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Ptychography employs a set of diffraction patterns that capture redundant information about an illuminated specimen as a localized beam is moved over the specimen. The robustness of this method comes from the redundancy of the dataset that…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-27 Tega Boro Edo

Ptychography enables coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) of extended samples by raster scanning across the illuminating XUV/X-ray beam thereby generalizing the unique advantages of CDI techniques. Table-top realizations of this method are…

Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) has been a promising biomedical imaging technology in recent years. However, the point-by-point scanning mechanism results in low-speed imaging, which limits the application of PAM. Reducing sampling density…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Jiasheng Zhou , Da He , Xiaoyu Shang , Zhendong Guo , Sung-liang Chen , Jiajia Luo

Images are formed by counting how many photons traveling from a given set of directions hit an image sensor during a given time interval. When photons are few and far in between, the concept of `image' breaks down and it is best to consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Bo Chen , Pietro Perona

Measurements achieved with ptychographic imaging are a special case of diffraction measurements. They are generated by illuminating small parts of a sample with, e.g., a focused X-ray beam. By shifting the sample, a set of far-field…

Reflective ptychography is a promising lensless imaging technique with a wide field of view, offering significant potential for applications in semiconductor manufacturing and detection. However, many semiconductor materials are coated with…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Yun Gao , Qijun You , Peixiang Lu , Wei Cao

An azimuthally electric-polarized vector beam (APB), with a polarization vortex, has a salient feature that it contains a magnetic-dominant region within which electric field ideally has a null while longitudinal magnetic field is maximum.…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-03 Mehdi Veysi , Caner Guclu , Filippo Capolino

We report a novel lensless on-chip microscopy platform based on near-field blind ptychographic modulation. In this platform, we place a thin diffuser in between the object and the image sensor for light wave modulation. By blindly scanning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Shaowei Jiang , Jiakai Zhu , Pengming Song , Chengfei Guo , Zichao Bian , Ruihai Wang , Yikun Huang , Shiyao Wang , He Zhang , Guoan Zheng

Ptychography is a popular imaging technique that combines diffractive imaging with scanning microscopy. The technique consists of a coherent beam that is scanned across an object in a series of overlapping positions, leading to reliable and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Samy Wu Fung , Zichao Di

FRET measurements can provide dynamic spatial information on length scales smaller than the diffraction limit of light. Several methods exist to measure FRET between fluorophores, including Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM),…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-09 Bryan Kaye , Peter J. Foster , Tae Yeon Yoo , Daniel J. Needleman

This paper presents a new approach on stretch processing for a fine range estimation using MPM (Matrix Pencil Method). The conventional method utilizes FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) with limited range resolution with its fixed number of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-09-12 Minwook Kwon , Zhou Du , Jinwook Kim , Mingyu Yoon , Jinhwan Koh

One of the major open problems in computer vision is detection of features in visually impaired images. In this paper, we describe a potential solution using Phase Stretch Transform, a new computational approach for image analysis, edge…

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The elementary operation of cropping underpins nearly every computer vision system, ranging from data augmentation and translation invariance to computational photography and representation learning. This paper investigates the subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Basile Van Hoorick , Carl Vondrick

Scattering scanning near-field optical microscopy enables optical imaging and characterization of plasmonic devices with nanometer-scale resolution well below the diffraction limit. This technique enables developers to probe and understand…

Single-shot fluorescence imaging techniques have gained increasing interest in recent years due to their ability to rapidly capture complex biological data without the need for extensive scanning. In this letter, we introduce polarized…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-31 Oumeng Zhang , Changhuei Yang

Fourier Transform Interferometry (FTI) is an appealing Hyperspectral (HS) imaging modality for many applications demanding high spectral resolution, e.g., in fluorescence microscopy. However, the effective resolution of FTI is limited by…

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Fluorescence microscopy is an important and extensively utilised tool for imaging biological systems. However, the image resolution that can be obtained has a limit as defined through the laws of diffraction. Demand for improved resolution…

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Eyeframe lens tracing is an important process in the optical industry that requires sub-millimeter precision to ensure proper lens fitting and optimal vision correction. Traditional frame tracers rely on mechanical tools that need precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Manel Guzmán , Antonio Agudo

Fundamental properties of light unavoidably impose features on images collected using fluorescence microscopes. Modeling these features is ever more important in quantitatively interpreting microscopy images collected at scales on par or…

Ptychography provides highly efficient imaging in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM), but questions have remained over its applicability to strongly scattering samples such as those most commonly seen in materialsscience.…

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