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Harmonic decomposition of surfaces, such as spherical and spheroidal harmonics, is used to analyze morphology, reconstruct, and generate surface inclusions of particulate microstructures. However, obtaining high-quality meshes of…

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Conventional 2-D scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is commonly used to rapidly and qualitatively evaluate membrane pore structure. Quantitative 2-D analyses of pore sizes can be extracted from SEM, but without information about 3-D spatial…

Helium-ion beams (HIB) focused to sub-nanometer scales have emerged as powerful tools for high-resolution imaging as well as nano-scale lithography, ion milling or deposition. Quantifying irradiation effects is essential for reliable device…

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Today, three-dimensional reconstruction of objects has many applications in various fields, and therefore, choosing a suitable method for high resolution three-dimensional reconstruction is an important issue and displaying high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 F. S. Mortazavi , S. Dajkhosh , M. Saadatseresht

Four-point measurements using a multi-tip scanning tunneling microscope (STM) are carried out in order to determine surface and step conductivities on Si(111) surfaces. In a first step, distance-dependent four-point measurements in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-10 Sven Just , Marcus Blab , Stefan Korte , Vasily Cherepanov , Helmut Soltner , Bert Voigtländer

The reconfiguration of soft, deformable particles upon adsorption at the interface between two fluids underpins many aspects of their dynamics and interactions, ultimately controlling the macroscopic properties of particle monolayers of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-21 Jacopo Vialetto , Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna , Lucio Isa

We investigate deuterium atoms adsorbed on the surface of liquid helium in equilibrium with a vapor of atoms of the same species. These atoms are studied by a sensitive optical method based on spectroscopy at a wavelength of 122 nm,…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. P. Mosk , M. W. Reynolds , T. W. Hijmans

Recent techniques on implicit geometry representation learning and neural rendering have shown promising results for 3D clothed human reconstruction from sparse video inputs. However, it is still challenging to reconstruct detailed surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hao Wang , Qingshan Xu , Hongyuan Chen , Rui Ma

The reconstruction of accurate three-dimensional environment models is one of the most fundamental goals in the field of photogrammetry. Since satellite images provide suitable properties for obtaining large-scale environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens

Automated 3D pose estimation of satellites and other known space objects is a critical component of space situational awareness. Ground-based imagery offers a convenient data source for satellite characterization; however, analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Maxim Bazik , Brien Flewelling , Manoranjan Majji , Joseph Mundy

Normal integration reconstructs 3D surfaces from normal maps obtained e.g. by photometric stereo. These normal maps capture surface details down to the pixel level but require large computational resources for integration at high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Moritz Heep , Sven Behnke , Eduard Zell

Microscopic fringe projection profilometry is a powerful 3D measurement technique with a theoretical measurement accuracy better than one micron provided that the measured targets can be imaged with good fringe visibility. However,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Yan Hu , Qian Chen , Yichao Liang , Shijie Feng , Tianyang Tao , Chao Zuo

Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) has become an important measurement tool for characterizing the thermal properties of materials at the nanometer scale. This technique requires a SThM probe that combines an Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 R. Swami , G. Julie , S. Le-Denmat , G. Pernot , D. Singhal , J. Paterson , J. Maire , J. F. Motte , N. Paillet , H. Guillou , S. Gomes , O. Bourgeois

Over the last two decades, scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) has become one of the most important ways to investigate the structure of crystal surfaces. STM has helped achieve remarkable successes in surface science such as finding the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Cristian V. Ciobanu , Cristian Predescu

The focused helium ion beam microscope is a versatile imaging and nanofabrication instrument enabling direct-write lithography with sub-10-nm resolution. Subsurface damage and swelling of substrates due to helium ion implantation is…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Sherry Mo , Dana O. Byrne , Frances I. Allen

Textured 3D meshes jointly represent geometry, topology, and appearance, yet their irregular structure poses significant challenges for deep-learning-based semantic segmentation. While a few recent methods operate directly on meshes without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mohammadreza Heidarianbaei , Max Mehltretter , Franz Rottensteiner

A simple method of constructing the 3D surface of non-transparent micro-objects by extending the depth-of-field on the whole attainable surface is presented. The series of images of a sample are recorded by the sequential movement of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-04-15 V. V. Berejnov

Online augmentation of an oblique aerial image sequence with structural information is an essential aspect in the process of 3D scene interpretation and analysis. One key aspect in this is the efficient dense image matching and depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Boitumelo Ruf , Thomas Pollok , Martin Weinmann

The crystallographic texture is a key organization feature of many technical and biological materials. In these materials, especially hierarchically structured ones, the preferential alignment of the nano constituents is heavily influencing…

Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) is a powerful technique for imaging surfaces with atomic resolution, providing insight into physical and chemical processes at the level of single atoms and molecules. A regular task of STM image…