Recent spectroscopic observations of intermediate-and high-velocity clouds (IVCs and HVCs) in the Milky Way halo have unveiled the presence of diffuse interstellar molecular hydrogen (H 2) several kpc away from the Galactic disk. Most of this H 2 gas appears to reside in relatively small (∼ 0.1 pc), dense (n H ≈ 30 cm −3) gaseous filaments that probably are part of the cold neutral medium (CNM)...

The cutter runout is very common in machine milling and has a great effect on the surface accuracy. In this paper, a measurement of radial cutter runout in revolving milling tool is proposed by using the laser sensor. A laser beam is projected onto the milling tool edge and subsequently reflected. The diffuse reflection is captured by the sensor and the displacement between the cutter and the l...

Phase front modulation was previously used to refocus light after transmission through scattering media. This process has been adapted here to work in reflection. A liquid crystal spatial light modulator is used to conjugate the phase scattering properties of diffuse reflectors to produce a converging phase front just after reflection. The resultant focused spot had intensity enhancement values...

We work on a Bayesian approach to the estimation of the specular component of a color image, based on the Dichromatic Reflection Model (DRM). The separation of diffuse and specular components is important for color image segmentation, to allow the segmentation algorithms to work on the best estimation of the reflectance of the scene. In this work we postulate a prior and likelihood energies tha...

This paper proposes a three-component bidirectional reflectance distribution function (3C BRDF) model consisting of diffuse, quasi-specular, and glossy components for calculation of effective emissivities of blackbody cavities and then investigates the properties of the new reflection model. The particle swarm optimization method is applied for fitting a 3C BRDF model to measured BRDFs. The mod...

Many natural objects, and in general layered materials, have non-linear reflection behaviour along the wavelengths. An accurate representation of phenomena such as interference and colour separation generally requires a fine spectral representation of light instead of the commonly used RGB components. In this article, we introduce and experiment with a general approach to create similar and con...

By varying the sound-absorption treatments in a simulated classroom, experimental results were compared with analytical and computer predictions of reverberation time. Analytical predictions were made with different absorption exponents, which are the result of different weighting procedures involving room surface areas and the sound-absorption coefficients. Sound scattering was found to influe...

In photometric stereo one of the common problems may be inter-reflections occurring in concave surface parts of the object. They may locally blur the images in shade, resulting in a locally distorted shape. The effects may be more significant with increasing curvature of the concavity. Another problem may be non-Lambertian reflection, in which case shape reconstruction based on the Lambertian r...

In this paper, we develop a numerical scheme for the interface problem in the planar symmetric radiative transfer equation with isotropic scattering. Such problems arise in the modeling of the propagation of energy density for waves in heterogeneous media with weak random fluctuation in the high frequency regime. The idea, following the earlier work of Jin and Wen for regular transmission and r...

We consider the problem of simultaneously estimating surface texture map and the pseudo illumination, which is the combined effect of illumination and surface BRDF, given the object geometry and its calibrated images taken from multiple viewpoints. We derive the bilinear reflection equation that relates the texture albedos and the pseudo illumination to the surface reflectance. The reflection e...