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The Application of Metadata Standards to Multimedia in Museums
This paper first describes the application of a multi-level indexing approach, based on Dublin Core extensions and the Resource Description Framework (RDF), to a typical museum video. The advantages and disadvantages of this approach are discussed in the context of the requirements of the proposed MPEG-7 ("Multimedia Content Description Interface") standard. The work on SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language) by the W3C SYMM working group is then described. Suggestions for how this work can be applied to video metadata are made. Finally a hybrid approach is proposed based on the combined use of Dublin Core and the currently undefined MPEG-7 standard within the RDF which will provide a solution to the problem of satisfying widely differing user requirements
Case study on quantum convolutional neural network scalability
One of the crucial tasks in computer science is the processing time reduction
of various data types, i.e., images, which is important for different fields --
from medicine and logistics to virtual shopping. Compared to classical
computers, quantum computers are capable of parallel data processing, which
reduces the data processing time. This quality of quantum computers inspired
intensive research of the potential of quantum technologies applicability to
real-life tasks. Some progress has already revealed on a smaller volumes of the
input data. In this research effort, I aimed to increase the amount of input
data (I used images from 2 x 2 to 8 x 8), while reducing the processing time,
by way of skipping intermediate measurement steps. The hypothesis was that, for
increased input data, the omitting of intermediate measurement steps after each
quantum convolution layer will improve output metric results and accelerate
data processing. To test the hypothesis, I performed experiments to chose the
best activation function and its derivative in each network. The hypothesis was
partly confirmed in terms of output mean squared error (MSE) -- it dropped from
0.25 in the result of classical convolutional neural network (CNN) training to
0.23 in the result of quantum convolutional neural network (QCNN) training. In
terms of the training time, however, which was 1.5 minutes for CNN and 4 hours
37 minutes in the least lengthy training iteration, the hypothesis was
rejected.Comment: 11 pages (without references), 13 figure
ALICE: The Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph aboard the New Horizons Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission
The New Horizons ALICE instrument is a lightweight (4.4 kg), low-power (4.4
Watt) imaging spectrograph aboard the New Horizons mission to Pluto/Charon and
the Kuiper Belt. Its primary job is to determine the relative abundances of
various species in Pluto's atmosphere. ALICE will also be used to search for an
atmosphere around Pluto's moon, Charon, as well as the Kuiper Belt Objects
(KBOs) that New Horizons hopes to fly by after Pluto-Charon, and it will make
UV surface reflectivity measurements of all of these bodies as well. The
instrument incorporates an off-axis telescope feeding a Rowland-circle
spectrograph with a 520-1870 angstroms spectral passband, a spectral point
spread function of 3-6 angstroms FWHM, and an instantaneous spatial
field-of-view that is 6 degrees long. Different input apertures that feed the
telescope allow for both airglow and solar occultation observations during the
mission. The focal plane detector is an imaging microchannel plate (MCP) double
delay-line detector with dual solar-blind opaque photocathodes (KBr and CsI)
and a focal surface that matches the instrument's 15-cm diameter
Rowland-circle. In what follows, we describe the instrument in greater detail,
including descriptions of its ground calibration and initial in flight
performance.Comment: 24 pages, 29 figures, 2 tables; To appear in a special volume of
Space Science Reviews on the New Horizons missio
Event-based simulation of quantum physics experiments
We review an event-based simulation approach which reproduces the statistical
distributions of wave theory not by requiring the knowledge of the solution of
the wave equation of the whole system but by generating detection events
one-by-one according to an unknown distribution. We illustrate its
applicability to various single photon and single neutron interferometry
experiments and to two Bell test experiments, a single-photon
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen experiment employing post-selection for photon pair
identification and a single-neutron Bell test interferometry experiment with
nearly detection efficiency.Comment: Lectures notes of the Advanced School on Quantum Foundations and Open
Quantum Systems, Jo\~ao Pessoa, Brazil, July 2012, edited by T. M.
Nieuwenhuizen et al, World Scientific, to appea
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