The design and artificial realization of a controller of pulse coupling feedback

In this paper a controller of pulse coupling feedback （PCF） is designed to control chaotic systems. Control principles and the technique to select the feedback coefficients are introduced. This controller is theoretically studied with a three dimensional （3D） chaotic system. The artificial simulation results show that the chaotic system can be stabilized to different periodic orbits by using the PCF method, and the number of the periodic orbits are 2^n×3^m p （n and m are integers）. Therefore, this control method is effective and practical.

An improved pulse coupled neural networks model for semantic IoT

In recent years,the Internet of Things(IoT)has gradually developed applications such as collecting sensory data and building intelligent services,which has led to an explosion in mobile data traffic.Meanwhile,with the rapid development of artificial intelligence,semantic communication has attracted great attention as a new communication paradigm.However,for IoT devices,however,processing image information efficiently in real time is an essential task for the rapid transmission of semantic information.With the increase of model parameters in deep learning methods,the model inference time in sensor devices continues to increase.In contrast,the Pulse Coupled Neural Network(PCNN)has fewer parameters,making it more suitable for processing real-time scene tasks such as image segmentation,which lays the foundation for real-time,effective,and accurate image transmission.However,the parameters of PCNN are determined by trial and error,which limits its application.To overcome this limitation,an Improved Pulse Coupled Neural Networks(IPCNN)model is proposed in this work.The IPCNN constructs the connection between the static properties of the input image and the dynamic properties of the neurons,and all its parameters are set adaptively,which avoids the inconvenience of manual setting in traditional methods and improves the adaptability of parameters to different types of images.Experimental segmentation results demonstrate the validity and efficiency of the proposed self-adaptive parameter setting method of IPCNN on the gray images and natural images from the Matlab and Berkeley Segmentation Datasets.The IPCNN method achieves a better segmentation result without training,providing a new solution for the real-time transmission of image semantic information.

Study on the Methane Coupling under Pulse Corona Plasma by Using CO_2 as Oxidant

In this paper, the conversion of CO2/CH4 by using pulse corona plasma was studied at atmospheric pressure and ambient temperature. The effects of ratio of CO2/CH4, pulse voltage and repeated frequency of plasma discharge were first studied in the system.

Core-Excited Molecules by Resonant Intense X-Ray Pulses Involving Electron-Rotation Coupling

It has been reported that electron-rotation coupling plays a significant role in diatomic nuclear dynamics induced by intense VUV pulses [Phys. Rev. A 102(2020) 033114;Phys. Rev. Res. 2(2020) 043348]. As a further step, we present here investigations of the electron-rotation coupling effect in the presence of Auger decay channel for core-excited molecules, based on theoretical modeling of the total electron yield(TEY), resonant Auger scattering(RAS) and x-ray absorption spectra(XAS) for two showcases of CO and CH^(+) molecules excited by resonant intense x-ray pulses. The Wigner D-functions and the universal transition dipole operators are introduced to include the electron-rotation coupling for the core-excitation process. It is shown that with the pulse intensity up to 10^(16) W/cm^(2), no sufficient influence of the electron-rotation coupling on the TEY and RAS spectra can be observed. This can be explained by a suppression of the induced electron-rotation dynamics due to the fast Auger decay channel, which does not allow for effective Rabi cycling even at extreme field intensities,contrary to transitions in optical or VUV range. For the case of XAS, however, relative errors of about 10% and 30% are observed for the case of CO and CH^(+), respectively, when the electron-rotation coupling is neglected.It is concluded that conventional treatment of the photoexcitation, neglecting the electron-rotation coupling,can be safely and efficiently employed to study dynamics at the x-ray transitions by means of electron emission spectroscopy, yet the approximation breaks down for nonlinear processes as stimulated emission, especially for systems with light atoms.

Anti-noise performance of the pulse coupled neural network applied in discrimination of neutron and gamma-ray

In this study,the anti-noise performance of a pulse-coupled neural network(PCNN)was investigated in the neutron and gamma-ray(n-γ)discrimination field.The experiments were conducted in two groups.In the first group,radiation pulse signals were pre-processed using a Fourier filter to reduce the original noise in the signals,whereas in the second group,the original noise was left untouched to simulate an extremely high-noise scenario.For each part,artificial Gaussian noise with different intensity levels was added to the signals prior to the discrimination process.In the aforementioned conditions,the performance of the PCNN was evaluated and compared with five other commonly used methods of n-γdiscrimination:(1)zero crossing,(2)charge comparison,(3)vector projection,(4)falling edge percentage slope,and(5)frequency gradient analysis.The experimental results showed that the PCNN method significantly outperforms other methods with outstanding FoM-value at all noise levels.Furthermore,the fluctuations in FoM-value of PCNN were significantly better than those obtained via other methods at most noise levels and only slightly worse than those obtained via the charge comparison and zerocrossing methods under extreme noise conditions.Additionally,the changing patterns and fluctuations of the FoMvalue were evaluated under different noise conditions.Hence,based on the results,the parameter selection strategy of the PCNN was presented.In conclusion,the PCNN method is suitable for use in high-noise application scenarios for n-γdiscrimination because of its stability and remarkable discrimination performance.It does not rely on strict parameter settings and can realize satisfactory performance over a wide parameter range.

Spatio-temporal measurements of overshoot phenomenon in pulsed inductively coupled discharge

Pulse inductively coupled plasma has been widely used in the microelectronics industry,but the existence of overshoot phenomenon may affect the uniformity of plasma and generate high-energy ions,which could damage the chip.The overshoot phenomenon at various spatial locations in pulsed inductively coupled Ar and Ar/CF_(4) discharges is studied in this work.The electron density,effective electron temperature,relative light intensity,and electron energy probability function(EEPF) are measured by using a time-resolved Langmuir probe and an optical probe,as a function of axial and radial locations.At the initial stage of pulse,both electron density and relative light intensity exhibit overshoot phenomenon,i.e.,they first increase to a peak value and then decrease to a convergent value.The overshoot phenomenon gradually decays,when the probe moves away from the coils.Meanwhile,a delay appears in the variation of the electron densities,and the effective electron temperature decreases,which may be related to the reduced strength of electric field at a distance,and the consequent fewer high-energy electrons,inducing limited ionization and excitation rate.The overshoot phenomenon gradually disappears and the electron density decreases,when the probe moves away from reactor centre.In Ar/CF_(4) discharge,the overshoot phenomenon of electron density is weaker than that in the Ar discharge,and the plasma reaches a steady density within a much shorter time,which is probably due to the more ionization channels and lower ionization thresholds in the Ar/CF_(4) plasma.

Irregular Segmented Region Compression Coding Based on Pulse Coupled Neural Network

An irregular segmented region coding algorithm based on pulse coupled neural network(PCNN) is presented. PCNN has the property of pulse-coupled and changeable threshold, through which these adjacent pixels with approximate gray values can be activated simultaneously. One can draw a conclusion that PCNN has the advantage of realizing the regional segmentation, and the details of original image can be achieved by the parameter adjustment of segmented images, and at the same time, the trivial segmented regions can be avoided. For the better approximation of irregular segmented regions, the Gram-Schmidt method, by which a group of orthonormal basis functions is constructed from a group of linear independent initial base functions, is adopted. Because of the orthonormal reconstructing method, the quality of reconstructed image can be greatly improved and the progressive image transmission will also be possible.

Comparative study of travelling-wave and numerical solutions for the coupled short pulse (CSP) equation

The Lie symmetry analysis is performed for the coupled short plus （CSP） equation. We derive the infinitesimals that admit the classical symmetry group. Five types arise depending on the nature of the Lie symmetry generator. In all types, we find reductions in terms of system of ordinary differential equations, and exact solutions of the CSP equation are derived, which are compared with numerical solutions using the classical fourth-order Runge-Kutta scheme.

Modeling of the nanoparticle coagulation in pulsed radio-frequency capacitively coupled C_2H_2 discharges

The role of pulse parameters on nanoparticle property is investigated self-consistently based on a couple of fluid model and aerosol dynamics model in a capacitively coupled parallel-plate acetylene（C2H2） discharge. In this model, the mass continuity equation, momentum balance equation, and energy balance equation for neutral gas are taken into account.Thus, the thermophoretic force arises when a gas temperature gradient exists. The typical results of this model are positive and negative ion densities, electron impact collisions rates, nanoparticle density, and charge distributions. The simulation is performed for duty ratio 0.4/0.7/1.0, as well as pulse modulation frequency from 40 kHz to 2.7 MHz for pure C2H2 discharges at a pressure of 500 mTorr. We find that the pulse parameters, especially the duty ratio, have a great affect on the dissociative attachment coefficient and the negative density. More importantly, by decreasing the duty ratio, nanoparticles start to diffuse to the wall. Under the action of gas flow, nanoparticle density peak is created in front of the pulse electrode,where the gas temperature is smaller.

Automated retinal blood vessels segmentation based on simplified PCNN and fast 2D-Otsu algorithm

According to the characteristics of dynamic firing in pulse coupled neural network (PCNN) and regional configuration in retinal blood vessel network, a new method combined with simplified PCNN and fast 2D-Otsu algorithm was proposed for automated retinal blood vessels segmentation. Firstly, 2D Gaussian matched filter was used to enhance the retinal images and simplified PCNN was employed to segment the blood vessels by firing neighborhood neurons. Then, fast 2D-Otsu algorithm was introduced to search the best segmentation results and iteration times with less computation time. Finally, the whole vessel network was obtained via analyzing the regional connectivity. Experiments implemented on the public Hoover database indicate that this new method gets a 0.803 5 true positive rate and a 0.028 0 false positive rate on an average. According to the test results, compared with Hoover algorithm and method of PCNN and 1D-Otsu, the proposed method shows much better performance.

Numerical simulation of direct shear tests on mechanical properties of talus deposits based on self-adaptive PCNN digital image processing

The macro mechanical properties of materials with characteristics of large scale and complicated structural composition can be analyzed through its reconstructed meso-structures.In this work,the meso-structures of talus deposits that widely exist in the hydro-power engineering in the southwest of China were first reconstructed by small particles according to the in-situ photographs based on the self-adaptive PCNN digital image processing,and then numerical direct shear tests were carried out for studying the mechanical properties of talus deposits.Results indicate that the reconstructed meso-structures of talus deposits are more consistent with the actual situation because the self-adaptive PCNN digital image processing has a higher discrimination in the details of soil-rock segmentation.The existence and random distribution of rock blocks make the initial shear stiffness,the peak strength and the residual strength higher than those of the "pure soil" with particle size less than 1.25 cm apparently,but reduce the displacements required for the talus deposits reaching its peak shear strength.The increase of rock proportion causes a significant improvement in the internal friction angle of talus deposit,which to a certain degree leads to the characteristics of shear stress-displacement curves having a changing trend from the plastic strain softening deformation to the nonlinear strain hardening deformation,while an unconspicuous increase in cohesion.The uncertainty and heterogeneity of rock distributions cause the differences of rock proportion within shear zone,leading to a relatively strong fluctuation in peak strengths during the shear process,while movement features of rock blocks,such as translation,rotation and crossing,expand the scope of shear zone,increase the required shear force,and also directly lead to the misjudgment that the lower shear strength is obtained from the samples with high rock proportion.That,however,just explains the reason why the shear strength gained from a small amount of indoor test data is not consistent with engineering practice.

PCNN based image processing and feature extraction of dual-bypass gas metal arc weld pool

In manual welding process, skilled welders can adjust the welding parameters to ensure the weld quality through their observation of the weld pool surface. In order to acquire useful information of the weld pool for control of the welding process and realizing the automatic welding, the measurement system of DB-GMA W process was established and the weld pool image was obtained by passive vision. Then, three image processing algorithms, Sobel, Canny, and pulse coupled neural network （PCNN） were detailed and applied to extracting the edge of the DB-GMA weld pool. In addition, a scheme was proposed for calculating the length, maximum width and superficial area of the weld pool under different welding conditions. The compared results show that the PCNN algorithm can be used for extracting the edge of the weld pool and the obtained information is more useful and accurate. The calculated results coincide with the actual measurement well, which demonstrates that the proposed algorithm is effective, its imaging processing time is required only 20 ms, which can completely meet the requirement of real-time control.

Shadow detection combining characters of human vision

A shadow detection method using pulse couple neural network inspired by the characters of human visual system is proposed.More precisely,lateral inhibition of human vision and coefficient of variation are combined together to improve the pulse couple neural network.Shadow detection is considered to be a shadow region segmentation problem.Experiment shows that the presented method is consistent with human vision compared to shadow detection methods based on HSV and pulse couple neural network(PCNN) by both subjective and objective assessments.

Effect of ballistic electrons on ultrafast thermomechanical responses of a thin metal film

The ultrafast thermomechanical coupling problem in a thin gold film irradiated by ultrashort laser pulses with different electron ballistic depths is investigated via the ultrafast thermoelasticity model. The solution of the problem is obtained by solving finite element governing equations. The comparison between the results of ultrafast thermomechanical coupling responses with different electron ballistic depths is made to show the ballistic electron effect. It is found that the ballistic electrons have a significant influence on the ultrafast thermomechanical coupling behaviors of the gold thin film and the best laser micromachining results can be achieved by choosing the specific laser technology（large or small ballistic range）.In addition, the influence of simplification of the ultrashort laser pulse source on the results is studied, and it is found that the simplification has a great influence on the thermomechanical responses, which implies that care should be taken when the simplified form of the laser source term is applied as the Gaussian heat source.

Image edge detection based on pulse coupled neural network and modulus maxima in non-subsampled contourlet domain

Edge is the intrinsic geometric structure of an image. Edge detection methods are the key technologies in the lleld of image processing. In this paper, a multi-scale image edge detection method is proposed to effectively extract image geometric features. A source image is decomposed into the high frequency directional sub-bands coefficients and the low frequency sub-bands coefficients by non-subampled contourlet transform （NSCT）. The high frequency sub-bands coefficients are used to detect the abundant details of the image edges by the modulus maxima （MM） algorithm. The low frequency sub-band coefficients are used to detect the basic contour line of the image edges by the pulse coupled neural network （PCNN）. The final edge detection image is reconstructed with detected edge information at different scales and different directional sub-bands in the NSCT domain. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms several state-of-art image edge detection methods in both visual effects and objective evaluation.

Filtering images contaminated with pep and salt type noise with pulse-coupled neural networks

Pulse coupled neural network (PCNN) has a specific feature that the fire of one neuron can capture its adjacent neurons to fire due to their spatial proximity and intensity similarity. In this paper, it is indicated that this feature itself is a very good mechanism for image filtering when the image is damaged with pep and salt (PAS) type noise. An adaptive filtering method, in which the noisy pixels are first located and then filtered based on the output of the PCNN, is presented. The threshold function of a neuron in the PCNN is designed when it is used for filtering random PAS and extreme PAS noise contaminated image respectively. The filtered image has no distortion for noisy pixels and only less mistiness for non-noisy pixels, compared with the conventional window-based filtering method. Excellent experimental results show great effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method, especially for heavy-noise contaminated images.

Pulse Coupled Neural Network Edge-Based Algorithm for Image Text Locating

This paper presents a method for locating text based on a simplified pulse coupled neural network （PCNN）. The PCNN generates a firings map in a similar way to the human visual system with non-linear image processing. The PCNN is used to segment the original image into different planes and edges detected using both the PCNN firings map and a phase congruency detector. The different edges are integrated using an automatically adjusted weighting coefficient. Both the simplified PCNN and the phase congruency energy model in the frequency domain imitate the human visual system. This paper shows how to use PCNN by changing the compute space from the spatial domain to the frequency domain for solving the text location problem. The algorithm is a simplified PCNN edge-based （PCNNE） algorithm. Three comparison tests are used to evaluate the algorithm. Tests on large data sets show PCNNE efficiently detects texts with various colors, font sizes, positions, and uneven illumination. This method outperforms several traditional methods both in text detection rate and text detection accuracy.

Conservation laws of the complex short pulse equation and coupled complex short pulse equations

In this paper, the complex short pulse equation and the coupled complex short pulse equations that can describe the ultra-short pulse propagation in optical fibers are investigated. The two complex nonlinear models are turned into multi-component real models by proper transformations. Lie symmetries are obtained via the classical Lie group method, and the results for the coupled complex short pulse equations contain the existing results as particular cases.Based on the linearizing operator and adjoint linearizing operator for the two real systems,adjoint symmetries can be obtained. Explicit conservation laws are constructed using the symmetry/adjoint symmetry pair(SA) method. Relationships between the nonlinear selfadjointness method and the SA method are investigated.

基于PCNN图像分割的医学图像融合算法

为充分提取源图像间的互补信息,改进传统的图像融合算法在亮度维持、能量保留、边缘信息保持等方面的不足,本文提出了基于脉冲耦合神经网络(pulse coupled neural network, PCNN)图像分割的医学图像融合算法。该算法综合了非下采样剪切波变换(non-subsampled shearlet transform, NSST)与PCNN。首先,选取标准差较大的源图像作为被分割图像,标准差较小的源图像作为参照图像,将源图像进行NSST分解,获取源图像低频子带系数和高频子带系数;在低频融合中,利用参数自适应的PCNN对被分割图像的低频子带进行分割,根据分割结果获取融合低频子带系数;在高频融合中,采用以区域能量和与拉普拉斯能量和两者的乘积作为判断函数,获取融合高频子带系数;利用NSST逆变换获取融合图像。最后,应用本文提出的算法,对脑萎缩、急性中风和高血压性脑病等3组电脑断层扫描/磁共振成像(computerized tomography/magnetic resonance imaging, CT/MRI)图像进行了融合仿真,并将仿真结果与2018年后国际刊上提出的5种算法的融合图像进行比较。结果表明,应用本文提出的融合算法得到的图像,有效地增强了不同模态间的信息互补,保持了融合图像与源图像具有相同明亮程度,又保留了源图像低亮度部分的边缘信息,更加符合人眼视觉特性,具有更高的客观评价指标。

Medical Image Segmentation using PCNN based on Multi-feature Grey Wolf Optimizer Bionic Algorithm

Medical image segmentation is a challenging task especially in multimodality medical image analysis.In this paper,an improved pulse coupled neural network based on multiple hybrid features grey wolf optimizer(MFGWO-PCNN)is proposed for multimodality medical image segmentation.Specifically,a two-stage medical image segmentation method based on bionic algorithm is presented,including image fusion and image segmentation.The image fusion stage fuses rich information from different modalities by utilizing a multimodality medical image fusion model based on maximum energy region.In the stage of image segmentation,an improved PCNN model based on MFGWO is proposed,which can adaptively set the parameters of PCNN according to the features of the image.Two modalities of FLAIR and TIC brain MRIs are applied to verify the effectiveness of the proposed MFGWO-PCNN algorithm.The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms the other seven algorithms in subjective vision and objective evaluation indicators.