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Fourier ptychography (FP) is a newly developed computational imaging approach that achieves both high resolution and wide field of view by stitching a series of low-resolution images captured under angle-varied illumination. So far, many…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Yongbing Zhang , Yangzhe Liu , Xiu Li , Shaowei Jiang , Krishna Dixit , Xinfeng Zhang , Xiangyang Ji

Phantom eye devices are designed to mimic the optical properties of the human eye; however, the retinal structures are typically emulated with synthetic tissues. Thus, it is currently impossible to exploit phantom eye devices for…

In recent years there has been a growing interest in event cameras, i.e. vision sensors that record changes in illumination independently for each pixel. This type of operation ensures that acquisition is possible in very adverse lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tomasz Kryjak

Using optical hardware for neuromorphic computing has become more and more popular recently due to its efficient high-speed data processing capabilities and low power consumption. However, there are still some remaining obstacles to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Chonghuai Ma , Floris Laporte , Joni Dambre , Peter Bienstman

Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is a progressive visual impairment affecting millions of individuals. Since there is no current treatment for the disease, the only means of improving the lives of individuals suffering from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-18 Prithul Aniruddha , Nasif Zaman , Alireza Tavakkoli , Stewart Zuckerbrod

Physics-driven artificial intelligence (PD-AI) reconstruction methods have emerged as the state-of-the-art for accelerating MRI scans, enabling higher spatial and temporal resolutions. However, the high resolution of these scans generates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Yaşar Utku Alçalar , Yu Cao , Mehmet Akçakaya

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a widely used non-invasive physiological sensing technique, suitable for various clinical applications. Such clinical applications are increasingly supported by machine learning methods, raising the question of…

Various hardware accelerators have been developed for energy-efficient and real-time inference of neural networks on edge devices. However, most training is done on high-performance GPUs or servers, and the huge memory and computing costs…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Kaiqi Zhang , Cole Hawkins , Xiyuan Zhang , Cong Hao , Zheng Zhang

Due to the emergence of embedded applications in image and video processing, communication and cryptography, improvement of pictorial information for better human perception like deblurring, denoising in several fields such as satellite…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Chandrajit Pal , Avik Kotal , Asit Samanta , Amlan Chakrabarti , Ranjan Ghosh

Accurate and low-latency qubit state measurement is critical for trapped-ion quantum computing. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have been integrated to enhance detection fidelity, their latency performance on specific hardware platforms…

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) can reduce energy consumption compared to conventional Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) when spiking activity is sparse and the neuron model is hardware-friendly. However, biologically faithful models are…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Pascal Harmeling , Florent De Geeter , Guillaume Drion

This paper is an introduction to the membrane potential equation for neurons. Its properties are described, as well as sample applications. Networks of these equations can be used for modeling neuronal systems, which also process images and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-01-29 Matthias S. Keil

This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advances in deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for object detection, classification, and tracking on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). With the increasing demand for…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Safa Mohammed Sali , Mahmoud Meribout , Ashiyana Abdul Majeed

Photonic neural networks (PNNs) have emerged as a promising platform to address the energy consumption issue that comes with the advancement of artificial intelligence technology, and thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) offers an attractive…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-27 Yong Zheng , Rongbo Wu , Yuan Ren , Rui Bao , Jian Liu , Yu Ma , Min Wang , Ya Cheng

Fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLI) is an important technique for studying cellular environments and molecular interactions, but its real-time application is limited by slow data acquisition, which requires capturing large time-resolved…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Ismail Erbas , Vikas Pandey , Aporva Amarnath , Naigang Wang , Karthik Swaminathan , Stefan T. Radev , Xavier Intes

The effective use of computer vision and machine learning for on-orbit applications has been hampered by limited computing capabilities, and therefore limited performance. While embedded systems utilizing ARM processors have been shown to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Andrew Ekblad , Trupti Mahendrakar , Ryan T. White , Markus Wilde , Isaac Silver , Brooke Wheeler

Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is a growing concern in the radio astronomy community. Single-dish telescopes are particularly susceptible to RFI. Several methods have been developed to cope with RF-polluted environments, based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-23 R. Finger , F. Curotto , R. Fuentes , R. Duan , L. Bronfman , D. Li

We present the results of an R&D study for a specialized processor capable of precisely reconstructing events with hundreds of charged-particle tracks in pixel and silicon strip detectors at $40\,\rm MHz$, thus suitable for processing LHC…

FPGAs provide a flexible and efficient platform to accelerate rapidly-changing algorithms for computer vision. The majority of existing work focuses on accelerating image classification, while other fundamental vision problems, including…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-25 Qijing Huang , Dequan Wang , Yizhao Gao , Yaohui Cai , Zhen Dong , Bichen Wu , Kurt Keutzer , John Wawrzynek

Photonic systems for high-performance information processing have attracted renewed interest. Neuromorphic silicon photonics has the potential to integrate processing functions that vastly exceed the capabilities of electronics. We report…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2017-11-17 Alexander N. Tait , Thomas Ferreira de Lima , Ellen Zhou , Allie X. Wu , Mitchell A. Nahmias , Bhavin J. Shastri , Paul R. Prucnal