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Imaging and burst location with the EXIST high-energy telescope
The primary instrument of the proposed EXIST mission is a coded mask high
energy telescope (the HET), that must have a wide field of view and extremely
good sensitivity. It will be crucial to minimize systematic errors so that even
for very long total integration times the imaging performance is close to the
statistical photon limit. There is also a requirement to be able to reconstruct
images on-board in near real time in order to detect and localize gamma-ray
bursts. This must be done while the spacecraft is scanning the sky. The
scanning provides all-sky coverage and is key to reducing systematic errors.
The on-board computational problem is made even more challenging for EXIST by
the very large number of detector pixels. Numerous alternative designs for the
HET have been evaluated. The baseline concept adopted depends on a unique coded
mask with two spatial scales. Monte Carlo simulations and analytic analysis
techniques have been used to demonstrate the capabilities of the design and of
the proposed two-step burst localization procedure
Current-Mode Techniques for the Implementation of Continuous- and Discrete-Time Cellular Neural Networks
This paper presents a unified, comprehensive approach
to the design of continuous-time (CT) and discrete-time
(DT) cellular neural networks (CNN) using CMOS current-mode
analog techniques. The net input signals are currents instead
of voltages as presented in previous approaches, thus avoiding
the need for current-to-voltage dedicated interfaces in image
processing tasks with photosensor devices. Outputs may be either
currents or voltages. Cell design relies on exploitation of current
mirror properties for the efficient implementation of both linear
and nonlinear analog operators. These cells are simpler and
easier to design than those found in previously reported CT
and DT-CNN devices. Basic design issues are covered, together
with discussions on the influence of nonidealities and advanced
circuit design issues as well as design for manufacturability
considerations associated with statistical analysis. Three prototypes
have been designed for l.6-pm n-well CMOS technologies.
One is discrete-time and can be reconfigured via local logic for
noise removal, feature extraction (borders and edges), shadow
detection, hole filling, and connected component detection (CCD)
on a rectangular grid with unity neighborhood radius. The other
two prototypes are continuous-time and fixed template: one for
CCD and other for noise removal. Experimental results are given
illustrating performance of these prototypes
Doping dependence of the shadow band in La-based cuprates studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy
The shadow band (SB) in La-based cuprate family (La214) was
studied by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) over a wide doping
range from to . Unlike the well-studied case of the Bi-based
cuprate family, an overall strong, monotonic doping dependence of the SB
intensity at the Fermi level () was observed. In contrast to a previous
report for the presence of the SB only close to , we found it exists in
a wide doping range, associated with a doping-independent wave
vector but strongly doping-dependent intensity: It is the strongest at and systematically diminishes as the doping increases until it becomes
negligible in the overdoped regime. This SB with the observed doping dependence
of intensity can in principle be caused by the antiferromagnetic fluctuations
or a particular form of low-temperature orthorhombic lattice distortion known
to persist up to in the system, with both being weakened with
increasing doping. However, a detailed binding energy dependent analysis of the
SB at does not appear to support the former interpretation, leaving
the latter as a more plausible candidate, despite a challenge in quantitatively
linking the doping dependences of the SB intensity and the magnitude of the
lattice distortion. Our finding highlights the necessity of a careful and
global consideration of the inherent structural complications for correctly
understanding the cuprate Fermiology and its microscopic implication.Comment: Note the revised conclusion and author list; To appear in New J. Phy
A fully-convolutional neural network for background subtraction of unseen videos
Background subtraction is a basic task in computer vision
and video processing often applied as a pre-processing step
for object tracking, people recognition, etc. Recently, a number of successful background-subtraction algorithms have
been proposed, however nearly all of the top-performing
ones are supervised. Crucially, their success relies upon
the availability of some annotated frames of the test video
during training. Consequently, their performance on completely “unseen” videos is undocumented in the literature.
In this work, we propose a new, supervised, backgroundsubtraction algorithm for unseen videos (BSUV-Net) based
on a fully-convolutional neural network. The input to our
network consists of the current frame and two background
frames captured at different time scales along with their semantic segmentation maps. In order to reduce the chance
of overfitting, we also introduce a new data-augmentation
technique which mitigates the impact of illumination difference between the background frames and the current frame.
On the CDNet-2014 dataset, BSUV-Net outperforms stateof-the-art algorithms evaluated on unseen videos in terms of
several metrics including F-measure, recall and precision.Accepted manuscrip
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