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It is a challenging task to accurately perform semantic segmentation due to the complexity of real picture scenes. Many semantic segmentation methods based on traditional deep learning insufficiently captured the semantic and appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Haitong Tang , Shuang He , Mengduo Yang , Xia Lu , Qin Yu , Kaiyue Liu , Hongjie Yan , Nizhuan Wang

Over the last two decades, scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) has become one of the most important ways to investigate the structure of crystal surfaces. STM has helped achieve remarkable successes in surface science such as finding the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristian V. Ciobanu , Cristian Predescu

Sparse-View Computed Tomography (SVCT) offers low-dose and fast imaging but suffers from severe artifacts. Optimizing the sampling strategy is an essential approach to improving the imaging quality of SVCT. However, current methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Liutao Yang , Jiahao Huang , Yingying Fang , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero , Carola-Bibiane Schonlieb , Daoqiang Zhang , Guang Yang

Tight-frame, a generalization of orthogonal wavelets, has been used successfully in various problems in image processing, including inpainting, impulse noise removal, super-resolution image restoration, etc. Segmentation is the process of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Xiaohao Cai , Raymond Chan , Serena Morigi , Fiorella Sgallari

In image processing, a segmentation is a process of partitioning an image into multiple sets of pixels, that are defined as super-pixels. Each super-pixel is characterized by a label or parameter. Here, we are proposing a method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

We present an improved way for imaging the local density of states with a scanning tunneling microscope, which consists in mapping the surface topography while keeping the differential conductance (d$I$/d$V$) constant. When archetypical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 Gaël Reecht , Benjamin Heinrich , Hervé Bulou , Fabrice Scheurer , Laurent Limot , Guillaume Schull

In this work, we propose a new segmentation algorithm for images containing convex objects present in multiple shapes with a high degree of overlap. The proposed algorithm is carried out in two steps, first we identify the visible contours,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Kumar Abhinav , Jaideep Singh Chauhan , Debasis Sarkar

We propose a new method for atomic-scale imaging of spatial current patterns in nanoscopic quantum networks by using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). By measuring the current flowing from the STM tip into one of the leads attached to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tankut Can , Dirk K. Morr

The nanoparticle size and distribution information in the SEM images of silicon crystals are generally counted by manual methods. The realization of automatic machine recognition is significant in materials science. This paper proposed a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Ruiling Xiao , Jiayang Niu

Microstructure of materials is often characterized through image analysis to understand processing-structure-properties linkages. We propose a largely automated framework that integrates unsupervised and supervised learning methods to…

Applications · Statistics 2025-09-05 Kungang Zhang , Wei Chen , Wing K. Liu , L. Catherine Brinson , Daniel W. Apley

The work proposes an image segmentation algorithm that isolates slender regions in three-dimensional microstructures. Characterizing slender regions in material microstructures is an extremely important aspect in material science because…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2025-03-13 Vinit Vijay Deshpande , Romana Piat

Recent segmentation methods leveraging Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown reliable object-level segmentation and enhanced spatial perception. However, almost all previous methods predominantly rely on specialist mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Anqi Zhang , Xiaokang Ji , Guangyu Gao , Jianbo Jiao , Chi Harold Liu , Yunchao Wei

The scattering transform network (STN), which has a similar structure as that of a popular convolutional neural network except its use of predefined convolution filters and a small number of layers, can generates a robust representation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-28 Wai Ho Chak , Naoki Saito

We propose a novel experimental probe for cold atomic gases analogous to the scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) in condensed matter. This probe uses the coherent coupling of a single particle to the system. Depending on the measurement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-03-01 Corinna Kollath , Michael Köhl , Thierry Giamarchi

Current deep learning-based approaches for the segmentation of microscopy images heavily rely on large amount of training data with dense annotation, which is highly costly and laborious in practice. Compared to full annotation where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Shijie Li , Mengwei Ren , Thomas Ach , Guido Gerig

Image segmentation is the problem of partitioning an image into different subsets, where each subset may have a different characterization in terms of color, intensity, texture, and/or other features. Segmentation is a fundamental component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-03 M. Abdelsamea

Sparse decomposition has been widely used for different applications, such as source separation, image classification and image denoising. This paper presents a new algorithm for segmentation of an image into background and foreground text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Shervin Minaee , Yao Wang

This paper describes a novel method for partitioning image into meaningful segments. The proposed method employs watershed transform, a well-known image segmentation technique. Along with that, it uses various auxiliary schemes such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-21 Ankit R. Chadha , Neha S. Satam

Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) enables mapping of diffraction information with nanometer-scale spatial resolution, offering detailed insight into local structure, orientation, and strain. However, as…

We demonstrate a multi-beam scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) imaging that integrates down-sampling with super-resolution image reconstruction via a compressive sensing framework. A custom condenser aperture with six randomly…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-03-19 Akira Yasuhara , Takumi Sannomiya , Ryoichi Horisaki