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Interpretation of Helioseismic Travel Times - Sensitivity to Sound Speed, Pressure, Density, and Flows
Time-distance helioseismology uses cross-covariances of wave motions on the
solar surface to determine the travel times of wave packets moving from one
surface location to another. We review the methodology to interpret travel-time
measurements in terms of small, localized perturbations to a horizontally
homogeneous reference solar model. Using the first Born approximation, we
derive and compute 3D travel-time sensitivity (Fr\'echet) kernels for
perturbations in sound-speed, density, pressure, and vector flows. While
kernels for sound speed and flows had been computed previously, here we extend
the calculation to kernels for density and pressure, hence providing a complete
description of the effects of solar dynamics and structure on travel times. We
treat three thermodynamic quantities as independent and do not assume
hydrostatic equilibrium. We present a convenient approach to computing damped
Green's functions using a normal-mode summation. The Green's function must be
computed on a wavenumber grid that has sufficient resolution to resolve the
longest lived modes. The typical kernel calculations used in this paper are
computer intensive and require on the order of 600 CPU hours per kernel.
Kernels are validated by computing the travel-time perturbation that results
from horizontally-invariant perturbations using two independent approaches. At
fixed sound-speed, the density and pressure kernels are approximately related
through a negative multiplicative factor, therefore implying that perturbations
in density and pressure are difficult to disentangle. Mean travel-times are not
only sensitive to sound-speed, density and pressure perturbations, but also to
flows, especially vertical flows. Accurate sensitivity kernels are needed to
interpret complex flow patterns such as convection
Efficient Regularization of Squared Curvature
Curvature has received increased attention as an important alternative to
length based regularization in computer vision. In contrast to length, it
preserves elongated structures and fine details. Existing approaches are either
inefficient, or have low angular resolution and yield results with strong block
artifacts. We derive a new model for computing squared curvature based on
integral geometry. The model counts responses of straight line triple cliques.
The corresponding energy decomposes into submodular and supermodular pairwise
potentials. We show that this energy can be efficiently minimized even for high
angular resolutions using the trust region framework. Our results confirm that
we obtain accurate and visually pleasing solutions without strong artifacts at
reasonable run times.Comment: 8 pages, 12 figures, to appear at IEEE conference on Computer Vision
and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 201
RIDI: Robust IMU Double Integration
This paper proposes a novel data-driven approach for inertial navigation,
which learns to estimate trajectories of natural human motions just from an
inertial measurement unit (IMU) in every smartphone. The key observation is
that human motions are repetitive and consist of a few major modes (e.g.,
standing, walking, or turning). Our algorithm regresses a velocity vector from
the history of linear accelerations and angular velocities, then corrects
low-frequency bias in the linear accelerations, which are integrated twice to
estimate positions. We have acquired training data with ground-truth motions
across multiple human subjects and multiple phone placements (e.g., in a bag or
a hand). The qualitatively and quantitatively evaluations have demonstrated
that our algorithm has surprisingly shown comparable results to full Visual
Inertial navigation. To our knowledge, this paper is the first to integrate
sophisticated machine learning techniques with inertial navigation, potentially
opening up a new line of research in the domain of data-driven inertial
navigation. We will publicly share our code and data to facilitate further
research
An Automated Method for Tracking Clouds in Planetary Atmospheres
We present an automated method for cloud tracking which can be applied to planetary images. The method is based on a digital correlator which compares two or more consecutive images and identifies patterns by maximizing correlations between image blocks. This approach bypasses the problem of feature detection. Four variations of the algorithm are tested on real cloud images of Jupiterâs white ovals from the Galileo mission, previously analyzed in Vasavada et al. [Vasavada, A.R., Ingersoll, A.P., Banfield, D., Bell, M.,
Gierasch, P.J., Belton, M.J.S., Orton, G.S., Klaasen, K.P., Dejong, E., Breneman, H.H., Jones, T.J., Kaufman, J.M., Magee, K.P., Senske, D.A. 1998. Galileo imaging of Jupiterâs atmosphere: the great red spot, equatorial region, and white ovals. Icarus, 135, 265, doi:10.1006/icar.1998.5984]. Direct correlation, using the sum of squared differences between image radiances as a distance estimator (baseline case), yields displacement vectors very similar to this previous analysis. Combining this distance estimator with the method
of order ranks results in a technique which is more robust in the presence of outliers and noise and of better quality. Finally, we introduce a distance metric which, combined with order ranks, provides results of similar quality to the baseline case and is faster. The new approach can be applied to data from a number of space-based imaging instruments with a non-negligible gain in computing time
Bregman Voronoi Diagrams: Properties, Algorithms and Applications
The Voronoi diagram of a finite set of objects is a fundamental geometric
structure that subdivides the embedding space into regions, each region
consisting of the points that are closer to a given object than to the others.
We may define many variants of Voronoi diagrams depending on the class of
objects, the distance functions and the embedding space. In this paper, we
investigate a framework for defining and building Voronoi diagrams for a broad
class of distance functions called Bregman divergences. Bregman divergences
include not only the traditional (squared) Euclidean distance but also various
divergence measures based on entropic functions. Accordingly, Bregman Voronoi
diagrams allow to define information-theoretic Voronoi diagrams in statistical
parametric spaces based on the relative entropy of distributions. We define
several types of Bregman diagrams, establish correspondences between those
diagrams (using the Legendre transformation), and show how to compute them
efficiently. We also introduce extensions of these diagrams, e.g. k-order and
k-bag Bregman Voronoi diagrams, and introduce Bregman triangulations of a set
of points and their connexion with Bregman Voronoi diagrams. We show that these
triangulations capture many of the properties of the celebrated Delaunay
triangulation. Finally, we give some applications of Bregman Voronoi diagrams
which are of interest in the context of computational geometry and machine
learning.Comment: Extend the proceedings abstract of SODA 2007 (46 pages, 15 figures
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