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Image segmentation is the task of associating pixels in an image with their respective object class labels. It has a wide range of applications in many industries including healthcare, transportation, robotics, fashion, home improvement,…
Navigation inside a closed area with no GPS-signal accessibility is a highly challenging task. In order to tackle this problem, recently the imaging-based methods have grabbed the attention of many researchers. These methods either extract…
To detect tracks of charged particles close to the interaction point in high energy physics experiments of the next generation colliders, hybrid pixel detectors, in which sensor and read-out IC are separate entities, constitute the present…
Differential dynamic microscopy (DDM) is a digital video-microscopy technique for quantitative measurements of the microscale dynamics in soft condensed matter systems. Here, multi-tau pulsed illumination DDM (MTPI-DDM) is introduced as a…
Wavefront sensors have now become core components in the fields of metrology of optical systems, biomedical optics, and adaptive optics systems for astronomy. However, none of the designs used or proposed so far achieve simultaneously a…
Embedded camera systems are ubiquitous, representing the most widely deployed example of a wireless embedded system. They capture a representation of the world - the surroundings illuminated by visible or infrared light. Despite their…
Conventional silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) are well established as light detectors with single-photon-detection capability and used throughout high energy physics, medical, and commercial applications. The possibility to produce single…
Three-dimensional elements, with refractive index distribution structured at sub-wavelength scale, provide an expansive optical design space that can be harnessed for demonstrating multi-functional free-space optical devices. Here we…
Signal processing is a fundamental component of almost any sensor-enabled system, with a wide range of applications across different scientific disciplines. Time series data, images, and video sequences comprise representative forms of…
Complex field imaging, which captures both the amplitude and phase information of input optical fields or objects, can offer rich structural insights into samples, such as their absorption and refractive index distributions. However,…
The main topic of this thesis is the application of advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) techniques to high data-rate optical links. This thesis is divided in two parts: Direct-Detection systems, and Coherent systems. In the first part,…
The massive amounts of data generated by camera sensors motivate data processing inside pixel arrays, i.e., at the extreme-edge. Several critical developments have fueled recent interest in the processing-in-pixel-in-memory paradigm for a…
Silicon detectors have gained in popularity since silicon became a widely used micro/nanoelectronic semiconductor material. Silicon detectors are used in particle physics as well as imaging for pixel based detecting systems. Over the past…
Endoscopes featuring a miniaturized design have significantly enhanced operational flexibility, portability, and diagnostic capability while substantially reducing the invasiveness of medical procedures. Recently, single-use endoscopes…
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have been broadly deployed in safety-critical domains, such as automotive systems, avionics, medical devices, etc. In recent years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been increasingly adopted to control CPS.…
Increasing the resolution of image sensors has been a never ending struggle since many years. In this paper, we propose a novel image sensor layout which allows for the acquisition of images at a higher resolution and improved quality. For…
Attributes such as the Radiative Decay Rate (RDR) and the Radiation Pattern (RP) of Quantum Dots (QDs) are highly sensitive to their nearby surrounding material. To enhance the RDR and shape the RP, interspacing between the QDs and their…
Digital holography (DH) enables non-contact, noninvasive 3D imaging of transparent and moving microscopic samples by capturing amplitude and phase information in a single shot. In this work, we present a compact, low-cost, real-time…
The growing diffusion of integrated photonic technologies requires fast and non-invasive quality control techniques for mass-production. We present a general diagnostic technique for sub-ps imaging of photonic circuits combining wide-field…
Silicon photonic integrated circuits offer significant improvements in processing bandwidth, power efficiency, and low latency, addressing the needs of future microwave communication systems. Several successful applications have been…