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A growing need exists for efficient and accurate methods for detecting defects in semiconductor materials and devices. These defects can have a detrimental impact on the efficiency of the manufacturing process, because they cause critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Thibault Lechien , Enrique Dehaerne , Bappaditya Dey , Victor Blanco , Sandip Halder , Stefan De Gendt , Wannes Meert

We develop a procedure for substantially improving the quality of segmented 3D micro-Computed Tomography (micro-CT) images of rocks with a Machine Learning (ML) Generative Model. The proposed model enhances the resolution eightfold (8x) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Evgeny Ugolkov , Xupeng He , Hyung Kwak , Hussein Hoteit

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been widely utilized in the field of materials science due to its significant advantages, such as large depth of field, wide field of view, and excellent stereoscopic imaging. However, at high…

Single-image super-resolution aims to generate a high-resolution version of a low-resolution image, which serves as an essential component in many computer vision applications. This paper investigates the robustness of deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Jun-Ho Choi , Huan Zhang , Jun-Hyuk Kim , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Jong-Seok Lee

Deep learning-based single image super-resolution enables very fast and high-visual-quality reconstruction. Recently, an enhanced super-resolution based on generative adversarial network (ESRGAN) has achieved excellent performance in terms…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Hsiang Lin

With super-resolution optical microscopy, it is now possible to observe molecular interactions in living cells. The obtained images have a very high spatial precision but their overall quality can vary a lot depending on the structure of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Louis-Émile Robitaille , Audrey Durand , Marc-André Gardner , Christian Gagné , Paul De Koninck , Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal

In the last few years, several deep learning models, especially Generative Adversarial Networks have received a lot of attention for the task of Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR). These methods focus on building an end-to-end framework,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Vibhu Bhatia , Yatender Kumar

Recently, it has been shown that in super-resolution, there exists a tradeoff relationship between the quantitative and perceptual quality of super-resolved images, which correspond to the similarity to the ground-truth images and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Jun-Ho Choi , Jun-Hyuk Kim , Manri Cheon , Jong-Seok Lee

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is critical in nanotechnology, materials science, and biological imaging due to its high spatial resolution and depth of focus. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is an essential parameter in SEM because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 K. S. Sim , I. Bukhori , D. C. Y. Ong , K. B. Gan

Recent attempts at Super-Resolution for medical images used deep learning techniques such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to achieve perceptually realistic single image Super-Resolution. Yet, they are constrained by their…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Chuan Tan , Jin Zhu , Pietro Lio'

Despite the breakthroughs in accuracy and speed of single image super-resolution using faster and deeper convolutional neural networks, one central problem remains largely unsolved: how do we recover the finer texture details when we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Christian Ledig , Lucas Theis , Ferenc Huszar , Jose Caballero , Andrew Cunningham , Alejandro Acosta , Andrew Aitken , Alykhan Tejani , Johannes Totz , Zehan Wang , Wenzhe Shi

The resolution of an image is a very important criterion for evaluating the quality of the image. A higher resolution of an image is always preferable as images of lower resolution are unsuitable due to fuzzy quality. A higher resolution of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Md. Moshiur Rahman , Samrat Kumar Dey , Kabid Hassan Shibly

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is indispensable in modern materials science, enabling high-resolution imaging across a wide range of structural, chemical, and functional investigations. However, SEM imaging remains constrained by…

Recent advances in scanning transmission electron and scanning probe microscopies have opened exciting opportunities in probing the materials structural parameters and various functional properties in real space with angstrom-level…

Dense depth estimation and 3D reconstruction of a surgical scene are crucial steps in computer assisted surgery. Recent work has shown that depth estimation from a stereo images pair could be solved with convolutional neural networks.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-24 Baoru Huang , Jianqing Zheng , Anh Nguyen , David Tuch , Kunal Vyas , Stamatia Giannarou , Daniel S. Elson

Super-resolution reconstruction (SRR) is a process aimed at enhancing spatial resolution of images, either from a single observation, based on the learned relation between low and high resolution, or from multiple images presenting the same…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Michal Kawulok , Pawel Benecki , Szymon Piechaczek , Krzysztof Hrynczenko , Daniel Kostrzewa , Jakub Nalepa

Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) systems are becoming popular because they present several advantages over competing systems. However, EIT leads to images with very low resolution. Moreover, the nonuniform sampling characteristic of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Ricardo A. Borsoi , Julio C. C. Aya , Guilherme H. Costa , José C. M. Bermudez

Microscopy image enhancement plays a pivotal role in understanding the details of biological cells and materials at microscopic scales. In recent years, there has been a significant rise in the advancement of microscopy image enhancement,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Debasish Dutta , Neeharika Sonowal , Risheraj Barauh , Deepjyoti Chetia , Sanjib Kr Kalita

The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is probably one the most fascinating examination approach that has been used since more than two decades to detailed inspection of micro scale objects. Most of the scanning electron microscopes could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Wichai Shanklin

Volumetric imaging by fluorescence microscopy is often limited by anisotropic spatial resolution from inferior axial resolution compared to the lateral resolution. To address this problem, here we present a deep-learning-enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Hyoungjun Park , Myeongsu Na , Bumju Kim , Soohyun Park , Ki Hean Kim , Sunghoe Chang , Jong Chul Ye