405 research outputs found
Redundancy reduction in 3D facial motion capture data for animation
Research on the perception of dynamic faces often requires real-time animations with low latency. With an adaptation of principal feature analysis [Cohen et al. 2002], we can reduce the number of facial motion capture markers by 50, while retaining the overall animation quality
Medial Features for Superpixel Segmentation
Image segmentation plays an important role in computer vision and human scene perception. Image oversegmentation is a common technique to overcome the problem of managing the high number of pixels and the reasoning among them. Specifically, a local and coherent cluster that contains a statistically homogeneous region is denoted as a superpixel. In this paper we propose a novel algorithm that segments an image into superpixels employing a new kind of shape centered feature which serve as a seed points for image segmentation, based on Gradient Vector Flow fields (GVF) [14]. The features are located at image locations with salient symmetry. We compare our algorithm to state-of-the-art superpixel algorithms and demonstrate a performance increase on the standard Berkeley Segmentation Dataset
Type IIB Theory on Half-flat Manifolds
In this note we derive the low-energy effective action of type IIB theory
compactified on half-flat manifolds and we show that this precisely coincides
with the low-energy effective action of type IIA theory compactified on a
Calabi-Yau manifold in the presence of NS three-form fluxes. We provide in this
way a further check of the recently formulated conjecture that half-flat
manifolds appear as mirror partners of Calabi-Yau manifolds when NS fluxes are
turned on.Comment: 15 pages, no figure
Moduli restriction and Chiral Matter in Heterotic String Compactifications
Supersymmetric heterotic string models, built from a stable holomorphic
vector bundle on a Calabi-Yau threefold , usually come with many vector
bundle moduli whose stabilisation is a difficult and complex task. It is
therefore of interest to look for bundle constructions which, from the outset,
have as few as possible bundle moduli. One way to reach such a set-up is to
start from a generic construction and to make discrete modifications of it
which are available only over a subset of the bundle moduli space. Turning on
such discrete 'twists' constrains the moduli to the corresponding subset of
their moduli space: the twisted bundle has less parametric freedom. We give an
example of a set-up where this idea can be considered concretely. Such
non-generic twists lead also to new contributions of chiral matter (which
greatly enhances the flexibility in model building); their computation
constitutes the main issue of this note.Comment: 37 pages; comments and references adde
Higgs Multiplets in Heterotic GUT Models
For supersymmetric GUT models from heterotic string theory, built from a
stable holomorphic SU(n) vector bundle on a Calabi-Yau threefold , the
net amount of chiral matter can be computed by a Chern class computation.
Corresponding computations for the number of Higgses lead for the
phenomenologically relevant cases of GUT group SU(5) or SO(10) to consideration
of the bundle \La^2 V. In a class of bundles where everything can be computed
explicitly (spectral bundles on elliptic ) we find that the computation for
gives a result which is in conflict with expectations. We argue that this
discrepancy has its origin in the subtle geometry of the spectral data for
\La^2 V and that taking this subtlety into account properly should resolve
the problem.Comment: 29 pages; comments and references adde
Moduli Stabilization from Fluxes in a Simple IIB Orientifold
We study novel type IIB compactifications on the T^6/Z_2 orientifold. This
geometry arises in the T-dual description of Type I theory on T^6, and one
normally introduces 16 space-filling D3-branes to cancel the RR tadpoles. Here,
we cancel the RR tadpoles either partially or fully by turning on three-form
flux in the compact geometry. The resulting (super)potential for moduli is
calculable. We demonstrate that one can find many examples of N=1
supersymmetric vacua with greatly reduced numbers of moduli in this system. A
few examples with N>1 supersymmetry or complete supersymmetry breaking are also
discussed.Comment: 49 pages, harvmac big; v2, corrected some typo
Testing Yukawa-unified SUSY during year 1 of LHC: the role of multiple b-jets, dileptons and missing E_T
We examine the prospects for testing SO(10) Yukawa-unified supersymmetric
models during the first year of LHC running at \sqrt{s}= 7 TeV, assuming
integrated luminosity values of 0.1 to 1 fb^-1. We consider two cases: the
Higgs splitting (HS) and the D-term splitting (DR3) models. Each generically
predicts light gluinos and heavy squarks, with an inverted scalar mass
hierarchy. We hence expect large rates for gluino pair production followed by
decays to final states with large b-jet multiplicity. For 0.2 fb^-1 of
integrated luminosity, we find a 5 sigma discovery reach of m(gluino) ~ 400 GeV
even if missing transverse energy, E_T^miss, is not a viable cut variable, by
examining the multi-b-jet final state. A corroborating signal should stand out
in the opposite-sign (OS) dimuon channel in the case of the HS model; the DR3
model will require higher integrated luminosity to yield a signal in the OS
dimuon channel. This region may also be probed by the Tevatron with 5-10 fb^-1
of data, if a corresponding search in the multi-b+ E_T^miss channel is
performed. With higher integrated luminosities of ~1 fb^-1, using E_T^miss plus
a large multiplicity of b-jets, LHC should be able to discover Yukawa-unified
SUSY with m(gluino) up to about 630 GeV. Thus, the year 1 LHC reach for
Yukawa-unified SUSY should be enough to either claim a discovery of the gluino,
or to very nearly rule out this class of models, since higher values of
m(gluino) lead to rather poor Yukawa unification.Comment: 32 pages including 31 EPS figure
Scherk-Schwarz reduction of M-theory on G2-manifolds with fluxes
We analyse the 4-dimensional effective supergravity theories obtained from
the Scherk--Schwarz reduction of M-theory on twisted 7-tori in the presence of
4-form fluxes. We implement the appropriate orbifold projection that preserves
a G2-structure on the internal 7-manifold and truncates the effective field
theory to an N=1, D=4 supergravity. We provide a detailed account of the
effective supergravity with explicit expressions for the Kaehler potential and
the superpotential in terms of the fluxes and of the geometrical data of the
internal manifold. Subsequently, we explore the landscape of vacua of M-theory
compactifications on twisted tori, where we emphasize the role of geometric
fluxes and discuss the validity of the bottom-up approach. Finally, by reducing
along isometries of the internal 7-manifold, we obtain superpotentials for the
corresponding type IIA backgrounds.Comment: 43 pages, Latex; v3 typos corrected, one reference added, JHEP
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U(n) Spectral Covers from Decomposition
We construct decomposed spectral covers for bundles on elliptically fibered
Calabi-Yau threefolds whose structure groups are S(U(1) x U(4)), S(U(2) x U(3))
and S(U(1) x U(1) x U(3)) in heterotic string compactifications. The
decomposition requires not only the tuning of the SU(5) spectral covers but
also the tuning of the complex structure moduli of the Calabi-Yau threefolds.
This configuration is translated to geometric data on F-theory side. We find
that the monodromy locus for two-cycles in K3 fibered Calabi-Yau fourfolds in a
stable degeneration limit is globally factorized with squared factors under the
decomposition conditions. This signals that the monodromy group is reduced and
there is a U(1) symmetry in a low energy effective field theory. To support
that, we explicitly check the reduction of a monodromy group in an appreciable
region of the moduli space for an gauge theory with (1+2) decomposition.
This may provide a systematic way for constructing F-theory models with U(1)
symmetries.Comment: 41 pages, 14 figures; v2: minor improvements and a reference adde
F-Theory GUT Vacua on Compact Calabi-Yau Fourfolds
We present compact three-generation F-theory GUT models meeting in particular
the constraints of D3-tadpole cancellation and D-term supersymmetry. To this
end we explicitly construct elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau fourfolds as
complete intersections in a toric ambient space. Toric methods enable us to
control the singular geometry of the SU(5) GUT model. The GUT brane wraps a
non-generic del Pezzo surface admitting GUT symmetry breaking via hypercharge
flux. It is contractible to a curve and we demonstrate the existence of a
consistent decoupling limit. We compute the Euler characteristic of the
singular Calabi-Yau fourfold to show that our three-generation flux solutions
obtained via the spectral cover construction are consistent with D3-tadpole
cancellation.Comment: 22+12 pages; v2: minor clarifications on decoupling limi
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