38 research outputs found
Drying colloidal systems: laboratory models for a wide range of applications
The drying of complex fluids provides a powerful insight into phenomena that take place on time and length scales not normally accessible. An important feature of complex fluids, colloidal dispersions and polymer solutions is their high sensitivity to weak external actions. Thus, the drying of complex fluids involves a large number of physical and chemical processes. The scope of this review is the capacity to tune such systems to reproduce and explore specific properties in a physics laboratory. A wide variety of systems are presented, ranging from functional coatings, food science, cosmetology, medical diagnostics and forensics to geophysics and art
Smart-Tree: Neural Medial Axis Approximation of Point Clouds for 3D Tree Skeletonization
This paper introduces Smart-Tree, a supervised method for approximating the
medial axes of branch skeletons from a tree point cloud. Smart-Tree uses a
sparse voxel convolutional neural network to extract the radius and direction
towards the medial axis of each input point. A greedy algorithm performs robust
skeletonization using the estimated medial axis. Our proposed method provides
robustness to complex tree structures and improves fidelity when dealing with
self-occlusions, complex geometry, touching branches, and varying point
densities. We evaluate Smart-Tree using a multi-species synthetic tree dataset
and perform qualitative analysis on a real-world tree point cloud. Our
experimentation with synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrates the
robustness of our approach over the current state-of-the-art method. The
dataset and source code are publicly available
Countryside and Community Research Institute Podcast: Pride of Place(ment)
In this episode, we hear from this year's placement students Marie Steytler and Harry Batchelor. Marie and Harry joined us in September 2023 and have since immersed themselves within the collaborative and inclusive CCRI community. Join them as they discuss their placement experience so far with Nick Lewis, Research Assistant and Placement Coordinator, and learn more about the tasks they've been working on to support various CCRI research projects