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The present study presents a simple but effective method for 3D visualization of the two-phase flow in the micro-tube. An isosceles right-angle prism combined with a mirror located 45^o bevel to the prism is employed to obtain synchronously…

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We present a versatile and fast MATLAB program (UmUTracker) that automatically detects and tracks particles by analyzing video sequences acquired by either light microscopy or digital in-line holographic microscopy. Our program detects the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Hanqing Zhang , Tim Stangner , Krister Wiklund , Alvaro Rodriguez , Magnus Andersson

We propose a method for learning from streaming visual data using a compact, constant size representation of all the data that was seen until a given moment. Specifically, we construct a 'coreset' representation of streaming data using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Abhimanyu Dubey , Nikhil Naik , Dan Raviv , Rahul Sukthankar , Ramesh Raskar

We discuss a new approach to three-dimensional electrical impedance imaging based on a reduction of the information to be demanded from a reconstruction algorithm. Images are obtained from a single measurement by suitably simplifying the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. Lehmann , K. Schilcher

We present a new solution to tracking and mapping with an event camera. The motion of the camera contains both rotation and translation, and the displacements happen in an arbitrarily structured environment. As a result, the image matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Yifu Wang , Jiaqi Yang , Xin Peng , Peng Wu , Ling Gao , Kun Huang , Jiaben Chen , Laurent Kneip

To investigate fractoluminescence in scintillating crystals used for particle detection, we have developed a multi-channel setup built around samples of double-cleavage drilled compression (DCDC) geometry in a controllable atmosphere. The…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-11-23 A. Tantot , C. Bouard , R. Briche , G. Lefèvre , B. Manier , N. Zaïm , S. Deschanel , L. Vanel , P. C. F. Di Stefano

Living microorganisms are capable of a tactic response to external stimuli by swimming towards or away from the stimulus source; they do so by adapting their tactic signal transduction pathways to the environment. Their self-motility thus…

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The demonstrations of micro-robotic systems in minimally invasive medicine include an individual or a swarm of microswimmer of various origin, artificial or biohybrid, often with an external computer-controlled electromagnetic field. There…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Ahmet Fatih Tabak

A new methodology is proposed to estimate 3D displacement fields from pairs of images obtained from X-Ray Computed Micro Tomography (XCMT). Contrary to local approaches, a global approach is followed herein that evaluates {\em continuous}…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-12-18 Stephane Roux , François Hild , Philippe Viot , Dominique Bernard

We present a method to reconstruct the three-dimensional trajectory of a moving instance of a known object category in monocular video data. We track the two-dimensional shape of objects on pixel level exploiting instance-aware semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

This paper presents a preliminary study of an efficient object tracking approach, comparing the performance of two different 3D point cloud sensory sources: LiDAR and stereo cameras, which have significant price differences. In this…

We demonstrate a photon-sensitive, three-dimensional camera by active near-infrared illumination and fast time-of-flight gating. It uses pico-second pump pulses to selectively up-convert the backscattered photons according to their…

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Phototaxis, the process by which living organisms navigate toward optimal light conditions, is essential for motile photosynthetic microorganisms. Positive(negative) phototaxis denotes the motion directed towards(away from) the source of…

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Visual odometry is the process of estimating the position and orientation of a camera by analyzing the images associated to it. This paper develops a quick and accurate approach to visual odometry of a moving RGB-D camera navigating on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Afonso Fontes , Jose Everardo Bessa Maia

Single visual object tracking from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) poses fundamental challenges such as object occlusion, small-scale objects, background clutter, and abrupt camera motion. To tackle these difficulties, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Stéphane Vujasinović , Stefan Becker , Timo Breuer , Sebastian Bullinger , Norbert Scherer-Negenborn , Michael Arens

The development and application of modern technology is an essential basis for the efficient monitoring of species in natural habitats and landscapes to trace the development of ecosystems, species communities, and populations, and to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Timm Haucke , Hjalmar S. Kühl , Volker Steinhage

We present feature finding and tracking algorithms in 3D in living cells, and demonstrate their utility to measure metrics important in cell biological processes. We developed a computational imaging hybrid approach that combines automated…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Kemp Plumb , Sarah Elaz , Vincent Pelletier , Maria L. Kilfoil

We present a technique for a complete 3D reconstruction of small objects moving in front of a textured background. It is a particular variation of multibody structure from motion, which specializes to two objects only. The scene is captured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Petr Hruby , Tomas Pajdla

The proliferation of floating anthropogenic debris in rivers has emerged as a pressing environmental concern, exerting a detrimental influence on biodiversity, water quality, and human activities such as navigation and recreation. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Gauthier Grimmer , Romain Wenger , Clément Flint , Germain Forestier , Gilles Rixhon , Valentin Chardon

Neutrino detectors, particle calorimeters and some dark matter detectors require dense and massive active materials. An extremely fine segmentation is desirable to achieve precise three-dimensional particle tracking. However, such systems…