503 research outputs found
Intelligent optical performance monitor using multi-task learning based artificial neural network
An intelligent optical performance monitor using multi-task learning based
artificial neural network (MTL-ANN) is designed for simultaneous OSNR
monitoring and modulation format identification (MFI). Signals' amplitude
histograms (AHs) after constant module algorithm are selected as the input
features for MTL-ANN. The experimental results of 20-Gbaud NRZ-OOK, PAM4 and
PAM8 signals demonstrate that MTL-ANN could achieve OSNR monitoring and MFI
simultaneously with higher accuracy and stability compared with single-task
learning based ANNs (STL-ANNs). The results show an MFI accuracy of 100% and
OSNR monitoring root-mean-square error of 0.63 dB for the three modulation
formats under consideration. Furthermore, the number of neuron needed for the
single MTL-ANN is almost the half of STL-ANN, which enables reduced-complexity
optical performance monitoring devices for real-time performance monitoring
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) Emitted from Heating Machine for Waste Printed Wiring Boards Disassembling
AbstractPolybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) contained in waste printed wiring board (PWB) matrix and surface dust can be emitted into the air during thermal process, which is widely used to detach the electronic components from the base boards of waste PWB. In this study, PBDEs concentrations in air and dust samples were detected in a PWB-heating workshop. The results showed that the mean concentrations of ∑8PBDEs in PM10 and TSP were 479 and 1670 ng/m3, respectively. Compared with surface dust collected from waste PWB (15600 ng/g), PBDEs concentrations in dust from the workshop floor (31100 ng/g), heating machine inside (84700 ng/g), and the cyclone extractor (317000 ng/g), were condensed after thermal process. All the results showed that recycling of waste PWB was an important source of PBDEs emission
Dichloridobis(4-pyridylmethyl 1H-pyrrole-2-carboxylate-κN)zinc
In the title molecule, [ZnCl2(C11H10N2O2)2], the ZnII ion, situated on a twofold axis, is in a distorted tetrahedral coordination environment formed by two chloride anions and two pyridine N atoms of the two organic ligands. In the pyrrole-2-carboxylate unit, the pyrrole N—H group and the carbonyl group point approximately in the same direction. The dihedral angle between the two pyridine rings is 54.8 (3)°. The complex molecules are connected into chains extending along [101] by N—H⋯Cl hydrogen bonds. The chains are further assembled into (-101) layers by C—H⋯O and C—H⋯Cl interactions
High Dynamic Range Imaging with Context-aware Transformer
Avoiding the introduction of ghosts when synthesising LDR images as high
dynamic range (HDR) images is a challenging task. Convolutional neural networks
(CNNs) are effective for HDR ghost removal in general, but are challenging to
deal with the LDR images if there are large movements or
oversaturation/undersaturation. Existing dual-branch methods combining CNN and
Transformer omit part of the information from non-reference images, while the
features extracted by the CNN-based branch are bound to the kernel size with
small receptive field, which are detrimental to the deblurring and the recovery
of oversaturated/undersaturated regions. In this paper, we propose a novel
hierarchical dual Transformer method for ghost-free HDR (HDT-HDR) images
generation, which extracts global features and local features simultaneously.
First, we use a CNN-based head with spatial attention mechanisms to extract
features from all the LDR images. Second, the LDR features are delivered to the
Hierarchical Dual Transformer (HDT). In each Dual Transformer (DT), the global
features are extracted by the window-based Transformer, while the local details
are extracted using the channel attention mechanism with deformable CNNs.
Finally, the ghost free HDR image is obtained by dimensional mapping on the HDT
output. Abundant experiments demonstrate that our HDT-HDR achieves the
state-of-the-art performance among existing HDR ghost removal methods.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
Spin-orbit-coupling-induced phase separation in trapped Bose gases
In a trapped spin-1/2 Bose-Einstein condensate with miscible interactions, a
two-dimensional spin-orbit coupling can introduce an unconventional spatial
separation between the two components. We reveal the physical mechanism of such
a spin-orbit-coupling-induced phase separation. Detailed features of the phase
separation are identified in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate. We further
analyze differences of phase separation in Rashba and anisotropic
spin-orbit-coupled Bose gases. An adiabatic splitting dynamics is proposed as
an application of the phase separation.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figure
meso-5,5′-Bis[(4-fluorophenyl)diazenyl]-2,2′-(pentane-3,3-diyl)di-1H-pyrrole
There are two independent molecules in the asymmetric unit of the title compound, C25H24F2N6, in which the N=N bonds adopt a trans configuration with distances in the range 1.262 (2)–1.269 (3) Å. The dihedral angles between heterocycles are 86.7 (2) and 85.6 (2)° in the two molecules while the dihedral angles between the heterocylic rings and the adjacent benzene rings are 13.4 (2) and 13.4 (2)° in one molecule and 5.3 (2) and 6.5 (2)° in the other. In the crystal, pairs of independent molecules are held together by four N—H⋯N hydrogen bonds, forming interlocked dimers
On Minimum Spanning Subgraphs of Graphs With Proper Connection Number 2
An edge coloring of a connected graph G is a proper-path coloring if every two vertices of G are connected by a properly colored path. The minimum number of colors required of a proper-path coloring of G is called the proper connection number pc(G) of G. For a connected graph G with proper connection number 2, the minimum size of a connected spanning subgraph H of G with pc(H) = 2 is denoted by μ(G). It is shown that if s and t are integers such that t ≥ s + 2 ≥ 5, then μ(K_{s,t} ) = 2t − 2. We also determine μ(G) for several classes of complete multipartite graphs G. In particular, it is shown that if G = K_{n_1, n_2, ..., n_k} is a complete k-partite graph, where k ≥ 3, r = \sum^{k−1}_{i=1} n_i ≥ 3 and t = n_k ≥ r^2 + r, then μ(G) = 2t − 2r + 2
Visual Tactile Fusion Object Clustering
Object clustering, aiming at grouping similar objects into one cluster with
an unsupervised strategy, has been extensivelystudied among various data-driven
applications. However, most existing state-of-the-art object clustering methods
(e.g., single-view or multi-view clustering methods) only explore visual
information, while ignoring one of most important sensing modalities, i.e.,
tactile information which can help capture different object properties and
further boost the performance of object clustering task. To effectively benefit
both visual and tactile modalities for object clustering, in this paper, we
propose a deep Auto-Encoder-like Non-negative Matrix Factorization framework
for visual-tactile fusion clustering. Specifically, deep matrix factorization
constrained by an under-complete Auto-Encoder-like architecture is employed to
jointly learn hierarchical expression of visual-tactile fusion data, and
preserve the local structure of data generating distribution of visual and
tactile modalities. Meanwhile, a graph regularizer is introduced to capture the
intrinsic relations of data samples within each modality. Furthermore, we
propose a modality-level consensus regularizer to effectively align thevisual
and tactile data in a common subspace in which the gap between visual and
tactile data is mitigated. For the model optimization, we present an efficient
alternating minimization strategy to solve our proposed model. Finally, we
conduct extensive experiments on public datasets to verify the effectiveness of
our framework.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
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