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Multimode fibers (MMFs) are attractive ultra-thin replacements for state-of-the-art endoscopes, but the phase randomization in propagation through MMFs poses a major hurdle for imaging and focusing of light. Recently, this challenge has…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-30 Shamir Rosen , Doron Gilboa , Ori Katz , Yaron Silberberg

Smartphones together with RSSI fingerprinting serve as an efficient approach for delivering a low-cost and high-accuracy indoor localization solution. However, a few critical challenges have prevented the wide-spread proliferation of this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-18 Saideep Tiku , Danish Gufran , Sudeep Pasricha

Autofocus is necessary for high-throughput and real-time scanning in microscopic imaging. Traditional methods rely on complex hardware or iterative hill-climbing algorithms. Recent learning-based approaches have demonstrated remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yongping Zhai , Xiaoxi Fu , Qiang Su , Jia Hu , Yake Zhang , Yunfeng Zhou , Chaofan Zhang , Xiao Li , Wenxin Wang , Dongdong Wu , Shen Yan

Ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the most commonly used non-invasive imaging techniques. However, US image acquisition requires simultaneous guidance of the transducer and interpretation of images, which is a highly challenging task that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Simona Treivase , Alberto Gomez , Jacqueline Matthew , Emily Skelton , Julia A. Schnabel , Nicolas Toussaint

This study focuses on assessing smartphone camera characteristics for developing an economic smartphone-based Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) system. In the investigation, flow around a cylinder was visualized using two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Vishesh Kashyap , Sushrut Kumar , Nehal Amit Jajal , Mrudang Mathur , Raj Kumar Singh

We present a 3D printed adapter with planar mirrors for stereo reconstruction using front and back smartphone camera. The adapter presents a practical and low-cost solution for enabling any smartphone to be used as a stereo camera, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Kristijan Bartol , David Bojanić , Tomislav Petković , Tomislav Pribanić

Background: A smartphone is a promising tool for daily cardiovascular measurement and mental stress monitoring. A smartphone camera-based PhotoPlethysmoGraphy (PPG) and a low-cost thermal camera can be used to create cheap, convenient and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Youngjun Cho , Simon J. Julier , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze

Endoscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a valuable tool for providing diagnostic images of internal organs and guiding interventions in real time. Miniaturized OCT endoscopes are essential for imaging small and convoluted luminal…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-11-28 Chao Xu , Xin Guan , Syeda Aimen Abbasi , Neng Xia , To Ngai , Li Zhang , Ho-Pui Ho , Sze Hang Calvin Ng , Wu Yuan

Clinicians generally diagnose cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) using standard 12-Lead electrocardiogram (ECG). However, for smartphone-based public healthcare systems, a reduced 3-lead system may be preferred because of (i) increased…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Aditya Mallick , Rahul L R , Albert Shaiju , Satya Deepika Neelapala , Lopamudra Giri , Rahuldeb Sarkar , Soumya Jana

Although several optical techniques have been recently developed in order to overcome the resolution limit in microscopy, the imaging of sub-wavelength features is still a real challenge. In practise, super-resolution techniques remain…

Physics Education · Physics 2019-07-24 Stephane Perrin , Keshia Badu , Paul Montgomery , Sylvain Lecler

Microscopy enables direct observation of cellular morphology in 3D, with transmitted-light methods offering low-cost, minimally invasive imaging and fluorescence microscopy providing specificity and contrast. Virtual staining combines these…

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is of great interest in life science studies for visualizing subcellular structures at the nanometer scale. Among various kinds of super-resolution approaches, image scanning microscopy (ISM) offers…

Data acquisition through mobile phones remains a challenge for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). In this work we target the object-centered scenario and enable reliable mobile acquisition by providing on-device capture guidance and recording…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yuezhe Zhang , Luqian Bai , Mengting Yu , Lei Wei , Shuai Wan , Yifan Zhang

Significance: Smartphones hold great potential in point-of-care settings due to their accessibility and computational capabilities. This is critical as clinicians increasingly seek to quantify skin-tone, a characteristic which has been…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-11-22 Joshua A. Burrow , Rutendo Jakachira , Gannon Lemaster , Kimani C. Toussaint

Low voltage scanning electron microscopy is a powerful tool for examining surface features and imaging beam sensitive materials. Improving resolution during low voltage imaging is then an important area of development. Decreasing the effect…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-07 Frances Quigley , Clive Downing , Cormac McGuinness , Lewys Jones

We present a large-scale computational 3D topographic microscope that enables 6-gigapixel profilometric 3D imaging at micron-scale resolution across $>$110 cm$^2$ areas over multi-millimeter axial ranges. Our computational microscope,…

Optical spectroscopy plays an essential role across scientific research and industry for non-contact materials analysis1-3, increasingly through in-situ or portable platforms4-6. However, when considering low-light-level applications,…

Hyper-spectral imaging has recently gained increasing attention for use in different applications, including agricultural investigation, ground tracking, remote sensing and many other. However, the high cost, large physical size and…

Although the latest high-end smartphone has powerful CPU and GPU, running deeper convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for complex tasks such as ImageNet classification on mobile devices is challenging. To deploy deep CNNs on mobile devices,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Yong-Deok Kim , Eunhyeok Park , Sungjoo Yoo , Taelim Choi , Lu Yang , Dongjun Shin

Imaging through opaque, highly scattering walls is a long sought after capability with potential applications in a variety of fields. The use of wavefront shaping to compensate for scattering has brought a renewed interest as a potential…

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