The WHO predicts that by 2030 road accidents will be the 5th leading cause of death. Globally, road accidents account for 1.25 million casualties each year, and road defects cause 34% of these casualties. The road sur...
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(数字)9798331521165
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(纸本)9798331521172
The WHO predicts that by 2030 road accidents will be the 5th leading cause of death. Globally, road accidents account for 1.25 million casualties each year, and road defects cause 34% of these casualties. The road survey process in many countries have several challenges, one of which is detection using cameras that do not have a recognition system. In this study, a model with YOLOS architecture based on Vision Transformer trained on the RDD2022 dataset successfully recognizes road damage well, as indicated by the number of objects detected, bounding box on accurate objects, and the ability to recognize objects with inconsistent shadow and light inference. This research uses assessment parameters such as Average Precision (AP) and Average Recall (AR) to determine the overall performance of the model. The model achieves the highest AP value at Intersection of Union (IoU) 0.5, 0.75, and 0.5-0.95, worth 62.1%, 37.1%, and 36.2% respectively, and the highest AR value in Large, Medium, and Small Areas, worth 42.1%, 60.3%, and 75.4% respectively. The supplementary material can be found through this link: https://***/watch?v=LzkI2e_IORE.
Selective thermal emitters can boost the efficiency of heat-to-electricity conversion in thermophotovoltaic systems only if their spectral selectivity is high. We demonstrate a non-Hermitian metasurface-based selectiv...
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Distinct selectivity to the spin angular momenta of photons has garnered significant attention in recent years, for its relevance in basic science and for imaging and sensing applications. While nonlocal metasurfaces ...
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Distinct selectivity to the spin angular momenta of photons has garnered significant attention in recent years, for its relevance in basic science and for imaging and sensing applications. While nonlocal metasurfaces with strong chiral responses to the incident light have been reported, these responses are typically limited to a narrow range of incident angles. In this study, we demonstrate a nonlocal metasurface that showcases strong chirality, characterized by circular dichroism (∼0.6), over a wide range of incident angles ±5°. Its quality factor, circular dichroism and resonant frequency can be optimized by design. These findings pave the way to further advance the development of valley-selective optical cavities and augmented reality applications.
Objective: Recent advancements demonstrate the significant role of digital microfluidics in automating laboratory work with DNA and on-site viral testing. However, since commercially available instruments are limited ...
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We present EgoNeRF, a practical solution to reconstruct large-scale real-world environments for VR assets. Given a few seconds of casually captured 360 video, EgoNeRF can efficiently build neural radiance fields. Moti...
We present EgoNeRF, a practical solution to reconstruct large-scale real-world environments for VR assets. Given a few seconds of casually captured 360 video, EgoNeRF can efficiently build neural radiance fields. Motivated by the recent acceleration of NeRF using feature grids, we adopt spherical coordinate instead of conventional Cartesian coordinate. Cartesian feature grid is inefficient to represent large-scale unbounded scenes because it has a spatially uniform resolution, regardless of distance from viewers. The spherical parameterization better aligns with the rays of egocentric images, and yet enables factorization for performance enhancement. However, the naive spherical grid suffers from singularities at two poles, and also cannot represent unbounded scenes. To avoid singularities near poles, we combine two balanced grids, which results in a quasi-uniform angular grid. We also partition the radial grid exponentially and place an environment map at infinity to represent unbounded scenes. Furthermore, with our resampling technique for grid-based methods, we can increase the number of valid samples to train NeRF volume. We extensively evaluate our method in our newly introduced synthetic and real-world egocentric 360 video datasets, and it consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance.
Power quality disturbances can be observed as sags, swells, transients, and harmonics, and can affect customers at varying levels of intensity. It is the responsibility of the utility to supply customers with power, h...
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(纸本)9781665463195
Power quality disturbances can be observed as sags, swells, transients, and harmonics, and can affect customers at varying levels of intensity. It is the responsibility of the utility to supply customers with power, however power quality disruptions can occur during distribution. Traditionally, only voltage information is used to conduct power quality monitoring at the distribution level. It is common to record the RMS values of the bus voltages and to identify abnormal operations based on when a sag or swell occurs. This paper proposes a tool consisting of an algorithm and an accompanying graphical user interface (GUI) that can display historical voltage bus data, analyze the data, and provide the user with information that details voltage behavior outside of a user-defined threshold. The GUI gives the user the interactive ability to import data and set the desired threshold. The algorithm then detects events in the imported data outside of the chosen threshold. It also provides the user with event durations, magnitudes, local maximums, and area. The efficacy of the algorithm was verified by comparing the output determined by the algorithm versus the conclusion drawn by a human observer. Additionally, this paper provides a brief overview of two power quality curves: the computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers' Association (CBEMA) curve, and the Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC) curve. These curves have been utilized in past decades as the common mechanisms to identify voltage variations and the duration of disturbances. Although these curves have proven to have great merit for use as tolerance curves, they may not capture all the necessary details of the events for power quality characterization.
Automatic target recognition (ATR) for 3D synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery is an intrinsic challenge in highly cluttered ocean environments, especially for objects partially or completely buried in the sediment....
Automatic target recognition (ATR) for 3D synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery is an intrinsic challenge in highly cluttered ocean environments, especially for objects partially or completely buried in the sediment. Conventional dynamic range compression (DRC) techniques such as log-compression, which is a type of tone mapping intended to appeal to the human visual system, can further obscure the sonar signatures of these already physically occluded objects and lead to suboptimal downstream ATR performance, particularly for convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In this paper, we present a novel machine learning-based approach for tone mapping sub-bottom SAS imagery as a pre-processing stage in the 3D SAS ATR pipeline. This learned tone mapping function can be jointly optimized with a CNN-based ATR algorithm. We train and validate our method on measured volumetric SAS data captured by the Sediment Volume Search Sonar (SVSS) system.
This research demonstrates the improvement in antenna gain by utilizing an EBG reflector. The EBG reflector includes a unit cell with grooves shaped like the letters M and W to mitigate surface waves at a frequency of...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798331543952
ISBN:
(纸本)9798331543969
This research demonstrates the improvement in antenna gain by utilizing an EBG reflector. The EBG reflector includes a unit cell with grooves shaped like the letters M and W to mitigate surface waves at a frequency of 2.45 GHz. The suggested EBG reflector is constructed on an FR-4 substrate exhibiting a uniform dielectric constant of 4.3, a loss tangent of 0.025, and a thickness of 1.6 mm. Furthermore, the impact of boosting the antenna gain can be analyzed by the reflection phase diagram, which exhibits values ranging from +90° to -90° at the resonant frequency of the reflector. The proposed EBG reflector comprises 5x5 unit cells. The testing results of the reflector's performance, when integrated with a general dipole antenna, indicate that it can effectively respond to the resonant frequency of 2.45 GHz, with a |S 11 | level below -10 dB within the frequency range of 2.2 GHz to 2.6 GHz, thereby adequately covering the IEEE 802.11 b/g/n band. The suggested EBG reflector exhibits a gain of around 6.5 dBi at 2.45 GHz, indicating its efficacy in enhancing gain relative to the standard PEC reflector. Moreover, the radiation pattern is also directional.
The cyber-physical production system (CPPS) was developed for the interconnection between operational technology (OT) and information and communication technology (ICT) among the machines and decentralized production ...
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This paper proposed a novel landing platform with wireless power transfer (WPT) to charge multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) without restrictions on landing locations or alignment. A transmitter is designed usin...
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ISBN:
(数字)9798331516116
ISBN:
(纸本)9798331516123
This paper proposed a novel landing platform with wireless power transfer (WPT) to charge multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) without restrictions on landing locations or alignment. A transmitter is designed using wires to charge a wide area. To overcome the disadvantages of system made by wires, a grid pattern transmitter and double power line are proposed. These structures provide multiple charging with free positioning of receivers and excite the transmitter lines in wide area properly. The optimized system is composed of 0.15m square cells, providing a 0.9 m by 0.9 m charging area. By experiment, it can efficiently charge four 0.1 m square receivers located anywhere in transmitter. The overall efficiency of four receivers is 37.5%. Also, the experimental results verify that it is unnecessary to align the receiver within the cell, as it has a 2.62% error due to rotation and a 2.94 % error due to position within the cell.
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