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Cross-View Image Synthesis using Conditional GANs
Learning to generate natural scenes has always been a challenging task in
computer vision. It is even more painstaking when the generation is conditioned
on images with drastically different views. This is mainly because
understanding, corresponding, and transforming appearance and semantic
information across the views is not trivial. In this paper, we attempt to solve
the novel problem of cross-view image synthesis, aerial to street-view and vice
versa, using conditional generative adversarial networks (cGAN). Two new
architectures called Crossview Fork (X-Fork) and Crossview Sequential (X-Seq)
are proposed to generate scenes with resolutions of 64x64 and 256x256 pixels.
X-Fork architecture has a single discriminator and a single generator. The
generator hallucinates both the image and its semantic segmentation in the
target view. X-Seq architecture utilizes two cGANs. The first one generates the
target image which is subsequently fed to the second cGAN for generating its
corresponding semantic segmentation map. The feedback from the second cGAN
helps the first cGAN generate sharper images. Both of our proposed
architectures learn to generate natural images as well as their semantic
segmentation maps. The proposed methods show that they are able to capture and
maintain the true semantics of objects in source and target views better than
the traditional image-to-image translation method which considers only the
visual appearance of the scene. Extensive qualitative and quantitative
evaluations support the effectiveness of our frameworks, compared to two state
of the art methods, for natural scene generation across drastically different
views.Comment: Accepted at CVPR 201
Parametric analysis of the stability of a bicycle taking into account geometrical, mass and compliance properties
Some studies of bicycle dynamics have applied the Whipple
Carvallo bicycle model (WCBM) for the stability analysis. The WCBM is
limited, since structural elements are assumed to be rigid bodies. In this paper,
the WCBM is extended to include the front assembly lateral compliance,
and analysis focuses on the study of the open loop stability of a benchmark
bicycle. Experimental tests to identify fork and wheel properties are performed,
this data is used in the stability analysis for ranking the influence of design
parameters. Indexes from the eigenvalues analysis are applied in a full factorial
approach. The results show that introducing front assembly compliance
generates a wobble mode with little effect on self-stability. The forward
displacement of the centre of mass of the rear frame and the increment in trail
lead to large increments in the self-stability, whereas increments in front wheel
radius and wheelbase reduce stability
Unzipping DNA by force: thermodynamics and finite size behaviour
We discuss the thermodynamic behaviour near the force induced unzipping
transition of a double stranded DNA in two different ensembles. The Y-fork is
identified as the coexisting phases in the fixed distance ensemble. From finite
size scaling of thermodynamic quantities like the extensibility, the length of
the unzipped segment of a Y-fork, the phase diagram can be recovered. We
suggest that such procedures could be used to obtain the thermodynamic phase
diagram from experiments on finite length DNA.Comment: 10 pages, accepted for publication in special issue of Journal of
Physics: Condensed Matte
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