN：科学研究費助成事業データベース（国立情報学研究所）） （https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/ja/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-02740246/）を加工して作