U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology

Vehicle Detection and Classification with Compact Sensor Technologies and Convolutional Neural Networks

Unattended ground sensors (UGSs) are passive systems used to detect and classify nearby activity such as the movement of military vehicles or personnel. However, UGS performance is limited in complex environments. This work explores the application of deep learning to classify ve...

Impacts of storytelling on experiential service assessment

Purpose This study aims to investigate how integrating storytelling into tourism guide services influences customers’ positive word-of-mouth (PWOM). It also examines whether storytelling shapes how customers integrate episode assessments of the experience into the PWOM of the gui...

The role of solid solutions and intermetallic precipitates in the Al-Ni system under shock loading: a molecular dynamics study

Abstract Understanding the relationship between structure and shock response in metallic systems is essential for developing reliable materials in extreme environments. Here, molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are utilized to investigate the shock behavior of Al-Ni solid solutio...

Finite-time braiding dynamics within topological nanowire qubits

Topological quantum computing has largely evolved toward a paradigm of manipulating edge-localized Majorana within p-wave topological superconducting nanowires. To bridge the gap between physical qubit systems and quantum algorithms, we perform a dynamical analysis to extend what...

Development of Robust Ratio Linear Fitting Method of Temperature and Emissivity Separation for High-Temperature Data

Accurate temperature and emissivity separation from thermal infrared radiance is essential for characterizing materials under high-temperature laboratory conditions. Existing temperature and emissivity separation methods have largely been developed for multispectral remote sensin...