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Alexey Popov

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preprint2026arXiv

Mobile Traffic Camera Calibration from Road Geometry for UAV-Based Traffic Surveillance

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can provide flexible traffic surveillance where fixed roadside cameras are unavailable, costly, or impractical. However, raw UAV video is difficult to use for traffic analytics because vehicle motion is observed in perspective image coordinates rather than in a stable metric road coordinate system. This paper presents a lightweight pipeline for converting monocular oblique UAV traffic video into a local metric bird's-eye-view (BEV) representation. Visible road geometry, including lane markings, road borders, and crosswalks, is used to estimate a road-plane homography from image coordinates to metric ground-plane coordinates. Vehicle observations from dataset annotations or detectors are then projected to BEV using estimated ground contact points. The resulting trajectories support estimation of vehicle direction, speed, heading, and dynamic 3D cuboids on the road plane. We evaluate the pipeline on UAVDT using ground-truth annotations to isolate calibration and geometric reconstruction from detector and tracker errors. For sequence M1401, 40 sampled frames from img000001-img000196 produce 632 metric cuboid instances across 23 tracks. Results show that road-geometry calibration can transform monocular UAV footage into interpretable traffic-camera-style analytics, including BEV tracks and synchronized 3D cuboid visualizations. They also reveal key limitations: far-field vehicles are sensitive to homography errors, manual validation is currently more reliable than fully automatic calibration, and the single-plane assumption limits performance in non-planar or ambiguous road regions. The proposed pipeline provides a practical foundation for deployable UAV traffic cameras and future real-time traffic digital-twin systems.

preprint2015arXiv

An operational definition of the 100 second blocking temperature T$_{\mathrm{B}100}$ for single molecule magnets

An important figure of merit for the performance of single-molecule magnets (SMMs) is the 100 s blocking temperature T$_{\mathrm{B}100}$. It is the temperature at which the remanence or zero field relaxation time is 100 seconds. If there is more than one relaxation process of the magnetisation, the determination of the relaxation times may, however, become ambiguous. Here we propose an operational definition for the zero-field magnetic relaxation times from which T$_{\mathrm{B}100}$ may be determined. This definition allows for a direct comparison of the performance of different samples independent of the details of the relaxation processes involved in the demagnetization.

preprint2015arXiv

Surface aligned magnetic moments and hysteresis of an endohedral single-molecule magnet on a metal

The interaction between the endohedral unit in the single-molecule magnet Dy$_2$ScN@C$_{80}$ and a rhodium (111) substrate leads to alignment of the Dy 4$f$ orbitals. The resulting orientation of the Dy$_2$ScN plane parallel to the surface is inferred from comparison of the angular anisotropy of x-ray absorption spectra and multiplet calculations in the corresponding ligand field. The x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) is also angle dependent and signals strong magnetocrystalline anisotropy. This directly relates geometric and magnetic structure. Element specific magnetization curves from different coverages exhibit hysteresis at a sample temperature of $\sim4$ K. From the measured hysteresis curves we estimate the zero field remanence life-time during x-ray exposure of a sub-monolayer to be about 30 seconds.

preprint2013arXiv

Topological Signatures in the Electronic Structure of Graphene Spirals

Topology is familiar mostly from mathematics, but also natural sciences have found its concepts useful. Those concepts have been used to explain several natural phenomena in biology and physics, and they are particularly relevant for the electronic structure description of topological insulators and graphene systems. Here, we introduce topologically distinct graphene forms - graphene spirals - and employ density-functional theory to investigate their geometric and electronic properties. We found that the spiral topology gives rise to an intrinsic Rashba spin-orbit splitting. Through a Hamiltonian constrained by space curvature, graphene spirals have topologically protected states due to time-reversal symmetry. In addition, we argue that the synthesis of such graphene spirals is feasible and can be achieved through advanced bottom-up experimental routes that we indicate in this work.

preprint2013arXiv

Tunneling, Remanence, and Frustration in Dysprosium based Endohedral Single Molecule Magnets

A single molecule magnet (SMM) can maintain its magnetization direction over a long period of time [1,2]. It consists in a low number of atoms that facilitates the understanding and control of the ground state, which is essential in future applications such as high-density information storage or quantum computers [3,4]. Endohedral fullerenes realize robust, nanometer sized, and chemically protected magnetic clusters that are not found as free species in nature. Here we demonstrate how adding one, two, or three dysprosium atoms to the carbon cage results in three distinct magnetic ground states. The significantly different hysteresis curves demonstrate the decisive influence of the number of magnetic moments and their interactions. At zero field the comparison relates tunneling of the magnetization, with remanence, and frustration. The ground state of the tridysprosium species turns out to be one of the simplest realizations of a frustrated, ferromagnetically coupled magnetic system.