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Despite its wide use in medicine, ultrasound imaging faces several challenges related to its poor signal-to-noise ratio and several sources of noise and artefacts. Enhancing ultrasound image quality involves balancing concurrent factors…

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The increasing level of sound pollution in marine environments poses an increased threat to ocean health, making it crucial to monitor underwater noise. By monitoring this noise, the sources responsible for this pollution can be mapped.…

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Climate change results in an increased probability of extreme weather events that put societies and businesses at risk on a global scale. Therefore, near real-time mapping of natural hazards is an emerging priority for the support of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Johannes Jakubik , Michal Muszynski , Michael Vössing , Niklas Kühl , Thomas Brunschwiler

We present a critical survey on the consistency of uncertainty quantification used in deep learning and highlight partial uncertainty coverage and many inconsistencies. We then provide a comprehensive and statistically consistent framework…

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In ultrasound (US) imaging, various types of adaptive beamforming techniques have been investigated to improve the resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio of the delay and sum (DAS) beamformers. Unfortunately, the performance of these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

In recent years, the deterioration of artificial materials used in structures has become a serious social issue, increasing the importance of inspections. Non-destructive testing is gaining increased demand due to its capability to inspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Yusaku Ando , Miya Nakajima , Takahiro Saitoh , Tsuyoshi Kato

This paper presents the potential of applying physics-informed neural networks for solving nonlinear multiphysics problems, which are essential to many fields such as biomedical engineering, earthquake prediction, and underground energy…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Teeratorn Kadeethum , Thomas M Jorgensen , Hamidreza M Nick

Datasets collected from the open world unavoidably suffer from various forms of randomness or noiseness, leading to the ubiquity of aleatoric (data) uncertainty. Quantifying such uncertainty is particularly pivotal for object detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Peng Cui , Guande He , Dan Zhang , Zhijie Deng , Yinpeng Dong , Jun Zhu

While deep learning has shown tremendous success in a wide range of domains, it remains a grand challenge to incorporate physical principles in a systematic manner to the design, training, and inference of such models. In this paper, we aim…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Rui Wang , Karthik Kashinath , Mustafa Mustafa , Adrian Albert , Rose Yu

Reconstructions of Lagrangian drift, for example for objects lost at sea, are often uncertain due to unresolved physical phenomena within the data. Uncertainty is usually overcome by introducing stochasticity into the drift, but this…

Uncertainty propagation in nonlinear dynamic systems remains an outstanding problem in scientific computing and control. Numerous approaches have been developed, but are limited in their capability to tackle problems with more than a few…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-11-22 Tenavi Nakamura-Zimmerer , Daniele Venturi , Qi Gong , Wei Kang

The inability of artificial neural networks to assess the uncertainty of their predictions is an impediment to their widespread use. We distinguish two types of learnable uncertainty: model uncertainty due to a lack of training data and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Hans Weytjens , Jochen De Weerdt

Accurate state and uncertainty estimation is imperative for mobile robots and self driving vehicles to achieve safe navigation in pedestrian rich environments. A critical component of state and uncertainty estimation for robot navigation is…

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The modeling of realistic magnetic materials requires the inclusion of defects. Based on the pseudospectral Landau-Lifshitz description of magnetisation dynamics, we propose a statistical model that takes into account defects, specifically…

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The importance of ultrasonic nondestructive testing has been increasing in recent years, and there are high expectations for the potential of laser ultrasonic visualization testing, which combines laser ultrasonic testing with scattered…

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One of the primary sources of suboptimal image quality in ultrasound imaging is phase aberration. It is caused by spatial changes in sound speed over a heterogeneous medium, which disturbs the transmitted waves and prevents coherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Mostafa Sharifzadeh , Sobhan Goudarzi , An Tang , Habib Benali , Hassan Rivaz

In underwater acoustics, shallow water environments act as modal dispersive waveguides when considering low-frequency sources. In this context, propagating signals can be described as a sum of few modal components, each of them propagating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Clément Dorffer , Thomas Paviet-Salomon , Gilles Le Chenadec , Angélique Drémeau

Real-time simulation of elastic structures is essential in many applications, from computer-guided surgical interventions to interactive design in mechanical engineering. The Finite Element Method is often used as the numerical method of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Alban Odot , Ryadh Haferssas , Stéphane Cotin

For responsible decision making in safety-critical settings, machine learning models must effectively detect and process edge-case data. Although existing works show that predictive uncertainty is useful for these tasks, it is not evident…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mark Penrod , Harrison Termotto , Varshini Reddy , Jiayu Yao , Finale Doshi-Velez , Weiwei Pan

There is a significant need for precise and reliable forecasting of the far-field noise emanating from shipping vessels. Conventional full-order models based on the Navier-Stokes equations are unsuitable, and sophisticated model reduction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Indu Kant Deo , Akash Venkateshwaran , Rajeev K. Jaiman