8,810 research outputs found
Vehicle-Rear: A New Dataset to Explore Feature Fusion for Vehicle Identification Using Convolutional Neural Networks
This work addresses the problem of vehicle identification through
non-overlapping cameras. As our main contribution, we introduce a novel dataset
for vehicle identification, called Vehicle-Rear, that contains more than three
hours of high-resolution videos, with accurate information about the make,
model, color and year of nearly 3,000 vehicles, in addition to the position and
identification of their license plates. To explore our dataset we design a
two-stream CNN that simultaneously uses two of the most distinctive and
persistent features available: the vehicle's appearance and its license plate.
This is an attempt to tackle a major problem: false alarms caused by vehicles
with similar designs or by very close license plate identifiers. In the first
network stream, shape similarities are identified by a Siamese CNN that uses a
pair of low-resolution vehicle patches recorded by two different cameras. In
the second stream, we use a CNN for OCR to extract textual information,
confidence scores, and string similarities from a pair of high-resolution
license plate patches. Then, features from both streams are merged by a
sequence of fully connected layers for decision. In our experiments, we
compared the two-stream network against several well-known CNN architectures
using single or multiple vehicle features. The architectures, trained models,
and dataset are publicly available at https://github.com/icarofua/vehicle-rear
Spatial-temporal evolution of the current filamentation instability
The spatial-temporal evolution of the purely transverse current filamentation
instability is analyzed by deriving a single partial differential equation for
the instability and obtaining the analytical solutions for the spatially and
temporally growing current filament mode. When the beam front always encounters
fresh plasma, our analysis shows that the instability grows spatially from the
beam front to the back up to a certain critical beam length; then the
instability acquires a purely temporal growth. This critical beam length
increases linearly with time and in the non-relativistic regime it is
proportional to the beam velocity. In the relativistic regime the critical
length is inversely proportional to the cube of the beam Lorentz factor
. Thus, in the ultra-relativistic regime the instability
immediately acquires a purely temporal growth all over the beam. The analytical
results are in good agreement with multidimensional particle-in-cell
simulations performed with OSIRIS. Relevance of current study to recent and
future experiments on fireball beams is also addressed
Long-time evolution of magnetic fields in relativistic GRB shocks
We investigate the long-time evolution of magnetic fields generated by the
two-stream instability at ultra- and sub-relativistic astrophysical
collisionless shocks. Based on 3D PIC simulation results, we introduce a 2D toy
model of interacting current filaments. Within the framework of this model, we
demonstrate that the field correlation scale in the region far downstream the
shock grows nearly as the light crossing time, lambda(t) ~ ct, thus making the
diffusive field dissipation inefficient. The obtained theoretical scaling is
tested using numerical PIC simulations. This result extends our understanding
of the structure of collisionless shocks in gamma-ray bursts and other
astrophysical objects.Comment: 5 pages. 2 figures. Submitted to ApJ
Whirling Waves and the Aharonov-Bohm Effect for Relativistic Spinning Particles
The formulation of Berry for the Aharonov-Bohm effect is generalized to the
relativistic regime. Then, the problem of finding the self-adjoint extensions
of the (2+1)-dimensional Dirac Hamiltonian, in an Aharonov-Bohm background
potential, is solved in a novel way. The same treatment also solves the problem
of finding the self-adjoint extensions of the Dirac Hamiltonian in a background
Aharonov-Casher
Magnetically assisted self-injection and radiation generation for plasma based acceleration
It is shown through analytical modeling and numerical simulations that
external magnetic fields can relax the self-trapping thresholds in plasma based
accelerators. In addition, the transverse location where self-trapping occurs
can be selected by adequate choice of the spatial profile of the external
magnetic field. We also find that magnetic-field assisted self-injection can
lead to the emission of betatron radiation at well defined frequencies. This
controlled injection technique could be explored using state-of-the-art
magnetic fields in current/next generation plasma/laser wakefield accelerator
experiments.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in Plasma Physics and
Controlled Fusio
Investigation of the Integrity of aC:H Coatings on Stainless Steel Micro-Moulds during Thermal Cycling
Micro-injection moulding (µIM) is a key technology for scaling down larger geometry components and can include functional features at the micrometre scale and as far as the sub-micrometre length scale. Thermal cycling of amorphous hydrogenated carbon (aC:H) coated Stainless Steel (SS) has been investigated to simulate long-term micro-injection moulding (µIM) wearing and damage. Micro indentations and cracks were made into the mould and predictions of the crack behaviour were made using thermal expansion models. Validation of the results was performed with multiple heating and cooling cycles along with hardness measurements of the damage to the coating. The undamaged surfaces showed no major deformation but the cracks were shown to propagate and change in behaviour. The first two heat cycles of the testing had the most significant effect on the substrate with varying thermal expansions of materials being the main cause. The aC:H is shown to have excellent properties for mould tool applications but delamination could occur in areas susceptible to damaged and periodic surface inspection will be required preserve tool life
Magnetic control of particle-injection in plasma based accelerators
The use of an external transverse magnetic field to trigger and to control
electron self-injection in laser- and particle-beam driven wakefield
accelerators is examined analytically and through full-scale particle-in-cell
simulations. A magnetic field can relax the injection threshold and can be used
to control main output beam features such as charge, energy, and transverse
dynamics in the ion channel associated with the plasma blowout. It is shown
that this mechanism could be studied using state-of-the-art magnetic fields in
next generation plasma accelerator experiments.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figure
- …