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Defocus Blur Detection(DBD) aims to separate in-focus and out-of-focus regions from a single image pixel-wisely. This task has been paid much attention since bokeh effects are widely used in digital cameras and smartphone photography.…

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For consensus on measurement-based distributed filtering (CMDF), through infinite consensus fusion operations during each sampling interval, each node in the sensor network can achieve optimal filtering performance with centralized…

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By reducing resolution, coarse-grained models greatly accelerate molecular simulations, unlocking access to long-timescale phenomena, though at the expense of microscopic information. Recovering this fine-grained detail is essential for…

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