89 research outputs found
Venus/Mercury swingby with Venus capsule. Preliminary science objectives and experiments for use in advanced mission studies
Venus/Mercury swingby with Venus capsule - preliminary science objectives and experiments for use in advanced mission studie
Venus - Preliminary science objectives and experiments for use in advanced mission studies
Mission planning and experiment design for future Mariner-type Venus space probe
Relative Pose from Deep Learned Depth and a Single Affine Correspondence
We propose a new approach for combining deep-learned non-metric monocular
depth with affine correspondences (ACs) to estimate the relative pose of two
calibrated cameras from a single correspondence. Considering the depth
information and affine features, two new constraints on the camera pose are
derived. The proposed solver is usable within 1-point RANSAC approaches. Thus,
the processing time of the robust estimation is linear in the number of
correspondences and, therefore, orders of magnitude faster than by using
traditional approaches. The proposed 1AC+D solver is tested both on synthetic
data and on 110395 publicly available real image pairs where we used an
off-the-shelf monocular depth network to provide up-to-scale depth per pixel.
The proposed 1AC+D leads to similar accuracy as traditional approaches while
being significantly faster. When solving large-scale problems, e.g., pose-graph
initialization for Structure-from-Motion (SfM) pipelines, the overhead of
obtaining ACs and monocular depth is negligible compared to the speed-up gained
in the pairwise geometric verification, i.e., relative pose estimation. This is
demonstrated on scenes from the 1DSfM dataset using a state-of-the-art global
SfM algorithm. Source code: https://github.com/eivan/one-ac-pos
Radio Astronomy
Contains reports on four research projects.Joint Services Electronics Program (Contract DAAB07-71-C-0300)California Institute of Technology (Contract 952568)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Contract NAS1-10693)National Science Foundation (Grant GP-21348A#2
Radio Astronomy
Contains reports on five research projects.National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NGL 22-009-016)National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Grant NGL 22-009-421)National Science Foundation (Grant GP-13056)California Institute of Technology Contract 95256
Regulatory T cells and their role in rheumatic diseases: a potential target for novel therapeutic development
Regulatory T cells have an important role in limiting immune reactions and are essential regulators of self-tolerance. Among them, CD4+CD25high regulatory T cells are the best-described subset. In this article, we summarize current knowledge on the phenotype, function, and development of CD4+CD25high regulatory T cells. We also review the literature on the role of these T cells in rheumatic diseases and discuss the potential for their use in immunotherapy
The Immune System in Stroke
Stroke represents an unresolved challenge for both developed and developing countries and has a huge socio-economic impact. Although considerable effort has been made to limit stroke incidence and improve outcome, strategies aimed at protecting injured neurons in the brain have all failed. This failure is likely to be due to both the incompleteness of modelling the disease and its causes in experimental research, and also the lack of understanding of how systemic mechanisms lead to an acute cerebrovascular event or contribute to outcome. Inflammation has been implicated in all forms of brain injury and it is now clear that immune mechanisms profoundly influence (and are responsible for the development of) risk and causation of stroke, and the outcome following the onset of cerebral ischemia. Until very recently, systemic inflammatory mechanisms, with respect to common comorbidities in stroke, have largely been ignored in experimental studies. The main aim is therefore to understand interactions between the immune system and brain injury in order to develop novel therapeutic approaches. Recent data from clinical and experimental research clearly show that systemic inflammatory diseases -such as atherosclerosis, obesity, diabetes or infection - similar to stress and advanced age, are associated with dysregulated immune responses which can profoundly contribute to cerebrovascular inflammation and injury in the central nervous system. In this review, we summarize recent advances in the field of inflammation and stroke, focusing on the challenges of translation between pre-clinical and clinical studies, and potential anti-inflammatory/immunomodulatory therapeutic approaches
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