In complex real-world situations, problems such as illumination changes, facial occlusion, and variant poses make facial expression recognition (FER) a challenging task. To solve the robustness problem, this paper proposes an adaptive multilayer perceptual attention network (AMP-Net) that is inspired by the facial attributes and the facial perception mechanism of the human visual system. AMP-Net extracts global, local, and salient facial emotional features with different fine-grained features to learn the underlying diversity and key information of facial emotions. Different from existing methods, AMP-Net can adaptively guide the network to focus on multiple finer and distinguishable local patches with robustness to occlusion and variant poses, improving the effectiveness of learning potential facial diversity information. In addition, the proposed global perception module can learn different receptive field features in the global perception domain, and AMP-Net also supplements salient facial region features with high emotion correlation based on prior knowledge to capture key texture details and avoid important information loss. Many experiments show that AMP-Net achieves good generalizability and state-of-the-art results on several real-world datasets, including RAF-DB, AffectNet-7, AffectNet-8, SFEW 2.0, FER-2013, and FED-RO, with accuracies of 89.25%, 64.54%, 61.74%, 61.17%, 74.48%, and 71.75%, respectively. All codes and training logs are publicly available at https://github.com/liuhw01/AMP-Net .

Energy consumption predictions for residential buildings play an important role in the energy management and control system, as the supply and demand of energy experience dynamic and seasonal changes. In this paper, monthly electricity consumption ratings are precisely classified based on open data in an entire region, which includes over sixteen thousand residential buildings. First, data mining techniques are used to discover and summarize the electricity usage patterns hidden in the data. Second, the particle swarm optimization (PSO)-K-means algorithm is applied to the clustering analysis, and the level of electricity usage is divided by the cluster centres. Finally, an efficient classification model using a support vector machine (SVM) as the basic optimization framework is proposed, and its feasibility is verified. The results illustrate that the accuracy and F-measure of the new model reach 96.8% and 97.4%, respectively, which vastly exceed those of conventional methods. To the best of our knowledge, the research on predicting the electricity consumption ratings of residential buildings in an entire region has not been publicly released. The method proposed in this paper would assist the power sector in grasping the dynamic behaviour of residential electricity for supply and demand management strategies and provide a decision-making reference for the rational allocation of the power supply, which will be valuable in improving the overall power grid quality.

In order to promote the development and construction of smart cities, the massive equipment requirements of sensing terminals increased the pressure on urban site resource allocation. The light pole is suitable for carrying various urban functional equipment to form a smart street lighting system, which can provide rich site resources for the large-scale construction of urban functional facilities such as 5G micro base stations. However, the selection and combination of equipment mounted in the smart street lighting system only focus on the functional superposition at the physical level, without considering the relevance of each subsystem in practical application scenarios. Therefore, this study proposed a 5G micro base station location model based on a smart street lighting system. The correlation and cooperativity between 5G micro base stations and mounted devices were fully considered, and a universal system-level location selection index was developed to realize rational utilization of urban space site resources and intelligent linkage between subsystems. The results showed that the model is significantly effective for functional areas with different road network characteristics and provides practical, robust, effective, and accurate help for similar location selection problems.

Domain adaptation has driven the progress of Facial Expression Recognition (FER). Existing cross-domain FER methods focus only on the domain alignment of a single source domain to the target domain, ignoring the importance of multisource domains that contain richer knowledge. However, Cross-Multidomain FER (CMFER)needs to combat the domain conflicts caused by the uncertainty of intradomain annotations and the inconsistency of interdomain distributions. To this end, this paper proposes a Domain-Uncertain Mutual Learning (DUML) method to deal with the more challenging CMFER problem. Specifically, we consider a domain-specific global perspective for domain-invariance representation and domain fusion for facial generic detail representation to mitigate cross-domain distribution differences. Further, we develop Intra-Domain Uncertainty (Intra-DU) and Inter-Domain Uncertainty (Inter-DU) to combat the large dataset shifts caused by annotation uncertainty. Finally, extensive experimental results on multiple benchmark across multidomain FER datasets demonstrate the remarkable effectiveness of DUML against CMFER uncertainty. All codes and training logs are publicly available at https://github.com/liuhw01/DUML.

Studies have shown that illuminance and correlated colour temperature (CCT) are strongly correlated with body responses such as circadian rhythm, alertness, and mood. It is worth noting that these responses show a complex and variable coupling, which needs to be solved using accurate mathematical models for the regulation of indoor light parameters. Therefore, in this study, by weighing the evaluations of visual comfort, alertness, valence, and arousal of mood, a multi-objective optimisation mathematical model was developed with constraints conducive to the healthy rhythm. The problem was solved with the multi-objective evolutionary algorithm based on the decomposition differential evolution (MOEA/D-DE) algorithm. Taking educational space as the analysis goal, a dual-parameter setting strategy for illuminance and CCT covering four modes was proposed: focused learning, comfortable learning, soothing learning, and resting state, which could provide a scientific basis for the regulation of the lighting control system. The alertness during class time reached 3.01 compared to 2.34 during break time, showing a good light facilitation effect. The proposed mathematical model and analysis method also have the potential for application in the lighting design and control in other spaces to meet the era of intelligent, highly flexible, and sustainable buildings.