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In this paper, we present the results of rigorous electromagnetic broadband simulations applied to CMOS image sensors as well as experimental measurements. We firstly compare the results of 1D, 2D, and 3D broadband simulations in the…

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Optical imaging is commonly used for both scientific and technological applications across industry and academia. In image sensing, a measurement, such as of an object's position, is performed by computational analysis of a digitized image.…

The existing segmentation techniques require high-fidelity images as input to perform semantic segmentation. Since the segmentation results contain most of edge information that is much less than the acquired images, the throughput gap…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Haiyan Liu , Liheng Bian , Jun Zhang

Ultrasound imaging is developing an open-source ecosystem, especially for software frameworks. Little exists on the open-hardware side. Hence a focus was put on producing easy-to-use technological (hardware and software) kit to allow anyone…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Luc Jonveaux

Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer type in women, and while its survival rate is generally high the aesthetic outcome is an increasingly important factor when evaluating different treatment alternatives. 3D scanning and…

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Building on recent advances in representation learning for wireless channels, this work investigates the cost-benefit trade-offs of high-dimensional channel embeddings in practical systems. We benchmark multiple wireless representations:…

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We demonstrate a motion-free intensity diffraction tomography technique that enables direct inversion of 3D phase and absorption from intensity-only measurements for weakly scattering samples. We derive a novel linear forward model,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ruilong Ling , Waleed Tahir , Hsing-Ying Lin , Hakho Lee , Lei Tian

Emerging single-photon-sensitive sensors combined with advanced inverse methods to process picosecond-accurate time-stamped photon counts have given rise to unprecedented imaging capabilities. Rather than imaging photons that travel along…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-19 D. Faccio , A. Velten , G. Wetzstein

Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shulin Tian , Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

We previously demonstrated near-field speckle scanning based x-ray imaging to be an easy-to-implement phase sensing method capable of providing both high sensitivity and high resolution. Yet, this performance combination could only be…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Sebastien Berujon , Eric Ziegler

A concept for a novel CMOS image sensor suited for analog image pre-processing is presented in this paper. As an example, an image restoration algorithm for reducing image noise is applied as image pre-processing in the analog domain. To…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Lan Shi , Christopher Soell , Andreas Baenisch , Robert Weigel , Jürgen Seiler , Thomas Ussmueller

In low-light conditions, a conventional camera imaging pipeline produces sub-optimal images that are usually dark and noisy due to a low photon count and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We present a data-driven approach that learns the…

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Ground-based Whole Sky Imagers (WSIs) are increasingly being used for various remote sensing applications. While the fundamental requirements of a WSI are to make it climate-proof with an ability to capture high resolution images, cost also…

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Conventional intensity cameras recover objects in the direct line-of-sight of the camera, whereas occluded scene parts are considered lost in this process. Non-line-of-sight imaging (NLOS) aims at recovering these occluded objects by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Wenzheng Chen , Simon Daneau , Fahim Mannan , Felix Heide

Recently three-dimensional (3D) imaging achieves tremendous success in consumer and industrial manufacturing. However, current 3D imaging methods rarely observe dynamical events happening in a short time interval due to the imaging speed…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-15 Jiajie Teng , Qiang Guo , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

We demonstrate a compact and easy-to-build computational camera for single-shot 3D imaging. Our lensless system consists solely of a diffuser placed in front of a standard image sensor. Every point within the volumetric field-of-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Nick Antipa , Grace Kuo , Reinhard Heckel , Ben Mildenhall , Emrah Bostan , Ren Ng , Laura Waller

This paper presents a lightweight image fusion algorithm specifically designed for merging visible light and infrared images, with an emphasis on balancing performance and efficiency. The proposed method enhances the generator in a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-30 Zhizhong Wu , Jiajing Chen , LiangHao Tan , Hao Gong , Zhou Yuru , Ge Shi

Cameras for imaging in short and mid-wave infrared spectra are significantly more expensive than their counterparts in visible imaging. As a result, high-resolution imaging in those spectrum remains beyond the reach of most consumers. Over…

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We have designed and tested an automated simple setup for quickly measuring the profile and spot size of a Gaussian laser beam using three cost-affordable light sensors. Two profiling techniques were implemented: imaging for the CMOS 2D…

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