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To solve point cloud registration, a novel solution to planar feature-based registration of point clouds was proposed in this study according to dual quaternion description based on the constraint of planar feature. The normal vector of the homologous feature plane should be kept parallel according to the registration, and the points on the plane should satisfy the planar equation. Moreover, the modified Levenberg-Marquardt method was adopted to complete the registration model, so as to avoid inappropriate initial values from causing non-convergence of the iteration. Lastly, the robustness and accuracy exhibited by the method were verified using simulated and measured data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Accurately predicting heavy metal concentration in soils is essential for agricultural production and food safety. The hyperspectral technique provides a feasible method for rapidly determining heavy metal concentration. In this study, we use spectral and Box-Cox transformations to pre-process the spectral and soil Zn concentration data to solve the problem of low prediction accuracy caused by the non-normal distribution of soil Zn concentration and the unobvious spectral characteristics. The characteristic wavelengths were selected using competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS) and Boruta algorithms. Back propagation neural network (BPNN) was used to predict the low Zn concentration in the soil. The results showed that the accuracy of the models was mostly improved after Box-Cox transformation for low Zn concentration; both continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and fractional order differential (FOD) could explore the delicate features of the spectra to different degrees; the Boruta algorithm could select the wavelengths that were more relevant to Zn; the best performance could be obtained by combining CWT and Boruta algorithms, where the L5-Boruta model had the highest prediction accuracy with R2, RMSE and RPIQ of 0.656, 13.050 mg∙kg−1 and 2.351, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Point cloud registration refers to a critical step in point cloud preprocessing, which aims to uniformly represent the objects expressed by the two point sets. To solve spatial discrepancies in the collected artificial building point clouds, this study develops a point cloud registration method by employing dual quaternion description based on the point-linear feature constraint. First, the spatial transformation parameters are expressed by the dual quaternion, and the rotation matrix and translation vector are expressed simultaneously to avoid the error of separate calculations from accumulating. Subsequently, the registration model is built by complying with the constraints of coordinate equivalence after the registration of the same-name points, parallelism of direction vectors after registration of the same-name lines and the spatial geometric relationship between points and lines. On that basis, the scale factor is considered to register point clouds at different scales. Second, an optimized Levenberg–Marquardt method is adopted to solve the registration model for avoiding the iterative non-convergence attributed to inappropriate initial values in the solution. Lastly, the robustness and reliability exhibited by the proposed method are verified by performing two experiments with the simulated and measured data. As indicated from the experimentally achieved results, the joint constraint of point-linear features can achieve higher accuracy than the constraint of point or line features independently, and the combined point-linear features can register point clouds in high quality when point cloud data are scaled and partially missing. This study presents an effective registration method for manually registered auxiliary targets when they are difficult to deploy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The complete mitochondrial genome ofVanmanenia pingchowensiswas determined in this study. The gene composition, arrangement and transcriptional orientation inV. pingchowensismitogenome were identical to most vertebrates. The complete mitogenome ofV. pingchowensiswas 15,560 bp in size with 13 protein coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, and a control region. Two start codon patterns and three stop codon patterns were found in protein-coding genes. Only the tRNA-Ser2 could not fold into a typical clover-leaf secondary structure for lacking the dihydrouridine arm. Sequences alignment results suggest that the complete mitogenome ofV. pingchowensisis an efficient tool to study molecular phylogenetics, biogeography and adaptive evolution of this lineage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The complete mitochondrial genome ofParasinilabeo assimilishas been determined in this study. The gene composition, arrangement and transcriptional orientation inP. assimilismitogenome were identical to most vertebrates. The complete mitogenome ofP. assimiliswas 16,602 bp in size with 13 protein coding genes, 22 tRNA genes and a control region. Two start codon patterns and three stop codon patterns were found in protein-coding genes. Only the tRNA-Ser2 could not fold into a typical clover-leaf secondary structure due to the lack of the dihydrouridine arm. Sequence alignment results suggest that the complete mitogenome ofP. assimilisis an efficient tool to study molecular phylogenetics, biogeography and adaptive evolution of this lineage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The complete mitochondrial genome ofBangana decorawas determined in this study. The gene composition, arrangement and transcriptional orientation inB. decoramitogenome were identical to most vertebrates. The complete mitogenome ofB. decorawas 16,607 bp in size with 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes and a control region. Two start codon patterns and three stop codon patterns were found in protein-coding genes. Only the tRNA-Ser2 could not fold into a typical clover-leaf secondary structure due to the absence of the dihydrouridine arm. Sequence alignment results suggest that the complete mitogenome ofB. decorais an efficient tool to study molecular phylogenetics, biogeography and adaptive evolution of this lineage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The complete mitochondrial genome ofElopichthys bambusawas determined in this study. The gene composition, arrangement and transcriptional orientation inE. bambusamitogenome were identical to most vertebrates. Two start codon patterns (ATG and GTG) and three stop codon patterns (TAG, TAA and T) were found in protein-coding genes. Only the tRNA-Ser2 could not fold into a typical clover-leaf secondary structure for lacking the dihydrouridine arm. Sequences alignment results suggest that the complete mitogenome ofE. bambusais an efficient tool to check species identification by comparing different gene sequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The complete mitochondrial genome ofSinilabeo decorus tungtingwas determined in this study. The gene composition, arrangement and transcriptional orientation inS. decorus tungtingmitogenome were identical to most vertebrates. Two start codon patterns (ATG and GTG) and three stop codon patterns (TAG, TAA and T) were found in protein-coding genes. Only the tRNA-Ser2 could not fold into a typical clover-leaf secondary structure for lacking the dihydrouridine arm. Sequences alignment results suggest that the complete mitogenome ofS. decorus tungtingis an efficient tool to check species identification by comparing different gene sequences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]