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Scale Invariant Interest Points with Shearlets
Shearlets are a relatively new directional multi-scale framework for signal
analysis, which have been shown effective to enhance signal discontinuities
such as edges and corners at multiple scales. In this work we address the
problem of detecting and describing blob-like features in the shearlets
framework. We derive a measure which is very effective for blob detection and
closely related to the Laplacian of Gaussian. We demonstrate the measure
satisfies the perfect scale invariance property in the continuous case. In the
discrete setting, we derive algorithms for blob detection and keypoint
description. Finally, we provide qualitative justifications of our findings as
well as a quantitative evaluation on benchmark data. We also report an
experimental evidence that our method is very suitable to deal with compressed
and noisy images, thanks to the sparsity property of shearlets
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Global morphogenetic flow is accurately predicted by the spatial distribution of myosin motors.
During embryogenesis tissue layers undergo morphogenetic flow rearranging and folding into specific shapes. While developmental biology has identified key genes and local cellular processes, global coordination of tissue remodeling at the organ scale remains unclear. Here, we combine in toto light-sheet microscopy of the Drosophila embryo with quantitative analysis and physical modeling to relate cellular flow with the patterns of force generation during the gastrulation process. We find that the complex spatio-temporal flow pattern can be predicted from the measured meso-scale myosin density and anisotropy using a simple, effective viscous model of the tissue, achieving close to 90% accuracy with one time dependent and two constant parameters. Our analysis uncovers the importance of a) spatial modulation of myosin distribution on the scale of the embryo and b) the non-locality of its effect due to mechanical interaction of cells, demonstrating the need for the global perspective in the study of morphogenetic flow
A fast and reliable method to measure stellar differential rotation from photometric data
Co-rotating spots at different latitudes on the stellar surface generate
periodic photometric variability and can be useful proxies to detect
Differential Rotation (DR). DR is a major ingredient of the solar dynamo but
observations of stellar DR are rather sparse. In view of the Kepler space
telescope we are interested in the detection of DR using photometric
information of the star, and to develop a fast method to determine stellar DR
from photometric data. We ran a large Monte-Carlo simulation of differentially
rotating spotted stars with very different properties to investigate the
detectability of DR. For different noise levels the resulting light curves are
prewhitened using Lomb-Scargle periodograms to derive parameters for a global
sine fit to detect periodicities. We show under what conditions DR can
successfully be detected from photometric data, and in which cases the light
curve provides insufficient or even misleading information on the stellar
rotation law. In our simulations, the most significant period P1_{out} could be
detected in 96.2% of all light curves. Detection of a second period close to
P1_{out} is the signature of DR in our model. For the noise-free case, in 64.2%
of all stars such a period was found. Calculating the measured latitudinal
shear of two distinct spots \alpha_{out}, and comparing it to the known
original spot rotation rates shows that the real value is on average 3.2%
lower. Comparing the total equator-to-pole shear to we
find that is underestimated by 8.8%, esp. the detection of DR for
stars with < 6% is challenging. Finally, we apply our method to four
differentially rotating Kepler stars and find close agreement with results from
detailed modeling. Our method is capable of measuring stellar rotation periods
and detecting DR with relatively high accuracy and is suitable for large data
sets.Comment: accepted by A&
Edge technique for measurement of laser frequency shifts including the Doppler shift
A method is disclosed for determining the frequency shift in a laser system by transmitting an outgoing laser beam. An incoming laser beam having a frequency shift is received. A first signal is acquired by transmitting a portion of the incoming laser beam to an energy monitor detector. A second signal is acquired by transmitting a portion of the incoming laser beam through an edge filter to an edge detector, which derives a first normalized signal which is proportional to the transmission of the edge filter at the frequency of the incoming laser beam. A second normalized signal is acquired which is proportional to the transmission of the edge filter at the frequency of the outgoing laser beam. The frequency shift is determined by processing the first and second normalized signals
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