This chapter discusses the challenges of automating surveillance and reconnaissance tasks for infra-red visual data obtained from aerial platforms. These problems have gained significant importance over the years, especially with the advent of lightweight and reliable imaging devices. Detection and tracking of objects of interest has traditionally been an area of interest in the computer vision...

Various infra-red and planar chiral metamaterials were fabricated using the modified Nanospherical-Lens Lithography. By replacing the light source with a hand-held ultraviolet lamp, its asymmetric light emission pattern produces the elliptical-shaped photoresist holes after passing through the spheres. The long axis of the ellipse is parallel to the lamp direction. The fabricated ellipse arrays...

We study the infra-red dynamics of D1-branes at the conifold. We show using methods developed to study the infra-red dynamics of (4, 4) theories, the infra-red degrees of freedom of the (2, 2) theory of a single D1-brane at the conifold is that of a linear dilaton with background charge of √ 2 and a compact scalar. The gauge theory of N D1-branes at the conifold is used to formulate the matrix ...

Three experiments demonstrate that infra-red spectroscopic measures of bone mineral crystallinity are partially dependent upon sample preparation methods. Intensive grinding of bone samples for Fourier transform infra-red (FTIR) spectroscopic analysis results in a net decrease in splitting factor (SF), a common measure of apatite crystallinity. If grinding is overly intensive, SF measurement ma...

We investigate the infra-red stability of the fixed points in the evolution of the Yukawa couplings, A-parameters and soft scalar masses in a broad class of supersymmetric theories. We show that the issue of stability is essentially determined in all three cases by the eigenvalues of the same matrix. In a very wide range of physically interesting theories it follows that, in the asymptotically ...

The Coulomb gauge has a long history and many uses. It is especially useful in bound state applications. An important feature of this gauge is that the matter fields have an infra-red finite propagator in an on-shell renormalisation scheme. This is, however, only the case if the renormalisation point is chosen to be the static point on the mass-shell, p = (m, 0, 0, 0). In this letter we show ho...