Improvised Salient Object Detection and Manipulation

In case of salient subject recognition, computer algorithms have been heavily relied on scanning of images from top-left to bottom-right systematically and apply brute-force when attempting to locate objects of interest. Thus, the process turns out to be quite time consuming. Here a novel approach and a simple solution to the above problem is discussed. In this paper, we implement an approach to object manipulation and detection through segmentation map, which would help to desaturate or, in other words, wash out the background of the image. Evaluation for the performance is carried out using the Jaccard index against the well-known Ground-truth target box technique.Comment: 7 page

Minimal Higgs inflation

In this paper we propose two simple minimal Higgs inflation scenarios through a simple modification of the Higgs potential, as opposed to the usual non-minimal Higgs-gravity coupling prescription. The modification is done in such a way that it creates a flat plateau for a huge range of field values at the inflationary energy scale $\mu \simeq (\lambda)^{1/4} \alpha$. Assuming the perturbative Higgs quartic coupling, $\lambda \simeq {\cal O}(1)$, for both the models inflation energy scale turned out to be $\mu \simeq (10^{14}, 10^{15})$ GeV, and prediction of all the cosmologically relevant quantities, $(n_s,r,dn_s^k)$, fit extremely well with observations made by PLANCK. Considering observed central value of the scalar spectral index, $n_s= 0.968$, our two models predict efolding number, $N = (52,47)$. Within a wide range of viable parameter space, we found that the prediction of tensor to scalar ratio $r (\leq 10^{-5})$ is far below the current experimental sensitivity to be observed in the near future. The prediction for the running of scalar spectral index, $dn_s^k$, approximately remains the same as was predicted by the usual chaotic and quartic inflation scenario. We also the computed the background field dependent unitarity scale $\Lambda(h)$, which turned out to be much larger than the aforementioned inflationary energy.Comment: 5 pages,2 figures, unitarity issue discusse

Kinetic Gravity Braiding and axion inflation

We constructed a new class of inflationary model with the higher derivative axion field which obeys constant shift symmetry. In the usual axion (natural) inflation, the axion decay constant is predicted to be in the super-Planckian regime which is believed to be incompatible with an effective field theory framework. With a novel mechanism originating from a higher derivative kinetic gravity braiding (KGB) of an axion field we found that there exist a huge parameter regime in our model where axion decay constant could be naturally sub-Planckian. Thanks to the KGB which effectively reduces the Planck constant. This effectively reduced Planck scale provides us the mechanism of further lowering down the speed of an axion field rolling down its potential without introducing super-Planckian axion decay constant. We also find that with that wide range of parameter values, our model induces almost scale invariant power spectrum as observed in CMB experiments.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure, Matched with published versio