Image inpainting is a technique that aims to fill in the missing regions with visually plausible content. However, an opposite idea, which is painting outside images, receives little work. In this study, we investigate the issue of image outpainting. Considering that the model needs better prediction ability as there is less neighboring information in image outpainting, the study proposes a novel image outpainting architecture that can obtain both deep model performance and detailed information. To fully take advantage of residual learning, dense residual (DR) learning is proposed and the image generative network is built on DR. To avoid losing subtle information caused by downsampling in encoder-decoder, shortcuts are added for transferring previous knowledge. Different from vanilla U-Net, we propose a skip method of the semi-complete form. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves excellent performance.

The effectiveness of photovoltaic power generation systems—a clean and renewable use of solar energy—depends on the amount of solar radiation. Consequently, solar radiation forecasting (especially short-term) is crucial for photovoltaic plants. In this paper, a hybrid convolutional neural network (CNN) and gate recurrent unit (GRU) method is proposed for short-term (10-min) solar radiation forecasting based on image and time-series data (i.e., radiation data at different times). The method aims to achieve high performance in solar radiation forecasting, which can be useful for PV plant adjustment. CNN–GRU consists of two branches. One is based on the ResNet-18 structure, which can extract features from sky images. The other is a GRU branch, which consists of three fully connected layers used for meteorological feature extraction. Experiments on a public dataset showed that our method predicts the mean absolute error better than other benchmark models. The ablation experiments demonstrated that the hybrid model performs better than a single model and, therefore, shows promise for application in solar radiation forecasting.

Surface defects detection system has been receiving increased attention as its precision, speed and less cost. One of the most challenges is reacting to accuracy deterioration with time as aged equipment and changed processes. These variables will make a tiny change to the real world model but a big impact on the classification result. In this paper, we propose a new adaptive classifier with a Bayes kernel (BYEC) which update the model with small sample to it adaptive for accuracy deterioration. Firstly, abundant features were introduced to cover lots of information about the defects. Secondly, we constructed a series of SVMs with the random subspace of the features. Then, a Bayes classifier was trained as an evolutionary kernel to fuse the results from base SVMs. Finally, we proposed the method to update the Bayes evolutionary kernel. The proposed algorithm is experimentally compared with different algorithms, experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can be updated with small sample and fit the changed model well. Robustness, low requirement for samples and adaptive is presented in the experiment.