Display illumination with modulated directional backlight

Illumination is essential for modern life as colorful world is perceived by human visionary system. Display technology has been developing rapidly in recent decades, and the basic principle is related to the way that the image is illuminated and light is emanated. Traditional illumination is provided by different types of light sources, and the display image is visible in large viewing space until the emanating light decays to zero. This work proposes and demonstrates a novel illumination scheme for a display in which the displaying images are visible only in specific spatial regions. The directional backlight ensures the image propagating to specific direction while imaging visibility can be controlled to terminate abruptly at certain distance from the display screen while exerting no influence to nearby regions. The working principle for such an illumination scheme is the use of the modulated coherent directional backlight through an axicon lens. It is shown that the illumination scheme can robustly deliver carried image information to the designated viewing region. This new illumination scheme has many advantages over conventional illumination, including its usage for personal display, very lower energy consumption, as well as minimizing light hazard pollution.     

基于多通路融合网络的高速公路雾天能见度等级识别

雾天是影响高速公路交通安全的重要因素。研究从监控图像进行高速公路雾天能见度的自动识别方法可以为交通管理部门的智能管理和决策提供技术支持。根据大气散射模型分析出与雾浓度相关的多个物理因素,提出了综合这些物理因素的多通路融合识别网络。该网络使用三个通路联合学习深度视觉特征、传输矩阵特征和场景深度特征,并设计注意力融合模块来自适应地融合这三类特征以进行能见度等级识别。同时构建了一个合成数据集和一个真实的高速公路场景数据集,用于网络参数学习和性能评估。实景数据集中的图像是从中国多条高速公路的监控视频中收集的。在这两个数据集上的实验表明,所提方法可以适应不同的监控拍摄场景,能够比现有方法更准确地识别能见度等级,有效提升了识别精度。     

Coarse head pose estimation of construction equipment operators to formulate dynamic blind spots

Several hundred workers die in construction in the United States every year because equipment operators are unable to see their fellow workers during operation of their vehicle. In this paper we propose a step towards improving this situation by providing an automated method based on range imaging for estimating the coarse head orientation of a construction equipment operator. This research utilizes commercially-available low resolution range cameras to measure the continuously changing field-of-view (FOV) of an equipment operator in outdoor construction. This paper presents a methodology to measure so-called dynamic blind spot maps. The dynamic blind spot map is then projected on a known static equipment blind spot map that already exists to each construction vehicle. A robust computational coarse head pose estimation algorithm and results to three different pieces of construction equipment and multiple operators are presented. The developed method has the potential in automatically determining the spaces around vehicles that are currently not in the field-of-view of the vehicle operator thus providing eventually additional means and technology for improving safety in construction.     

Effect of change management capability in real-time environment: an information orientation perspective in supply chain management

Supply chain management (SCM) is an important strategic tool that requires careful planning and management. While the availability of real-time information is a critical aspect of an SCM system, it possesses a potential to disrupt supply chain participants. Thus, the success of an SCM system hinges on how well participants deal with changes taking place in a real-time environment. This study adopts the concept of the real-time enterprise to understand the role of change management on SCM performance based on the concept of the information orientation. The study empirically validated the role of change management on SCM performance.     

基于GIS组件的地下管线系统的设计与实现

目前城市的地下管线错综复杂,传统的人工管理方式已不能满足行政管理部门的决策和各专业管线单位的管理需要。为此文章在对地理信息系统研究的分析的基础上,分析了地下管理系统的开发模式和实现技术,确定了基于GIS组件二次开发的控件和算法,设计并实现了城市地下管线信息系统,在实际的应用中取得了较好的效果。     

An algorithm for recognizing palm polygons

A polygonP is said to be apalm polygon if there exists a pointxP such that the Euclidean shortest path fromx to any pointyP makes only left turns or only right turns. The set of all such pointsx is called thepalm kernel. In this paper we propose an O(E) time algorithm for recognizing a palm polygonP, whereE is the size of the visibility graph ofP. The algorithm recognizes the given polygonP as a palm polygon by computing the palm kernel ofP. If the palm kernel is not empty,P is a palm polygon.The extended abstract of this paper was reported at the Second Canadian Conference in Computational Geometry, pp. 246–251, 1990     

Improving content visibility for high‐ambient‐illumination viewable display and energy‐saving display

Abstract— Nowadays, low‐contrast viewing of LC displays (LCDs) occurs very often, which includes the viewing of mobile LCDs at high ambient illumination and the viewing of LCDs at low‐power mode. These cases result in low‐content visibility and low contrast, leading to an unpleasant viewing experience. In this paper, a technique to improve the perceived contrast and visibility of images at low‐contrast viewing conditions is proposed. The proposed approach enhances image brightness with content and ambient adaptive image brightening and highlights visual parts and boundaries with non‐photorealistic rendering. The proposed technique enables longer battery life for mobile LC devices and makes mobile LC devices viewable at high ambient illumination. It also enables TVs with extreme low‐power consumption and smart‐grid responsive TVs.     

基于障碍物群的k全局相异最优有序路径查询

提出障碍k全局相异最优有序路径的查询问题,利用可视图的思想给出近似查询算法,通过作用集与障碍角度点的引入有效地减少构造可视图障碍对象的数量,分析查询点和数据点构成的线段与可视图的顶点和弧的关系,减少内部障碍路径的计算次数,实现算法的全面优化。实验结果表明,该算法具有较好的性能。     

一种新的协议安全性分析方法

对安全协议的本质求同和存异进行讨论,在保证协议正确性的前提下,以“挑战一响应”为协议分析的基本单位,提出一种利用集合运算分析协议安全性的方法,对Needham-Schroeder协议和Needham-Schroeder-Lowe协议的分析和验证结果表明,该方法具有较好的可行性和有效性。