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A long-standing challenge in tomography is the 'missing wedge' problem, which arises when the acquisition of projection images within a certain angular range is restricted due to geometrical constraints. This incomplete dataset results in…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-26 Chonghang Zhao , Mingyuan Ge , Xiaogang Yang , Yong S. Chu , Hanfei Yan

Quantitative tissue information, like the light scattering properties, is considered as a key player in the detection of cancerous cells in medical diagnosis. A promising method to obtain these data is optical coherence tomography (OCT). In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Leopold Veselka , Peter Elbau , Leonidas Mindrinos , Lisa Krainz , Wolfgang Drexler

Occlusion is a common issue in 3D reconstruction from RGB-D videos, often blocking the complete reconstruction of objects and presenting an ongoing problem. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, empowered by a 2D diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Yubin Hu , Sheng Ye , Wang Zhao , Matthieu Lin , Yuze He , Yu-Hui Wen , Ying He , Yong-Jin Liu

Unknown-view tomography (UVT) reconstructs a 3D density map from its 2D projections at unknown, random orientations. A line of work starting with Kam (1980) employs the method of moments (MoM) with rotation-invariant Fourier features to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Shuai Huang , Mona Zehni , Ivan Dokmanić , Zhizhen Zhao

Refractive Index Tomography is the inverse problem of reconstructing the continuously-varying 3D refractive index in a scene using 2D projected image measurements. Although a purely refractive field is not directly visible, it bends light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

Optical diffraction tomography measures the three-dimensional refractive index map of a specimen and visualizes biochemical phenomena at the nanoscale in a non-destructive manner. One major drawback of optical diffraction tomography is poor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 DongHun Ryu , Dongmin Ryu , YoonSeok Baek , Hyungjoo Cho , Geon Kim , Young Seo Kim , Yongki Lee , Yoosik Kim , Jong Chul Ye , Hyun-Seok Min , YongKeun Park

Standard RGB-D trackers treat the target as an inherently 2D structure, which makes modelling appearance changes related even to simple out-of-plane rotation highly challenging. We address this limitation by proposing a novel long-term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Ugur Kart , Alan Lukezic , Matej Kristan , Joni-Kristian Kamarainen , Jiri Matas

X-ray diffraction tomography (XDT) resolves spatially-variant XRD profiles within macroscopic objects, and provides improved material contrast compared to the conventional transmission-based computed tomography (CT). However, due to the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-04 Zheyuan Zhu , Alexander Katsevich , Shuo Pang

Hybrid Optical Neural Networks (ONNs, typically consisting of an optical frontend and a digital backend) offer an energy-efficient alternative to fully digital deep networks for real-time, power-constrained systems. However, their adoption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Jinlin Xiang , Minho Choi , Yubo Zhang , Zhihao Zhou , Arka Majumdar , Eli Shlizerman

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a key 3D imaging technology that provides micron scale depth resolution for bio-imaging. This resolution substantially surpasses what it typically achieved in Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) which…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-27 Robbie Murray , Ashley Lyons

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is one of the most important retinal imaging technique. However, involuntary motion artifacts still pose a major challenge in OCT imaging that compromises the quality of downstream analysis, such as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Yiqian Wang , Alexandra Warter , Melina Cavichini , Varsha Alex , Dirk-Uwe G. Bartsch , William R. Freeman , Truong Q. Nguyen , Cheolhong An

Optical neural networks (ONNs) are emerging as a promising neuromorphic computing paradigm for object recognition, offering unprecedented advantages in light-speed computation, ultra-low power consumption, and inherent parallelism. However,…

Topo-Tomography (TT) is a synchrotron-based X-ray diffraction imaging technique used to characterize grain shape and crystal orientation in polycrystalline samples. This work aims to provide a decisive and fundamental understanding of 3D…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Zheheng Liu , Nicola Vigano , Henry Proudhon , Wolfgang Ludwig

Deep learning-based, single-view depth estimation methods have recently shown highly promising results. However, such methods ignore one of the most important features for determining depth in the human vision system, which is motion. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Rui Wang , Stephen M. Pizer , Jan-Michael Frahm

Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) is an emerging technology in medical imaging which employs light in the NIR spectrum to estimate the distribution of optical coefficients in biological tissues for diagnostic and monitoring purposes. DOT…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-27 Alessandro Benfenati , Giuseppe Bisazza , Paola Causin

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a volumetric imaging modality that empowers clinicians and scientists to noninvasively visualize the cross-sections of biological samples. As the latest generation of its kind, Fourier-domain OCT…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-20 Yuye Ling , Mengyuan Wang , Yu Gan , Xinwen Yao , Leopold Schmetterer , Chuanqing Zhou , Yikai Su

In Optical diffraction tomography, the multiply scattered field is a nonlinear function of the refractive index of the object. The Rytov method is a linear approximation of the forward model, and is commonly used to reconstruct images.…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive 3D modality widely used in ophthalmology for imaging the retina. Achieving automated, anatomically coherent retinal layer segmentation on OCT is important for the detection and monitoring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Botond Fazekas , Guilherme Aresta , Dmitrii Lachinov , Sophie Riedl , Julia Mai , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Hrvoje Bogunovic

Recent works demonstrate the effectiveness of diffusion models as unsupervised solvers for inverse imaging problems. Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) has greatly benefited from these advancements, achieving improved generalization…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Ezgi Demircan-Tureyen , Felix Lucka , Tristan van Leeuwen

Light scattering imposes a major obstacle for imaging objects seated deeply in turbid media, such as biological tissues and foggy air. Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) tackles scattering by volumetrically recovering the optical absorbance…