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In this paper we propose a novel image representation called face X-ray for detecting forgery in face images. The face X-ray of an input face image is a greyscale image that reveals whether the input image can be decomposed into the…

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Simulation-based ultrasound training can be an essential educational tool. Realistic ultrasound image appearance with typical speckle texture can be modeled as convolution of a point spread function with point scatterers representing tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Lin Zhang , Valery Vishnevskiy , Orcun Goksel

Density reconstruction from X-ray projections is an important problem in radiography with key applications in scientific and industrial X-ray computed tomography (CT). Often, such projections are corrupted by unknown sources of noise and…

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Forward imaging technique is the base of combined method on density reconstruction with the forward calculation and inverse problem solution. In the paper, we introduced the projection equation for the radiographic system with areal source…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Jin Liu , Jun Liu , Yue-feng Jing , Bo Xiao , Cai-hua Wei , Yong-hong Guan , Xuan Zhang

To study nanostructures on substrates, surface-sensitive reflection-geometry scattering techniques such as grazing incident small angle x-ray scattering are commonly used to yield an averaged statistical structural information of the…

The H-scan approach is a matched filter methodology that aims to add information to the traditional ultrasound B-scan. The theory is based on the differences in the echoes produced by different classes of reflectors or scatterers. Matched…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-02-14 Kevin J. Parker , Jihye Baek

The presence of a scattering medium in the imaging path between an object and an observer is known to severely limit the visual acuity of the imaging system. We present an approach to circumvent the deleterious effects of scattering, by…

The performance of an iterative reconstruction algorithm for X-ray tomography is strongly determined by the features of the used forward and backprojector. For this reason, a large number of studies has focused on the to design of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Filippo Arcadu , Marco Stampanoni , Federica Marone

Ultrasonic backscatter measurements are widely used for microstructural characterisation. However, in materials containing strong anisotropy and spatial heterogeneity, the interpretation of backscatter signals becomes challenging because…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Wei Yi Yeoh , Bo Lan , Michael J. S. Lowe

As light travels through a disordered medium such as biological tissues, it undergoes multiple scattering events. This phenomenon is detrimental to in-depth optical microscopy, as it causes a drastic degradation of contrast, resolution and…

Scattering of light in complex media scrambles optical wavefronts and breaks the principles of conventional imaging methods. For decades, researchers have endeavored to conquer the problem by inventing approaches such as adaptive optics,…

Imaging through scattering is a pervasive and difficult problem in many biological applications. The high background and the exponentially attenuated target signals due to scattering fundamentally limits the imaging depth of fluorescence…

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Confounding bias is a crucial problem when applying machine learning to practice, especially in clinical practice. We consider the problem of learning representations independent to multiple biases. In literature, this is mostly solved by…

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The demand for inverse design is increasing as the ability to fabricate sub-10 nm features expands the design space by orders of magnitude. Efficient inverse design benefits from differentiable models of light-structure interaction. While…

In computed tomography (CT) reconstruction, scattering causes server quality degradation of the reconstructed CT images by introducing streaks and cupping artifacts which reduce the detectability of low contrast objects. Monte Carlo (MC)…

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Methods for source detection in high noise environments are important for single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) medical imaging and especially crucial for homeland security applications, which is our main interest. In the…

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Scattered coincidences introduce quantitative bias in positron emission tomography (PET) and must be compensated during reconstruction. Conventional scatter estimates typically rely on simplified cylindrical scanner models that omit…

Radio-frequency (RF) front-end forms a critical part of any radio system, defining its cost as well as communication performance. However, these components frequently exhibit non-ideal behavior, referred to as impairments, due to the…

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The most existing studies in the facial age estimation assume training and test images are captured under similar shooting conditions. However, this is rarely valid in real-world applications, where training and test sets usually have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Ali Akbari , Muhammad Awais , Zhen-Hua Feng , Ammarah Farooq , Josef Kittler

Non-invasive detection of objects embedded inside an optically scattering medium is essential for numerous applications in engineering and sciences. However, in most applications light at visible or near-infrared wavebands is scattered by…