The science of solid state nuclear track detectors (SSNTDs)—“Trackology”—developed by R.L. Fleischer, P.B. Price and R.M. Walker in the early 1960s of the last century is an interesting and potentially useful concept with something to offer to almost all branches of science and technology. In fact nuclear tracks find applications wherever solid state damage occurs. Apart from the direct applications of far reaching consequences in nuclear physics, other areas as diverse as bio-medical sciences, cosmic rays and space physics, environmental research, geological sciences, material science, microanalysis, mine safety, nuclear technology, uranium prospecting, etc. have been greatly influenced by SSNTDs.
In this presentation, we attempt to provide an overview of the growth of nuclear tracks research in India over the last four decades and the contributions of various groups from Universities, Institutes, Nuclear Track Society of India and the Department of Atomic Energy in nurturing nuclear track research in the country. Finally, a summary of the significant contributions made by Indian scientists is also presented in this paper along with the overall impact it has made at the national and international level in many areas of basic and applied sciences such as cosmic rays and space physics, fusion–fission and particle evaporation, heavy ion ranges and energy-loss measurements, country-wide indoor radon–thoron survey, geochronology, environmental sciences, track-etch membranes and ion tracks technology, material science, physics and chemistry of fission, etc. 相似文献
Super-resolution (SR) reconstruction is an effective method to solve the problem, that the face image resolution is too low to be recognized in video, but the non-rigid change of deformed face and expression changes greatly affect the accuracy of registration and reconstruction. To solve these problems, a method of multi-level model free form deformation (FFD) elastic registration algorithm based on B spline is proposed. It first use low-resolution FFD grid for global registration, to emphasize the contribution of edge information for registration, we introduce edge registration measure into the sum of squared difference (SSD) criterion. Then divide the global registration image and reference image into a series of corresponding sub-image pairs and calculate the correlation coefficient of each pair; at the same time, we do local registration with high-resolution FFD grid to the small value correlation coefficient sub-image pairs. In the registration process of optimization, the paper uses adaptive step length gradient descent method algorithm based on chaotic variables to improve optimization efficiency. After registration, the algorithm of project onto convex sets (POCS) is used to reconstruct SR face image through several low resolution image sequences, and then recognized these SR face images by support vector machines (SVM) classifier. Experimental results from standard video database and self-built video database show that this method can register and reconstruct face image accurately in the condition of great face deformation and expression change, while the face recognition accuracy is also improved. 相似文献