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On Two Kinds of Differential Operators on General Smooth Surfaces
Two kinds of differential operators that can be generally defined on an
arbitrary smooth surface in a finite dimensional Euclid space are studied, one
is termed as surface gradient and the other one as Levi-Civita gradient. The
surface gradient operator is originated from the differentiability of a tensor
field defined on the surface. Some integral and differential identities have
been theoretically studied that play the important role in the studies on
continuous mediums whose geometrical configurations can be taken as surfaces
and on interactions between fluids and deformable boundaries. The definition of
Levi-Civita gradient is based on Levi-Civita connections generally defined on
Riemann manifolds. It can be used to set up some differential identities in the
intrinsic/coordiantes-independent form that play the essential role in the
theory of vorticity dynamics for two dimensional flows on general fixed smooth
surfaces
A Multi-level Correction Scheme for Eigenvalue Problems
In this paper, a new type of multi-level correction scheme is proposed for
solving eigenvalue problems by finite element method. With this new scheme, the
accuracy of eigenpair approximations can be improved after each correction step
which only needs to solve a source problem on finer finite element space and an
eigenvalue problem on the coarsest finite element space. This correction scheme
can improve the efficiency of solving eigenvalue problems by finite element
method.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure
A Parallel Method for Population Balance Equations Based on the Method of Characteristics
In this paper, we present a parallel scheme to solve the population balance
equations based on the method of characteristics and the finite element
discretization. The application of the method of characteristics transform the
higher dimensional population balance equation into a series of lower
dimensional convection-diffusion-reaction equations which can be solved in a
parallel way.Some numerical results are presented to show the accuracy and
efficiency.Comment: 10 pages, 0 figur
Instance-Level Salient Object Segmentation
Image saliency detection has recently witnessed rapid progress due to deep
convolutional neural networks. However, none of the existing methods is able to
identify object instances in the detected salient regions. In this paper, we
present a salient instance segmentation method that produces a saliency mask
with distinct object instance labels for an input image. Our method consists of
three steps, estimating saliency map, detecting salient object contours and
identifying salient object instances. For the first two steps, we propose a
multiscale saliency refinement network, which generates high-quality salient
region masks and salient object contours. Once integrated with multiscale
combinatorial grouping and a MAP-based subset optimization framework, our
method can generate very promising salient object instance segmentation
results. To promote further research and evaluation of salient instance
segmentation, we also construct a new database of 1000 images and their
pixelwise salient instance annotations. Experimental results demonstrate that
our proposed method is capable of achieving state-of-the-art performance on all
public benchmarks for salient region detection as well as on our new dataset
for salient instance segmentation.Comment: To appear in CVPR201
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