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Future long-duration space missions will require in-situ, on-demand manufacturing of tools and components. Photopolymer-based processes are attractive for this purpose due to their low energy requirements, volume efficiency, and precise…

We present a novel method for efficiently producing semi-dense matches across images. Previous detector-free matcher LoFTR has shown remarkable matching capability in handling large-viewpoint change and texture-poor scenarios but suffers…

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Templated copolymerization, in which information stored in the sequence of a heteropolymer template is copied into another polymer product, is the mechanism behind all known methods of genetic information transfer. A key aspect of templated…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Jeremy E. B. Guntoro , Benjamin J. Qureshi , Thomas E. Ouldridge

"Frontalization" is the process of synthesizing frontal facing views of faces appearing in single unconstrained photos. Recent reports have suggested that this process may substantially boost the performance of face recognition systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Tal Hassner , Shai Harel , Eran Paz , Roee Enbar

Metal-halide perovskites (MHPs) have exciting optoelectronic properties and are under investigation for various applications, such as photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, and lasers. An essential step towards exploiting the full potential…

Pose-invariant face recognition has become a challenging problem for modern AI-based face recognition systems. It aims at matching a profile face captured in the wild with a frontal face registered in a database. Existing methods perform…

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The femtosecond laser filamentation is the result of the dynamic interplay between plasma self-focusing and defocusing generated by the multiphoton/tunnel ionization of air molecules. This equilibrium allows the filament to stably propagate…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-04 Yuezheng Wang , Zhi Zhang , Zeliang Zhang , Nan Zhang , Lie Lin , Weiwei Liu

We introduce and experimentally implement Fourier-plane phase synchronization for optical microscopy, and demonstrate its performance with interferometric scattering microscopy. By combining a photothermal phase plate and laser beam…

High-aspect-ratio polymer materials are widely utilized in applications ranging from everyday materials such as clothing to specialized equipment in industrial and medical fields. Traditional fabrication methods, such as extrusion and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Ali Anil Demircali , Jinshi Zhao , Ayhan Aktas , Mohamed EMK Abdelaziz , Burak Temelkuran

Inertial confinement fusion requires a constant search for the most effective materials for improving the efficiency of the compression of the capsule and of the laser-to-target energy transfer. Foams could provide a solution to these…

Current techniques of patterned material deposition require separate steps for patterning and material deposition. The complexity and harsh working conditions post serious limitations for fabrication. Here, we introduce a novel single-step…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Yifan Chen , Siu Fai Hung , Wing Ki Lo , Yang Chen , Yang Shen , Kim Kafenda , Jia Su , Kangwei Xia , Sen Yang

A new flash (ultra-rapid) spark plasma sintering method applicable to various materials systems, regardless of their electrical resistivity, is developed. A number of powders ranging from metals to electrically insulative ceramics have been…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-01 Charles Manière , Geuntak Lee , Eugene A. Olevsky

Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells with an interdigitated back-contact (IBC) exhibit high conversion efficiencies of up to 25.6%. However, due to the sophisticated back-side pattern of the doped layers and electrode structure many…

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This paper revisits the design and optimization of parallel fast finite impulse response (FIR) filters using polyphase decomposition and iterated fast FIR algorithms (FFAs). Parallel FIR filtering enhances computational efficiency and…

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Photonic integration on plastic substrates enables emerging applications ranging from flexible interconnects to conformal sensors on biological tissues. Such devices are traditionally fabricated using pattern transfer, which is complicated…

In Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) process, roughly a 2mm spherical shell made of high density carbon is used as target for laser beams, which compress and heat it to energy levels needed for high fusion yield. These shells are polished…

When a laser passes through underdense plasmas, Raman and Brillouin Backscattering can reflect a substantial portion of the incident laser energy. This is a major loss mechanism, for example, in employing lasers in inertial confinement…

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The theoretical study of laser-induced heating of a transport cargo microcontainer constituting a hollow dielectric microcapsule with water filling and a light absorbing polymer shell is presented. By means of FDTD and FEM techniques, the…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-24 Yury E. Geints

Federated Learning (FL) stands as a prominent distributed learning paradigm among multiple clients to achieve a unified global model without privacy leakage. In contrast to FL, Personalized federated learning aims at serving for each client…

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