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Ultrasound simulation based on ray tracing enables the synthesis of highly realistic images. It can provide an interactive environment for training sonographers as an educational tool. However, due to high computational demand, there is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-22 Lin Zhang , Tiziano Portenier , Christoph Paulus , Orcun Goksel

Radial correction distortion, applied by in-camera or out-camera software/firmware alters the supporting grid of the image so as to hamper PRNU-based camera attribution. Existing solutions to deal with this problem try to invert/estimate…

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The explicit low-rank regularization, e.g., nuclear norm regularization, has been widely used in imaging sciences. However, it has been found that implicit regularization outperforms explicit ones in various image processing tasks. Another…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Zhemin Li , Tao Sun , Hongxia Wang , Bao Wang

HIRES processing provides a significant improvement in both resolution and image quality over previous IRAS image products, but the characteristics of the HIRES beam make accurate comparisons between the various IRAS bandpasses and between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 C. R. Kerton , P. G. Martin

Traditional ultrasound simulators solve the wave equation to model pressure distribution fields, achieving high accuracy but requiring significant computational time and resources. To address this, ray tracing approaches have been…

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We present an image generation methodology based on ray tracing that can be used to render realistic images of Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Background Oriented Schlieren (BOS) experiments in the presence of density/refractive index…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Lalit K. Rajendran , Sally P. M. Bane , Pavlos P. Vlachos

Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is a method of im-aging and analysing fields of flows. The PIV tech-niques compute and display all the motion vectors of the field in a resulting image. Speeds more than thou-sand vectors per second can be…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2008-07-24 Alain Aubert , Nathalie Bochard , Virginie Fresse

Imaging through scattering media is a useful and yet demanding task since it involves solving for an inverse mapping from speckle images to object images. It becomes even more challenging when the scattering medium undergoes dynamic…

Traditional ultrasound simulation methods solve wave equations numerically, achieving high accuracy but at substantial computational cost. Faster alternatives based on convolution with precomputed impulse responses remain relatively slow,…

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A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radar (ROSAR) can generate a 360$^\circ$ image of its surrounding environment using the collected data from a single moving track. Due to its non-linear track, the Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA) is commonly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Wei Zhao , Cai Wen , Quan Yuan , Rong Zheng

Sparsity and low-rank models have been popular for reconstructing images and videos from limited or corrupted measurements. Dictionary or transform learning methods are useful in applications such as denoising, inpainting, and medical image…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-07-23 Brian E. Moore , Saiprasad Ravishankar , Raj Rao Nadakuditi , Jeffrey A. Fessler

A fast artificial neural network is developed for the prediction of cosmic ray transport in turbulent astrophysical magnetic fields. The setup is trained and tested on bespoke datasets that are constructed with the aid of test-particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-13 D. I. Palade

Speckle Imaging based on triple correlation is a very efficient image reconstruction technique which is used to retrieve Fourier phase information of the object in presence of atmospheric turbulence. We have developed both Direct Bispectrum…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-17 Arun Surya , Swapan K. Saha

Neural radiance fields provide state-of-the-art view synthesis quality but tend to be slow to render. One reason is that they make use of volume rendering, thus requiring many samples (and model queries) per ray at render time. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Haithem Turki , Vasu Agrawal , Samuel Rota Bulò , Lorenzo Porzi , Peter Kontschieder , Deva Ramanan , Michael Zollhöfer , Christian Richardt

In the field of spatial computing, one of the most essential tasks is the pose estimation of 3D objects. While rigid transformations of arbitrary 3D objects are relatively hard to detect due to varying environment introducing factors like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Sining Huang , Yukun Song , Yixiao Kang , Chang Yu

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) typically struggle to reconstruct and render highly specular objects, whose appearance varies quickly with changes in viewpoint. Recent works have improved NeRF's ability to render detailed specular appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Dor Verbin , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Peter Hedman , Ben Mildenhall , Benjamin Attal , Richard Szeliski , Jonathan T. Barron

We present a ray-tracing technique for radiative transfer modeling of complex three-dimensional (3D) structures which include dense regions of high optical depth like in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar disks, envelopes of evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Steinacker , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

Radio propagation modeling is essential in telecommunication research, as radio channels result from complex interactions with environmental objects. Recently, Machine Learning has been attracting attention as a potential alternative to…

Approximate computing has shown to provide new ways to improve performance and power consumption of error-resilient applications. While many of these applications can be found in image processing, data classification or machine learning, we…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Michael Lass , Thomas D. Kühne , Christian Plessl