Template-based methods have been shown to be effective at solving the problem of tracking specific objects, but their large number of free parameters can make them slow to apply and hard to optimise globally. In this work, we propose a template-based method for tracking people with fixed cameras, which automatically detects the number of people in a frame, is robust to occlusions, and can run a...

Highly ordered mesoporous graphitic carbon was synthesized from a simple surfactant-assisted nanocasting route, in which ordered mesoporous silica SBA-15 maintaining its triblock copolymer surfactant was used as a hard template and natural soybean oil (SBO) as a carbon precursor. The hydrophobic domain of the surfactant assisted SBO in infiltration into the template's mesoporous channels. After...

Three-dimensional cubic ordered mesoporous carbons with tunable pore sizes have been synthesized by using cubic Ia3d mesoporous KIT-6 silica as the hard template and boric acid as the pore expanding agent. The prepared ordered mesoporous carbons were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and nitrogen adsorption-desorption anal...

We present a technique to compute over-approximations of the time trajectories of an affine hybrid system using template polyhedra. Such polyhedra are obtained by conjoining a set of inequality templates with varying constant coefficients. Given a set of template expressions, we show the existence of a smallest template polyhedron that is a positive invariant w.r.t to the dynamics of the contin...

Ordered mesoporous Cd(x)Zn(1-x)S ternary compound semiconductors were prepared with a simple nano-casting method using 3-D cubic Ia3d meso-structured silica, KIT-6, as a hard-template with the easily available precursors of 3CdSO4 x 8H2O and ZnSO4 x 7H2O. Thermal reduction of impregnated precursors resulted in the crystalline networks within the mesopore of the silica template, then the ordered...

We present a technique to compute over-approximations of the time trajectories of an affine hybrid system using template polyhedra. Such polyhedra are obtained by conjoining a set of inequality templates with varying constant coefficients. Given a set of template expressions, we show the existence of a smallest template polyhedron that is a positive invariant w.r.t to the dynamics of the contin...

Conducting polymer nanostructures have received increasing attention in both fundamental research and various application fields in recent decades. Compared with bulk conducting polymers, conducting polymer nanostructures are expected to display improved performance in energy storage because of the unique properties arising from their nanoscaled size: high electrical conductivity, large surface...

The Internet presents large amount of useful information which is usually formatted for its users, which makes it hard to extract relevant data from diverse sources. Therefore, there is a significant need of robust, flexible Information Extraction (IE) systems that transform the web pages into program friendly structures such as a relational database will become essential. IE produces structure...

In this study, low-bandgap polymer poly{[4,4-bis(2-ethylhexyl)-cyclopenta-(2,1-b;3,4-b')dithiophen]-2,6-diyl-alt-(2,1,3-benzothiadiazole)-4,7-diyl} (PCPDTBT) nanostructures have been synthesized via a hard nanoporous alumina template of centrifugal process. Centrifuge has been used to infiltrate the PCPDTBT solution into the nanoporous alumina by varying the rotational speeds. The rotational sp...