A theory of the probability distribution function (PDF) tails of the blob density in plasma edge turbulence is provided. A simplified model of the fast convective radial transport is used. The theoretically predicted PDF tails corroborate earlier measurements of edge transport, further confirming the strongly non-Gaussian feature of edge transport. It is found that increasing the cross sectiona...

Visual interface systems require object tracking techniques with real-time performance for ubiquitous interaction. A probabilistic framework for a visual tracking system which robustly tracks targets in real-time using color and motion cues is presented. The algorithm is based on particle filtering techniques of the I-Condensation filter. An innovation of the paper is the use of motion cues to ...

We compare two different implementations of a 3D SPECT system model for iterative reconstruction, both of which compensate for non-uniform photon attenuation and depth-dependent system response. One implementation performs fast rotation of images represented using a basis of rectangular voxels, whereas the other represents images using a basis of rotationally symmetric volume elements. In our s...

In the present paper a description of a problem of point vortices on a plane and a sphere in the " internal " variables is discussed. The Hamiltonian equations of motion of vortices on a plane are built on the Lie–Poisson algebras, and in the case of vortices on a sphere on the quadratic Jacobi algebras. The last ones are obtained by deformation of the corresponding linear algebras. Some partia...

Term blob is used with reference to 3D models with smooth shapes which can be described as a liquid in weightlessness. There are several methods of getting blobs. Our main goal has been to present novel method called GSE (Generalized Sphere Equation). GSE method allows getting models which are generalization of classical blobs. This paper includes description of input data, mathematical interpr...

To discover the nonlinear characteristics of pipe flow, we simulated the flow as a sum of many vortex rings. As a first step, we investigated the nonlinear interaction among a maximum of three vortex rings. The pipe wall was replaced by many bound vortices. A free vortex ring moves right or left according to the radius, and that of a particular radius keeps the initial position. The energy of a...

MOTIVATION A new technique, mammalian green fluorescence protein (GFP) reconstitution across synaptic partners (mGRASP), enables mapping mammalian synaptic connectivity with light microscopy. To characterize the locations and distribution of synapses in complex neuronal networks visualized by mGRASP, it is essential to detect mGRASP fluorescence signals with high accuracy. RESULTS We develope...

We propose a novel vortex core line extraction method based on the λ2 vortex region criterion in order to improve the detection of vortex features for 3D flow visualization. The core line is defined as a curve that connects λ2 minima restricted to planes that are perpendicular to the core line. The basic algorithm consists of the following stages: (1) λ2 field construction and isosurface extrac...

A thin-tube vortex method is developed to investigate the intrinsic instability within a counter-rotating vortex pair system and the e ects from the core size and the wavenumbers (or wavelengths). The numerical accuracy and the advantages of the scheme are theoretically estimated. A nearest-neighbour-image method is employed in this three-dimensional vortex simulation. Agreement with Crow’s ins...