Hasil untuk "Manners and customs (General)"

Teng Hu, Zhentao Yu, Zhengguang Zhou et al.

Customized video generation aims to produce videos featuring specific subjects under flexible user-defined conditions, yet existing methods often struggle with identity consistency and limited input modalities. In this paper, we propose HunyuanCustom, a multi-modal customized video generation framework that emphasizes subject consistency while supporting image, audio, video, and text conditions. Built upon HunyuanVideo, our model first addresses the image-text conditioned generation task by introducing a text-image fusion module based on LLaVA for enhanced multi-modal understanding, along with an image ID enhancement module that leverages temporal concatenation to reinforce identity features across frames. To enable audio- and video-conditioned generation, we further propose modality-specific condition injection mechanisms: an AudioNet module that achieves hierarchical alignment via spatial cross-attention, and a video-driven injection module that integrates latent-compressed conditional video through a patchify-based feature-alignment network. Extensive experiments on single- and multi-subject scenarios demonstrate that HunyuanCustom significantly outperforms state-of-the-art open- and closed-source methods in terms of ID consistency, realism, and text-video alignment. Moreover, we validate its robustness across downstream tasks, including audio and video-driven customized video generation. Our results highlight the effectiveness of multi-modal conditioning and identity-preserving strategies in advancing controllable video generation. All the code and models are available at https://hunyuancustom.github.io.

Ting Pan, Ye Wang, Peiguang Jing et al.

Personalized dual-person portrait customization has considerable potential applications, such as preserving emotional memories and facilitating wedding photography planning. However, the absence of a benchmark dataset hinders the pursuit of high-quality customization in dual-person portrait generation. In this paper, we propose the PairHuman dataset, which is the first large-scale benchmark dataset specifically designed for generating dual-person portraits that meet high photographic standards. The PairHuman dataset contains more than 100K images that capture a variety of scenes, attire, and dual-person interactions, along with rich metadata, including detailed image descriptions, person localization, human keypoints, and attribute tags. We also introduce DHumanDiff, which is a baseline specifically crafted for dual-person portrait generation that features enhanced facial consistency and simultaneously balances in personalized person generation and semantic-driven scene creation. Finally, the experimental results demonstrate that our dataset and method produce highly customized portraits with superior visual quality that are tailored to human preferences. Our dataset is publicly available at https://github.com/annaoooo/PairHuman.

Haoyu Chen, Xiaojie Xu, Wenbo Li et al.

Poster design is a critical medium for visual communication. Prior work has explored automatic poster design using deep learning techniques, but these approaches lack text accuracy, user customization, and aesthetic appeal, limiting their applicability in artistic domains such as movies and exhibitions, where both clear content delivery and visual impact are essential. To address these limitations, we present POSTA: a modular framework powered by diffusion models and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for customized artistic poster generation. The framework consists of three modules. Background Diffusion creates a themed background based on user input. Design MLLM then generates layout and typography elements that align with and complement the background style. Finally, to enhance the poster's aesthetic appeal, ArtText Diffusion applies additional stylization to key text elements. The final result is a visually cohesive and appealing poster, with a fully modular process that allows for complete customization. To train our models, we develop the PosterArt dataset, comprising high-quality artistic posters annotated with layout, typography, and pixel-level stylized text segmentation. Our comprehensive experimental analysis demonstrates POSTA's exceptional controllability and design diversity, outperforming existing models in both text accuracy and aesthetic quality.

Badr Al Faiya, Stephen McArthur, Ivana Kockar

Distribution networks will experience more installations of distributed generation (DG) that is unpredictable and stochastic in nature. Greater distributed control and intelligence will allow challenges such as voltage control to be handled effectively. The partitioning of power networks into smaller clusters provides a method to split the control problem into manageable sub-problems. This paper presents a community detection-based partitioning technique for distribution networks considering local DGs, allowing them to be grouped and controlled in a distributed manner by using local signals and measurements. This method also allows each community to control the voltage using only neighboring DGs, and for each community to self-organize to reflect varying DG conditions and to maintain stable control. Simulations demonstrate that the partitioning of the large distribution network is effective, and each community is able to self-organize and to regulate the voltage independently using only its local DGs.

Alessandra Magalhães

Este artigo propõe uma reflexão sobre como a literatura escrita por mulheres vem representando os corpos femininos e suas complexas experiências. Para isso, analisarei o romance A gorda, da escritora portuguesa Isabela Figueiredo, publicado em 2016, que narra as memórias de uma protagonista submetida a uma cirurgia bariátrica. A alteração em seu corpo visa construir uma nova subjetividade, já que ela deseja experimentar uma vida em que não seja vista como um ser desprezível por ser gorda, pois seu corpo sempre foi alvo de repúdio desde a adolescência. Assim, mesmo que o papel da literatura na formação do imaginário social tenha se tornado mais relativo, ela ainda ocupa um lugar importante como forma de provocação e reflexão. Considerando que as narrativas literárias podem construir novos e variados – inclusive divergentes – olhares sobre o mundo, é fundamental refletir sobre o papel da literatura de autoria feminina na formação de um imaginário social acerca do corpo.

Taizo Horikomi, Takayuki Mizuno

We propose a method that can generate customer trajectories and purchasing behaviors in retail stores simultaneously using Transformer-based deep learning structure. Utilizing customer trajectory data, layout diagrams, and retail scanner data obtained from a retail store, we trained a GPT-2 architecture from scratch to generate indoor trajectories and purchase actions. Additionally, we explored the effectiveness of fine-tuning the pre-trained model with data from another store. Results demonstrate that our method reproduces in-store trajectories and purchase behaviors more accurately than LSTM and SVM models, with fine-tuning significantly reducing the required training data.

Christiane da Silva Dias

Neste artigo proponho um debate, a partir da noção de paisagem linguística (Landry; Bourhis, 1997), sobre políticas linguísticas em contextos multilíngues como Timor-Leste. A partir de um artefato comumente considerado banal, mas atenta ao que ele enuncia (Hodder, 2012), expando esse olhar para o cenário macro, por meio de uma conexão com a realidade sociolinguística da região e um debate em torno. Sugiro que a compreensão das políticas linguísticas urge um debate interdisciplinar, que repense a categorização de “problema a ser solucionado” e considere em suas formulações a rica diversidade da prática social local.

Manuel Duarte João Pires

O presente artigo tem como propósito decifrar os dissolutos caminhos de Erika e a madrugada, o quarto e derradeiro conto do livro As quatro estações, de David Mourão-Ferreira. Nesta obra quaternária em que cada um dos contos sugere representar uma fase do ano, da vida e do amor, a personagem Erika incorpora o inverno, o ocaso, um ponto final a recompor-se enquanto se prepara para o começo de uma nova fase. Navegando entre a multiplicidade de leituras que as obras literárias despertam nos leitores comuns (e incomuns), este artigo ousa descortinar os murmúrios de um conto encontrado dentro das quatro paredes do quarto de Erika, alumiado pela luz da noite e a fitar a janela aberta para a cidade e para as madrugadas davidianas da feminilidade, da finitude dos amantes e do tempo que se adianta irrecorrível.

Tatiana Prevedello

O pensamento de Paul Ricoeur, em A memória, a história, o esquecimento, investe na elaboração epistemológica do discurso histórico, por intermédio dos elementos memorialísticos que instrumentalizam a representação narrativa. Na fase nomeada como “documental”, o “espaço habitado”, o “tempo histórico”, o “testemunho”, o “arquivo” e a “prova documental” configuram a “memória arquivada” (Ricoeur, 2007, p. 155). Nessa perspectiva, o objetivo deste estudo é analisar a relação entre os arquivos da memória e os dispositivos que operacionalizam a inscrição do discurso histórico na narrativa, os quais são instrumentos preponderantes para se compreender a hermenêutica dos afetos em Relato de um certo Oriente, primeiro romance do escritor amazonense de ascendência árabe, Milton Hatoum, publicado em 1989. O texto realiza uma incursão mnemônica pelos escombros do passado de uma família de origem libanesa, a qual habita Manaus, nas primeiras décadas do século XX, como sinalizam os marcos temporais indicados pelas vozes narrativas

Paulo Eduardo Benites de Moraes, Josemar de Campos Maciel

Nosso objetivo com este texto é realizar uma análise do poema "A pantufa", da poeta Patrícia Lino. O poema em questão fora publicado em 2019 no blog e revista Études Lusophones e já foi apresentado na Espanha, Portugal e Estados Unidos. Para realizar a análise tomamos como ponto de partida a relação entre literatura e filosofia, mais especificamente as discussões em torno do conceito de hospitalidade, pensado por Jacques Derrida. O problema central da discussão está centrado na categoria de hospitalidade tomando-a como hipótese de trabalho, entendendo que ela se constrói como um dispositivo ético, estético e político capaz de sustentar a porosidade entre os estudos literários e a filosofia. Para tanto, em um primeiro momento passamos pelo conceito de hospitalidade, sua expansão para o diálogo com a literatura naquilo que vem sendo chamado de poética da hospitalidade para, ao final, propor a leitura e análise do poema em questão.

Gustavo Henrique Rückert

Os deslocamentos pelas fronteiras identitárias impostas na modernidade ocidental configuram as principais questões da contemporaneidade, sejam essas fronteiras as de nacionalidade, de raça, de gênero ou de eficiência e capacidade. Nesse sentido, o romance Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso, publicado em 2018 pela escritora angolana/portuguesa Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida, é bastante elucidativo. Os personagens Cartola e Aquiles migram de Angola para Portugal em razão de uma má-formação no calcanhar do último. Assim, o corpo negro e com deficiência desafia a corponormatividade moderna, tornando--se indesejado na ex-metrópole, e por isso vítima de racismo e capacitismo. Amparado teoricamente nos estudos da deficiência e nos estudos pós-coloniais, este trabalho se propõe a analisar o corpo do personagem Aquiles em seu deslocamento, entendendo este como de fundamental importância para a compreensão das condições de mobilidade e imobilidade imposta aos sujeitos colonizados.

Fernanda de Fátima Sarmento Ximenes , Ana Lucia Trevisan

Neste artigo são estudados textos orais produzidos em tétum terik, ou seja, o tétum vernáculo que conserva a pureza original; genuíno, sem estrangeirismos; o tétum clássico ou tradicional, considerado um modelo literário utilizado pelos anciãos nos seus contatos cotidianos, principalmente nas suas cerimônias culturais tradicionais que gradativamente tendem cair em desuso. As expressões recolhidas nesses textos orais referem-se a diferentes contextos e situações familiares ou sociais e são matérias basilares à compreensão da literatura em seu tríplice aspecto: o social, o histórico e o estético. O estudo desses textos orais permite um aprofundamento da compreensão da comunhão de língua e cultura, apontando como a leitura e a interpretação críticas dos textos literários significam uma capacidade de desvendamento das identidades plurais dos sujeitos em espaços plurilinguísticos. O exame dos textos pertencentes à tradição oral resgata, primeiramente, a figura dos anciãos, enquanto detentores das cantigas, hamulac/k, do ato de rezar, orar, fazer oração, dadolin/dadôulic, malakar e da poesia de quatro a cinco versos constituídos essencialmente por dísticos. Nas análises aqui apresentadas revelam-se diálogos, nos planos de conteúdo e de expressão, com sátiras e cantigas de escárnio e maldizer, presentes na lírica trovadoresca portuguesa, revelando, ao mesmo tempo, aspectos sociais e culturais que asseguram a singularidade das tradições timorenses.

Yufan Zhou, Ruiyi Zhang, Tong Sun et al.

Recent text-to-image generation models have demonstrated impressive capability of generating text-aligned images with high fidelity. However, generating images of novel concept provided by the user input image is still a challenging task. To address this problem, researchers have been exploring various methods for customizing pre-trained text-to-image generation models. Currently, most existing methods for customizing pre-trained text-to-image generation models involve the use of regularization techniques to prevent over-fitting. While regularization will ease the challenge of customization and leads to successful content creation with respect to text guidance, it may restrict the model capability, resulting in the loss of detailed information and inferior performance. In this work, we propose a novel framework for customized text-to-image generation without the use of regularization. Specifically, our proposed framework consists of an encoder network and a novel sampling method which can tackle the over-fitting problem without the use of regularization. With the proposed framework, we are able to customize a large-scale text-to-image generation model within half a minute on single GPU, with only one image provided by the user. We demonstrate in experiments that our proposed framework outperforms existing methods, and preserves more fine-grained details.

Christoper W. F. Parsonson, Joshua L. Benjamin, Georgios Zervas

We propose a new algorithm for generating custom network traffic matrices which achieves 13x, 38x, and 70x faster generation times than prior work on networks with 64, 256, and 1024 nodes respectively.

Siteng Huang, Biao Gong, Yutong Feng et al.

This study focuses on a novel task in text-to-image (T2I) generation, namely action customization. The objective of this task is to learn the co-existing action from limited data and generalize it to unseen humans or even animals. Experimental results show that existing subject-driven customization methods fail to learn the representative characteristics of actions and struggle in decoupling actions from context features, including appearance. To overcome the preference for low-level features and the entanglement of high-level features, we propose an inversion-based method Action-Disentangled Identifier (ADI) to learn action-specific identifiers from the exemplar images. ADI first expands the semantic conditioning space by introducing layer-wise identifier tokens, thereby increasing the representational richness while distributing the inversion across different features. Then, to block the inversion of action-agnostic features, ADI extracts the gradient invariance from the constructed sample triples and masks the updates of irrelevant channels. To comprehensively evaluate the task, we present an ActionBench that includes a variety of actions, each accompanied by meticulously selected samples. Both quantitative and qualitative results show that our ADI outperforms existing baselines in action-customized T2I generation. Our project page is at https://adi-t2i.github.io/ADI.

Alvin Chaidrata, Mariyam Imtha Shafeeu, Sze Ker Chew et al.

Customer service is the lifeblood of any business. Excellent customer service not only generates return business but also creates new customers. Looking at the demanding market to provide a 24/7 service to customers, many organisations are increasingly engaged in popular social media and text messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger in providing a 24/7 service to customers in the current demanding market. In this paper, we present an intent matching based customer services chatbot (IMCSC), which is capable of replacing the customer service work of sales personnel, whilst interacting in a more natural and human-like manner through the employment of Natural Language Understanding (NLU). The bot is able to answer the most common frequently asked questions and we have also integrated features for the processing and exporting of customer orders to a Google Sheet.

Reuven Gafni

This paper aims to present several manners in which synagogues of the Islamic world—usually the more prominent and significant ones, and whose communities were uprooted following the establishment of the state of Israel—are commemorated today in Israel, by members and descendants of their original communities. This is done with reference to commemoration by name, physical design or re-creation of the liturgical and ritual customs of the original synagogues. The different manners in which these synagogues are commemorated allow us to better understand not only the significance of the synagogues for the communities which established and used them over the years, but also the way in which the subsequent communities seek to establish their shared memory and identity following the immigration to Israel.

Paulo Ricardo Kralik Angelini

A guerra é um tema recorrente na obra de António Lobo Antunes, especialmente em boa parte de seus primeiros romances. Com Até que as pedras se tornem mais leves que a água, seu mais recente trabalho, o autor revisita a África ao trazer dois sobreviventes (ou serão duas vítimas?) de uma guerra. O enevoado da narrativa recupera, predominantemente a partir de dois pontos de vista, mais do que o combate em Angola, os conflitos de um soldado e um menino arrancado de África. Pai e filho compõem uma simbiose dissonante, porque carregada de vínculos opostamente construídos. A estrutura narrativa obedece a um jogo de poder, e entre vozes, incorporações de vozes outras e amordaçamentos, sintetiza um mundo diegético no qual esse filho que sempre falou como o pai pretende, por fim, negar seu patrimônio e silenciá-lo. Para a articulação teórica, utilizo autores como Gérard Genette, Brian Richardson, Gayatri Spivak, Roberto Vecchi, Margarida Calafate Ribeiro, entre outros.

Leonardo Munoz, Oscar Avila

Business and Information Technology Alignment (BITA) has been one of the main concerns of IT and Business executives and directors due to its importance to overall company performance, especially today in the age of digital transformation. For BITA has been developed several models which in general has focused in the implementation of alignment strategies for the internal operation of the organizations and in the measurement of this internal alignment, but, there is still a big gap in measurement models of the alignment with the external environment of the organizations. In this paper is presented the design and application of a maturity measurement model for BITA with the customers, where the customers are actors of the external environment of the companies. The proposed model involves evaluation criteria and business practices which the companies ideally do for improve the relationship with their customers.

Agus Heryana

Gerakan seser dalam Maenpo Cikalong bukanlah sebuah rangkaian gerakan dasar yang digunakan sebagai panduan dalam teknik silat, melainkan upaya dari pesilat untuk mendekati lawan tanpa mengangkat kaki. Gerak seser sering diabaikan dan dianggap tak bermakna. Padahal di dalamnya terkandung fungsi praktis dan falsafah yang melatarbelakangi munculnya gerak tersebut. Karena itulah tujuan penelitiannya adalah mengetahui bentuk gerak seser dan falsafahnya.  Metode yang digunakan untuk mendata dan menganalisanya adalah metode kualitatif-deskriptif analisis yakni pendeskripsian obyek sedetail mungkin kemudian dianalisis. Hasilnya adalah ditemukannya konsep falsafah pohon, yang bermakna ajeg tangtungan (kokoh pendirian). Simpulannya falsafah pohon merupakan pelengkap  falsafah sebelumnya, yaitu: (1) Lamun deleka sok cilaka (orang jahat akan celaka),(2) Laer aisan (adil); (3) Wijaksana (bijaksana); (4) Tungkul ka jukut tanggah ka sadapan (tidak membeda-bedakan perlakuaan kepada siapa pun); (5) Sauyunan (rukun); (6) Gelut jeung diri sorangan (melawan diri sendiri); (7) Hirup tawakal (tawakal); (8) Depe-depe handap asor (rendah hati).   Gerak Seser in the Maenpo Cikalong is not a basic movement series used as a guide in silat techniques, but a quest to approach the opponent without lifting a foot. This simple movement is often ignored and considered meaningless. Whereas in the Gerak Seser contained practical functions and philosophy behind the emergence of the movement. That is why the purpose of this research is to find out the form of movement and philosophy. The method used to achieve that goal is a qualitative-descriptive method of analysis that is the description of the object and then analyzed. The result is the discovery of the philosophy concept called tree philosophy. The conclusions obtained are the philosophy of the tree into the soul of the Penca Cikalong rules and reduce the derivative of philosophy such as: (1) Lamun deleka sok cilaka (bad people will be harmed), (2) Laer aisan (fair); (3) Wijaksana (wise); (4) Tungkul ka jukut tanggah ka sadapan (not discriminating anyone); (5) Sauyunan (rukun); (6) Gelut jeung diri sorangan (self-fighting); (7) Hirup tawakal (tawakal); (8) honest; (9) Depe-depe handap asor (humble).