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Texture transitions in binary mixtures of 6OBAC with compounds of its homologous series
Recently we have observed in compounds of the 4,n-alkyloxybenzoic acid
series, with the homologous index n ranging from 6 to 9, a texture transition
in the nematic range which subdivides the nematic phase in two sub-phases
displaying different textures in polarised light analysis. To investigate a
persistence of texture transitions in nematic phases, we prepared binary
mixtures of 4,6-alkyloxybenzoic acid (6OBAC) with other members (7-,8-,9-,12-,
16OBAC) of its homologous series. Binary mixtures exhibit a broadening in the
temperature ranges of both smectic and nematic phases. A nematic temperature
range of 75 C is observed. In the nematic phase, in spite of the microscopic
disorder introduced by mixing two components, the polarised light optics
analysis of the liquid crystal cells reveals a texture transition. In the case
of the binary mixture of 6OBAC with 12OBAC and with 16OBAC, that is of
compounds with monomers of rather different lengths, the texture transition
temperature is not homogeneous in the cell, probably due to a local variation
in the relative concentrations of compounds.Comment: 13 pages, 9 figure
Undue influence: Mitigating range-intensity coupling in AMCW âflashâ lidar using scene texture
We present a new algorithm for mitigating range-intensity coupling caused by scattered light in full-field amplitude modulated continuous wave lidar systems using scene texture. Full-field Lidar works using the time-of-flight principle to measure the range to thousands of points in a scene simultaneously. Mixed pixel are erroneous range measurements caused by pixels integrating light from more than one object at a time. Conventional optics suffer from internal reflections and light scattering which can result in every pixel being mixed with scattered light. This causes erroneous range measurements and range-intensity coupling. By measuring how range changes with intensity over local regions it is possible to determine the phase and intensity of the scattered light without the complex calibration inherent in deconvolution based restoration. The new method is shown to produce a substantial improvement in range image quality. An additional range from texture method is demonstrated which is resistant to scattered light. Variations of the algorithms are tested with and without segmentation - the variant without segmentation is faster, but causes erroneous ranges around the edges of objects which are not present in the segmented algorithm
Bi-Large Neutrino Mixing See-Saw Mass Matrix with Texture Zeros and Leptogenesis
We study constraints on neutrino properties from texture zeros in bi-large
mixing See-Saw mass matrix and also from leptogenesis. Texture zeros may occur
in the light (class a)) or in the heavy (class b)) neutrino mass matrices. Each
of these two classes has 5 different forms which can produce non-trivial three
generation mixing with at least one texture zero. We find that two types of
texture zero mass matrices in both class a) and class b) can be consistent with
present data on neutrino masses, mixing and produce the observed baryon
asymmetry of the universe. None of the neutrinos can have zero masses with the
lightest of the light neutrinos having a mass larger than about 0.039 eV for
class a) and 0.002 eV for class b). In these models although CKM CP violating
phase vanishes, non-zero Majorana phases, however, can exist and play an
important role in producing the observed baryon asymmetry in our universe
through leptogenesis mechanism. The requirement of producing the observed
baryon asymmetry can further distinguish different models and also restrict the
See-Saw scale to be in the range GeV.Comment: 21 pages, 7 figures revised version, some references added, to be
submitted to PR
Evaluating color texture descriptors under large variations of controlled lighting conditions
The recognition of color texture under varying lighting conditions is still
an open issue. Several features have been proposed for this purpose, ranging
from traditional statistical descriptors to features extracted with neural
networks. Still, it is not completely clear under what circumstances a feature
performs better than the others. In this paper we report an extensive
comparison of old and new texture features, with and without a color
normalization step, with a particular focus on how they are affected by small
and large variation in the lighting conditions. The evaluation is performed on
a new texture database including 68 samples of raw food acquired under 46
conditions that present single and combined variations of light color,
direction and intensity. The database allows to systematically investigate the
robustness of texture descriptors across a large range of variations of imaging
conditions.Comment: Submitted to the Journal of the Optical Society of America
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