40 research outputs found
Automatic Selection of Web Contents Towards Automatic Authoring of a Video Biography
In this paper, we propose a method for image selection using Web image search for automatic video biography authoring. In the proposed method, images are selected from the image search results considering their visual contents for inclusion in the video biography. Through evaluation, we confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed image selection method compared to a baseline method which simply selects the top 1 search result
Automatic Selection of Web Contents Towards Automatic Authoring of a Video Biography
In this paper, we propose a method for image selection using Web image search for automatic video biography authoring. In the proposed method, images are selected from the image search results considering their visual contents for inclusion in the video biography. Through evaluation, we confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed image selection method compared to a baseline method which simply selects the top 1 search result
Radiation detector based on piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate material
The feasibility of using piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate (PZT) elements as a radiation detector was examined. We tried to observe the pressure wave excited by irradiating liquid ethanol (C2H5OH) with a 400 MeV/n xenon (Xe) beam using an array of PZT elements, while changing the position of beam irradiation. The elements were designed to obtain two independent electric signals in order to estimate the beam position in one direction on a two-dimensional plane. The time at which the peak of the output signal appeared differed between the two signals obtained from one element under limited experimental conditions. This suggests that the trajectory ofthe Xe beam may be determined in three-dimensional space with an improved array of the PZT elements
Characteristics of piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate fourteen-layered detector bombarded with high-energy xenon beam
Detector performance of the position-sensitive tissue-equivalent proportional chamber for space dosimetry onboard the international space station
We investigated the performance of a flight model of the position-sensitive tissue-equivalent proportional chamber (PS-TEPC) by irradiating with heavy-ion beams prior to launch to the International Space Station. The flight model operated stably with an effective gas gain of 1000 under a sealed gas. This gain was almost consistent with the effective gas gain under a gas flow. Energies of H, C, Si and Fe beams measured using the PS-TEPC flight model agreed well with calculations using the SRIM2008 code. Energy resolutions of 9.7% and 3.8% were obtained for the C and Fe beams, respectively. The uncertainties in dose equivalents were estimated to be better than 30% assuming both the theoretical model and best-fit function of linear energy transfer and referring to previously reported integrated dose fractions for an actual spacecraft. These features of the flight model satisfy the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements criteria for space dosimeters