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Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are extensively employed as photosensors in neutrino and dark matter detection. The precise charge and timing information extracted from the PMT waveform plays a crucial role in energy and vertex reconstruction.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-14 Jingzhe Tang , Tianying Xiao , Xuan Tang , Yongbo Huang

The interest of compressive sampling in ultrasound imaging has been recently extensively evaluated by several research teams. Following the different application setups, it has been shown that the RF data may be reconstructed from a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Zhouye Chen , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

Purpose: Rapid 2D RF pulse design with subject specific $B_1^+$ inhomogeneity and $B_0$ off-resonance compensation at 7 T predicted from convolutional neural networks is presented. Methods: The convolution neural network was trained on half…

Optical microscopy is an essential tool in biology and medicine. Imaging thin, yet non-flat objects in a single shot (without relying on more sophisticated sectioning setups) remains challenging as the shallow depth of field that comes with…

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This review presents a comprehensive survey and benchmark of pulse shape discrimination (PSD) algorithms for radiation detection, classifying nearly sixty methods into statistical (time-domain, frequency-domain, neural network-based) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Haoran Liu , Yihan Zhan , Mingzhe Liu , Yanhua Liu , Peng Li , Zhuo Zuo , Bingqi Liu , Runxi Liu

In this paper we study the identification of a time-varying linear system from its response to a known input signal. More specifically, we consider systems whose response to the input signal is given by a weighted superposition of delayed…

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Brillouin optical time domain analyzer (BOTDA) fiber sensors have shown strong capability in static long haul distributed temperature/strain sensing. However, in applications such as structural health monitoring and leakage detection,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-07 Huan Wu , Hongda Wang , Chiu-Sing Choy , Chester Shu , Chao Lu

Highly lossy nature of metals has severely limited the scope of practical applications of plasmonics. The conventional approach to circumvent this limitation has been to search for new materials with more favorable dielectric properties…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-11 H. Serhat Tetikol , M. Irsadi Aksun

Images of near-field SAR contains spatial-variant sidelobes and clutter, subduing the image quality. Current image restoration methods are only suitable for small observation angle, due to their assumption of 2D spatial-invariant…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Wensi Zhang , Xiaoling Zhang , Xu Zhan , Yuetonghui Xu , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei

Multipath propagation in the interstellar medium distorts radio pulses, an effect predominant for distant pulsars observed at low frequencies. Typically, broadened pulses are analyzed to determine the amount of propagation-induced pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. D. R. Bhat , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee

We revisit the impact of finite time responses of bolometric detectors used for deep observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Until now, bolometer transfer functions have been accounted for through a two-step procedure by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 A. Basyrov , N. O. Stutzer , J. G. S. Lunde , H. K. Eriksen , E. Gjerløw , D. J. Watts , I. K. Wehus

Ground-based astronomical observations will continue to produce resolution-limited images due to atmospheric seeing. Deconvolution reverses such effects and thus can benefit extracted science in multifaceted ways. We apply the Scaled…

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Super-resolution microscopes (such as STED) illuminate samples with a tiny spot, and achieve very high resolution. But structures smaller than the spot cannot be resolved in this way. Therefore, we propose a technique to solve this problem.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Yaohua Xie

Fringe projection profilometry (FPP) is one of the most popular three-dimensional (3D) shape measurement techniques, and has becoming more prevalently adopted in intelligent manufacturing, defect detection and some other important…

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Reconstructed 3D ultrasound volume provides more context information compared to a sequence of 2D scanning frames, which is desirable for various clinical applications such as ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy. Nevertheless, 3D volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Hengtao Guo , Sheng Xu , Bradford J. Wood , Pingkun Yan

Increasing the resolution of image sensors has been a never ending struggle since many years. In this paper, we propose a novel image sensor layout which allows for the acquisition of images at a higher resolution and improved quality. For…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Jürgen Seiler , Markus Jonscher , Thomas Ussmueller , André Kaup

In multiband fusion, an image with a high spatial and low spectral resolution is combined with an image with a low spatial but high spectral resolution to produce a single multiband image having high spatial and spectral resolutions. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-11 Unni V. S. , Pravin Nair , Kunal N. Chaudhury

Multidimensional NMR spectroscopy is one of the basic tools for determining the structure of biomolecules. Unfortunately, the resolution of the spectra is often limited by inter-nuclear couplings. This limitation cannot be overcome by…

In terahertz (THz) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the combination of huge bandwidth and massive antennas results in severe beam split, thus making the conventional phase-shifter based hybrid precoding architecture…

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In this paper, we propose a multi-scale deep feature learning method for high-resolution satellite image classification. Specifically, we firstly warp the original satellite image into multiple different scales. The images in each scale are…

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