Distinguishing genuine news from false information is crucial in today’s digital era. Most of the existing methods are based on either the traditional neural network sequence model or graph neural network model that has become more popularity in recent years. Among these two types of models, the latter solve the former’s problem of neglecting the correlation among news sentences. However, one layer of the graph neural network only considers the information of nodes directly connected to the current nodes and omits the important information carried by distant nodes. As such, this study proposes the Extendable-to-Global Heterogeneous Graph Attention network (namely EGHGAT) to manage heterogeneous graphs by cleverly extending local attention to global attention and addressing the drawback of local attention that can only collect information from directly connected nodes. The shortest distance matrix is computed among all nodes on the graph. Specifically, the shortest distance information is used to enable the current nodes to aggregate information from more distant nodes by considering the influence of different node types on the current nodes in the current network layer. This mechanism highlights the importance of directly or indirectly connected nodes and the effect of different node types on the current nodes, which can substantially enhance the performance of the model. Information from an external knowledge base is used to compare the contextual entity representation with the entity representation of the corresponding knowledge base to capture its consistency with news content. Experimental results from the benchmark dataset reveal that the proposed model significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art approach. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/gyhhk/EGHGAT_FakeNewsDetection.

Poor illumination greatly affects the quality of obtained images. In this paper, a novel convolutional neural network named DEANet is proposed on the basis of Retinex for low-light image enhancement. DEANet combines the frequency and content information of images and is divided into three subnetworks: decomposition, enhancement, and adjustment networks, which perform image decomposition; denoising, contrast enhancement, and detail preservation; and image adjustment and generation, respectively. The model is trained on the public LOL dataset, and the experimental results show that it outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods regarding visual effects and image quality.

In the field of single remote sensing image Super-Resolution (SR), deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved top performance. To further enhance convolutional module performance in processing remote sensing images, we construct an efficient residual feature calibration block to generate expressive features. After harvesting residual features, we first divide them into two parts along the channel dimension. One part flows to the Self-Calibrated Convolution (SCC) to be further refined, and the other part is rescaled by the proposed Two-Path Channel Attention (TPCA) mechanism. SCC corrects local features according to their expressions under the deep receptive field, so that the features can be refined without increasing the number of calculations. The proposed TPCA uses the means and variances of feature maps to obtain accurate channel attention vectors. Moreover, a region-level nonlocal operation is introduced to capture long-distance spatial contextual information by exploring pixel dependencies at the region level. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed residual feature calibration network is superior to other SR methods in terms of quantitative metrics and visual quality.

Recently, several well-performing deep convolutional neural networks were proposed for remote sensing image super-resolution (SR). However, these methods rarely consider that remote sensing images are corruptible by additional noise, blurring, and other factors. Therefore, to eliminate the interference of these factors, especially the noise, we propose a novel information purification network (IPN) for remote sensing image SR. The proposed information purification block (IPB) can process channel-wise features differently by channel separation and rescale spatial-wise features adaptively through the proposed multi-scale spatial attention mechanism. We further design an information group to explore a more powerful expressive combination of IPBs. Moreover, long and short skip connections can transmit abundant low-frequency information, making IPBs pay more attention to high-frequency information. We mix the images under various degradation models as training data in the training phase. In this way, the network can directly reconstruct various degraded images. Experiments on AID and UC Merced Land-Use datasets under multiple degradation models demonstrate that the proposed IPN performs better than state-of-the-art methods.