External Image Research Articles

Multiple Complementary Priors for Multispectral Image Compressive Sensing Reconstruction.

Compressive sensing (CS) techniques using a few compressed measurements have drawn considerable interest in reconstructing multispectral imagery (MSI). Nonlocal-based tensor methods have been widely used for MSI-CS reconstruction, which employ the nonlocal self-similarity (NSS) property of MSI to obtain satisfactory results. However, such methods only consider the internal priors of MSI while ignoring important external image information, for example deep-driven priors learned from a corpus of natural image datasets. Meanwhile, they usually suffer from annoying ringing artifacts due to the aggregation of overlapping patches. In this article, we propose a novel approach for highly effective MSI-CS reconstruction using multiple complementary priors (MCPs). The proposed MCP jointly exploits nonlocal low-rank and deep image priors under a hybrid plug-and-play framework, which contains multiple pairs of complementary priors, namely, internal and external, shallow and deep, and NSS and local spatial priors. To make the optimization tractable, a well-known alternating direction method of multiplier (ADMM) algorithm based on the alternating minimization framework is developed to solve the proposed MCP-based MSI-CS reconstruction problem. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed MCP algorithm outperforms many state-of-the-art CS techniques in MSI reconstruction. The source code of the proposed MCP-based MSI-CS reconstruction algorithm is available at: https://github.com/zhazhiyuan/MCP_MSI_CS_Demo.git.

중국의 해외직접투자(OFDI)가 국가 이미지를 향상 시키는가?

Building the national image is the core of building China's soft power. This paper used the survey data of the PEW Research Center as the data for evaluating China's national image, and used the foreign direct investment (OFDI) data from 2009 to 2019 to empirically analyze the relationship between OFDI and the improvement of China's national image and the mechanism by which OFDI affects the national image. The research results show that OFDI plays an important role in promoting the improvement of China's national image, and the robustness test further verified related conclusions. In the mechanism verification, it was found that OFDI contributes to promoting the improvement of China's national image through the promotion effect of economic and social development, the effect of social responsibility, and the improvement of public opinion. According to additional analysis, OFDI's effects on improving the national image include ‘heterogeneous investment motivation’, ‘investment stage’, and ‘investment contracts and political affinity’, and ‘time effect’ and ‘distance effect’ on improving the national image. The research results of this paper are expected to contribute to providing the basis for standards and decision-making for building and improving China's national image, and to make a policy contribution to improving China's external image and deadlocked Korea-China relations.

中日“西厢故事”中才子形象的对比考察

The word “Gifted scholar” riginated from Chinese literature During the exchange of Chinese culture with East Asian countries, “Gifted scholar” was absorbed by Japan, which was influenced by Chinese culture, and became a synonym for the hero in Japanese romance novels. As an imitative work of the Chinese Yuan drama “The Romance of the West Chamber”, the Japanese Chinese-character novels “The Romance of Happy Couple ” has both similarities and differences with the Image of Gifted scholar in the Story of “The Romance of the West Chamber”. Based on text analysis, this paper will sort out the content about the image of the gifted scholar in the Chinese and Japanese “The Story of the West Chamber”, highlight the different aspects of the image of the gifted scholar in the two works, and focus on exploring the reasons for this difference. The Japanese writer Miki Aika was influenced by Chinese Confucian culture. The male protagonist in “The Romance of Happy Couple” inherited the image of talented scholar who combines talent, amorous feeling and appearance from “The Romance of the West Chamber”. On the other hand, due to the cultural characteristics of the Japanese nation and the development of the Meiji Restoration, the image of the gifted scholar in Japan's “The Story of the West Chamber” has changed again. By examining and comparing the image of the gifted scholar in Chinese and Japanese “The Story of the West Chamber”, this paper explains that although the external image of the hero in the <The Romance of Happy Couple> is similar to that of the Chinese gifted scholar, his inner core characteristics still contain Japan’s national character and contemporaneity.

The Effect of Personal Color Perception of Female College Students on Self-esteem and Interpersonal Relationships

In the modern era of external image communication, the emphasis on appearance has become an essential element for success. Consequently, many individuals invest considerable time and financial resources in managing their appearance to create an idealized image. Personal color analysis, in particular, holds significant importance as a field within image management. This study aimed to analyze the effects of personal color diagnosis on the perception of personal colors, self-esteem, and interpersonal relationships among 30 female college students in their twenties. The research findings indicated a statistically significant increase in post-diagnosis personal color perception compared to pre-diagnosis. Moreover, the analysis revealed a statistically significant increase in the average self-esteem of participants post-diagnosis compared to pre-diagnosis. Additionally, there was an overall improvement in interpersonal relationships among the subjects, showing statistically significant differences when compared to pre-diagnosis levels. The purpose of this study was to empirically investigate how personal color perception affects self-esteem and interpersonal relationships among female college students in their twenties, aiming to contribute foundational data necessary for guiding evolving societal trends and leading beauty trends.

The Discourse-Historical Approach of Identity Construction in Corporate Promotional Videos for External Publicity Image

Corporate identity construction of external publicity image is an important part of the development of enterprises. Based on Wodak’s discourse-historical approach, this study takes the text of COFCO’s English promotional video as the research object, analyzes the corporate brand image, media image, organizational image, and environmental image constructed by the enterprises from three steps: linguistic expression, discourse strategy, and theme to provide references for Chinese enterprises to enhance their international influence.

Dual-tracer PET/CT in the management of hepatocellular carcinoma

Background & AimsCombined 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and 11C-acetate (dual-tracer) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is being increasingly performed for the management of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), although its role is not well defined. Therefore, we evaluated its effectiveness in (i) staging, (ii) characterization of indeterminate lesions on conventional imaging, and (iii) detection of HCC in patients with unexplained elevations in serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels. MethodsWe retrospectively assessed 525 consecutive patients from three tertiary centers between 2014 and 2020. For staging, we recorded new lesion detection rates, changes in the Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) classification, and treatment allocation due to dual-tracer PET-CT. To characterize indeterminate lesions and unexplained elevation of serum AFP levels, the sensitivity and specificity of dual-tracer PET-CT in diagnosing HCC were evaluated. A Multidisciplinary external review and a cost-benefit analysis of patients for metastatic screening were also performed. ResultsDual-tracer PET/CT identified new lesions in 14.3% of 273 staging patients, resulting in BCLC upstaging in 11.7% and treatment modifications in 7.7%. It upstaged 8.1% of 260 patients undergoing metastatic screening, with an estimated savings of US$495 per patient. It had a sensitivity and specificity of 80.7% (95% CI 71.2-88.6%) and 94.8% (95% CI 90.4-98.6%), respectively, for diagnosing HCC in 201 indeterminate lesions. It detected HCC in 45.1% of 51 patients with unexplained elevations in serum AFP concentrations. External review revealed substantial agreement between local and external image interpretation and patient assessment (n=273, κ=0.822; 95% CI 0.803-0.864). ConclusionsDual-tracer PET/CT provides additional value to conventional imaging in HCC patients by improving staging, confirming HCC diagnosis with high accuracy in patients with indeterminate lesions, and detecting HCC in patients with unexplained elevation of serum AFP.• Impact and implications• Dual-tracer PET-CT detected 12% more disease in HCC patients undergoing staging than CT or MRI, resulting in change in treatment in 8% of cases and a cost saving of US$495 per patient.• It is also able to accurately detect HCC in high-risk cases where CT or MRI are equivocal or normal.• Dual-tracer PET/CT provides additional value to conventional imaging in HCC patients by improving staging, confirming HCC diagnosis with high accuracy in patients with indeterminate lesions, and detecting HCC in patients with unexplained elevation of serum AFP.

Black African Students in Predominantly White U.S. Higher Education Institutions

Black African students are increasingly choosing the United States as their preferred destination for higher education, and many choose to study at predominantly White institutions. The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate factors that may influence their identification and commitment to those institutions. Researchers interviewed 20 sub-Saharan Africans at a predominantly White Southeastern university. Findings revealed that construed external image, overall satisfaction with the school, promotion of the institution, and willingness to maintain membership shape the extent to which Black African students are identified and committed to their university of choice. Furthermore, the study also found that prestige does not appear to influence Sub-Saharan African students' identification and commitment to a school in the U.S., but race has mixed effects depending on how it gets interpreted by students. These findings suggest implications for research and practice for student affairs professionals to better serve and retain their international populations.

Hybrid regularization inspired by total variation and deep denoiser prior for image restoration

Image restoration is a fundamental problem in computer vision, with the goal of restoring high-quality images from degraded low-quality observation images. However, the ill-posedness of restoration problem often leads to artifacts in the results. It inspires us to study the combination of prior, effectively restrict the solution space and improving the quality of the restored image. In this paper, a novel hybrid regularization method for image restoration is proposed, which adopts both internal and external image priors into a unified framework. Specifically, a new hybrid regularization model is designed. The TV model and a deep image denoiser are inserted into the restoration model using the plug-and-play framework, protecting image details while implicitly using external information for deep denoising. Moreover, in order to make the proposed hybrid regularization operable, an adaptive parameter method is proposed to adaptively balance the TV model and learned model in iteration. Experiments show that the proposed method surpasses the performance of existing image restoration techniques.

DeepBranchTracer: A Generally-Applicable Approach to Curvilinear Structure Reconstruction Using Multi-Feature Learning

Curvilinear structures, which include line-like continuous objects, are fundamental geometrical elements in image-based applications. Reconstructing these structures from images constitutes a pivotal research area in computer vision. However, the complex topology and ambiguous image evidence render this process a challenging task. In this paper, we introduce DeepBranchTracer, a novel method that learns both external image features and internal geometric characteristics to reconstruct curvilinear structures. Firstly, we formulate the curvilinear structures extraction as a geometric attribute estimation problem. Then, a curvilinear structure feature learning network is designed to extract essential branch attributes, including the image features of centerline and boundary, and the geometric features of direction and radius. Finally, utilizing a multi-feature fusion tracing strategy, our model iteratively traces the entire branch by integrating the extracted image and geometric features. We extensively evaluated our model on both 2D and 3D datasets, demonstrating its superior performance over existing segmentation and reconstruction methods in terms of accuracy and continuity.

ПРОЯВ ЛЮДСЬКОГО КАПІТАЛУ ПРИ ФОРМУВАННІ ІМІДЖУ ПІДПРИЄМСТВА

The article describes the manifestation of human capital in the formation of the internal and external image of the enterprise. From the standpoint of ensuring the internal image, we are talking about the personal development of employees, the leadership of managers, and the professional potential of the business structure. From the point of view of external image, we are talking about ethical norms determined by corporate culture (social, environmental, legal and interface, etc. characteristics). The above will be manifested through a positive perception of the enterprise and its products on the market

Discussion on the Status Quo of Vocational College Students’ Self-Image and its Improvement Strategies

An individual’s self-image is a multi-dimensional and multi-structural concept. Its internal dimensions include ability, knowledge, values, personality, and temperament, and its external dimensions are physical appearance, behavior, and clothing. A good image will have a positive impact both in life and at work. We will choose appropriate clothing and makeup to modify the external image and cultivate positive qualities such as correct values and an optimistic attitude towards life to enhance internal dimensions. Among them, “personality” and “ability” mostly belong to the research category of mental health education, and “values” fit in the research field of ideological and political education. Ideological and political education and mental health education are both important components of higher education, which show similarities between them. Ideological and political education and mental health education can complement each other in many ways to enhance students’ self-image.

Assessment of Nigeria’s External Image: The Buhari Administration Under Review

This paper examined contending issues in Nigeria’s external image management under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. Some of these issues have presented daunting challenges which have negatively undermined the capacity of the Nigerian state to meet the lofty aspirations of her citizens in the areas of security, unemployment and rising cost of goods and services to mention a few. This study is focused on dissecting these contending domestic challenges with a view to recommending actionable steps to forge a visible, robust and progressive posture in the international arena. This is core to Nigeria’s national interest and foreign policy objectives as the debilitating effect of near gloomy and not-too positive image some of these lingering domestic challenges portend for the country cannot be left to rhetorically hang like sword of the Damocles over the country. The study discovered that the reticent nature of the Muhammadu Buhari administration since its advent administration in 2015, partly explains the escalation of some domestic challenges and subsequently snowballing into international miasma over the country’s image. The study recommends increased budgetary allocation to Nigeria’s foreign missions with special emphasis on those with high volume of immigrant traffic and economic ties. The Diaspora Commission should be retooled to immediately provide legal representation to Nigerians suffering from minor human right violations before it becomes full blown diplomatic rows.

Combining Low-Rank and Deep Plug-and-Play Priors for Snapshot Compressive Imaging.

Snapshot compressive imaging (SCI) is a promising technique that captures a 3-D hyperspectral image (HSI) by a 2-D detector in a compressed manner. The ill-posed inverse process of reconstructing the HSI from their corresponding 2-D measurements is challenging. However, current approaches either neglect the underlying characteristics, such as high spectral correlation, or demand abundant training datasets, resulting in an inadequate balance among performance, generalizability, and interpretability. To address these challenges, in this article, we propose a novel approach called LR2DP that integrates the model-driven low-rank prior and data-driven deep priors for SCI reconstruction. This approach not only captures the spectral correlation and deep spatial features of HSI but also takes advantage of both model-based and learning-based methods without requiring any extra training datasets. Specifically, to preserve the strong spectral correlation of the HSI effectively, we propose that the HSI lies in a low-rank subspace, thereby transforming the problem of reconstructing the HSI into estimating the spectral basis and spatial representation coefficient. Inspired by the mutual promotion of unsupervised deep image prior (DIP) and trained deep denoising prior (DDP), we integrate the unsupervised network and pre-trained deep denoiser into the plug-and-play (PnP) regime to estimate the representation coefficient together, aiming to explore the internal target image prior (learned by DIP) and the external training image prior (depicted by pre-trained DDP) of the HSI. An effective half-quadratic splitting (HQS) technique is employed to optimize the proposed HSI reconstruction model. Extensive experiments on both simulated and real datasets demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over the state-of-the-art approaches.

Имидж ведущего учреждения культуры Дальнего Востока в социологических оценках

The article presents the results of the assessment of the state cultural institution’s image on the example of the Khabarovsk Regional Musical Theater, its external and internal context. They reflect the images of cultural institutions of the regional center that have been developed in public opinion, obtained through a pilot survey of the target audience – recipients of their services, their needs, preferences, expectations and requirements, as well as ratings of competitors on information portals. As a result of the study, it was found that the image is an important competitive advantage of cultural institutions and has a significant impact on their overall activities and success in the market. It is worth noting, that it is important for cultural institutions to pursue an effective policy on the formation and management of reputation and corporate image, using available technologies, tools, means and resources for this purpose. The analysis of the Khabarovsk Musical Theater's external image showed that it contributes to the stable leadership position that the Theater occupies in the market of cultural and leisure services of the Khabarovsk Territory. Therefore, in order to maintain and strengthen the image, it is necessary to continue to adhere to the current reputation concept, while taking into account the interest of the audience in the variety of cultural events held by the Theater. To strengthen the internal image of the Theater, the management of the institution needs to pay attention to the development of corporate culture and financial support for employees.

The Impact of Implementing Technology Brand Reputation and University External Image on The Student Adoption to Change: A Moderated Mediation Approach

Objective- The basic aim or objective of this study is to investigate the impact of implementing technology brand reputation and the university's external image on the student’s adoption to change. Based on the social identity theory this research recommends that implementing technology with brand reputation and university external image may induce their students to adopt these technologies. It is further argued that the effect of these factors also depend on the student’s university identification and their culture. Methodology/ design/approach - This study used the convenience sampling method for collecting the data from the 370 students of the educational sector in Pakistan during the implementation of new online technology systems. The model of this study was tested by using the structure equation modeling technique in Amos. Findings- The analysis of this study suggests that implementing technology brand reputation and the university external image positively increased the student’s adoption to change and their relationship is also importance for the better performance of university when student’s deification with the university are high and when they are loyal to their institution then they easily adopt the changes whatever technology is being implement in their institution. Value/originality - In this latest ere of research, technology play an important role in educational sector for different activities or most popularly for online classes during an epidemic situation which is need to study the role of brand reputation and university image in the student identification and adoption behavior. The study fills this gap and has two main contributions: one is how reputation of technological brand which is implementing in the university and their external image play a role in student adoption for change perspectives and second is how social identity perspective model leads students to quickly adopt this technological change.

Spatial Research on Tibetan Film Images --Taking the Works of Local Tibetan Directors in China Since the New Century as an Example

Tibetan films, as a branch of Chinese national cinema, have produced many excellent works in recent years with the focus of film creators, and have made remarkable achievements in terms of filming techniques, artistic style, aesthetic value and film language, presenting a thriving scene in creation and dissemination. This paper explains the establishment of the external image space of Tibetan films since the new century, the construction of the internal spiritual space of Tibetan films, and the aesthetic presentation of the image space of the Tibetan New Wave, analyses and summarizes the ethnic and cultural attributes of Tibetan-themed film creations in a specific geographic region as exemplified by director Pema Tseden, and enriches research on the image space of Tibetan themes. The analysis summarize the national cultural attributes of Tibetan-themed film creation in a specific geographical area, enriching the study of Tibetan-themed images.

A knowledge-augmented heterogeneous graph convolutional network for aspect-level multimodal sentiment analysis

Aspect-level multimodal sentiment analysis has also become a new challenge in the field of sentiment analysis. Although there has been significant progress in the task based on image–text data, existing works do not fully deal with the implicit sentiment expression in data. In addition, they do not fully exploit the important information from external knowledge and image tags. To address these problems, we propose a knowledge-augmented heterogeneous graph convolutional network (KAHGCN). First, we propose a dynamic knowledge selection algorithm to select the most relevant external knowledge, thereby enhancing KAHGCN’s ability of understanding the implicit sentiment expression in review texts. Second, we propose a graph construction strategy to construct a heterogeneous graph that aggregates review text, image tags and external knowledge. Third, we propose a multilayer heterogeneous graph convolutional network to strengthen the interaction between information from external knowledge, review texts and image tags. Experimental results on two datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the KAHGCN.

The impact of the special military operation on the external image of Russia

The relevance of the topic is conditioned by modern geopolitical realities, the need to protect the Russian-speaking population on the territory of Ukraine, as well as to stop the glorification of Nazism. Also, the relevance is caused by the growing imperialist ambitions of the United States and NATO, the high role of the so-called "hot spots" on the world map — having a long history of regional confl icts that continue with positive dynamics, or are undergoing a process of deconservation by the forces of the Collective West in order to destabilize the geopolitical situation in the world, in particular at the borders of countries, which were declared strategic opponents of the United States of America. In the modern world, which is characterized by a global confrontation between the so-called "Russian world" and the so-called "collective West", it is more important than ever to understand the events taking place on the world stage, to delve into the essence of complex political, social, economic and other mechanisms of influence. The paper will consider such moments as: the spread of disinformation by the collective West led by Washington, the informational confrontation between the Russian Federation and the Collective West, the specifi cs of providing reliable information on the SMO and the formation of the external appearance of the Russian Federation. The role of the doctrine of controlled chaos is also of interest.

The role of public diplomacy in shaping the external image of the Russian Federation in Latin America (on the example of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela)

The article is devoted to the main directions of public diplomacy to form the external image of the Russian Federation in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. The author determines the ways of “soft power’s” increasing potential, narrates a brief history of bilateral diplomatic relations, describes existing joint projects in different fields, assesses their effectiveness and puts forward some proposals that are necessary to maintain a positive image of Russia abroad.

When “branding” meets “building:” the consequences of nation branding on identity in Kyrgyzstan and Estonia

ABSTRACT Despite the growing attention to the everyday, nation-building literature has paid insufficient attention to the ways in which national identity is strengthened as a side effect of measures that are not initially conceived of as nation-building activities. This article examines contemporary examples of such non-traditional processes of nation-building by reviewing the unintended consequences of political measures not directly targeting identity construction. We focus on processes of identity construction in Kyrgyzstan and Estonia that have emerged as a side effect of nation branding. In both cases, the primary goal of the national government was not necessarily to boost national identity but rather to re-brand the country for international audiences. We argue, however, that these efforts at external image projection and change have also influenced the ways in which national identities are understood, perceived, and reproduced by domestic populations.