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Yujin Shi

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arXiv2025

Towards Non-Invasive Sediment Monitoring Using Muography: A Pilot Run at the Shanghai Outer Ring Tunnel

This study demonstrates the application of cosmic-ray muography as a non-invasive method for monitoring sediment accumulation and tidal influences in the Shanghai Outer Ring Tunnel, an immersed tube tunnel located beneath the Huangpu River in Shanghai, China. A portable, dual-layer plastic scintillator detector was deployed to conduct muon flux scans along the tunnel's length and to continuously monitor muon flux, allowing for the study of tidal effects. Geant4 simulations validated the correlation between muon attenuation and overburden thickness, incorporating sediment, water, and concrete layers. Key findings include a strong anti-correlation between the measured muon flux and the water levels observed at a nearby tide gauge. The results align with geotechnical data and simulations, especially in the region of interest, confirming muography's sensitivity to sediment dynamics. This work establishes muography as a robust tool for long-term, real-time monitoring of submerged infrastructure, offering significant advantages over conventional invasive techniques. The study underscores the potential for integrating muography into civil engineering practices to enhance safety and operational resilience in tidal environments.

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arXiv2021

End-to-End Adaptive Monte Carlo Denoising and Super-Resolution

The classic Monte Carlo path tracing can achieve high quality rendering at the cost of heavy computation. Recent works make use of deep neural networks to accelerate this process, by improving either low-resolution or fewer-sample rendering with super-resolution or denoising neural networks in post-processing. However, denoising and super-resolution have only been considered separately in previous work. We show in this work that Monte Carlo path tracing can be further accelerated by joint super-resolution and denoising (SRD) in post-processing. This new type of joint filtering allows only a low-resolution and fewer-sample (thus noisy) image to be rendered by path tracing, which is then fed into a deep neural network to produce a high-resolution and clean image. The main contribution of this work is a new end-to-end network architecture, specifically designed for the SRD task. It contains two cascaded stages with shared components. We discover that denoising and super-resolution require very different receptive fields, a key insight that leads to the introduction of deformable convolution into the network design. Extensive experiments show that the proposed method outperforms previous methods and their variants adopted for the SRD task.

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arXiv2021

Two-Stage Monte Carlo Denoising with Adaptive Sampling and Kernel Pool

Monte Carlo path tracer renders noisy image sequences at low sampling counts. Although great progress has been made on denoising such sequences, existing methods still suffer from spatial and temporary artifacts. In this paper, we tackle the problems in Monte Carlo rendering by proposing a two-stage denoiser based on the adaptive sampling strategy. In the first stage, concurrent to adjusting samples per pixel (spp) on-the-fly, we reuse the computations to generate extra denoising kernels applying on the adaptively rendered image. Rather than a direct prediction of pixel-wise kernels, we save the overhead complexity by interpolating such kernels from a public kernel pool, which can be dynamically updated to fit input signals. In the second stage, we design the position-aware pooling and semantic alignment operators to improve spatial-temporal stability. Our method was first benchmarked on 10 synthesized scenes rendered from the Mitsuba renderer and then validated on 3 additional scenes rendered from our self-built RTX-based renderer. Our method outperforms state-of-the-art counterparts in terms of both numerical error and visual quality.

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