Large Vision-Language Models as Emotion Recognizers in Context Awareness

Large Vision-Language Models as Emotion Recognizers in Context Awareness

arXiv:2407.11300v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Context-aware emotion recognition (CAER) is a complex and significant task that requires perceiving emotions from various contextual cues. Previous approaches primarily focus on designing sophisticated architectures to extract emotional cues from images. However, their knowledge is confined to specific training datasets and may reflect the subjective emotional biases of the annotators. Furthermore, acquiring large amounts of labeled data is often challenging in real-world applications. In this paper, we systematically explore the potential of leveraging Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) to empower the CAER task from three paradigms: 1) We fine-tune LVLMs on two CAER datasets, which…
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Figuring out Figures: Using Textual References to Caption Scientific Figures

Figuring out Figures: Using Textual References to Caption Scientific Figures

arXiv:2407.11008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Figures are essential channels for densely communicating complex ideas in scientific papers. Previous work in automatically generating figure captions has been largely unsuccessful and has defaulted to using single-layer LSTMs, which no longer achieve state-of-the-art performance. In our work, we use the SciCap datasets curated by Hsu et al. and use a variant of a CLIP+GPT-2 encoder-decoder model with cross-attention to generate captions conditioned on the image. Furthermore, we augment our training pipeline by creating a new dataset MetaSciCap that incorporates textual metadata from the original paper relevant to the figure, such as the title,…
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Amazon Prime Day Apple deals on AirPods, MacBooks and iPads that you shouldn’t miss today

Amazon Prime Day Apple deals on AirPods, MacBooks and iPads that you shouldn’t miss today

It's impressive how comprehensive the deals on Apple gear has been during Amazon's Prime Day sale. Here we are on day two and the deals are still available. We're seeing all-time low prices on all three models of the Apple Watch, all four current-generation iPads and both the AirPods Pro and the over-ear AirPods Max.Apart from accessories, any new Apple gear you buy now should get even better this fall when the software updates Apple announced at WWDC go wide. There'll be a new watchOS, iPadOS and macOS. Of course there will be a new iOS too, for the iPhone,…
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Ant insights lead to robot navigation breakthrough

Ant insights lead to robot navigation breakthrough

Have you ever wondered how insects are able to go so far beyond their home and still find their way? The answer to this question is not only relevant to biology but also to making the AI for tiny, autonomous robots. TU Delft drone-researchers felt inspired by biological findings on how ants visually recognize their environment and combine it with counting their steps in order to get safely back home. They have used these insights to create an insect-inspired autonomous navigation strategy for tiny, lightweight robots. The strategy allows such robots to come back home after long trajectories, while requiring…
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Software Developers: 7 Proven Steps to Navigate Complex Software

Software Developers: 7 Proven Steps to Navigate Complex Software

Are you a passionate developer looking to learn complex software in a short amount of time? This can happen if you have to transition to a new team or a new organisation. The challenge is that there would be a lot of information lying around and you have to make sense quickly. If you have not done this before, it feels daunting. The other problem is that as you do not have all the context, some of the answers you get might be conflicting or confusing. In this blog post, we'll discuss the steps you can take to navigate this…
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Coming to Grips with Prompt Lock-In

Coming to Grips with Prompt Lock-In

(Mr. Squid/Shutterstock) Nothing stays still for long in the world of GenAI. The system prompts you’ve written for GPT-4 or Llama-3 8B give you one answer today, but may tell you something different tomorrow. This is the danger of a condition known as prompt lock-in. System prompts set the conditions and the context for the answer the user expects from the large language model (LLM). Combined with other techniques, such as fine-tuning and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), system prompts are a critical tool for getting the most from an LLM. However, system prompts don’t work like normal computer programs, says Luis…
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HGTV star Christina Hall is getting divorced. Here’s a timeline of her romantic life, from working with Tarek El Moussa to her latest split.

HGTV star Christina Hall is getting divorced. Here’s a timeline of her romantic life, from working with Tarek El Moussa to her latest split.

December 2016: El Moussa and Christina announced they were separating. Tarek El Moussa and Christina Hall separated in 2016. Alexander Tamargo / Contributor / Getty Images In May 2016, police went to the couple's home because of "a call of a possibly suicidal male with a gun," TMZ reported at the time. El Moussa was seen running from his home with a firearm, which he dropped after police told him from a helicopter to release it, TMZ reported.Seven months later, El Moussa and Christina announced their separation, acknowledging the incident in a statement to Us Weekly."Like many couples, we have…
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Hugo Mercier says we’ve been misinformed about misinformation

Hugo Mercier says we’ve been misinformed about misinformation

Sign up for the Freethink Weekly newsletter! A collection of our favorite stories straight to your inbox Notice: JavaScript is required for this content. One day, a well-dressed stranger approached Hugo Mercier as he was walking back from university. The stranger told Mercier he was a doctor running late for an urgent appointment, but had forgotten his wallet at home and desperately needed 20 euros for a taxi. Mercier gave the doctor the money in exchange for a business card with a phone number, which he could call to get his money back. But when he did, no one picked…
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