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Motion capturing and there by segmentation of the motion of any moving object from a sequence of continuous images or a video is not an exceptional task in computer vision area. Smart-phone camera application is an added integration for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-11 Somnath Mukherjee , Soumyajit Ganguly

Microscopes have morphed from purely optical instruments into motorized, robotic machines that form images on digital sensors rather than eyeballs. This continuing trend towards automation and digitization enables many new approaches to…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-04 Raghav Chhetri , Stephan Preibisch , Nico Stuurman

The outbreak of COVID-19 exposed the inadequacy of our technical tools for home health surveillance, and recent studies have shown the potential of smartphones as a universal optical microscopic imaging platform for such applications.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-20 Haoran Zhang , Weiyi Zhang , Zirui Zuo , Jianlong Yang

Close to half of the world population have smartphones, while a typical flagship smartphone today has been integrated with more than 20 smart components and sensors, making a smartphone a highly integrated platform that can potentially…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Jinlong Zhu , Ni Zhao , Renjie Zhou

While both navigation and manipulation are challenging topics in isolation, many tasks require the ability to both navigate and manipulate in concert. To this end, we propose a mobile manipulation system that leverages novel navigation and…

The scanning transmission electron microscope, a workhorse instrument in materials characterization, is being transformed into an atomic-scale material manipulation platform. With an eye on the trajectory of recent developments and the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Ondrej Dyck , Andrew R. Lupini , Stephen Jesse

Microscopy, in particular scanning probe and electron microscopy, has been pivotal in improving our understanding of structure-function relationships at the nanoscale and is by now ubiquitous in most research characterization labs and…

Image classification is the task of assigning to an input image a label from a fixed set of categories. One of its most important applicative fields is that of robotics, in particular the needing of a robot to be aware of what's around and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Lorenzo Alvino

Microscopes are vital pieces of equipment in much of biological research and medical diagnostics. However, access to a microscope can represent a bottleneck in research, especially in lower-income countries. `Smart' computer controlled…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-07-08 Samuel McDermott , Filip Ayazi , Joel Collins , Joe Knapper , Julian Stirling , Richard Bowman , Pietro Cicuta

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) is a valuable technique by which one can investigate the physical characteristics of the surfaces of materials. However, its widespread use is hampered by the time-consuming nature of running an experiment…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-09-03 Nicholas J. Sullivan , Julio J. Valdés , Kirk H. Bevan , Peter Grutter

Smart cities are urban areas with sensor networks that collect data used towards efficient management. As a source of ubiquitous data, smart city initiatives present opportunities to enhance inhabitants' urban awareness. However, making…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Pedro Sarmento , Ove Holmqvist , Mathieu Barthet

The primary focus of this research is the discreet and subtle everyday contact interactions between mobile phones and their surrounding surfaces. Such interactions are anticipated to facilitate mobile context awareness, encompassing aspects…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yongquan Hu , Hui-Shyong Yeo , Mingyue Yuan , Haoran Fan , Don Samitha Elvitigala , Wen Hu , Aaron Quigley

High-throughput 2D and 3D scanning electron microscopy, which relies on automation and dependable control algorithms, requires high image quality with minimal human intervention. Classical focus and astigmatism correction algorithms attempt…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-10 Philipp Johannes Schubert , Rangoli Saxena , Joergen Kornfeld

Optical imaging technologies are central to discovery in the life and physical sciences, yet their impact depends on how readily they can be built, adapted, and sustained across laboratories. Digital fabrication, including desktop 3D…

This paper takes a new look at Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) through the lens of the dynamic cooperation cluster framework from the Network MIMO literature. The purpose is to identify and address scalability issues…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Emil Björnson , Luca Sanguinetti

Imaging specimens over large scales and with a sub-micron resolution is instrumental to biomedical research. Yet, the number of pixels to form such an image usually exceeds the number of pixels provided by conventional cameras. While most…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-03 Gaelle Recher , Pierre Nassoy , Amaury Badon

This paper presents a systematic solution for the intelligent recognition and automatic analysis of microscopy images. We developed a data engine that generates high-quality annotated datasets through a combination of the collection of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Yanhui Hong , Nan Wang , Zhiyi Xia , Haoyi Tao , Xi Fang , Yiming Li , Jiankun Wang , Peng Jin , Xiaochen Cai , Shengyu Li , Ziqi Chen , Zezhong Zhang , Guolin Ke , Linfeng Zhang

Analyzing microscopy images to extract biological object properties (e.g., their morphological organization, temporal dynamics, and population density) is fundamental to various biomedical research. Yet conducting this manually is costly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Xiaofei Hui , Haoxuan Qu , Hossein Rahmani , Shuohong Wang , Jeff W. Lichtman , Jun Liu

High-Content Digital Microscopy enhances user comfort, data storage and analysis throughput, paving the way to new researches and medical diagnostics. A digital microscopy platform aims at capturing an image of a cover slip, at storing…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-04-30 Fabrice Salvaire

We demonstrate that a deep neural network can significantly improve optical microscopy, enhancing its spatial resolution over a large field-of-view and depth-of-field. After its training, the only input to this network is an image acquired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Yair Rivenson , Zoltan Gorocs , Harun Gunaydin , Yibo Zhang , Hongda Wang , Aydogan Ozcan