Research on encoding and decoding of non-binary polar codes over GF(2m)

Binary Polar Codes (BPCs) have advantages of high-efficiency and capacity-achieving but suffer from large latency due to the Successive-Cancellation List (SCL) decoding. Non-Binary Polar Codes (NBPCs) have been investigated to obtain the performance gains and reduce latency under the implementation of parallel architectures for multi-bit decoding. However, most of the existing works only focus on the Reed-Solomon matrix-based NBPCs and the probability domain-based non-binary polar decoding, which lack flexible structure and have a large computation amount in the decoding process, while little attention has been paid to general non-binary kernel-based NBPCs and Log-Likelihood Ratio (LLR) based decoding methods. In this paper, we consider a scheme of NBPCs with a general structure over GF(2^m). Specifically, we pursue a detailed Monte-Carlo simulation implementation to determine the construction for proposed NBPCs. For non-binary polar decoding, an SCL decoding based on LLRs is proposed for NBPCs, which can be implemented with non-binary kernels of arbitrary size. Moreover, we propose a Perfect Polarization-Based SCL (PPB-SCL) algorithm based on LLRs to reduce decoding complexity by deriving a new update function of path metric for NBPCs and eliminating the path splitting process at perfect polarized (i.e., highly reliable) positions. Simulation results show that the bit error rate of the proposed NBPCs significantly outperforms that of BPCs. In addition, the proposed PPB-SCL decoding obtains about a 40% complexity reduction of SCL decoding for NBPCs.     

基于智能手机平台的计算光学显微成像技术研究综述

计算光学显微成像技术将光学编码和计算解码相结合,通过光学操作和图像算法重建来恢复微观物体的多维信息,为显微成像技术突破传统成像能力提供了强大的助力。这项技术的发展得益于现代光学系统、图像传感器以及高性能数据处理设备的优化,同时也被先进的通信技术和设备的发展所赋能。智能手机平台作为高度集成化的电子设备,具有先进的图像传感器和高性能的处理器,可以采集光学系统的图像并运行图像处理算法,为计算光学显微成像技术的实现创造了全新的方式。进一步地,作为可移动通信终端,智能手机平台开放的操作系统和多样的无线网络接入方法,赋予了显微镜灵活智能化操控能力与丰富的显示和处理分析功能,可用于实现各种复杂环境下多样化的生物学检测应用。文中从四个方面综述了基于智能手机平台的计算光学显微成像技术,首先综述了智能手机平台作为光学成像器件的新型显微成像光路设计,接下来介绍了基于智能手机平台先进传感器的计算光学高通量显微成像技术,然后介绍了智能手机平台的数据处理能力和互联能力在计算显微成像中的应用,最后讨论了这项技术现存在的一些问题及解决方向。     

采用自适应模糊优化的目标跟踪加速方案

目标跟踪作为计算机视觉的重要方向之一,在自动驾驶、安防监控等方面有着广泛的应用,但是目标跟踪算法还无法有效地运行在嵌入式设备上。针对目标跟踪算法计算量大、复杂度高,难以部署在资源受限的嵌入式设备的问题,提出了一种基于相关滤波目标跟踪的加速方案。首先采用自适应模糊算法优化了跟踪算法整体运算量,它可以根据目标跟踪框的尺寸判定是否降低图像质量。其次采用了跟踪响应结果的峰值旁瓣比与平均相关能量比判据来评估跟踪结果的可信度,从而实现跟踪模型的自适应更新以及目标位置的重搜索。最后基于FPGA并行实现相关运算和跟踪检测器训练阶段的矩阵相乘运算,以提升算法实时能效性。所提出的加速算法基于PYNQ-Z2进行硬件测试,并在OTB-2015跟踪数据集上进行验证,该算法的跟踪精度与跟踪实时性分别为65.8%,17.28 frame/s,相比于原始算法,跟踪精度、跟踪实时分别提高了9.12%、703.7%。     

Unraveling the Charge Storage and Activity-Enhancing Mechanisms of Zn-Doping Perovskite Fluorides and Engineering the Electrodes and Electrolytes for Wide-Temperature Aqueous Supercabatteries

Herein, a trimetallic Ni–Co–Zn perovskite fluoride (ABF₃) (denoted as KNCZF) electrode material is explored for advanced aqueous supercabatteries (ASCBs), with KNCZF and activated carbon–FeBiCu@reduced graphene oxides (AC–FeBiCu@rGO) as cathode and anode, respectively, which outperform aqueous supercapacitors (ASCs) and batteries (ABs) with AC and FeBiCu@rGO anodes because of the synergistic effect of pseudocapacitive (KNCZF), capacitive (AC), and faradaic (FeBiCu@rGO) responses. One of the important findings is that the KNCZF shows a typical bulk phase conversion mechanism for charge storage in the alkaline media with the transition of ABF₃ perovskite nanocrystals into amorphous metal oxides/(oxy)hydroxides nanosheets, showing the redox-active and redox-inert roles for the Ni/Co and Zn species, respectively, which can be deduced by various ex-situ techniques. Another interesting finding is that the redox-inert Zn species largely enhance the activity of Ni/Co redox-active species in the ABF₃ materials, mainly owing to the promotion of surface electroactive sites, adsorption of OH^?, and charge transfer of surface Ni/Co atoms by Zn-doping, which can be proved by ex-situ characterizations and theoretical calculations. Overall, this study reveals the structure–activity relationship and charge storage mechanisms of Zn-doping ABF₃ materials for advanced ASCBs, showing a great impact on developing advanced electrochemical energy storage.     

Kinetics issues of CuBr lasers with added hydrogen

A computational kinetics model of the CuBr laser with added hydrogen is presented. The space-time behaviour of the lasers and lasants is described in detail. Besides the discharge field, it is confirmed that the dissociation/recombination of the CuBr molecule plays an important role in the plasma electron temperature. The radial field, which peaks at 30% of the discharge field and has two opposite directions along the radius, results in the skin of electron density and the black centre of the large-bore laser beam.     

Chemistry of 1-Alkoxy-1-glycosyl Radicals: The Manno- and Rhamnopyranosyl Series. Inversion of alpha- to beta-Pyranosides and the Fragmentation of Anomeric Radicals

The formation and stereoselective quenching of 1-mannopyranosyl radicals by a tributyltin hydride-mediated intramolecular 1,5-hydrogen abstraction sequence is described. A competing process is 1,4-hydrogen atom abstraction leading principally to glucopyran-2-ulosides. Fragmentation of the anomeric radical resulting in the formation of ring opened products is a problem in certain series. The chemistry is dictated to a considerable extent by the nature of the protecting groups employed with the 4,6-benzylidene series and, for rhamnose, the Ley 3,4-dispiroketal, being particularly susceptible to the 1,4-hydrogen atom abstraction but less to the fragmentation. Photochemical conditions are described, in which these side reactions are practically eliminated, and applied to the inversion of an alpha- to a beta-mannoside in a disaccharide.     

High sensitivity flow-based analysis system using a semiconductor laser and thin long flow-through cell for the determination of total phosphorus in water

A highly sensitive detection system using a semiconductor laser (SCL) and a thin long flow-through cell (TLFCT) to match flow-based analysis, such as flow injection analysis (FIA), has been developed. The SCL was a GaAlAs semiconductor laser emitting at 780 nm (5 mW), and the TLFTC, which has a 100 mm thin long light path, was made of a poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) rod. The sensitivity was essentially improved about 10-fold in comparison to usual FIA-spectrophotometry using a 10 mm conventional flow cell. When this detection system was applied to the determination of total phosphorus (P) in water by molybdenum-blue spectrophotometry, the relative standard deviation, detection limit and linear range were 1.0% (n = 10 at 20 mug P 1(-1)), 0.6 (3 sigma) and 1.0-50 mug P 1(-1), respectively, and the results for the samples were fairly consistent with those by the official method. It may also be possible to apply the present detection system to other flow-based analytical methods such as the liquid chromatography family.