In recent years, convolutional regression trackers have shown increasing attention for visual object tracking due to their favorable performance and easy implementation. However, most of them are restricted to features from a certain layer and hardly benefit from temporal spatial information, which limits the potential to significant appearance changes. In this work, we go beyond the traditional deep regression trackers and build a novel twofold tracking network, which exploits rich hierarchical features and incorporates both temporal and spatial information to boost the tracking performance. The proposed network is composed of two streams, i.e., an appearance stream and a semantic stream, each stream is independently learned from different convolutional layers. Specially, we propose temporal and spatial mechanism for robust target representation by considering historical information in previous frames as well as spatial information. By design, the proposed twofold convolutional regression tracking network with spatial and temporal mechanism can better tolerate the target appearance changes and improve the tracking accuracy. Extensive experimental results on the benchmarks OTB-2015, Temple-Color, UAV123, and VOT-2018 demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, as compared with a number of state-of-the-art trackers.

In the past few years, implanted biomedical devices have been widely used in healthy and medical applications and wireless power transfer (WPT) techniques used in these devices have been become a research hot topic. The printed spiral coils (PSCs), which have characteristics of small volume, low cost, high precision and high-integration, are better suited for WPT system. It is noteworthy that mutual inductance value of PSCs is a significant parameter which can influence the transfer efficiency of WPT system. Considering the geometry of multilayer circular PSCs and the distance between two adjacent layers, the previous methods are not suitable for calculating the mutual inductance of multilayer circular PSCs. In this study, an approximate calculation formula of mutual inductance between two single-layer circular PSCs is presented based on the existing research. On this basis, the self-inductance values of double-layer circular PSCs are calculated by MATLAB, the calculation results are verified by the ANSYS Q3D simulation and measurement results.

Capturing document images using digital cameras in uneven lighting conditions is challenging, leading to poorly captured images, which hinders the processing that follows, such as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In this paper, we propose the use of exposure bracketing techniques to solve this problem. Instead of capturing one image, we used several images that were captured with different exposure settings and used the exposure bracketing technique to generate a high-quality image that incorporates useful information from each image. We found that this technique can enhance image quality and provides an effective way of improving OCR accuracy. Our contributions in this paper are two-fold: (1) a preprocessing chain that uses exposure bracketing techniques for document images is discussed, and an automatic registration method is proposed to find the geometric disparity between multiple document images, which lays the foundation for exposure bracketing; (2) several representative exposure bracketing algorithms are incorporated in the processing chain and their performances are evaluated and compared.

Serial port is an ancient hardware port but difficult to be replaced. There are still many special devices in the use of it. However, In the Microsoft Windows, the serial port programming is becoming increasingly difficult. This article not only describes the Serial-Socket Bridge software structure of the Windows operating system, but also analyses the relevant hardware and software structure, and pointed out the possible bottlenecks. The software will map the serial port operation to the socket port operation, to replace the Serial-to-RJ45 Converter hardware, and will not take up the valuable physical network port resources. We tested the processor usage on a variety of different baud rates on an Intel i5 processor's computer. We have found that high baud rate serial transmission (more than 115200) with a certain time interval is more efficient than continuous low baud transmission. In addition, the operating environment is also important for runtime reliability.