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Image Phase Alignment Super-Sampling (ImPASS) is a computational imaging algorithm for converting a sequence of displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The method consists of a unique combination of Phase…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-01 James N. Caron

Many microscopy applications are limited by the total amount of usable light and are consequently challenged by the resulting levels of noise in the acquired images. This problem is often addressed via (supervised) deep learning based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Anna S. Goncharova , Alf Honigmann , Florian Jug , Alexander Krull

In optoacoustic (photoacoustic) tomography, several parameters related to tissue and detector features are needed for image formation, but they may not be known a priori. An autofocus (AF) algorithm is generally used to estimate these…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Ludwig Englert , Lucas Riobo , Christine Schonemann , Vasilis Ntziachristos , Juan Aguirre

Image Phase Alignment Super-sampling (ImPASS) is a computational method for combining displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The general steps include measuring the relative displacements, up-sampling, aligning…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 James N. Caron

Feature matching and finding correspondences between endoscopic images is a key step in many clinical applications such as patient follow-up and generation of panoramic image from clinical sequences for fast anomalies localization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Manel Farhat , Houda Chaabouni-Chouayakh , Achraf Ben-Hamadou

Deep image prior (DIP) and its variants have showed remarkable potential for solving inverse problems in computer vision, without any extra training data. Practical DIP models are often substantially overparameterized. During the fitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Hengkang Wang , Taihui Li , Zhong Zhuang , Tiancong Chen , Hengyue Liang , Ju Sun

Surface reconstruction with preservation of geometric features is a challenging computer vision task. Despite significant progress in implicit shape reconstruction, state-of-the-art mesh extraction methods often produce aliased,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Natalia Soboleva , Olga Gorbunova , Maria Ivanova , Evgeny Burnaev , Matthias Nießner , Denis Zorin , Alexey Artemov

We introduce a deep learning (DL) framework for inverse problems in imaging, and demonstrate the advantages and applicability of this approach in passive synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image reconstruction. We interpret image recon-…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Bariscan Yonel , Eric Mason , Birsen Yazıcı

As a hybrid imaging technology, photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) imaging suffers from noise due to the maximum permissible exposure of laser intensity, attenuation of ultrasound in the tissue, and the inherent noise of the transducer.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Da He , Jiasheng Zhou , Xiaoyu Shang , Jiajia Luo , Sung-Liang Chen

The rapid advancement of generative models has enabled highly realistic audio deepfakes, yet current detectors suffer from a critical bias problem, leading to poor generalization across unseen datasets. This paper proposes Artifact-Focused…

Autoencoding, which aims to reconstruct the input images through a bottleneck latent representation, is one of the classic feature representation learning strategies. It has been shown effective as an auxiliary task for semi-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Yuhao Lin , Haiming Xu , Lingqiao Liu , Jinan Zou , Javen Qinfeng Shi

We demonstrate that deep learning methods can determine the best focus position from 1-2 image samples, enabling 5-10x faster focus than traditional search-based methods. In contrast with phase detection methods, deep autofocus does not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Chengyu Wang , Qian Huang , Ming Cheng , Zhan Ma , David J. Brady

While Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) scanners remain the gold standard for digitizing pathology samples, their high cost limits accessibility in many healthcare settings. Other low-cost solutions also face critical limitations: automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yousef Yeganeh , Maximilian Frantzen , Michael Lee , Kun-Hsing Yu , Nassir Navab , Azade Farshad

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) reconstruction requires recovering both the spatial distribution of acoustic scatterers and their direction-dependent response. Time-domain backprojection is the most common 3D SAS reconstruction algorithm,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Omkar Shailendra Vengurlekar , Adithya Pediredla , Suren Jayasuriya

The development of fast and accurate image reconstruction algorithms is a central aspect of computed tomography. In this paper, we investigate this issue for the sparse data problem in photoacoustic tomography (PAT). We develop a direct and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Stephan Antholzer , Markus Haltmeier , Johannes Schwab

Vision foundation models (FMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in medical imaging. However, they encode information in abstract latent representations that clinicians cannot interrogate or verify. The goal of this study is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Philipp Wesp , Robbie Holland , Vasiliki Sideri-Lampretsa , Sergios Gatidis

Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) imaging has a trade-off between resolution and penetration depth. By considering the in-vivo characteristics of human organs, it is necessary to provide clinicians with appropriate hardware specifications for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Hah Min Lew , Jae Seong Kim , Moon Hwan Lee , Jaegeun Park , Sangyeon Youn , Hee Man Kim , Jihun Kim , Jae Youn Hwang

Matching sonar images with high accuracy has been a problem for a long time, as sonar images are inherently hard to model due to reflections, noise and viewpoint dependence. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles require good sonar image matching…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Matias Valdenegro-Toro

While depth sensors are becoming increasingly popular, their spatial resolution often remains limited. Depth super-resolution therefore emerged as a solution to this problem. Despite much progress, state-of-the-art techniques suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Miaomiao Liu , Mathieu Salzmann , Xuming He

Depth imaging is a crucial area in Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS), as it plays a key role in detecting and measuring objects in the vehicle's surroundings. However, a significant challenge in this domain arises from missing information in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mohamad Mofeed Chaar , Jamal Raiyn , Galia Weidl