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All flames are extinguished as early as possible, or fire services have to deal with major conflagrations. This leads to the fact that the quality of fire extinguishers has become a very sensitive and important issue in firefighting.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Xuan Quang Ngo , Thai Nguyen Chau , Cong Thang Doan , Van Tu Duong , Duy Vo Hoang , Tan Tien Nguyen

Picosecond-level timing will be an important component of the next generation of particle physics detectors. The ability to add a 4$^{th}$ dimension to our measurements will help address the increasing complexity of events at hadron…

The lack of extensive research in the application of inexpensive wireless sensor nodes for the early detection of wildfires motivated us to investigate the cost of such a network. As a first step, in this paper we present several results…

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Rapid detection and well-timed intervention are essential to mitigate the impacts of wildfires. Leveraging remote sensed data from satellite networks and advanced AI models to automatically detect hotspots (i.e., thermal anomalies caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Luca Barco , Angelica Urbanelli , Claudio Rossi

Early detection of wildfires is essential to prevent large-scale fires resulting in extensive environmental, structural, and societal damage. Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) can cover large remote areas effectively with quick deployment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Julius Pesonen , Teemu Hakala , Väinö Karjalainen , Niko Koivumäki , Lauri Markelin , Anna-Maria Raita-Hakola , Juha Suomalainen , Ilkka Pölönen , Eija Honkavaara

Due to industry deployment and extension of urban areas, early warning systems have an essential role in giving emergency. Fire is an event that can rapidly spread and cause injury, death, and damage. Early detection of fire could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Maedeh Jamali , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

High-precision sensors are of fundamental importance in modern society and technology.Although numerous sensors have been developed, obtaining sensors with higher levels of sensitivity and stronger robustness has always been expected. Here,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Wenyuan Deng , Wei Zhu , Tian Chen , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Several experimental techniques are currently under development, to measure the expected tiny fluxes of highest energy neutrinos above 10**18 eV. Projects in different stages of realisation are discussed here, which are based on optical and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rolf Nahnhauer

Flare stacks play an important role in the treatment of waste gas and waste materials in petroleum fossil energy plants. Monitoring the efficiency of flame combustion is of great significance for environmental protection. The traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xing Mu

All flames are extinguished as early as possible, or fire services have to deal with major conflagrations. This leads to the fact that the quality of fire extinguishers has become a very sensitive and important issue in firefighting.…

Over the past few years, wildfires have become a worldwide environmental emergency, resulting in substantial harm to natural habitats and playing a part in the acceleration of climate change. Wildfire management methods involve prevention,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Stanley Chinedu Okoro , Alexander Lopez , Austine Unuriode

Wildfire smoke is transparent, amorphous, and often visually confounded with clouds, making early-stage detection particularly challenging. In this work, we introduce a benchmark, called SmokeBench, to evaluate the ability of multimodal…

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In this paper I will discuss how an intense beam of high energy neutrinos produced with conventional technology could be used to further our understanding of neutrino masses and mixings. I will describe the possibility of building such a…

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The success of high energy physics programs relies heavily on accurate detector simulations and beam interaction modeling. The increasingly complex detector geometries and beam dynamics require sophisticated techniques in order to meet the…

This exposition provides a detailed picture of ongoing and planned activities towards the development of a detector for a high-energy Linear Collider. Cases for which research and development activity does not exist, or needs to be…

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In some experiments and applications there is need for large-area photosensitive detectors to operate at cryogenic temperatures. Nowadays, vacuum PMs are usually used for this purpose. We have developed special designs of planar…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Periale , V. Peskov , C. Iacobaeus , B. Lund-Jensen , P. Pavlopoulos , P. Picchi , F. Pietropaolo

Nuclear physics experiments are always in need of more and more advanced detection systems. During the last years relevant technological developments have come out with many improvements in terms of performance and compactness of detector…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-26 Paolo Finocchiaro

Capacitive devices are customarily used as probes to measure the level of noble liquids in detectors operated for neutrino studies and dark matter searches. In this work we describe the use of a high-temperature superconducting material as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-02-20 A. Bueno , A. J. Melgarejo , J. L. Navarro , S. Navas , A. G. Ruiz

Deep learning-based object detection has demonstrated a significant presence in the practical applications of artificial intelligence. However, objects such as fire and smoke, pose challenges to object detection because of their non-solid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Zeyu Shangguan , Bocheng Hu , Guohua Dai , Yuyu Liu , Darun Tang , Xingqun Jiang