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Spectral geometry of spacetime
Spacetime, understood as a globally hyperbolic manifold, may be characterized
by spectral data using a 3+1 splitting into space and time, a description of
space by spectral triples and by employing causal relationships, as proposed
earlier. Here, it is proposed to use the Hadamard condition of quantum field
theory as a smoothness principle.Comment: AMS-LaTeX, 6 pages,Talk presented at the Euroconference on
"Non-Commutative Geometry And Hopf Algebras In Field Theory And Particle
Physics" Torino, Villa Gualino, September 20 - 30, 199
Towards Semantic Fast-Forward and Stabilized Egocentric Videos
The emergence of low-cost personal mobiles devices and wearable cameras and
the increasing storage capacity of video-sharing websites have pushed forward a
growing interest towards first-person videos. Since most of the recorded videos
compose long-running streams with unedited content, they are tedious and
unpleasant to watch. The fast-forward state-of-the-art methods are facing
challenges of balancing the smoothness of the video and the emphasis in the
relevant frames given a speed-up rate. In this work, we present a methodology
capable of summarizing and stabilizing egocentric videos by extracting the
semantic information from the frames. This paper also describes a dataset
collection with several semantically labeled videos and introduces a new
smoothness evaluation metric for egocentric videos that is used to test our
method.Comment: Accepted for publication and presented in the First International
Workshop on Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing at European
Conference on Computer Vision (EPIC@ECCV) 201
Photomixotrophic growth of Rhodobacter capsulatus SB1003 on ferrous iron
This study investigates the role iron oxidation plays in the purple non-sulfur bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus SB1003. This organism is unable to grow photoautotrophically on unchelated ferrous iron [Fe(II)] despite its ability to oxidize chelated Fe(II). This apparent paradox was partly resolved by the discovery that SB1003 can grow photoheterotrophically on the photochemical breakdown products of certain ferric iron–ligand complexes, yet whether it could concomitantly benefit from the oxidation of Fe(II) to fix CO_2 was unknown. Here, we examine carbon fixation by stable isotope labeling of the inorganic carbon pool in cultures growing phototrophically on acetate with and without Fe(II). We show that R. capsulatus SB1003, an organism formally thought incapable of phototrophic growth on Fe(II), can actually harness the reducing power of this substrate and grow photomixotrophically, deriving carbon both from organic sources and from fixation of inorganic carbon. This suggests the possibility of a wider occurrence of photoferrotrophy than previously assumed
Investigation of optimization of attitude control systems, volume ii
Attitude control system optimization - computer programs, listings and subroutine
Investigation of optimization of attitude control systems, volume i
Optimization of attitude control systems by development of mathematical model and computer program for space vehicle simulatio
Semantically Guided Depth Upsampling
We present a novel method for accurate and efficient up- sampling of sparse
depth data, guided by high-resolution imagery. Our approach goes beyond the use
of intensity cues only and additionally exploits object boundary cues through
structured edge detection and semantic scene labeling for guidance. Both cues
are combined within a geodesic distance measure that allows for
boundary-preserving depth in- terpolation while utilizing local context. We
model the observed scene structure by locally planar elements and formulate the
upsampling task as a global energy minimization problem. Our method determines
glob- ally consistent solutions and preserves fine details and sharp depth
bound- aries. In our experiments on several public datasets at different levels
of application, we demonstrate superior performance of our approach over the
state-of-the-art, even for very sparse measurements.Comment: German Conference on Pattern Recognition 2016 (Oral
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