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Microscopy is one of the most essential imaging techniques in life sciences. High-quality images are required in order to solve (potentially life-saving) biomedical research problems. Many microscopy techniques do not achieve sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Joris Roels , Jan Aelterman , Jonas De Vylder , Hiep Luong , Yvan Saeys , Wilfried Philips

The progress of semiconductor electronics toward ever-smaller length scales and associated higher power densities brings a need for new high-resolution thermal microscopy techniques. Traditional thermal microscopy is performed by detecting…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Todd Brintlinger , Yi Qi , Kamal H. Baloch , David Goldhaber-Gordon , John Cumings

With the advent of microsphere assisted microscopy in 2011, this technique emerged as a simple and easy way to obtain optical super-resolution. Although the possible mechanisms of imaging by microspheres are debated in the literature, most…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-27 Navid Farahi

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) of nanoscale objects in their native conditions and at different temperatures are of critical importance in revealing details of their interactions with ambient environments. Currently available…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-19 Ahmed S. Al-Asadi , Jie Zhang , Jianbo Li , Radislav A. Potyrailo , Andrei Kolmakov

Semantic segmentation of SAR images has garnered significant attention in remote sensing due to the immunity of SAR sensors to cloudy weather and light conditions. Nevertheless, SAR imagery lacks detailed information and is plagued by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wang Liu , Zhiyu Wang , Xin Guo , Puhong Duan , Xudong Kang , Shutao Li

This brief sketches initial progress towards a unified energy-based solution for the semi-supervised visual anomaly detection and localization problem. In this setup, we have access to only anomaly-free training data and want to detect and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Ergin Utku Genc , Nilesh Ahuja , Ibrahima J Ndiour , Omesh Tickoo

Recently, sparsity-based algorithms are proposed for super-resolution spectrum estimation. However, to achieve adequately high resolution in real-world signal analysis, the dictionary atoms have to be close to each other in frequency,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-05 Yiyuan She , Huanghuang Li , Jiangping Wang , Dapeng Wu

Implementing microelectromechanical system (MEMS) resonators calls for detailed microscopic understanding of the devices, such as energy dissipation channels, spurious modes, and imperfections from microfabrication. Here, we report the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Daehun Lee , Shahin Jahanbani , Jack Kramer , Ruochen Lu , Keji Lai

Compressed sensing can increase resolution, and decrease electron dose and scan time of electron microscope point-scan systems with minimal information loss. Building on a history of successful deep learning applications in compressed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-28 Jeffrey M. Ede

Different tasks in the computational pipeline of single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) require enhancing the quality of the highly noisy raw images. To this end, we develop an efficient algorithm for signal enhancement of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Guy Sharon , Yoel Shkolnisky , Tamir Bendory

*To be published in Springer Handbook of Surface Science (Springer Verlag) [Preprint]* The capability to display images containing chemical, magnetic and structural information and to perform spectroscopy and diffraction from a {\mu}m-sized…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-06 Alessandro Sala

Low voltage transmission electron microscopy (<=80 kV) has many applications in imaging beam-sensitive samples, such as metallic nanoparticles, which may become damaged at higher voltages. To improve resolution, spherical aberration can be…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-27 Frances Quigley , Patrick McBean , Peter O'Donovan , Jonathan J. P. Peters , Lewys Jones

Region-based methods have proven necessary for improving segmentation accuracy of neuronal structures in electron microscopy (EM) images. Most region-based segmentation methods use a scoring function to determine region merging. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Ting Liu , Miaomiao Zhang , Mehran Javanmardi , Nisha Ramesh , Tolga Tasdizen

We report a method for super-resolution of range images. Our approach leverages the interpretation of LR image as sparse samples on the HR grid. Based on this interpretation, we demonstrate that our recently reported approach, which…

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We present a novel approach to implement compressive sensing in laser scanning microscopes (LSM), specifically in image scanning microscopy (ISM), using a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array detector. Our method addresses two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Ajay Gunalan , Marco Castello , Simonluca Piazza , Shunlei Li , Alberto Diaspro , Leonardo S. Mattos , Paolo Bianchini

This paper investigates the performance of the micro-electro-mechanical systems resonant sensor used for particle detection and concentration measurement. These fine and ultra-fine particles such as particulate matter (PM), ferrous…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-12-21 Vinayak Pachkawade , Zion Tse

This paper addresses semi-supervised semantic segmentation by exploiting a small set of images with pixel-level annotations (strong supervisions) and a large set of images with only image-level annotations (weak supervisions). Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Rumeng Yi , Yaping Huang , Qingji Guan , Mengyang Pu , Runsheng Zhang

A new method for high-sensitivity subwavelength spectromicroscopy is proposed based on the usage of a spaser (near-field laser) in the form of a scanning probe microscope tip. The high spatial resolution is defined by the tip's curvature,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-17 Yuriy E. Lozovik , Igor A. Nechepurenko , Alexander V. Dorofeenko , Alexander A. Pukhov , Eugeniy S. Andrianov

Single-molecule localization microscopy techniques, like stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), visualize biological specimens by stochastically exciting sparse blinking emitters. The raw images suffer from unwanted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Patris Valera , Josué Page Vizcaíno , Tobias Lasser

We introduce a new image contrast mechanism for scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) that derives from the local symmetry within the specimen. For a given position of the electron probe on the specimen, the image intensity is…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-30 Matus Krajnak , Joanne Etheridge