We present the experimental realization of a quantum dot (QD) operating as a high-frequency noise detector. Current fluctuations produced in a nearby quantum point contact (QPC) ionize the QD and induce transport through excited states. The resulting transient current through the QD represents our detector signal. We investigate its dependence on the QPC transmission and voltage bias. We observ...

We describe a start-timing detector for the PHENIX experiment at the relativistic heavy-ion collider RHIC. The role of the detector is to detect a nuclear collision, provide precise time information with an accuracy of 50ps, and determine the collision point along the beam direction with a resolution of a few cm. Technical challenges are that the detector must be operational in a wide particle-...

Recent works on 3D single object tracking treat the task as a target-specific detection task, where an off-the-shelf detector is commonly employed for tracking. However, it non-trivial to perform accurate since point cloud of objects in raw LiDAR scans usually sparse and incomplete. In this paper, we address issue by explicitly leveraging temporal motion cues propose DMT, Detector-free Motion-p...

Most popular hand-crafted key-point detectors such as Harris corner, SIFT, SURF aim to detect corners, blobs, junctions, or other human-defined structures in images. Though being robust with some geometric transformations, unintended scenarios non-uniform lighting variations could significantly degrade their performance. Hence, a new detector that is flexible context change and simultaneously b...

Natural hazards such as earthquakes have threatened the life of human beings during the history.As a consequence, the vibration mitigation of structures has caught great importance. Activecontrol of structures is one of the rapidly emerging areas in the concept of structural control. Thispaper presents a control method to deal with this subject when the dynamics of the structure ishysteretic an...

There is a fairly old apocryphal quotation stating : “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” [1] attributed at one time to Charles H. Duell of the US Patent office in 1899. We all realize this is an absurd statement, and it is well documented that Duell actually said something quite different and urged the US Congress to encourage the advancement of science as well as to improve th...

The objective of this work is the detection of object classes, such as airplanes or horses. Instead of using a model based on salient image fragments, we show that object class detection is also possible using only the object’s boundary. To this end, we develop a novel learning technique to extract class-discriminative boundary fragments. In addition to their shape, these “codebook” entries als...

Code-division multiple-access (CDMA) is a multiplexing technique that shows significant advantages over analog and conventional time-division multiple access (TDMA) systems. This technology has become a driving force behind the rapidly advancing communications industry. In order to recover the transmitted signal at the receiver in a CDMA system, demodulating techniques are engaged, where a prom...

Salient points are locations in an image where there is a significant variation with respect to a chosen image feature. Since the set of salient points in an image capture important local characteristics of that image, they can form the basis of a good image representation for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Salient features are generally determined from the local differential structure o...

In current common research reports, salient regions are usually defined as those regions that could present the main meaningful or semantic contents. However, there are no uniform saliency metrics that could describe the saliency of implicit image regions. Most common metrics take those regions as salient regions, which have many abrupt changes or some unpredictable characteristics. But, this m...