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Yang, Qing

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A high-volume resonator for L-band DNP-NMR

DNP-NMR and EPR experiments that operate at or greater than L-band (i.e., ν 0 (e – ) = 1–2 GHz) are typically limited to maximum sample volumes of several hundred µL. These experiments rely on well-known resonator designs for DNP/EPR irradiation such as the loop-gap resonator and Alderman-Grant coil, where their maximum volumes limit further application to imaging experiments and high-throughput screening beyond L-band. Herein, we demonstrate a birdcage (BC) resonator design that can accommodate several mL of sample while operating around 1.5 GHz. The sample volume is maximized by using two identical BC resonators in a stacked configuration. Simulations are used to optimize the BC design and the performance is validated experimentally with liquid-state Overhauser-DNP-NMR experiments. This BC design exploits just the parasitic capacitance of conductive rings and features no fixed tuning capacitors. An enhancement of –77 is achieved on a 10 mM 4-Amino-TEMPO in H 2 O sample for a 5 mL sample volume. Finally, the associated sample heating is minimal due to the low-E-fields generated and the large sample mass with +3.4 K when driving 100 W for several seconds.

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Transferable Adversarial Attack on 3D Object Tracking in Point Cloud

3D point cloud object tracking has recently witnessed considerable progress relying on deep learning. Such progress, however, mainly focuses on improving tracking accuracy. The risk, especially considering that deep neural network is vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, of a tracker being attacked is often neglected and rarely explored. In order to attract attentions to this potential risk and facilitate the study of robustness in point cloud tracking, we introduce a novel transferable attack network (TAN) to deceive 3D point cloud tracking. Specifically, TAN consists of a 3D adversarial generator, which is trained with a carefully designed multi-fold drift (MFD) loss. The MFD loss considers three common grounds, including classification, intermediate feature and angle drifts, across different 3D point cloud tracking frameworks for perturbation generation, leading to high transferability of TAN for attack. In our extensive experiments, we demonstrate the proposed TAN is able to not only drastically degrade the victim 3D point cloud tracker, \ie, P2B, but also effectively deceive other unseen state-of-the-art approaches such as BAT and M^2Track, posing a new threat to 3D point cloud tracking.

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