Searcharxiv⌕ Search

arXiv subjects

Peng Wang

Publications and source records attributed to Peng Wang.

At least 343 records · Page 19Linked to original sources

Narrow Inhomogeneous Distribution and Charge State Stabilization of Lead-Vacancy Centers in Diamond

Lead-vacancy (PbV) centers in diamond with a large ground state splitting are expected to be a building block of quantum network nodes. Due to the heaviness of the Pb atom, it is challenging to fabricate high-quality PbV centers with a narrow inhomogeneous distribution and stable charge state. In this study, for the formation of the PbV centers, high temperature anneal up to 2300°C is performed after Pb ion implantation. At a lower temperature of 1800°C, the PbV centers show a large inhomogeneous distribution and spectral diffusion, while higher temperatures of 2200-2300°C leads to narrow inhomogeneous distributions with standard deviations of ~5 GHz. The charge state transition of the PbV centers formed at 2200°C occurs by capturing photo-carriers generated from surrounding defects under 532 nm laser irradiation. Finally, multiple stable PbV centers with nearly identical photon frequencies are obtained, which is essential for applications in quantum information processing.

quant-ph↗

RayZer: A Self-supervised Large View Synthesis Model

We present RayZer, a self-supervised multi-view 3D Vision model trained without any 3D supervision, i.e., camera poses and scene geometry, while exhibiting emerging 3D awareness. Concretely, RayZer takes unposed and uncalibrated images as input, recovers camera parameters, reconstructs a scene representation, and synthesizes novel views. During training, RayZer relies solely on its self-predicted camera poses to render target views, eliminating the need for any ground-truth camera annotations and allowing RayZer to be trained with 2D image supervision. The emerging 3D awareness of RayZer is attributed to two key factors. First, we design a self-supervised framework, which achieves 3D-aware auto-encoding of input images by disentangling camera and scene representations. Second, we design a transformer-based model in which the only 3D prior is the ray structure, connecting camera, pixel, and scene simultaneously. RayZer demonstrates comparable or even superior novel view synthesis performance than ``oracle'' methods that rely on pose annotations in both training and testing. Project: https://hwjiang1510.github.io/RayZer/

cs.CV↗

A Proximal DC Algorithm for Sample Average Approximation of Chance Constrained Programming

Chance constrained programming (CCP) refers to a type of optimization problem with uncertain constraints that are satisfied with at least a prescribed probability level. In this work, we study the sample average approximation (SAA) of chance constraints. This is an important approach to solving CCP, especially in the data-driven setting where only a sample of multiple realizations of the random vector in the chance constraints is available. The SAA is obtained by replacing the underlying distribution with an empirical distribution over the available sample. Assuming that the functions in chance constraints are all convex, we reformulate the SAA of chance constraints into a difference-of-convex (DC) form. Moreover, considering that the objective function is a difference-of-convex function, the resulting formulation becomes a DC constrained DC program. Then, we propose a proximal DC algorithm for solving this reformulation. In particular, we show that the subproblems of the proximal DC are suitable for off-the-shelf solvers in some scenarios. Moreover, we not only prove the subsequential and sequential convergence of the proposed algorithm but also derive the iteration complexity for finding an approximate Karush-Kuhn-Tucker point. To support and complement our theoretical development, we show via numerical experiments that our proposed approach is competitive with a host of existing approaches.

math.OC↗

MDHP-Net: Detecting an Emerging Time-exciting Threat in IVN

The integration of intelligent and connected technologies in modern vehicles, while offering enhanced functionalities through Electronic Control Unit (ECU) and interfaces like OBD-II and telematics, also exposes the vehicle's in-vehicle network (IVN) to potential cyberattacks. Unlike prior work, we identify a new time-exciting threat model against IVN. These attacks inject malicious messages that exhibit a time-exciting effect, gradually manipulating network traffic to disrupt vehicle operations and compromise safety-critical functions. We systematically analyze the characteristics of the threat: dynamism, time-exciting impact, and low prior knowledge dependency. To validate its practicality, we replicate the attack on a real Advanced Driver Assistance System via Controller Area Network (CAN), exploiting Unified Diagnostic Service vulnerabilities and proposing four attack strategies. While CAN's integrity checks mitigate attacks, Ethernet migration (e.g., DoIP/SOME/IP) introduces new surfaces. We further investigate the feasibility of time-exciting threat under SOME/IP. To detect time-exciting threat, we introduce MDHP-Net, leveraging Multi-Dimentional Hawkes Process (MDHP) and temporal and message-wise feature extracting structures. Meanwhile, to estimate MDHP parameters, we developed the first GPU-optimized gradient descent solver for MDHP (MDHP-GDS). These modules significantly improves the detection rate under time-exciting attacks in multi-ECU IVN system. To address data scarcity, we release STEIA9, the first open-source dataset for time-exciting attacks, covering 9 Ethernet-based attack scenarios. Extensive experiments on STEIA9 (9 attack scenarios) show MDHP-Net outperforms 3 baselines, confirming attack feasibility and detection efficacy.

cs.CR↗

MDHP-Net: Detecting an Emerging Time-exciting Threat in IVN

The integration of intelligent and connected technologies in modern vehicles, while offering enhanced functionalities through Electronic Control Unit (ECU) and interfaces like OBD-II and telematics, also exposes the vehicle's in-vehicle network (IVN) to potential cyberattacks. Unlike prior work, we identify a new time-exciting threat model against IVN. These attacks inject malicious messages that exhibit a time-exciting effect, gradually manipulating network traffic to disrupt vehicle operations and compromise safety-critical functions. We systematically analyze the characteristics of the threat: dynamism, time-exciting impact, and low prior knowledge dependency. To validate its practicality, we replicate the attack on a real Advanced Driver Assistance System via Controller Area Network (CAN), exploiting Unified Diagnostic Service vulnerabilities and proposing four attack strategies. While CAN's integrity checks mitigate attacks, Ethernet migration (e.g., DoIP/SOME/IP) introduces new surfaces. We further investigate the feasibility of time-exciting threat under SOME/IP. To detect time-exciting threat, we introduce MDHP-Net, leveraging Multi-Dimentional Hawkes Process (MDHP) and temporal and message-wise feature extracting structures. Meanwhile, to estimate MDHP parameters, we developed the first GPU-optimized gradient descent solver for MDHP (MDHP-GDS). These modules significantly improves the detection rate under time-exciting attacks in multi-ECU IVN system. To address data scarcity, we release STEIA9, the first open-source dataset for time-exciting attacks, covering 9 Ethernet-based attack scenarios. Extensive experiments on STEIA9 (9 attack scenarios) show MDHP-Net outperforms 3 baselines, confirming attack feasibility and detection efficacy.

cs.CR↗

Fractional spatiotemporal optical vortices

Spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs) with spiral phase in the space-time domain, which carry intrinsic transverse orbital angular momentum (OAM), introduce a new degree of freedom to light beams and exhibit unique properties. While integer and fractional spatial vortices have been extensively studied and widely applied, and research on integer STOVs have grown prosperously, fractional STOVs (FSTOVs), classified as STOVs with fractional spiral phases are rarely explored due to the challenges in characterizing rapidly varying spatiotemporal phases. Furthermore, approaches for the rapid recognition of FSTOVs are lacking. Herein, we experimentally and theoretically demonstrate the generation of FSTOVs in the far field. The generation, evolution, and diffraction rules of FSTOVs are revealed. Furthermore, a self-referential method for the rapid recognition of FSTOVs based on the energy ratio between the two end lobes of their diffraction patterns is proposed. This work will promote the development of the theory of light with transverse OAM, and open new opportunities for the applications of STOV, such as STOV-based optical communication and quantum information.

physics.optics↗

Cross-Frequency Collaborative Training Network and Dataset for Semi-supervised First Molar Root Canal Segmentation

Root canal (RC) treatment is a highly delicate and technically complex procedure in clinical practice, heavily influenced by the clinicians' experience and subjective judgment. Deep learning has made significant advancements in the field of computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) because it can provide more objective and accurate diagnostic results. However, its application in RC treatment is still relatively rare, mainly due to the lack of public datasets in this field. To address this issue, in this paper, we established a First Molar Root Canal segmentation dataset called FMRC-2025. Additionally, to alleviate the workload of manual annotation for dentists and fully leverage the unlabeled data, we designed a Cross-Frequency Collaborative training semi-supervised learning (SSL) Network called CFC-Net. It consists of two components: (1) Cross-Frequency Collaborative Mean Teacher (CFC-MT), which introduces two specialized students (SS) and one comprehensive teacher (CT) for collaborative multi-frequency training. The CT and SS are trained on different frequency components while fully integrating multi-frequency knowledge through cross and full frequency consistency supervisions. (2) Uncertainty-guided Cross-Frequency Mix (UCF-Mix) mechanism enables the network to generate high-confidence pseudo-labels while learning to integrate multi-frequency information and maintaining the structural integrity of the targets. Extensive experiments on FMRC-2025 and three public dental datasets demonstrate that CFC-MT is effective for RC segmentation and can also exhibit strong generalizability on other dental segmentation tasks, outperforming state-of-the-art SSL medical image segmentation methods. Codes and dataset will be released.

cs.CV↗

Channel-Adaptive Robust Resource Allocation for Highly Reliable IRS-Assisted V2X Communications

This paper addresses the challenges of resource allocation in vehicular networks enhanced by Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS), considering the uncertain Channel State Information (CSI) typical of vehicular environments due to the Doppler shift. Leveraging the 3GPP's Mode 1 cellular V2X architecture, our system model facilitates efficient subcarrier usage and interference reduction through coordinated V2I and V2V communications. Each Cellular User Equipment (CUE) shares its spectrum with at most one Vehicular User Equipment (VUE) in a one-to-one reuse pattern. We formulate a joint optimization problem for vehicular transmit power, Multi-User Detection (MUD) matrices, V2V link spectrum reuse, and IRS reflection coefficients in IRS-aided V2X communication with imperfect CSI. To tackle this, a novel robust resource allocation algorithm is developed by first decomposing the problem into manageable sub-problems such as power allocation, MUD matrices optimization and IRS phase shifts, and then using the Block Coordinate Descent (BCD) method to alternately optimize these subproblems for optimal resource allocation. Our contributions include efficient approaches for self-learning based power allocation and phase shift optimization that adapt to CSI uncertainties, significantly enhancing the reliability and efficiency of vehicular communications. Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed solutions in improving the Quality of Service (QoS) and managing the complex interference inherent in dense vehicular networks.

eess.SP↗

Realizing Scalable Conditional Operations through Auxiliary Energy Levels

In the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era, flexible quantum operations are essential for advancing large-scale quantum computing, as they enable shorter circuits that mitigate decoherence and reduce gate errors. However, the complex control of quantum interactions poses significant experimental challenges that limit scalability. Here, we propose a transition composite gate scheme based on transition pathway engineering, which digitally implements conditional operations with reduced complexity by leveraging auxiliary energy levels. Experimentally, we demonstrate the controlled-unitary (CU) family and its applications. In entangled state preparation, our CU gate reduces the circuit depth for three-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) and W states by approximately 40-44% compared to circuits using only CZ gates, leading to fidelity improvements of 1.5% and 4.2%, respectively. Furthermore, with a 72% reduction in circuit depth, we successfully implement a quantum comparator-a fundamental building block for quantum algorithms requiring conditional logic, which has remained experimentally challenging due to its inherent circuit complexity. These results demonstrate the scalability and practicality of our scheme, laying a solid foundation for the implementation of large-scale quantum algorithms in future quantum processors.

quant-ph↗

SlowFastVAD: Video Anomaly Detection via Integrating Simple Detector and RAG-Enhanced Vision-Language Model

Video anomaly detection (VAD) aims to identify unexpected events in videos and has wide applications in safety-critical domains. While semi-supervised methods trained on only normal samples have gained traction, they often suffer from high false alarm rates and poor interpretability. Recently, vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, offering new opportunities for explainable anomaly detection. However, their high computational cost and lack of domain adaptation hinder real-time deployment and reliability. Inspired by dual complementary pathways in human visual perception, we propose SlowFastVAD, a hybrid framework that integrates a fast anomaly detector with a slow anomaly detector (namely a retrieval augmented generation (RAG) enhanced VLM), to address these limitations. Specifically, the fast detector first provides coarse anomaly confidence scores, and only a small subset of ambiguous segments, rather than the entire video, is further analyzed by the slower yet more interpretable VLM for elaborate detection and reasoning. Furthermore, to adapt VLMs to domain-specific VAD scenarios, we construct a knowledge base including normal patterns based on few normal samples and abnormal patterns inferred by VLMs. During inference, relevant patterns are retrieved and used to augment prompts for anomaly reasoning. Finally, we smoothly fuse the anomaly confidence of fast and slow detectors to enhance robustness of anomaly detection. Extensive experiments on four benchmarks demonstrate that SlowFastVAD effectively combines the strengths of both fast and slow detectors, and achieves remarkable detection accuracy and interpretability with significantly reduced computational overhead, making it well-suited for real-world VAD applications with high reliability requirements.

cs.CV↗

Galaxy and halo properties around cosmic filaments from Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 and the ELUCID simulation

Using galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) along with haloes from the dark matter only constrained ELUCID (Exploring the Local Universe with the reConstructed Initial Density field) simulation, we examine the properties of galaxies and haloes with respect to their distance to cosmic filaments, determined by the medial-axis thinning technique of the COsmic Web Skeleton (COWS) method. Our findings suggest that galaxies or subhaloes grow in mass as they approach these filaments. Galaxies exhibit a redder colour and diminished specific star formation rates as they approach these filaments. Additionally, older subhaloes tend to be more common near the central regions of these filaments. Elliptical galaxies are more frequently found than spiral galaxies in the central regions of the filaments. Lower-mass galaxies typically display reduced sizes in proximity to filaments, whereas higher-mass galaxies tend to exhibit increased sizes when close to filaments. Moreover, the concentration and spin of the haloes grow as they approach the filaments. These findings support the notion that the large-scale structure of the universe, characterized by cosmic web structures, plays a vital role in shaping galaxy and halo properties.

astro-ph.CO↗

SeCap: Self-Calibrating and Adaptive Prompts for Cross-view Person Re-Identification in Aerial-Ground Networks

When discussing the Aerial-Ground Person Re-identification (AGPReID) task, we face the main challenge of the significant appearance variations caused by different viewpoints, making identity matching difficult. To address this issue, previous methods attempt to reduce the differences between viewpoints by critical attributes and decoupling the viewpoints. While these methods can mitigate viewpoint differences to some extent, they still face two main issues: (1) difficulty in handling viewpoint diversity and (2) neglect of the contribution of local features. To effectively address these challenges, we design and implement the Self-Calibrating and Adaptive Prompt (SeCap) method for the AGPReID task. The core of this framework relies on the Prompt Re-calibration Module (PRM), which adaptively re-calibrates prompts based on the input. Combined with the Local Feature Refinement Module (LFRM), SeCap can extract view-invariant features from local features for AGPReID. Meanwhile, given the current scarcity of datasets in the AGPReID field, we further contribute two real-world Large-scale Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification datasets, LAGPeR and G2APS-ReID. The former is collected and annotated by us independently, covering $4,231$ unique identities and containing $63,841$ high-quality images; the latter is reconstructed from the person search dataset G2APS. Through extensive experiments on AGPReID datasets, we demonstrate that SeCap is a feasible and effective solution for the AGPReID task. The datasets and source code available on https://github.com/wangshining681/SeCap-AGPReID.

cs.CV↗

Traffic Flow and Speed Monitoring Based On Optical Fiber Distributed Acoustic Sensor

In the realm of intelligent transportation systems, accurate and reliable traffic monitoring is crucial. Traditional devices, such as cameras and lidars, face limitations in adverse weather conditions and complex traffic scenarios, prompting the need for more resilient technologies. Thispaperpresentstrafficflowmonitoringmethodusingopticalfiber-baseddistributedacoustic sensors(DAS).Aninnovativevehicletrajectoryextractionalgorithmisproposedtoderivetraffic flow statistics. In the processing of optical fiber waterfall diagrams, Butterworth low-pass filter and peaks location search algorithm are employed to determine the entry position of vehicles. Subsequently, line-by-line matching algorithm is proposed to effectively track the trajectories. Experiments were conducted in highway, tunnel and city scenarios. Visualizations show that ourapproachnotonlyextractsvehicletrajectoriesmoreaccuratelythantheclassicalHoughand Radon transform-based methods and MUSIC beamforming algorithm, but also facilitates the calculation of traffic flow information using the low-cost acoustic sensors. It provides a new reliable means for traffic flow monitoring which can be integrated with existing methods like vision-based method.

eess.SP↗

Stable long-term evolution in numerical relativity

We report on the potential occurrence of a numerical instability in the long-time simulation of black holes using the Baumgarte-Shapiro-Shibata-Nakamura formulation of numerical relativity, even in the simple set-up of a Schwarzschild black hole. Through extensive numerical experiments, we identify that this "late-time instability" arises from accumulated violations of the momentum constraint. To address this issue, we propose two modified versions of the so-called conformal covariant Z4 scheme, designed to propagate momentum constraint violations without damping. Our results demonstrate that these alternative formulations, which we refer to as CCZ4' and CCZ3, effectively resolve the late-time numerical instability not only in Schwarzschild spacetimes but also in black hole spacetimes with matter fields. Notably, by preventing damping of the momentum constraint violation, the Hamiltonian constraint damping can be significantly increased, which plays a crucial role in stabilizing long-term evolution in our proposed schemes.

gr-qc↗

Analyzing the Role of the DSO in Electricity Trading of VPPs via a Stackelberg Game Model

The increasing penetration of distributed energy resources has sparked interests in participating in power markets. Here, we consider two settings where Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) with some flexible resources participate in the electricity trading, either directly in the wholesale electricity market, or interfaced by the Distribution System Operator (DSO) who is the transaction organizer. In order to study the role of DSO as a stakeholder, a Stackelberg game is represented via a bi-level model: the DSO maximizes profits at the upper level, while the VPPs minimize operating costs at the lower level. To solve this problem, the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions of lower level is deduced to achieve a single-level problem. The results show that the role of the DSO as an intermediary agent leads to a decrease in operating costs of the VPPs by organizing lower-level trading, while making a profit for itself. However, this result comes with interests loss of the wholesale market, implying that stakeholders in the market need to abide by regulatory constraints.

eess.SY↗

3R-GS: Best Practice in Optimizing Camera Poses Along with 3DGS

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has revolutionized neural rendering with its efficiency and quality, but like many novel view synthesis methods, it heavily depends on accurate camera poses from Structure-from-Motion (SfM) systems. Although recent SfM pipelines have made impressive progress, questions remain about how to further improve both their robust performance in challenging conditions (e.g., textureless scenes) and the precision of camera parameter estimation simultaneously. We present 3R-GS, a 3D Gaussian Splatting framework that bridges this gap by jointly optimizing 3D Gaussians and camera parameters from large reconstruction priors MASt3R-SfM. We note that naively performing joint 3D Gaussian and camera optimization faces two challenges: the sensitivity to the quality of SfM initialization, and its limited capacity for global optimization, leading to suboptimal reconstruction results. Our 3R-GS, overcomes these issues by incorporating optimized practices, enabling robust scene reconstruction even with imperfect camera registration. Extensive experiments demonstrate that 3R-GS delivers high-quality novel view synthesis and precise camera pose estimation while remaining computationally efficient. Project page: https://zsh523.github.io/3R-GS/

cs.CV↗

Dual Diffusion for Unified Image Generation and Understanding

Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end diffusion model for multi-modal understanding and generation that significantly improves on existing diffusion-based multimodal models, and is the first of its kind to support the full suite of vision-language modeling capabilities. Inspired by the multimodal diffusion transformer (MM-DiT) and recent advances in discrete diffusion language modeling, we leverage a cross-modal maximum likelihood estimation framework that simultaneously trains the conditional likelihoods of both images and text jointly under a single loss function, which is back-propagated through both branches of the diffusion transformer. The resulting model is highly flexible and capable of a wide range of tasks including image generation, captioning, and visual question answering. Our model attained competitive performance compared to recent unified image understanding and generation models, demonstrating the potential of multimodal diffusion modeling as a promising alternative to autoregressive next-token prediction models.

cs.CV↗

Alignment of Blue/Green and Red Early-type Galaxies with Large-scale Filaments Reveals Distinct Evolutionary Pathways

We investigate the alignment of non-red early-type galaxies (ETGs) with blue or green colors within large-scale filaments and compare this alignment pattern with that of red ETGs. Our analysis reveals a significant alignment of the major axes of red ETGs with the orientations of their host cosmic filaments, consistent with prior research. In contrast, non-red ETGs show no significant alignment signal. This divergence in alignment behavior between non-red and red ETGs plausibly suggests distinct evolutionary pathways for non-red and red ETGs.

astro-ph.GA↗