The ship when the US could prevent the emergence of China as a peer competitor in high-tech has long since sailed. I don't think US think-tankers have quite understood this. Now the main challenge for the US is to merely maintain their position.
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The Shenzhou-14 mission uses new technology that greatly improves quality of the realtime video feed from the crew capsule.
"Unlike the space station, the crew capsule does not have a high bandwidth network connection with the ground. The quality of the video feed from the crew capsule used to be poor due to the low resolution at only 352x288."
"A team of researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, led by Professor Wu Feng, was tasked to solve the problem. Based on the non-uniform rate-distortion theory for multimedia (非均匀率失真理论) established by Prof. Wu, the team developed a "deep learning video compression and resolution enhancement technology" (深度学习压缩视频超分辨率增强技术). This new technology is able to lift the video resolution by 16 times to 1920x1080. The ratio of signal-to-noise is also increased by more than 4db."
"The researchers then created a realtime system for enhancing stream media which can process up to 25 frames per second, with the end-to-end latency below 1 second. This system has been used in the Shenzhou-14 crew capsule to support video feed in higher definition."
Professor Wu Feng the 2021 IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg Award.
News release in English on the award and Prof. Wu by USTC:
New report in Chinese:
"Unlike the space station, the crew capsule does not have a high bandwidth network connection with the ground. The quality of the video feed from the crew capsule used to be poor due to the low resolution at only 352x288."
"A team of researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China, led by Professor Wu Feng, was tasked to solve the problem. Based on the non-uniform rate-distortion theory for multimedia (非均匀率失真理论) established by Prof. Wu, the team developed a "deep learning video compression and resolution enhancement technology" (深度学习压缩视频超分辨率增强技术). This new technology is able to lift the video resolution by 16 times to 1920x1080. The ratio of signal-to-noise is also increased by more than 4db."
"The researchers then created a realtime system for enhancing stream media which can process up to 25 frames per second, with the end-to-end latency below 1 second. This system has been used in the Shenzhou-14 crew capsule to support video feed in higher definition."
Professor Wu Feng the 2021 IEEE CAS Mac Van Valkenburg Award.
News release in English on the award and Prof. Wu by USTC:
New report in Chinese:
is this kinda like nvidia's dlss?
Sorry I don't know. I know nothing about the Nvidia stuff. The news report also lacks the details to compare.
The same team mentioned in previous post published another paper to report their work on
Published paper in English:
News release in Chinese by CAS:
图1 SOM原理图及其基于忆阻器阵列的实现。(a)SOM网络原理图。(b)忆阻器的典型I-V曲线。(c)128×64 1T1R忆阻器阵列光学实物图。(d)1T1R忆阻器阵列实现2D-SOM的原理图
图2 忆阻器基SOM系统的应用。(a)图像处理（分割）；(b)求解组合优化问题（TSP问题）。
Published paper in English:
News release in Chinese by CAS:
图1 SOM原理图及其基于忆阻器阵列的实现。(a)SOM网络原理图。(b)忆阻器的典型I-V曲线。(c)128×64 1T1R忆阻器阵列光学实物图。(d)1T1R忆阻器阵列实现2D-SOM的原理图
图2 忆阻器基SOM系统的应用。(a)图像处理（分割）；(b)求解组合优化问题（TSP问题）。
That domain is called super resolution (SR) and the main goal is to achieve high-quality upscaling of images\videos\etc., DLSS is SR over game textures. So yes, this algorithm and DLSS are from the same general domain but I don't think it is correct to say that it is "kinda like" DLSS since the areas of application are different. Plus, the article mentions compression, hence I think that this algorithm probably works as follows - the video capturing device records in HQ, then it gets compressed with a lossy algorithm, sent to Earth, then decompressed and SR is used to make up for the lost information during compression, i.e. it is more of a multi-step algorithm rather than just upscaling network. Or it could be more straightforward - the video is recorded in low quality to be as light-weight as possible, then SR upscaling is used to enhance its quality. However, the second variant is going to produce overall worse video quality than the first one - either the video is generally going to be more noisy and less detailed OR the SR network is going to introduce unnatural artifacts (this is a common problem for these kind of methods). So I think they probably employ the first approach.
Chinese scientists make breakthrough in push toward intelligent robotics
By Global Times Published: Jun 09, 2022 10:49 PM
Photo: The Institute of Microelectronics (IME) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chinese scientists have developed a multimode-fused spiking neuron (MFSN) array that can sense different shapes, temperatures and weights just like people’s multisensory perception. It can contribute to the development of highly intelligent robotics in future.
Conducted by research teams from the Institute of Microelectronics (IME) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fudan University, the research has been published in the material science academic journal Advanced Materials.
According to the research, the MFSN can achieve human-like multisensory perception, which helps people ascertain the properties of objects and make accurate judgments. The findings can be used for practical applications, further enabling the building of multimodal sensory systems and contributing to the development of highly intelligent robotics in the future.
CHINA PUBLISHES THE MOST DETAILED MAP OF THE MOON EVER MADE
WHO DOESN'T WANT TO KNOW EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY OF THE MOON?
There's now a map of the Moon's surface more detailed than any that came before it.Published in , researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the country's Institute of Geochemistry, and other organizations compiled known information about the Moon's surface in a recent study that includes this wildly-detailed map of the lunar terrain.
As the study notes, the scale of the map is an incredibly precise 1:2,500,000 scale that highlights all known rocks, craters, basins, and structures on the Moon's surface.
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