HYBRID REGULARIZED CONE-BEAM RECONSTRUCTION FOR AXIALLY SYMMETRIC OBJECT TOMOGRAPHY

In this paper,we consider 3 D tomographic reconstruction for axially symmetric objects from a single radiograph formed by cone-beam X-rays.All contemporary density reconstruction methods in high-energy X-ray radiography are based on the assumption that the cone beam can be treated as fan beams located at parallel planes perpendicular to the symmetric axis,so that the density of the whole object can be recovered layer by layer.Considering the relationship between different layers,we undertake the cone-beam global reconstruction to solve the ambiguity effect at the material interfaces of the reconstruction results.In view of the anisotropy of classical discrete total variations,a new discretization of total variation which yields sharp edges and has better isotropy is introduced in our reconstruction model.Furthermore,considering that the object density consists of continually changing parts and jumps,a high-order regularization term is introduced.The final hybrid regularization model is solved using the alternating proximal gradient method,which was recently applied in image processing.Density reconstruction results are presented for simulated radiographs,which shows that the proposed method has led to an improvement in terms of the preservation of edge location.

An inexact alternating proximal gradient algorithm for nonnegative CP tensor decomposition

Nonnegative tensor decomposition has become increasingly important for multiway data analysis in recent years. The alternating proximal gradient(APG) is a popular optimization method for nonnegative tensor decomposition in the block coordinate descent framework. In this study, we propose an inexact version of the APG algorithm for nonnegative CANDECOMP/PARAFAC decomposition, wherein each factor matrix is updated by only finite inner iterations. We also propose a parameter warm-start method that can avoid the frequent parameter resetting of conventional APG methods and improve convergence performance.By experimental tests, we find that when the number of inner iterations is limited to around 10 to 20, the convergence speed is accelerated significantly without losing its low relative error. We evaluate our method on both synthetic and real-world tensors.The results demonstrate that the proposed inexact APG algorithm exhibits outstanding performance on both convergence speed and computational precision compared with existing popular algorithms.

RADIATION BALANCE AND TURBULENT FLUX CHARACTERISTICS OVER MIZUHO STATION IN ANTARCTICA

In this paper,by using measurements in micrometeorology and radiation balance in the surface layer(Yamanouchi et al.,1981;Wada et al.,1981;Ishikawa et al.,1982;Ohata et al.,1983),we have analyzed the diurnal and annual varia- tion characteristics of radiation balance in spring,summer,autumn and winter,and calculated the momentum flux and sensible heat flux with the aerodynamic method and profile gradient alternate method in different seasons.We have also obtained the diurnal variation characters of the latent heat flux from the equation for energy balance.The results from the calculation are compared.Finally,the relationship between the turbulent heat and momentum exchange coefficient and the diurnal variation of the Richardson number is discussed.