994 research outputs found
Phase Retrieval with Application to Optical Imaging
This review article provides a contemporary overview of phase retrieval in
optical imaging, linking the relevant optical physics to the information
processing methods and algorithms. Its purpose is to describe the current state
of the art in this area, identify challenges, and suggest vision and areas
where signal processing methods can have a large impact on optical imaging and
on the world of imaging at large, with applications in a variety of fields
ranging from biology and chemistry to physics and engineering
FOF: Learning Fourier Occupancy Field for Monocular Real-time Human Reconstruction
The advent of deep learning has led to significant progress in monocular
human reconstruction. However, existing representations, such as parametric
models, voxel grids, meshes and implicit neural representations, have
difficulties achieving high-quality results and real-time speed at the same
time. In this paper, we propose Fourier Occupancy Field (FOF), a novel
powerful, efficient and flexible 3D representation, for monocular real-time and
accurate human reconstruction. The FOF represents a 3D object with a 2D field
orthogonal to the view direction where at each 2D position the occupancy field
of the object along the view direction is compactly represented with the first
few terms of Fourier series, which retains the topology and neighborhood
relation in the 2D domain. A FOF can be stored as a multi-channel image, which
is compatible with 2D convolutional neural networks and can bridge the gap
between 3D geometries and 2D images. The FOF is very flexible and extensible,
e.g., parametric models can be easily integrated into a FOF as a prior to
generate more robust results. Based on FOF, we design the first 30+FPS
high-fidelity real-time monocular human reconstruction framework. We
demonstrate the potential of FOF on both public dataset and real captured data.
The code will be released for research purposes
Collective oscillations in optical matter
Atom and nanoparticle arrays trapped in optical lattices are shown to be
capable of sustaining collective oscillations of frequency proportional to the
strength of the external light field. The spectrum of these oscillations
determines the mechanical stability of the arrays. This phenomenon is studied
for dimers, strings, and two-dimensional planar arrays. Laterally confined
particles free to move along an optical channel are also considered as an
example of collective motion in partially-confined systems. The fundamental
concepts of dynamical response in optical matter introduced here constitute the
basis for potential applications to quantum information technology and signal
processing. Experimental realizations of these systems are proposed.Comment: 4 figures. Optics Express (in press
Defects in Jackiw-Teitelboim Quantum Gravity
We classify and study defects in 2d Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity. We show these
are holographically described by a deformation of the Schwarzian theory where
the reparametrization mode is integrated over different coadjoint orbits of the
Virasoro group. We show that the quantization of each coadjoint orbit is
connected to 2d Liouville CFT between branes with insertions of Verlinde loop
operators. We also propose an interpretation for the exceptional orbits. We use
this perspective to solve these deformations of the Schwarzian theory,
computing their partition function and correlators. In the process, we define
two geometric observables: the horizon area operator and the geodesic
length operator . We show this procedure is structurally related to
the deformation of the particle-on-a-group quantum mechanics by the addition of
a chemical potential. As an example, we solve the low-energy theory of complex
SYK with a U(1) symmetry and generalize to the non-abelian case.Comment: 66 pages, v4: clarifications added, typos corrected, matches
published versio
Primary beam effects of radio astronomy antennas -- II. Modelling the MeerKAT L-band beam
After a decade of design and construction, South Africa's SKA-MID precursor
MeerKAT has begun its science operations. To make full use of the widefield
capability of the array, it is imperative that we have an accurate model of the
primary beam of its antennas. We have taken available L-band full-polarization
'astro-holographic' observations of three antennas and a generic
electromagnetic simulation and created sparse representations of the beams
using principal components and Zernike polynomials. The spectral behaviour of
the spatial coefficients has been modelled using discrete cosine transform. We
have provided the Zernike-based model over a diameter of 10 deg averaged over
the beams of three antennas in an associated software tool (EIDOS) that can be
useful in direction-dependent calibration and imaging. The model is more
accurate for the diagonal elements of the beam Jones matrix and at lower
frequencies. As we get more accurate beam measurements and simulations in the
future, especially for the cross-polarization patterns, our pipeline can be
used to create more accurate sparse representations of MeerKAT beams.Comment: 16 pages, 18 figures. This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF
of an article accepted for publication in MNRAS following peer review. The
version of record [K. M. B. Asad et al., 2021] is available online at:
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab10
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