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Discovery and recognition of motion primitives in human activities
We present a novel framework for the automatic discovery and recognition of
motion primitives in videos of human activities. Given the 3D pose of a human
in a video, human motion primitives are discovered by optimizing the `motion
flux', a quantity which captures the motion variation of a group of skeletal
joints. A normalization of the primitives is proposed in order to make them
invariant with respect to a subject anatomical variations and data sampling
rate. The discovered primitives are unknown and unlabeled and are
unsupervisedly collected into classes via a hierarchical non-parametric Bayes
mixture model. Once classes are determined and labeled they are further
analyzed for establishing models for recognizing discovered primitives. Each
primitive model is defined by a set of learned parameters.
Given new video data and given the estimated pose of the subject appearing on
the video, the motion is segmented into primitives, which are recognized with a
probability given according to the parameters of the learned models.
Using our framework we build a publicly available dataset of human motion
primitives, using sequences taken from well-known motion capture datasets. We
expect that our framework, by providing an objective way for discovering and
categorizing human motion, will be a useful tool in numerous research fields
including video analysis, human inspired motion generation, learning by
demonstration, intuitive human-robot interaction, and human behavior analysis
Hidden Invariants in Rheology: The Persistent Granular Nature of Liquids
This article will use arguments derived from the deformation driven component
of mixing, especially important for microfluidics, to show that the standard
invariant based approaches to rheology are lacking. It is shown that the
deviator, , after the process of symmetrization, loses microscopically
determined information that distinguish rotation from shear and extension in a
unique fashion. We recover this information through an analysis of the discrete
processes that must underlie deformation driven mixing in highly correlated
fluids. Without this we show there is no hope of ever deriving adequate general
material parameters for rheology from microscopic dynamics. There is an
unambiguous microscopic notion of the rotation rate for every parcel and we
derive a general class of invariant rheological theories from it. We discuss
some implications of higher order flows on solutions and suspensions including
possibilities for driving and stabilization of nonuniform distributions using
hydrodynamic forces alone
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Experimental investigation on self-similar heat sinks for liquid cooled electronics
This paper was presented at the 3rd Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF2011), which was held at the Makedonia Palace Hotel, Thessaloniki in Greece. The conference was organised by Brunel University and supported by the Italian Union of Thermofluiddynamics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Thessaly, IPEM, the Process Intensification Network, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Heat Transfer Society, HEXAG - the Heat Exchange Action Group, and the Energy Institute.The high heat transfer coefficients in microchannels are attractive for direct cooling of electronic systems requiring high heat-flux removal. In this work we are presenting the results of a study on self-similar heat sinks for liquid cooled electronics, made from copper, designed for industrial application and for large scale production. The internal structures, where the most part of the active cooling takes place, have been designed in order to achieve high heat transfer coefficients. As it is almost impossible to validate the design and describe the flow characteristics inside the device via analytical solutions, a well known numerical code was employed to have an insight of the thermal-fluid
distributions. It is clear from the simulation that even if copper is characterized by a high thermal conductivity, most of the heat is removed in the overflow-structure, on the side of the device adjacent to the source of heat. This paper attempts to critically analyse a comprehensive list of data as well as plots in order to illustrate the significant characteristics of this type of device
c-extremization from toric geometry
We derive a geometric formulation of the 2d central charge from
infinite families of 4d superconformal field theories
topologically twisted on constant curvature Riemann surfaces. They correspond
to toric quiver gauge theories and are associated to D3 branes probing five
dimensional Sasaki-Einstein geometries in the AdS/CFT correspondence. We show
that can be expressed in terms of the areas of the toric diagram
describing the moduli space of the 4d theory, both for toric geometries with
smooth and singular horizons. We also study the relation between a-maximization
in 4d and c-extremization in 2d, giving further evidences of the mixing of the
baryonic symmetries with the exact R-current in two dimensions.Comment: 39 pages, 21 figures, minor change
Constraining Intra-cluster Gas Models with AMiBA13
Clusters of galaxies have been used extensively to determine cosmological
parameters. A major difficulty in making best use of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ)
and X-ray observations of clusters for cosmology is that using X-ray
observations it is difficult to measure the temperature distribution and
therefore determine the density distribution in individual clusters of galaxies
out to the virial radius. Observations with the new generation of SZ
instruments are a promising alternative approach. We use clusters of galaxies
drawn from high-resolution adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) cosmological
simulations to study how well we should be able to constrain the large-scale
distribution of the intra-cluster gas (ICG) in individual massive relaxed
clusters using AMiBA in its configuration with 13 1.2-m diameter dishes
(AMiBA13) along with X-ray observations. We show that non-isothermal beta
models provide a good description of the ICG in our simulated relaxed clusters.
We use simulated X-ray observations to estimate the quality of constraints on
the distribution of gas density, and simulated SZ visibilities (AMiBA13
observations) for constraints on the large-scale temperature distribution of
the ICG. We find that AMiBA13 visibilities should constrain the scale radius of
the temperature distribution to about 50% accuracy. We conclude that the
upgraded AMiBA, AMiBA13, should be a powerful instrument to constrain the
large-scale distribution of the ICG.Comment: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, 12 pages, 9
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