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We develop a discrete optimal transport framework for analyzing simulated annealing algorithms on finite state spaces. Building on the discrete Wasserstein metric introduced by Maas (J. Funct. Anal., 2011), we define a generalized discrete…

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We propose a method to build an astronomical interferometer using continuous variable quantum teleportation to overcome the transmission loss between distant telescopes. The scheme relies on two-mode squeezed states shared by distant…

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This paper presents a novel wireless sensing system where a movable antenna (MA) continuously moves and receives sensing signals within a three-dimensional (3-D) region to enhance sensing performance compared with conventional…

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During training, supervised object detection tries to correctly match the predicted bounding boxes and associated classification scores to the ground truth. This is essential to determine which predictions are to be pushed towards which…

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We propose a multimodal fusion network (MFN) for precise micro-displacement measurement using a modified Michelson interferometer. The model resolves the intrinsic half-wave displacement ambiguity that limits conventional single-wavelength…

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The main focus of beam alignment is to find the optimal beam which yields the largest received signal strength (RSS) with faster speed.In this paper, we demonstrate an efficient beam alignment scheme with our testbed. The algorithm we…

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This paper introduces the use of unbalanced optimal transport methods as a similarity measure for diffeomorphic matching of imaging data. The similarity measure is a key object in diffeomorphic registration methods that, together with the…

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We consider the reconstruction of a two-dimensional discrete image from a set of tomographic measurements corresponding to the Radon projection. Assuming that the image has a structure where neighbouring pixels have a larger probability to…

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