Adversarial patch attacks pose a significant threat to visual systems. While current patch purification-based defense methods enhance core metrics of visual perception models, they overlook the critical issue of false positive patches, severely compromising image usability. This paper reveals the inadequacy of existing evaluations for adversarial patch defenses, and pioneers a multidimensional adversarial patch localization evaluation framework, which comprehensively quantifies false positives, recall capability, and overall localization accuracy, providing a novel perspective for comparative analysis within the field. Furthermore, building upon the observation that false positives stem from a lack of semantic understanding, we propose a Semantic-Aware Training-free Explainable Defense method (SATED). SATED achieves zero-shot patch localization, false detection correction, and decision explanation by constructing a patch reasoning chain, while simultaneously performing integrated text-guided patch inpainting. Extensive experiments across digital and physical scenarios, detection and segmentation tasks, and diverse adversarial patches, demonstrate that our method significantly reduces false positives and doubles the overall patch localization accuracy, boosting both the generalizability and explainability of the defense.

Scene text spotting has attracted the enthusiasm of relative researchers in recent years. Most existing scene text spotters follow the detection-then-recognition paradigm, where the vanilla detection module hardly determines the reading order and leads to failure recognition. After rethinking the auto-regressive scene text recognition method, we find that a well-trained recognizer can implicitly perceive the local semantics of all characters in a complete word or a sentence without a character-level detection module. Local semantic knowledge not only includes text content but also spatial information in the right reading order. Motivated by the above analysis, we propose the Local Semantics Guided scene text Spotter (LSGSpotter), which auto-regressively decodes the position and content of characters guided by the local semantics. Specifically, two effective modules are proposed in LSGSpotter. On the one hand, we design a Start Point Localization Module (SPLM) for locating text start points to determine the right reading order. On the other hand, a Multi-scale Adaptive Attention Module (MAAM) is proposed to adaptively aggregate text features in a local area. In conclusion, LSGSpotter achieves the arbitrary reading order spotting task without the limitation of sophisticated detection, while alleviating the cost of computational resources with the grid sampling strategy. Extensive experiment results show LSGSpotter achieves state-of-the-art performance on the InverseText benchmark. Moreover, our spotter demonstrates superior performance on English benchmarks for arbitrary-shaped text, achieving improvements of 0.7% and 2.5% on Total-Text and SCUT-CTW1500, respectively. These results validate our text spotter is effective for scene texts in arbitrary reading order and shape.

Visual Information Extraction (VIE) plays a crucial role in the comprehension of semi-structured documents, and several pre-trained models have been developed to enhance performance. However, most of these works are monolingual (usually English). Due to the extremely unbalanced quantity and quality of pre-training corpora between English and other languages, few works can extend to non-English scenarios. In this paper, we conduct systematic experiments to show that vision and layout modality hold invariance among images with different languages. If decoupling language bias from document images, a vision-layout-based model can achieve impressive cross-lingual generalization. Accordingly, we present a simple but effective multilingual training paradigm LDP (Language Decoupled Pre-training) for better utilization of monolingual pre-training data. Our proposed model LDM (Language Decoupled Model) is first pre-trained on the language-independent data, where the language knowledge is decoupled by a diffusion model, and then the LDM is fine-tuned on the downstream languages. Extensive experiments show that the LDM outperformed all SOTA multilingual pre-trained models, and also maintains competitiveness on downstream monolingual/English benchmarks.

Large-scale pre-trained models have revolutionized Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV), showcasing remarkable cross-domain generalization abilities. However, in graph learning, models are typically trained on individual graph datasets, limiting their capacity to transfer knowledge across different graphs and tasks. This approach also heavily relies on large volumes of annotated data, which presents a significant challenge in resource-constrained settings. Unlike NLP and CV, graph-structured data presents unique challenges due to its inherent heterogeneity, including domain-specific feature spaces and structural diversity across various applications. To address these challenges, we propose a novel structure-aware self-supervised learning method for Text-Attributed Graphs (SSTAG). By leveraging text as a unified representation medium for graph learning, SSTAG bridges the gap between the semantic reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs) and the structural modeling capabilities of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). Our approach introduces a dual knowledge distillation framework that co-distills both LLMs and GNNs into structure-aware multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), enhancing the scalability of large-scale TAGs. Additionally, we introduce an in-memory mechanism that stores typical graph representations, aligning them with memory anchors in an in-memory repository to integrate invariant knowledge, thereby improving the model’s generalization ability. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SSTAG outperforms state-of-the-art models on cross-domain transfer learning tasks, achieves exceptional scalability, and reduces inference costs while maintaining competitive performance.

In this paper, we present the design of JTang HSS (JTang Healthcare Service Platform for the Senior), a healthcare service platform for the senior based on cloud computing technology. In our system, services provided by third parties such as hospitals, physical examination centers, communities and some other institutions, can be integrated, managed and optimized seamlessly. The platform contains three subsystems, which are health services bus platform (HSB), Middleware Platform (MP) and health services library (HSL). HSB is constructed to facilitate data access for third parties. Meanwhile, we build the health data center to recommend services in a personalized manner based on middleware platform. Further, external services and platform owned services are orchestrated and integrated to a health services library, which supports an end-to-end process and supplies application services for the senior. The goal of the platform is to provide overall management and sufficient services in all aspects of healthcare of the senior. In detail, application services mainly include data collecting, health status assessing, entertainment supplying, social interaction, etc. Most of the services are provided as mobile applications running in devices like mobile phones and tablet computers.