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Electron microscopy has shown to be a very powerful tool to map the chemical nature of samples at various scales down to atomic resolution. However, many samples can not be analyzed with an acceptable signal-to-noise ratio because of the…
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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…
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Perfect Electric Conductors (PECs) are imaged integrating the subspace-based optimizationmethod (SOM) within the iterative multi-scaling scheme (IMSA). Without a-priori information on the number or/and the locations of the scatterers and…
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Connected component analysis (CCA) has been heavily used to label binary images and classify segments. However, it has not been well-exploited to segment multi-valued natural images. This work proposes a novel multi-value segmentation…