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Private Message Franking with After Opening Privacy

Serge Vaudenay, Iraklis Leontiadis

Recently Grubbs et al. [GLR17] initiated the formal study of message franking protocols. This new type of service launched by Facebook, allows the receiver in a secure messaging application to verifiably report to a third party an abusive message some send ...

2023

Multi-task prompt-RSVQA to explicitly count objects on aerial images

Devis Tuia, Sylvain Lobry, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Javiera Francisca Castillo Navarro, Nicola Antonio Santacroce

Introduced to enable a wider use of Earth Observation images using natural language, Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering (RSVQA) remains a challenging task, in particular for questions related to counting. To address this specific challenge, we propos ...

2023

The Return of the Piazza: Tirana, and the Politics of Urban Renaissance

Marson Korbi

This essay discusses about the renovation project for Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, designed by Belgium office 51N4E. The text put forward a critical reading of the project within the framework of the politics of the ‘Urban Renaissance’, launched by Prime M ...

2023

Prompt–RSVQA: Prompting visual context to a language model for Remote Sensing Visual Question Answering

Devis Tuia, Sylvain Lobry, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Valérie Zermatten

Remote sensing visual question answering (RQA) was recently proposed with the aim of interfacing natural language and vision to ease the access of information contained in Earth Observation data for a wide audience, which is granted by simple questions in ...

2022

Spaces

Sonia Monique Curnier

Public space manifests itself as the physical fundament of public life in European democracies. This chapter elaborates on the culture of public space and how it characterises European design. As Europe diverges in political cultures and histories, economi ...

Blauwdruk Publishers2022

Semantics-Aware Spatial-Temporal Binaries for Cross-Modal Video Retrieval

Jie Luo, Yiyu Wang, Mengshi Qi

With the current exponential growth of video-based social networks, video retrieval using natural language is receiving ever-increasing attention. Most existing approaches tackle this task by extracting individual frame-level spatial features to represent ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

RSVQA Meets Bigearthnet: A New, Large-Scale, Visual Question Answering Dataset for Remote Sensing

Devis Tuia, Sylvain Lobry

Visual Question Answering is a new task that can facilitate the extraction of information from images through textual queries: it aims at answering an open-ended question formulated in natural language about a given image. In this work, we introduce a new ...

IEEE2021

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Training deep neural networks (DNNs) can be difficult due to the occurrence of vanishing/explod- ing gradients during weight optimization. To avoid this problem, we propose a class of DNNs stemming from the time discretization of Hamiltonian systems. The t ...

2021

Axiomatic scale theory

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim

Scales are a fundamental concept of musical practice around the world. They commonly exhibit symmetry properties that are formally studied using cyclic groups in the field of mathematical scale theory. This paper proposes an axiomatic framework for mathema ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2020

Zippy LL(1) Parsing with Derivatives

Viktor Kuncak, Jad Hamza, Romain Edelmann

In this paper, we present an efficient, functional, and formally verified parsing algorithm for LL(1) context-free expressions based on the concept of derivatives of formal languages. Parsing with derivatives is an elegant parsing technique, which, in the ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020