With the increase of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) power plants, measuring the uncertainty of PV output forecast due to multiple meteorological factors has become an important method to ensure the stable operation of the power system. However, the manual similar days' extraction methods of historical power features and cloud motion features, which are commonly used for PV spatial-temporal prediction, are inefficient and coarse-grained. In this paper, focusing on automatic attention of the local similar sequences in daily features, we improve the attention scoring method of the original transformer to increase the calculation accuracy of the similarity of PV power sequences. We construct an end-to-end PV power prediction framework using an encoder-decoder architecture. Based on the spatial-temporal similarity characteristics of PV output, the fine-grained temporal and cloud-covered spatial attentions embedded in the prediction framework are proposed using the improved similar sequence attention module. Among them, fine-grained temporal attention can dynamically position and utilize similar historical PV power sequences for the predicted period; cloud-coverage spatial attention automatically captures the neighbor site's matching PV power sequences. Experiments were conducted on a real PV dataset, and the root mean square error was reduced by 21.34% on average compared to the baseline model. The results proved the effectiveness of the proposed model.

Gross primary productivity (GPP) is an important indicator in research on carbon cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. High-accuracy GPP prediction is crucial for ecosystem health and climate change assessments. We developed a site-level GPP prediction method based on the GeoMAN model, which was able to extract spatiotemporal features and fuse external environmental factors to predict GPP on the Tibetan Plateau. We evaluated four models’ behavior—Random Forest (RF), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Deep Belief Network (DBN), and GeoMAN—in predicting GPP at nine flux observation sites on the Tibetan Plateau. The GeoMAN model achieved the best results (R² = 0.870, RMSE = 0.788 g Cm⁻² d⁻¹, MAE = 0.440 g Cm⁻² d⁻¹). Distance and vegetation type of the flux sites influenced GPP prediction, with the latter being more significant. The different grassland vegetation types exhibited different sensitivity to environmental factors (Ta, PAR, EVI, NDVI, and LSWI) for GPP prediction. Among them, the site located in the alpine swamp meadow was insensitive to changes in environmental factors; the GPP prediction accuracy of the site located in the alpine meadow steppe decreased significantly with the changes in environmental factors; and the GPP prediction accuracy of the site located in the alpine Kobresia meadow also varied with environmental factor changes, but to a lesser extent than the former. This study provides a good reference that deep learning model is able to achieve good accuracy in GPP simulation when considers spatial, temporal, and environmental factors, and the judgement made by deep learning model conforms to basic knowledge in the relevant field.

The analysis of corrosion images is crucial in materials science, where acquiring clear images is fundamental for subsequent analysis. The goal of deblurring metal corrosion images is to reconstruct clear images from degraded ones. To the best of our knowledge, this study introduces the first paired blurry-sharp image dataset specifically designed for the metal corrosion domain, filling a critical gap in the existing research. This innovative approach effectively addresses the unique challenges associated with deblurring metal corrosion images. We propose a novel metal corrosion images deblurring network (MCIDN) that employs a dual-domain attention mechanism, integrating both spatial and frequency domains to enhance image clarity. This innovative approach effectively addresses the unique challenges associated with deblurring metal corrosion images. While self-attention is widely used in visual tasks, its quadratic complexity often leads to high computational costs. To address this issue, we introduce a new spatial channel attention module (SCAM) that employs dynamic group convolutions to achieve self-attention, effectively integrating information from local regions and enhancing representation learning capabilities. Recognizing the critical role of frequency components in image restoration, we develop a frequency channel attention module (FCAM) that selectively focuses on different frequency components of images, thereby enhancing deblurring performance. These two attention modules are seamlessly integrated into our network. Compared to existing methods, our approach demonstrates superior performance on datasets of blurry metal corrosion images, achieving a peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) of 32.8645 dB and a structural similarity (SSIM) of 0.9768. These metrics indicate that our method provides clearer and more detailed reconstructions, significantly enhancing the image quality.

Audio-visual event localization (AVEL) task aims to judge and classify an audible and visible event. Existing methods devote to this goal by transferring pre-trained knowledge as well as understanding temporal dependencies and cross-modal correlations of the audio-visual scene. However, most works comprehend the audio-visual scene from an entangled temporal-aware perspective, ignoring the learning of temporal dependency and cross-modal correlation in both forward and backward temporal-aware views. Recently, transferring the pre-trained knowledge from Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training model (CLIP) has shown remarkable results across various tasks. Nevertheless, since audio-visual knowledge of the AVEL task and image-text alignment knowledge of the CLIP exist heterogeneous gap, how to transfer the image-text alignment knowledge of CLIP into AVEL field has barely been investigated. To address these challenges, a novel Dual Temporal-aware scene understanding and image-text Knowledge Bridging (DTKB) model is proposed in this paper. DTKB consists of forward and backward temporal-aware scene understanding streams, in which temporal dependencies and cross-modal correlations are explicitly captured from dual temporal-aware perspectives. Consequently, DTKB can achieve fine-grained scene understanding for event localization. Additionally, a knowledge bridging (KB) module is proposed to simultaneously transfer the image-text representation and alignment knowledge of CLIP to AVEL task. This module regulates the ratio between audio-visual fusion features and CLIP’s visual features, thereby bridging the image-text alignment knowledge of CLIP and the audio-visual new knowledge for event category prediction. Besides, the KB module is compatible with previous models. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that DTKB significantly outperforms the state-of-the-arts models.