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Connectivity-Enforcing Hough Transform for the Robust Extraction of Line Segments
Global voting schemes based on the Hough transform (HT) have been widely used
to robustly detect lines in images. However, since the votes do not take line
connectivity into account, these methods do not deal well with cluttered
images. In opposition, the so-called local methods enforce connectivity but
lack robustness to deal with challenging situations that occur in many
realistic scenarios, e.g., when line segments cross or when long segments are
corrupted. In this paper, we address the critical limitations of the HT as a
line segment extractor by incorporating connectivity in the voting process.
This is done by only accounting for the contributions of edge points lying in
increasingly larger neighborhoods and whose position and directional content
agree with potential line segments. As a result, our method, which we call
STRAIGHT (Segment exTRAction by connectivity-enforcInG HT), extracts the
longest connected segments in each location of the image, thus also integrating
into the HT voting process the usually separate step of individual segment
extraction. The usage of the Hough space mapping and a corresponding
hierarchical implementation make our approach computationally feasible. We
present experiments that illustrate, with synthetic and real images, how
STRAIGHT succeeds in extracting complete segments in several situations where
current methods fail.Comment: Submitted for publicatio
A New Form of Path Integral for the Coherent States Representation and its Semiclassical Limit
The overcompleteness of the coherent states basis leads to a multiplicity of
representations of Feynman's path integral. These different representations,
although equivalent quantum mechanically, lead to different semiclassical
limits. Two such semiclassical formulas were derived in \cite{Bar01} for the
two corresponding path integral forms suggested by Klauder and Skagerstan in
\cite{Klau85}. Each of these formulas involve trajectories governed by a
different classical representation of the Hamiltonian operator: the P
representation in one case and the Q representation in other. In this paper we
construct a third representation of the path integral whose semiclassical limit
involves directly the Weyl representation of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e.,
the classical Hamiltonian itself.Comment: 16 pages, no figure
Majorana bound states in open quasi-1D and 2D systems with transverse Rashba coupling
We study the formation of Majorana states in quasi-1D and 2D square lattices
with open boundary conditions, with general anisotropic Rashba coupling, in the
presence of an applied Zeeman field and in the proximity of a superconductor.
For systems in which the length of the system is very large (quasi-1D) we
calculate analytically the exact topological invariant, and we find a rich
phase diagram which is strongly dependent on the width of the system. We
compare our results with previous results based on a few-band approximation. We
also investigate numerically open 2D systems of finite length in both
directions. We use the recently introduced generalized Majorana polarization,
which can locally evaluate the Majorana character of a given state. We find
that the formation of Majoranas depends strongly on the geometry of the system
and if the length and the width are comparable no Majorana states can form,
however, one can show the formation of "quasi-Majorana" states that have a
local Majorana character, but no global Majorana symmetry.Comment: 12 pages, 13 figure
Semiclassical Tunneling of Wavepackets with Real Trajectories
Semiclassical approximations for tunneling processes usually involve complex
trajectories or complex times. In this paper we use a previously derived
approximation involving only real trajectories propagating in real time to
describe the scattering of a Gaussian wavepacket by a finite square potential
barrier. We show that the approximation describes both tunneling and
interferences very accurately in the limit of small Plank's constant. We use
these results to estimate the tunneling time of the wavepacket and find that,
for high energies, the barrier slows down the wavepacket but that it speeds it
up at energies comparable to the barrier height.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures Revised text and figure
Universal quantum criticality at the Mott-Anderson transition
We present a large N solution of a microscopic model describing the
Mott-Anderson transition on a finite-coordination Bethe lattice. Our results
demonstrate that strong spatial fluctuations, due to Anderson localization
effects, dramatically modify the quantum critical behavior near disordered Mott
transitions. The leading critical behavior of quasiparticle wavefunctions is
shown to assume a universal form in the full range from weak to strong
disorder, in contrast to disorder-driven non-Fermi liquid ("electronic
Griffiths phase") behavior, which is found only in the strongly correlated
regime.Comment: 4 pages + references, 4 figures; v2: minor changes, accepted for
publication in Phys. Rev. Let
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