Coordinated Projects

The reconstruction of the trajectories of charged particles, or track reconstruction, is a key computational challenge for particle and nuclear physics experiments. While the tuning of track reconstruction algorithms can depend strongly on details of the detector geometry, the algorithms currently in use by experiments share many common features. [...]

Superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities are used in modern particle accelerators to take advantage of their very high quality factor (Q). A higher Q means that a higher RF field can be sustained, and a higher acceleration can be produced in the cavity for length unity. [...]

Runtime monitoring is a lightweight verification technique that ensures correct execution of a system based on a specification, e. g., in Linear Temporal Logic (LTL). [...]

Developers have proposed various hardware accelerators to improve the CNN inference performance on embedded platforms. Recently, Xilinx announced its first 7-nm FPGA accelerator, the Versal ACAP, delivering a high-performance, heterogeneous computing platform adaptable to the application requirements. [...]

Neural radiance field (NeRF), in particular its extension by instant neural graphics primitives, is a novel rendering method for view synthesis that uses real-world images to build photo-realistic immersive virtual scenes. Despite its potential, research on the combination of NeRF and virtual reality (VR) remains sparse. [...]

A mobile robot is an important type of robot commonly used to explore remote environments that are hazardous and inaccessible for humans. However, operating a mobile robot to explore a remote environment using the conventional 2D user interfaces could be challenging, especially when exploring an environment where unexpected robot behavior has to be avoided. [...]

In this poster paper, we present a mixed reality application for laser eye protection based on a video see-through head-mounted display. With our setup, laser lab users perceive the real environment through the head-mounted display, using it as a substitute for laser safety goggles required by health and safety regulations. [...]

Upon the ever-increasing number of publicly available experimentally determined and predicted protein and nucleic acid structures, the demand for easy-to-use tools to investigate these structural models is higher than ever before. The ProteinsPlus web server (https://proteins.plus) comprises a growing collection of molecular modeling tools focusing on protein-ligand interactions. [...]

Space-charge effects are of great importance in particle accelerator physics. In the computational modeling, tree-based methods are increasingly used because of their effectiveness in handling non-uniform particle distributions and/or complex geometries. [...]

In this work, we utilize the high-fidelity generation abilities of diffusion models to solve blind image restoration tasks, using JPEG artifact removal at high compression levels as an example. We propose a simple modification of the forward stochastic differential equation (SDE) of diffusion models to adapt them to such tasks. [...]