New software developments for quality mesh generation and optimization from biomedical imaging data

In this paper we present a new software toolkit for generating and optimizing surface and volumetric meshes from three-dimensional (3D) biomedical imaging data, targeted at image-based finite element analysis of some biomedical activities in a single material domain. Our toolkit includes a series of geometric processing algorithms including surface re-meshing and quality-guaranteed tetrahedral mesh generation and optimization. All methods described have been encapsulated into a user-friendly graphical interface for easy manipulation and informative visualization of biomedical images and mesh models. Numerous examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the described methods and toolkit.     

A model structure-driven hierarchical decentralized stabilizing control structure for process networks

Based on the structure of process models a hierarchically structured state-space model has been proposed for process networks with controlled mass convection and constant physico-chemical properties. Using the theory of cascade-connected nonlinear systems and the properties of Metzler and Hurwitz matrices it is shown that process systems with controlled mass convection and without sources or with stabilizing linear source terms are globally asymptotically stable. The hierarchically structured model gives rise to a distributed controller structure that is in agreement with the traditional hierarchical process control system structure where local controllers are used for mass inventory control and coordinating controllers are used for optimizing the system dynamics. The proposed distributed controller is illustrated on a simple non-isotherm jacketed chemical reactor.     

数据驱动的冷却水塔建模与节能优化操作

针对冷却水塔的节能操作给出了一种数据驱动的建模与优化方法。首先,基于冷却水塔实际运行数据,应用非负绞杀变量选择方法给出一个自适应模型用于描述冷却水塔过程,该模型对于冷却水塔出口水温具有良好的预测精度。根据变量选择结果,分析了外界空气温度与湿度对冷却能力的影响。然后,提出了基于模型的冷却水塔风机的优化操作策略,并进行实验将之应用于冷却水塔的操作。研究结果显示,基于模型的优化操作具有较大的节能空间。     

Predicting N mineralized in a Georgia Coastal Plain field

The N mineralized from soil organic matter provides an important portion of N available for crop production. The objective of this study was to determine the amount of spatial variability in N mineralization potential in a field and to evaluate three different methods that might be used to estimate this variability. The three methods tested included predicting the N mineralized from surface soil properties as well as from a biological and a chemical procedure. Three soils varying in N mineralization potential were selected for the study from a field in the Georgia Coastal Plain. The N mineralized from these soils was determined by an N balance of unfertilized and cropped plots. The amount of N mineralized could not be reliably predicted from surface soil organic C, although surface soil clay concentration was positively correlated with the N mineralized. The N mineralized that was predicted using mineralization parameters determined by aerobic incubation, adjusted daily for soil water content and temperature, was approximately 50% of the field measurements of N mineralized. The values of NH₄-N extracted with hot 2 M KCl were related significantly to N mineralized in the field (r²= 0.60) and also to the zero order rate constant of mineralization, k₀ (r²= 0.77), determined from the N mineralized in the aerobic laboratory incubation.     

基于视频数据和传递熵的鱼群信息传递网络构建

鱼群中的个体如何通过信息传递从而达到一致的群体运动状态,至今还没有刻画这一现象的统一数学模型.本文阐述了一种利用视频数据和传递熵构建鱼群中个体间信息传递网络的方法.首先用实验获取斑马鱼集群的视频数据,并采用计算机视觉跟踪的方法获取鱼群中每个个体的位置和运动速度,然后利用传递熵计算个体两两之间的信息传递关系,在此基础上构建了鱼群信息传递网络.通过网络分析,揭示了鱼群中个体间的信息交互个数与信息传播速度之间的关系,进一步发现了鱼群信息传递网络中的频繁子结构.本文提供了一种利用探测时间序列间因果关系建立鱼群信息传递网络的方法,为鱼群信息传递研究提供了一种新的思路.     

基于分层的改进A＊算法在路径规划中的应用

智能交通中的路径诱导系统能够极大地提高人们的出行效率与出行体验。经典A＊算法只注重搜索精度而忽略了搜索效率,在城市道路网络分层的基础上,对高层道路使用的A＊算法进行了改进,对于道路网络中的不同节点,设置估价函数具有不同的权值,同时给定权值的一个上下限阈值,以平衡算法的搜索效率与搜索精度。实验表明,得到的最短路径虽然不是常规的距离最短却是实际行驶时间最优的。     

一种新型指纹锁电路设计

市场上主流的电子锁是基于密码设计的。密码锁的最大的缺陷是密码容易被他人窃取、猜测及遗忘。随着生物技术的发展,越来越多的活体技术应用到识别系统中,如指纹、掌纹、人脸、虹膜等。相对于其它的活体识别技术,指纹识别系统以其可实现性强,成本相对低廉,同时又具备较高的安全性,被越来越多的应用到各种场合。文章给出了一种新型的指纹锁架构,并详细论述了系统的各个组成部分以及指纹识别算法的实现流程。文章对降低系统功耗和增加保密性都提出了独特的方法。     

城市慢行交通网络数据建模研究

城市慢行交通系统是现代城市交通系统的重要组成部分,随着多模式城市交通发展,建立便捷和高效的城市慢行交通网络系统成为现代城市解决交通问题和提升交通运行效率的关键措施。基于此,文中应用统一建模语言（UML）和地理标识语言（GML）建立城市慢行交通网络数据模型,提出一种统一的和一致性的交通地理要素定义和性质描述方法,并阐述基于GML的城市慢行交通网络的地理要素和关系表达。研究成果促进了城市交通地理数据的组织、表达、集成、共享和操作,对建立高效的城市慢行交通网络系统具有重要的理论价值。     

融合动态层次聚类和邻域区间重组的蚁群算法

针对蚁群算法搜索速度过慢以及解质量不足等问题,提出一种融合动态层次聚类和邻域区间重组的蚁群算法。在初始阶段,调整层次聚类阈值并按照类间距离最小合并的原则迭代至目标簇集,根据预合并系数进行簇间合并,通过蚁群系统得到小类路径并断开重组以加快算法整体收敛速度;接着使用蚁群系统对解空间进行优化,同时并行处理簇集与簇集邻域区间扩散重组,增加解的多样性,进一步固定迭代次数进行比较,若邻域区间重组解质量优于当前优化解则进行推荐处理,提高解的精度;当算法停滞时,引入调整因子降低各路径信息素之间差异以增强蚂蚁搜索能力,有助于算法跳出局部最优。实验结果表明,在面对大规模问题时,算法的精度在3%左右,该方法相比传统方法可以有效提高解的精度和收敛速度。     

Coupling-and-decoupling: A hierarchical model for occlusion-free object detection

Handling occlusion is a very challenging problem in object detection. This paper presents a method of learning a hierarchical model for X-to-X occlusion-free object detection (e.g., car-to-car and person-to-person occlusions in our experiments). The proposed method is motivated by an intuitive coupling-and-decoupling strategy. In the learning stage, the pair of occluding X?s (e.g., car pairs or person pairs) is represented directly and jointly by a hierarchical And–Or directed acyclic graph (AOG) which accounts for the statistically significant co-occurrence (i.e., coupling). The structure and the parameters of the AOG are learned using the latent structural SVM (LSSVM) framework. In detection, a dynamic programming (DP) algorithm is utilized to find the best parse trees for all sliding windows with detection scores being greater than the learned threshold. Then, the two single X?s are decoupled from the declared detections of X-to-X occluding pairs together with some non-maximum suppression (NMS) post-processing. In experiments, our method is tested on both a roadside-car dataset collected by ourselves (which will be released with this paper) and two public person datasets, the MPII-2Person dataset and the TUD-Crossing dataset. Our method is compared with state-of-the-art deformable part-based methods, and obtains comparable or better detection performance.