Bilateral Filter: Graph Spectral Interpretation and Extensions

In this paper we study the bilateral filter proposed by Tomasi and Manduchi, as a spectral domain transform defined on a weighted graph. The nodes of this graph represent the pixels in the image and a graph signal defined on the nodes represents the intensity values. Edge weights in the graph correspond to the bilateral filter coefficients and hence are data adaptive. Spectrum of a graph is defined in terms of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the graph Laplacian matrix. We use this spectral interpretation to generalize the bilateral filter and propose more flexible and application specific spectral designs of bilateral-like filters. We show that these spectral filters can be implemented with k-iterative bilateral filtering operations and do not require expensive diagonalization of the Laplacian matrix

Synthesis, Characterization, Spectral Studies and Antifungal Activity of Mn(II), Fe(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) Complexes with 2-(4- Sulphophenylazo)-1,8-Dihydroxy-3,6-Napthalene Disulphonic Acid Trisodium Salt

Complexes of the type Na6[M(HL)2(H2O)2], where M= Mn(II), Fe(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) and Na3H2L= 2-(4-sulphophenylazo)-1,8-dihydroxy 3,6 naphthalene disulphonic acid trisodium salt, have been synthesized and characterized by physico-chemical (elemental analyses, solubility, electrolytic conductance, magnetic susceptibility measurement) and spectral (UV-Visible, IR, ESR, powder x-ray diffraction) techniques for their structure and studied for their antifungal activity against ten fungi. The anionic 1:2 metal:ligand complexes show octahedral geometry around M(II), a significant antifungal activity against Curvularia lunata and Alternaria triticina and a moderate activity against Alternaria brassicicola, Alternaria brassicae, Alternaria solanae, Curvularia species, Helminthosporium oryzae, Collectotrichum capsici, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus and Fusarium udum

Industrial Metal Finishing for Corrosion Control

Industrial Metal Finishing, which includes electro-deposition of metals and alloys, electroless plating, immersion plating, chemical and electropolishing of metals, anodizing etc. form a major component of surface engineering. Corrosion protection is one main reason for the existence of Industrial Metal finishing Although these processes began for decorative and aesthetic purposes, their contribution to corrosion prevention and engineering applications, especially in electronics,aerospace, auto-motive and agriculture industries is markedly increasing. The evolution of industrial metal finishing from an art to a science has been a gradual process. The ABC of corro-sion protection, principle and mechanism, and the latest developments in terms of 6 Es (Environment-friendly, Econ-omical, Excellent. Energy -saving, Extremely fast, and Expertsystem ) have been briefly introduced. Relevant references have been cited for ease of access to the original and detailed literature

Simulating a single qubit channel using a mixed state environment

We analyze the class of single qubit channels with the environment modeled by a one-qubit mixed state. The set of affine transformations for this class of channels is computed analytically, employing the canonical form for the two-qubit unitary operator. We demonstrate that, 3/8 of the generalized depolarizing channels can be simulated by the one-qubit mixed state environment by explicitly obtaining the shape of the volume occupied by this class of channels within the tetrahedron representing the generalized depolarizing channels. Further, as a special case, we show that the two-Pauli Channel cannot be simulated by a one-qubit mixed state environment.Comment: Published version with minor change

Zn(II), Cu(II), Ni(II) & Co(II) Complexes of N-(Salicylidene)-N'-[2-(salicylaldimine)- benzoyl]hydrazine, the Schiff Base Derived from o-Aminobenzoylhydrazine & Salicylaldehyde

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Base Adducts of Bis(N-acetyl-N'–benzoyl-hydrazinato)nickel(II)

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Performance driven distributed scheduling of parallel hybrid computations

AbstractExascale computing is fast becoming a mainstream research area. In order to realize exascale performance, it is necessary to have efficient scheduling of large parallel computations with scalable performance on a large number of cores/processors. The scheduler needs to execute in a pure distributed and online fashion, should follow affinity inherent in the computation and must have low time and message complexity. Further, it should also avoid physical deadlocks due to bounded resources including space/memory per core. Simultaneous consideration of these factors makes affinity driven distributed scheduling particularly challenging. We attempt to address this challenge for hybrid parallel computations which contain tasks that have pre-specified affinity to a place and also tasks that can be mapped to any place in the system. Specifically, we address two scheduling problems of the type Pm|Mj,prec|Cmax. This paper presents online distributed scheduling algorithms for hybrid parallel computations assuming both unconstrained and bounded space per place. We also present the time and message complexity for distributed scheduling of hybrid computations. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that distributed scheduling algorithms for hybrid parallel computations have been presented and analyzed for time and message bounds under both unconstrained space and bounded space