Fast 3D-Vision System to Classify Metallic Coins by their Embossed Topography

This paper presents a security-related machine-vision solution for real-time classification of moving objects with highly reflective metallic surfaces and complex 3D-structures. As an application example of our so called Three-Color Selective Stereo Gradient Method (Three-Color SSGM) a classification system for three main coin denominations of Euro coins is presented. Such coins are quickly moving in a coin validation system. The objective is to decide only from comparison of specially measured and processed 3D-surface information with characteristic topographical data stored in a database whether a coin belongs to one of the reference classes or has to be rejected as a foreign or counterfeit coin. Under illumination from a three-color light emitting diode equipped ring a single image of the moving coin is captured by a digital color camera. Exploiting the spectral properties of the illumination sources, which correspond to the special spectral characteristics of the camera, three independent subimages can be extracted. Comparison between these subimages leads to a discrimination between a coin with real 3D-surface and a counterfeit coin based on a photographic image of a coin of the same type. After the coin has been located and segmented, grey value based rotation and translation invariant features are extracted from a normalized image. In combination with template matching methods, a coin can be classified. Classification results will be reported for the three main coin denominations of Euro coins

Dynamical effects of subducting ridges: Insights from 3-D laboratory models

We model the subduction of buoyant ridges and plateaus to study their effect on slab dynamics. Oceanic ridges parallel to the trench have a stronger effect on the process of subduction because they simultaneously affect a longer trench segment. Large buoyant slab segments sink more slowly into the asthenosphere, and their subduction result in a diminution of the velocity of subduction of the plate. We observe a steeping of the slab below those buoyant anomalies, resulting in smaller radius of curvature of the slab, that augments the energy dissipated in folding the plate and further diminishes the velocity of subduction. When the 3D geometry of a buoyant plateau is modelled, the dip of the slab above the plateau decreases, as a result of the larger velocity of subduction of the dense "normal" oceanic plate on both sides of the plateau. Such a perturbation of the dip of the slab maintains long time after the plateau has been entirely incorporated into the subduction zone. We compare experiments with the present-day subduction zone below South America. Experiments suggest that a modest ridge perpendicular to the trench such as the present-day Juan Fernandez ridge is not buoyant enough to modify the slab geometry. Already subducted buoyant anomalies within the oceanic plate, in contrast, may be responsible for some aspects of the present-day geometry of the Nazca slab at depth

Estudo, utilizando a mecânica quântica, das propriedades dielétricas e do efeito da blindagem dinâmica na taxa de aquecimento de plasmas macroscópicos

Tese (doutorado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Física, 2006.Do ponto de vista da Mecânica-Quântica foram investigados as propriedades dielétricas e o comportamento das oscilações coletivas (plasmons), para plasmas macroscópicos submetidos à ação de campos de radiação eletromagnética. Para plasmas não magnetizados, encontraram-se modulações nas propriedades dielétricas e freqüências de plasmons em regime de ondas evanescentes. Nesse regime, o amortecimento de Landau sofre modulações que conduzem a instabilidades. Para plasmas magnetizados, foram encontradas intensas modulações nas propriedades dielétricas e nas freqüências de plasmons, em regime de ondas circularmente polarizadas. Na ressonância eletrociclotrônica, foram encontrados os harmônicos ciclotrônicos. Foram investigados também, os efeitos do potencial de blindagem dinâmica, nas taxas de aquecimento de um plasma magnetizado, submetido à ação de dois campos de radiação eletromagnética. Observa-se a relação quadrática com relação às intensidades dos campos de radiação em contraste com a relação linear quando os efeitos de blindagem dinâmica não são levados em consideração. ____________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACTFrom the Quantum-Mechanical viewpoint the dielectric properties and collective oscillations' behavior were investigated for macroscopic plasmas submitted to electromagnetic radiation fields. For non-magnetized plasmas, modulations of dielectric properties and plasmons' frequencies were found out in the regime of evanescent waves. In this regime, Landau's damping term undergoes modulations, which leads to instabilities. For magnetized plasmas, strong modulations of dielectric properties and plasmons' frequencies were found out, in the regime of circularly polarized waves. In the cyclotron resonance condition the harmonics of electron cyclotron frequency were found out. In addition, the effects of dynamical screening on heating energy rate were investigated for magnetized plasma submitted to two electromagnetic radiation fields. It has observed the quadratic relation with radiation field's intensity against linear relation when the effects of dynamical screening are not considered

Landwirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit mit Entwicklungslaendern Verzeichnis deutscher Institutionen aus den Bereichen Land-, Forst- und Holzwirtschaft, Genossenschaftswesen, Ernaehrung und Veterinaermedizin. Stand: Okt 1981

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