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Constrained hyperbolic divergence cleaning in smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics with variable cleaning speeds
We present an updated constrained hyperbolic/parabolic divergence cleaning
algorithm for smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics (SPMHD) that remains
conservative with wave cleaning speeds which vary in space and time. This is
accomplished by evolving the quantity instead of . Doing so
allows each particle to carry an individual wave cleaning speed, , that
can evolve in time without needing an explicit prescription for how it should
evolve, preventing circumstances which we demonstrate could lead to runaway
energy growth related to variable wave cleaning speeds. This modification
requires only a minor adjustment to the cleaning equations and is trivial to
adopt in existing codes. Finally, we demonstrate that our constrained
hyperbolic/parabolic divergence cleaning algorithm, run for a large number of
iterations, can reduce the divergence of the field to an arbitrarily small
value, achieving to machine precision.Comment: 23 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in Journal of
Computational Physic
Data production methods for harmonized patent statistics : patentee name harmonization.
Patent documents are one of the most comprehensive data sources on technology development. As such, they provide a unique source of information to analyze and monitor technological performance. Patent indicators are now used by companies and by policy and government agencies alike to assess technological progress on the level of regions, countries, domains, and even specific entities such as companies, universities and individual inventors. In this paper, we develop a comprehensive method to achieve harmonization of patentee names in an automated way so that analysis at the level of patentees can be facilitated. The method has been applied to an extensive set of all patentee names found for all EPO patent applications published between 1978 and 2004 and all granted USPTO patents published between 1991 and 2003. As completeness (the extent to which the name-harmonization procedure is able to capture all name variants of the same patentee ) and accuracy (the extent to which the name-harmonization procedure correctly allocates name variants to a single, harmonized patentee name ) do not go hand in hand, priority has been given to accuracy. Before discussing in detail the methodology and its effects as applied to the EPO and USPTO patentee name list, we will first clarify the difference between patentee name harmonization and legal entity identification. In addition, we will briefly expand on the methods and approaches previously developed to address the issue of patentee name harmonization, in order to shed light on our specific contribution. Finally, future refinements and extensions are discussed.Agency; Applications; EPO; USPTO; Name harmonization; Information;
Frame Combination Techniques for Ultra High-Contrast Imaging
We summarize here an experimental frame combination pipeline we developed for
ultra high-contrast imaging with systems like the upcoming VLT SPHERE
instrument. The pipeline combines strategies from the Drizzle technique, the
Spitzer IRACproc package, and homegrown codes, to combine image sets that may
include a rotating field of view and arbitrary shifts between frames. The
pipeline is meant to be robust at dealing with data that may contain non-ideal
effects like sub-pixel pointing errors, missing data points, non-symmetrical
noise sources, arbitrary geometric distortions, and rapidly changing point
spread functions. We summarize in this document individual steps and
strategies, as well as results from preliminary tests and simulations.Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures, SPIE conference pape
Discrete Multi-modal Hashing with Canonical Views for Robust Mobile Landmark Search
Mobile landmark search (MLS) recently receives increasing attention for its
great practical values. However, it still remains unsolved due to two important
challenges. One is high bandwidth consumption of query transmission, and the
other is the huge visual variations of query images sent from mobile devices.
In this paper, we propose a novel hashing scheme, named as canonical view based
discrete multi-modal hashing (CV-DMH), to handle these problems via a novel
three-stage learning procedure. First, a submodular function is designed to
measure visual representativeness and redundancy of a view set. With it,
canonical views, which capture key visual appearances of landmark with limited
redundancy, are efficiently discovered with an iterative mining strategy.
Second, multi-modal sparse coding is applied to transform visual features from
multiple modalities into an intermediate representation. It can robustly and
adaptively characterize visual contents of varied landmark images with certain
canonical views. Finally, compact binary codes are learned on intermediate
representation within a tailored discrete binary embedding model which
preserves visual relations of images measured with canonical views and removes
the involved noises. In this part, we develop a new augmented Lagrangian
multiplier (ALM) based optimization method to directly solve the discrete
binary codes. We can not only explicitly deal with the discrete constraint, but
also consider the bit-uncorrelated constraint and balance constraint together.
Experiments on real world landmark datasets demonstrate the superior
performance of CV-DMH over several state-of-the-art methods
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