12 research outputs found
Transition from Townsend to glow discharge: subcritical, mixed or supercritical
The full parameter space of the transition from Townsend to glow discharge is
investigated numerically in one space dimension in the classical model: with
electrons and positive ions drifting in the local electric field, impact
ionization by electrons ( process), secondary electron emission from
the cathode ( process) and space charge effects. We also perform a
systematic analytical small current expansion about the Townsend limit up to
third order in the total current that fits our numerical data very well.
Depending on and system size pd, the transition from Townsend to glow
discharge can show the textbook subcritical behavior, but for smaller values of
pd, we also find supercritical or some intermediate ``mixed'' behavior. The
analysis in particular lays the basis for understanding the complex
spatio-temporal patterns in planar barrier discharge systems.Comment: 12 pages, 10 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev.
Fuzzy Logic in Surveillance Big Video Data Analysis: Comprehensive Review, Challenges, and Research Directions
CCTV cameras installed for continuous surveillance generate enormous amounts of data daily, forging the term “Big Video Data” (BVD). The active practice of BVD includes intelligent surveillance and activity recognition, among other challenging tasks. To efficiently address these tasks, the computer vision research community has provided monitoring systems, activity recognition methods, and many other computationally complex solutions for the purposeful usage of BVD. Unfortunately, the limited capabilities of these methods, higher computational complexity, and stringent installation requirements hinder their practical implementation in real-world scenarios, which still demand human operators sitting in front of cameras to monitor activities or make actionable decisions based on BVD. The usage of human-like logic, known as fuzzy logic, has been employed emerging for various data science applications such as control systems, image processing, decision making, routing, and advanced safety-critical systems. This is due to its ability to handle various sources of real world domain and data uncertainties, generating easily adaptable and explainable data-based models. Fuzzy logic can be effectively used for surveillance as a complementary for huge-sized artificial intelligence models and tiresome training procedures. In this paper, we draw researchers’ attention towards the usage of fuzzy logic for surveillance in the context of BVD. We carry out a comprehensive literature survey of methods for vision sensory data analytics that resort to fuzzy logic concepts. Our overview highlights the advantages, downsides, and challenges in existing video analysis methods based on fuzzy logic for surveillance applications. We enumerate and discuss the datasets used by these methods, and finally provide an outlook towards future research directions derived from our critical assessment of the efforts invested so far in this exciting field
Aspectos fisiológicos da germinação e da qualidade de plântulas de Schizolobium amazonicum em resposta à escarificação das sementes em lixa e água quente
Distribution spatiale des photons UV dans une cellule d'écran à plasma
Nous avons développé un modèle numérique basé sur une méthode de Monte-Carlo, permettant de suivre, dans une cellule d'écrans à plasmas, le trajet des photons UV responsables de l'émission de la lumière visible. Nous considérons pour cela un schéma cinétique simplifié permettant de créer ou de détruire de nouveaux photons. Nous présentons les résultats obtenus en fonction de la concentration de Xe dans le mélange Ne/Xe