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The early detection of terrorist threat objects, such as guns and knives, through improved metal detection, has the potential to reduce the number of attacks and improve public safety and security. To achieve this, there is considerable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-14 B. A. Wilson , P. D. Ledger , W. R. B. Lionheart

The measurement of time-harmonic perturbed field data, at a range of frequencies, is beneficial for practical metal detection where the goal is to locate and identify hidden targets. In particular, these benefits are realised when frequency…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-01-08 P. D. Ledger , W. R. B. Lionheart

Purpose: Magnetic polarizability tensors (MPTs) provide an economical characterisation of conducting magnetic metallic objects and their spectral signature can aid in the solution of metal detection inverse problems, such as scrap metal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 James Elgy , Paul D. Ledger

Our interest lies in the identification of hidden conducting permeable objects from measurements of the perturbed magnetic field in metal detection taken over range of low frequencies. The magnetic polarizability tensor (MPT) provides a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-22 B. A. Wilson , P. D. Ledger

Realistic applications in metal detection involve multiple inhomogeneous conducting permeable objects and the aim of this paper is to characterise such objects by polarizability tensors. We show that, for the eddy current model, the leading…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-09-25 P. D. Ledger , W. R. B. Lionheart , A. A. S. Amad

We introduce a new type of object characterisation, which is capable of accurately describing small isolated inclusions for potential field inverse problems such as in electrostatics, magnetostatics and related low frequency Maxwell…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-08 P. D. Ledger , W. R. B. Lionheart

High-dimensional wireless power transfer (WPT) systems have received increasing attention for charging mobile devices. With the receivers have higher spatial freedom, the systems are more susceptible to the metal objects in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Zixi Liu , Qi Zhu , Mei Su

The inductive response of an object to an oscillating magnetic field reveals information about its electrical conductivity and magnetic permeability. Here we introduce a technique that uses measurements of the angular, frequency and spatial…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 R. Gartman , W. Chalupczak

The Polar Mellin Transform (PMT) is a well-known technique that converts images into shift, scale and rotation invariant signatures for object detection using opto-electronic correlators. However, this technique cannot be properly applied…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Xi Shen , Julian Gamboa , Tabassom Hamidfar , Shamima Mitu , Selim M. Shahriar

To leverage advancements in machine learning for metallic materials design and property prediction, it is crucial to develop a data-reduced representation of metal microstructures that surpasses the limitations of current physics-based…

For more than twenty years, Ray Tracing methods have continued to improve on both accuracy and computational time aspects. However, most state-of-the-art image-based ray tracers still rely on a description of the environment that only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Jérome Eertmans , Claude Oestges , Laurent Jacques

Current mathematical models for identifying highly conducting buried objects in metal detection assume that the soil is non-conducting and has the same permeability as free space. However, although the electrical conductivity of soil is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-08 P. D. Ledger , W. R. B. Lionheart

Significant progress in many classes of materials could be made with the availability of experimentally-derived large datasets composed of atomic identities and three-dimensional coordinates. Methods for visualizing the local atomic…

Metallic materials such as brass, copper, and aluminum are used in numerous applications, including industrial manufacturing. The vibration characteristics of these objects are unique and can be used to identify these objects from a…

We present new alternative complete asymptotic expansions for the time harmonic low--frequency magnetic field perturbation caused by the presence of a conducting permeable object as its size tends to zero for the eddy current approximation…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-11 P. D. Ledger , W. R. B. Lionheart

The aim of this paper is to provide a fast and efficient procedure for (real-time) target identification in imaging based on matching on a dictionary of precomputed generalized polarization tensors (GPTs). The approach is based on some…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-02-27 Habib Ammari , Thomas Boulier , Josselin Garnier , Wenjia Jing , Hyœnbæ Kang , Han Wang

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) pose a significant security risk to organizations and industries. These attacks often lead to severe data breaches and compromise the system for a long time. Mitigating these sophisticated attacks is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Ehsan Hallaji , Roozbeh Razavi-Far , Mehrdad Saif

Recognizing an object's material can inform a robot on the object's fragility or appropriate use. To estimate an object's material during manipulation, many prior works have explored the use of haptic sensing. In this paper, we explore a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Zackory Erickson , Nathan Luskey , Sonia Chernova , Charles C. Kemp

Advances in vectorial polarisation-resolved imaging are bringing new capabilities to applications ranging from fundamental physics through to clinical diagnosis. Imaging polarimetry requires determination of the Mueller matrix (MM) at every…

Infrared pulse thermography non-destructive testing (NDT) method is developed based on the difference in the infrared radiation intensity emitted by defective and non-defective areas of an object. However, when the radiation intensity of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Xianyu Wu , Bin Zhou , Peng Lin , Rongjin Cao , Feng Huang
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