This paper presents an efficient hardware-accelerated method for novel view synthesis from a set of images or videos. Our method is based on the photo hull representation, which is the maximal photo-consistent shape. We avoid the explicit reconstruction of photo hulls by adopting a view-dependent plane-sweeping strategy. From the target viewpoint slicing planes are rendered with reference views...

Data collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric B Factory at SLAC are used to measure the lifetimes of the B0 and B+ mesons. The data sample consists of 8.3 fb collected near the Υ (4S) resonance. B0 and B+ mesons are fully reconstructed in several exclusive hadronic decay modes to charm and charmonium final states. The B lifetimes are determined from the flight length differenc...

We summarize the results of the New Gauge Boson Subgroup on the physics of extended gauge sectors at future colliders as presented at the 1996 Snowmass workshop. We discuss the direct and indirect search reaches for new gauge bosons at both hadron and lepton colliders as well as the ability of such machines to extract detailed information on the couplings of these particles to the fermions and ...

This paper addresses the problem of estimating the 3D model of an object from a sequence of images where the object is visible from different point of views. In particular, the paper considers the case of turntable image sequences, i.e. images captured under circular motion. A new method is hence proposed for this problem, which consists of determining the image point correspondences of each 3D...

The Micro Gallery, recently installed at the National Gallery in London, Is a public-access information system. It provides a comprehensive and richly interconnected illustrated encyclopedia of the cdlectlon. The paper summarizes the choice of technology, the system architecture and design issues. The purpose of the system Is to provide a resource to enhance visitors' appreciation of the painti...

We present two extensions to the Space Carving framework. The first is a progressive scheme to better reconstruct surfaces lacking sufficient textures. The second is a novel photo-consistency measure that is valid for both specular and diffuse surfaces, under unknown lighting conditions.

Background & Aims of the Study: Azo dyes are employed in industrial processes such as textile industry to create large quantities of colored sewages that have organic and non-organic materials. So, remediation of them is essential. In this project, degradation and mineralization of Acid red 14 (AR14) that is a mono Azo dye and widely used in the textile industries was investi...

An intensive in-house effort in the past year has produced coatings and devices that will survive the peak 35 1-nm fluence expected in the OMEGA Upgrade. The stringent ultraviolet requirements for the upgrade stem from the decision to place the frequency-conversion crystals in the laser bay (rather than at the target chamber).l At that time, only one report of satisfactory laser-damage threshol...

A broad class of supersymmetric extensions of the standard model predict a Z 0 vector boson whose mass is naturally in the range 250 GeV<MZ0<2 TeV. To avoid unacceptably large mixing with the Z, one requires either a discrete tuning of the U(1)0 charges or a leptophobic Z 0. Both cases are likely to arise as the low energy limits of heterotic string compacti cations, but a survey of existing re...

A broad class of supersymmetric extensions of the standard model predict a Z ′ vector boson whose mass is naturally in the range 250 GeV<MZ′<2 TeV. To avoid unacceptably large mixing with the Z, one requires either a discrete tuning of the U(1) charges or a leptophobic Z . Both cases are likely to arise as the low energy limits of heterotic string compactifications, but a survey of existing rea...