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Audio-visual object localization and separation using low-rank and sparsity
The ability to localize visual objects that are associated with an audio source and at the same time seperate the audio signal is a corner stone in several audio-visual signal processing applications. Past efforts usually focused on localizing only the visual objects, without audio separation abilities. Besides, they often rely computational expensive pre-processing steps to segment images pixels into object regions before applying localization approaches. We aim to address the problem of audio-visual source localization and separation in an unsupervised manner. The proposed approach employs low-rank in order to model the background visual and audio information and sparsity in order to extract the sparsely correlated components between the audio and visual modalities. In particular, this model decomposes each dataset into a sum of two terms: the low-rank matrices capturing the background uncorrelated information, while the sparse correlated components modelling the sound source in visual modality and the associated sound in audio modality. To this end a novel optimization problem, involving the minimization of nuclear norms and matrix â„“1-norms is solved. We evaluated the proposed method in 1) visual localization and audio separation and 2) visual-assisted audio denoising. The experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method
Matter-wave bistability in coupled atom-molecule quantum gases
We study the matter-wave bistability in coupled atom-molecule quantum gases,
in which heteronuclear molecules are created via an interspecies Feshbach
resonance involving either two-species Bose or two-species Fermi atoms at zero
temperature. We show that the resonant two-channel Bose model is equivalent to
the nondegenerate parametric down-conversion in quantum optics, while the
corresponding Fermi model can be mapped to a quantum optics model that
describes a single-mode laser field interacting with an ensemble of
inhomogeneously broadened two-level atoms. Using these analogy and the fact
that both models are subject to the Kerr nonlinearity due to the two-body
s-wave collisions, we show that under proper conditions, the population in the
molecular state in both models can be made to change with the Feshbach detuning
in a bistable fashion.Comment: 6 pages, 5 figure
Experimental Procedures for Stub Column Tests
In this paper a total of 36 stub columns was tested by two different experimental procedures, namely the FEM and AISI procedures, to investigate the difference in the ultimate load between these procedures. Of these 26 were carried out in the pin-ended condition according to FEM, the rest were in the fixed-end condition according to AlSI specification. It is shown that the failure loads obtained by the two experimental procedures were very close to each other. Both procedures worked well. The AISI procedure is recommended as the standard procedure
Blind audio-visual localization and separation via low-rank and sparsity
The ability to localize visual objects that are associated with an audio source and at the same time to separate the audio signal is a cornerstone in audio-visual signal-processing applications. However, available methods mainly focus on localizing only the visual objects, without audio separation abilities. Besides that, these methods often rely on either laborious preprocessing steps to segment video frames into semantic regions, or additional supervisions to guide their localization. In this paper, we aim to address the problem of visual source localization and audio separation in an unsupervised manner and avoid all preprocessing or post-processing steps. To this end, we devise a novel structured matrix decomposition method that decomposes the data matrix of each modality as a superposition of three terms: 1) a low-rank matrix capturing the background information; 2) a sparse matrix capturing the correlated components among the two modalities and, hence, uncovering the sound source in visual modality and the associated sound in audio modality; and 3) a third sparse matrix accounting for uncorrelated components, such as distracting objects in visual modality and irrelevant sound in audio modality. The generality of the proposed method is demonstrated by applying it onto three applications, namely: 1) visual localization of a sound source; 2) visually assisted audio separation; and 3) active speaker detection. Experimental results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed method on these application domains
The Influence of Molecular Adsorption on Elongating Gold Nanowires
Using molecular dynamics simulations, we study the impact of physisorbing
adsorbates on the structural and mechanical evolution of gold nanowires (AuNWs)
undergoing elongation. We used various adsorbate models in our simulations,
with each model giving rise to a different surface coverage and mobility of the
adsorbed phase. We find that the local structure and mobility of the adsorbed
phase remains relatively uniform across all segments of an elongating AuNW,
except for the thinning region of the wire where the high mobility of Au atoms
disrupts the monolayer structure, giving rise to higher solvent mobility. We
analyzed the AuNW trajectories by measuring the ductile elongation of the wires
and detecting the presence of characteristic structural motifs that appeared
during elongation. Our findings indicate that adsorbates facilitate the
formation of high-energy structural motifs and lead to significantly higher
ductile elongations. In particular, our simulations result in a large number of
monatomic chains and helical structures possessing mechanical stability in
excess of what we observe in vacuum. Conversely, we find that a molecular
species that interacts weakly (i.e., does not adsorb) with AuNWs worsens the
mechanical stability of monatomic chains.Comment: To appear in Journal of Physical Chemistry
Dynamics of two interacting Bose-Einstein condensates
We analize the dynamics of two trapped interacting Bose-Einstein condensates
and indentify two regimes for the evolution: the regime of slow periodic
oscillations and the regime of strong non-linear mixing leading to the damping
of the relative motion of the condensates. We compare our predictions with an
experiment recently performed at JILA.Comment: 4 pages RevTeX, 3 eps figure
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