Ten-month-old infants' sensitivity to first-order motion (FOM) defined by luminance and second-order motion (SOM) defined by flickering was measured in an eye-tracking paradigm. We used a small single disc or gratings moving horizontally. Although infants could track the SOM of a small disc, they failed to exhibit smooth pursuit eye movements. They also failed to track SOM gratings with smooth ...

noise, sensitivity, digital cameras, scanners, color, colour We formalize ideas of orthogonality and inner products implicit in the development of a number of figures of merit (FOM, [1]) of colour recording filters. We show that, in negligible measurement noise, the data dependence of each FOM based on linear colour correction is equivalent to a choice of inner product (and hence of orthogonali...

Martin Kuttge,1,* Wei Cai,2,3 F. Javier García de Abajo,2 and Albert Polman4 1Center for Nanophotonics, FOM–Institute AMOLF, Sciencepark 113, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2Instituto de Óptica–CSIC, Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, Spain 3The Key Laboratory of Weak-Light Nonlinear Photonics, Ministry of Education and TEDA Applied Physics School, Nankai University, Tianjin 300457, China 4Center f...

The refractive index sensing properties of plasmonic resonances in gold nanoparticles (nanorods and nanobipyramids) are investigated through numerical simulations. We find that the quadruple resonance in both nanoparticles shows much higher sensing figure of merit (FOM) than its dipolar counterpart, which is attributed mainly to the reduction in resonance linewidth. More importantly, our result...

Over the past ten years, the U.S. military has developed an array of Joint and multi-Service federations to meet specific purposes under slightly different conditions. Each development team independently established a Federation Object Model (FOM) aligned to the specific focus of their federation. The issue under study will identify options and explore the feasibility of reconciling these separ...

The temperature at surface of a silicon die depends on the activity of the circuits placed on it. In this paper, it is analyzed how Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) variations affect simultaneously some figures of merit (FoM) of some digital and analog circuits and the power dissipated by such circuits. It is shown that in some cases, a strong correlation exists between the variation of t...

In this paper, we present a Fano metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structure based on an isosceles triangular cavity resonator for refractive index sensing applications. Due to the specific feeding scheme and asymmetry introduced in the triangular cavity, the resonator exhibits four sharp Fano-like resonances. The behavior of the structure is analyzed in detail and its sensing capabilities demonstrat...

The accuracy of state charge estimation results will directly affect the performance battery management system. Due to such, we focus in this article on SOC Lithium-Ion batteries based a fractional second-order RC model with free noninteger differentiation orders. For such an estimation, three Kalman filters are employed: adaptive extended filter (AEKF), (EKF), and Unscented Filter (UKF). Fract...

A multiple-mode metal-insulator-metal plasmonic sensor with four coupled bowtie resonators containing two pairs of silver baffles is numerically investigated using the finite element method and verified by temporal mode theory. The proposed structure can function as a refractive index glucose sensors working in visible near-infrared wavelength ranges. Simulation results show that introducing ca...

A new model reduction approach is presented for time-dependent topology optimization of elastodynamic problems. Two salient features the are on-the-fly and dual reduction. That is, snapshots reduced basis obtained during rather than through off-line training; primal adjoint equations independently. For reduction, we use two complementary dynamic sampling strategies snapshots: nearest nf full-or...