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3D image reconstruction from a set of X-ray projections is an important image reconstruction problem, with applications in medical imaging, industrial inspection and airport security. The innovation of X-ray emitter arrays allows for a…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Maria Klodt , Raphael Hauser

Rendering volumetric scattering media, including clouds, fog, smoke, and other complex materials, is crucial for realism in computer graphics. Traditional path tracing, while unbiased, requires many long path samples to converge in scenes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Becky Hu , Xi Deng , Fujun Luan , Miloš Hašan , Steve Marschner

The interest of compressive sampling in ultrasound imaging has been recently extensively evaluated by several research teams. Following the different application setups, it has been shown that the RF data may be reconstructed from a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-07 Zhouye Chen , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

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

The millimeter wave (mmWave) band will provide multi-gigabits-per-second connectivity in the radio access of future wireless systems. The high propagation loss in this portion of the spectrum calls for the deployment of large antenna arrays…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Mattia Lecci , Paolo Testolina , Michele Polese , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

We propose a method to efficiently compute tomographic projections of a 3D volume represented by a linear combination of shifted B-splines. To do so, we propose a ray-tracing algorithm that computes 3D line integrals with arbitrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Youssef Haouchat , Sepand Kashani , Aleix Boquet-Pujadas , Philippe Thévenaz , Michael Unser

Recent advancements in neural rendering technologies and their supporting devices have paved the way for immersive 3D experiences, significantly transforming human interaction with intelligent devices across diverse applications. However,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Chaojian Li , Sixu Li , Linrui Jiang , Jingqun Zhang , Yingyan Celine Lin

RadaRays allows for the accurate modeling and simulation of rotating FMCW radar sensors in complex environments, including the simulation of reflection, refraction, and scattering of radar waves. Our software is able to handle large numbers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Alexander Mock , Martin Magnusson , Joachim Hertzberg

We present an inverse image-formation module that can enhance the robustness of existing visual SLAM pipelines for casually captured scenarios. Casual video captures often suffer from motion blur and varying appearances, which degrade the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Gwangtak Bae , Changwoon Choi , Hyeongjun Heo , Sang Min Kim , Young Min Kim

Computed Tomography (CT) using synchrotron radiation is a powerful technique that, compared to lab-CT techniques, boosts high spatial and temporal resolution while also providing access to a range of contrast-formation mechanisms. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-20 Jiayang Shi , Daniel M. Pelt , K. Joost Batenburg

We present a computational method for real-time, patient-specific simulation of 2D ultrasound (US) images. The method uses a large number of tracked ultrasound images to learn a function that maps position and orientation of the transducer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Cesare Magnetti , Veronika Zimmer , Nooshin Ghavami , Emily Skelton , Jacqueline Matthew , Karen Lloyd , Jo Hajnal , Julia A. Schnabel , Alberto Gomez

We present a methodology for automated real-time analysis of a radio image data stream with the goal to find transient sources. Contrary to previous works, the transients we are interested in occur on a time-scale where dispersion starts to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-09 David Ruhe , Mark Kuiack , Antonia Rowlinson , Ralph Wijers , Patrick Forré

Point clouds have been a recent interest for ray tracing-based radio channel characterization, as sensors such as RGB-D cameras and laser scanners can be utilized to generate an accurate virtual copy of a physical environment. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Niklas Vaara , Pekka Sangi , Miguel Bordallo López , Janne Heikkilä

Ray tracing is a deterministic method that produces propagation paths between a transmitter and a receiver. The simulation accuracy is significantly influenced by the environment details. One way to capture the environment with great…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-22 Niklas Vaara , Pekka Sangi , Miguel Bordallo López , Janne Heikkilä

Ray-tracing (RT) has become central to site-specific electromagnetic propagation modeling in dynamic complex environments. Yet its computational burden grows sharply as high-fidelity digital twins of these environments scale to millions of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Giacomo Melloni , Enrico M. Vitucci , Vittorio Degli Esposti , Samuel Berweger , Jack Chuang , Camillo Gentile , Nada Golmie

Radio applications are increasingly being used in urban environments for cellular radio systems and safety applications that use vehicle-vehicle, and vehicle-to-infrastructure. We present a novel ray tracing-based radio propagation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Ruichen Wang , Dinesh Manocha

Ultrasonography offers an inexpensive, widely-accessible and compact medical imaging solution. However, compared to other imaging modalities such as CT and MRI, ultrasound images notoriously suffer from strong speckle noise, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Vincent van de Schaft , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Reflective and textureless surfaces such as windows, mirrors, and walls can be a challenge for object and scene reconstruction. These surfaces are often poorly reconstructed and filled with depth discontinuities and holes, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Justin Wilson , Nicholas Rewkowski , Ming C. Lin , Henry Fuchs

MRI systems are traditionally engineered to produce close to idealized performance, enabling a simplified pulse sequence design philosophy. An example of this is control of eddy currents produced by gradient fields; usually these are…

Ultrasound attenuation is caused by absorption and scattering in tissue and is thus a function of tissue composition, hence its imaging offers great potential for screening and differential diagnosis. In this paper we propose a novel method…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Richard Rau , Ozan Unal , Dieter Schweizer , Valery Vishnevskiy , Orcun Goksel