As the content of a full text page usually focuses on a specific topic, a topic language model adaption method is proposed to improve the recognition performance of homologous offline handwritten Chinese text image. Firstly, the text images are recognized with a character based bi-gram language model. Secondly, the topic of the text image is matched adaptively. Finally, the text image is recognized again with the best matched topic language model. To obtain a tradeoff between the recognition performance and computational complexity, a restricted topic language model adaption method is further presented. The methods have been evaluated on 100 offline Chinese text images. Compared to the general language model, the topic language model adaption has reduced the relative error rate by 11.94%. The restricted topic language model has lessened the running time by 19.22% at the cost of losing 0.35% of the accuracy.

Event cameras, characterized by high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, low power consumption, and high pixel bandwidth, offer unique capabilities for object detection in specialized contexts. Despite these advantages, the inherent sparsity and asynchrony of event data pose challenges to existing object detection algorithms. Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), inspired by the way the human brain codes and processes information, offer a potential solution to these difficulties. However, their performance in object detection using event cameras is limited in current implementations. In this paper, we propose the Spiking Fusion Object Detector (SFOD), a simple and efficient approach to SNN-based object detection. Specifically, we design a Spiking Fusion Module, achieving the first-time fusion of feature maps from different scales in SNNs applied to event cameras. Additionally, through integrating our analysis and experiments conducted during the pretraining of the backbone network on the NCAR dataset, we delve deeply into the impact of spiking decoding strategies and loss functions on model performance. Thereby, we establish state-of-the-art classification results based on SNNs, achieving 93.7\% accuracy on the NCAR dataset. Experimental results on the GEN1 detection dataset demonstrate that the SFOD achieves a state-of-the-art mAP of 32.1\%, outperforming existing SNN-based approaches. Our research not only underscores the potential of SNNs in object detection with event cameras but also propels the advancement of SNNs. Code is available at https://github.com/yimeng-fan/SFOD.

Power line detection (PLD) is a crucial task in the electric power industry where accurate PLD forms the foundation for achieving automated inspections. However, recent top-performing power line detection methods tend to generate thick and noisy edge lines, adding to the difficulties of subsequent tasks. In this work, we propose a multi-scale feature-based PLD method named LUM-Net to allow for the detection of power lines in a crisp and precise way. The algorithm utilizes EfficientNetV1 as the backbone network, ensuring effective feature extraction across various scales. We developed a Coordinated Convolutional Block Attention Module (CoCBAM) to focus on critical features by emphasizing both channel-wise and spatial information, thereby refining the power lines and reducing noise. Furthermore, we constructed the Bi-Large Kernel Convolutional Block (BiLKB) as the decoder, leveraging large kernel convolutions and spatial selection mechanisms to capture more contextual information, supplemented by auxiliary small kernels to refine the extracted feature information. By integrating these advanced components into a top-down dense connection mechanism, our method achieves effective, multi-scale information interaction, significantly improving the overall performance. The experimental results show that our method can predict crisp power line maps and achieve state-of-the-art performance on the PLDU dataset (ODS = 0.969) and PLDM dataset (ODS = 0.943).

When a fire occurs on storage racks in a warehouse, it is not advisable to find the location of the fire point accurately, because there are a large number of goods on the storage rack, and many interference factors such as light will disturb the precise location of the fire. In response to the above problems, and thanks to the high-speed growth of deep learning technology, we propose an edge detection method and apply it in fire locations successfully. We adopt VGG-16 as our backbone and introduce an attention module to suppress background information and eliminate interference. We test the proposed method on our collected dataset, and the results show that our proposed model can extract the shelf edges more completely and locate the fire point accurately. In terms of detection speed, our method can achieve 0.188 s per image, which meets the requirements of real-time detection. Our approach lays a good foundation for the precise extinguishing of fire that occurs on storage racks.

Punctuation restoration (PR) is a crucial task for improving the human readability and usability of speech transcripts in spoken language processing. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no punctuation restoration model available for Indonesian speech transcripts, especially when it comes to Indonesian-English code-switch speech. This paper introduces transformer-based models that restore punctuations for Indonesian with English code-switch speech transcripts. The study investigates the ability to perform cross-lingual punctuation restoration for Indonesian speech using a model trained with a Malaysian-English codeswitch dataset. Subsequently, models trained on datasets of Indonesian, Indonesian-English codeswitch, and the combination of them plus the Malaysian-English codeswitch dataset are compared. Experimental results show that the cross-lingual model achieved the F1 scores of 40.7% and 41.9% on Indonesian and Indonesian-English codeswitch test sets, respectively. The results are surprisingly low when no Indonesian data has been used for training, even though Malaysian and Indonesian languages are known to share similarities. When Indonesian corpora are incorporated, the best results surged to 73.3% and 62.4% for Indonesian and Indonesian-English code-switch test sets, respectively. The results provide valuable insights into the effectiveness of transformer-based models for punctuation restoration in Indonesian and Indonesian-English code-switch speech. The findings contribute to advancing the field of punctuation restoration, supporting the possibility of cross-lingual knowledge transfer, and enhancing downstream spoken language processing tasks.