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The infrared beamline at BESSY II storage ring was upgraded recently to extend capabilities of infrared microscopy. The end-stations available at the beamline are now facilitating improved characterization of molecules and materials at…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-09 Alexander Veber , Ljiljana Puskar , Janina Kneipp , Ulrich Schade

Optical microscopy is an essential tool in biology and medicine. Imaging thin, yet non-flat objects in a single shot (without relying on more sophisticated sectioning setups) remains challenging as the shallow depth of field that comes with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-14 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

Ring artifacts in X-ray micro-CT images are one of the primary causes of concern in their accurate visual interpretation and quantitative analysis. The geometry of X-ray micro-CT scanners is similar to the medical CT machines, except the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Dhruvi Shah , Shruti Mehta , Ashish Agrawal , Shishir Purohit , Bhaskar Chaudhury

Muon imaging is one of the most promising non-invasive techniques for density structure scanning, specially for large objects reaching the kilometre scale. It has already interesting applications in different fields like geophysics or…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-12-14 H. Gómez , D. Gibert , C. Goy , K. Jourde , Y. Karyotakis , S. Katsanevas , J. Marteau , M. Rosas-Carbajal , A. Tonazzo

Light microscopy is a widespread and inexpensive imaging technique facilitating biomedical discovery and diagnostics. However, light diffraction barrier and imperfections in optics limit the level of detail of the acquired images. The…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-24 Rui Li , Gabriel della Maggiora , Vardan Andriasyan , Anthony Petkidis , Artsemi Yushkevich , Mikhail Kudryashev , Artur Yakimovich

The photorealistic rendering of the transparent effect of translucent objects is a hot research topic in recent years. A real-time photorealistic rendering and material dynamic editing method for the diffuse scattering effect of translucent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Rui Wang , Wei Hua , Yuchi Huo , Hujun Bao

In traditional optical imaging systems, the spatial resolution is limited by the physics of diffraction, which acts as a low-pass filter. The information on sub-wavelength features is carried by evanescent waves, never reaching the camera,…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-13 Oren Solomon , Yonina C. Eldar , Maor Mutzafi , Mordechai Segev

A deep learning based non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging system is developed to image an occluded object off a scattering surface. The neural net is trained using only handwritten digits, and yet exhibits capability to reconstruct patterns…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Chen Zhou , Cheng-Yu Wang , Zhiwen Liu

Scribble supervised salient object detection (SSSOD) constructs segmentation ability of attractive objects from surroundings under the supervision of sparse scribble labels. For the better segmentation, depth and thermal infrared modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zhengyi Liu , Sheng Deng , Xinrui Wang , Linbo Wang , Xianyong Fang , Bin Tang

Dark-field images are formed by small-angle scattering of x-ray photons. The small-angle scattering signal is particularly sensitive to structural variations and density fluctuation on a length scale of several ten to hundred nanometers,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2010-03-11 W. Cong , F. Pfeiffer , M. Bech , O. Bunk , C. David , G. Wang

Tracking and acquiring simultaneous optical images of randomly moving targets obscured by scattering media remains a challenging problem of importance to many applications that require precise object localization and identification. In this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ning Zhang , Timothy Shea , Arto Nurmikko

Estimation of the optical properties of scattering media such as tissue is important in diagnostics as well as in the development of techniques to image deeper. As light penetrates the sample scattering events occur that alter the…

The presence of a scattering medium in the imaging path between an object and an observer is known to severely limit the visual acuity of the imaging system. We present an approach to circumvent the deleterious effects of scattering, by…

Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) of local atomic diffraction patterns is emerging as a powerful technique for probing intricate details of atomic structure and atomic electric fields. However, efficient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-15 Xin Li , Ondrej E. Dyck , Mark P. Oxley , Andrew R. Lupini , Leland McInnes , John Healy , Stephen Jesse , Sergei V. Kalinin

Localized and propagating polaritons allow for highly sensitive analysis of (bio)chemical substances and processes. Nanoimaging of the polaritons evanescent fields allows for critically important experimental mode identification and for…

Narrow absorption features in nearby supernova (SN) spectra are a powerful diagnostic of the slow-moving material in the line of sight: they are extensively used to infer dust extinction from the host galaxies, and they can also serve in…

The distortion of light's degrees of freedom when passing through complex random media is of great interest across a diversity of fields, e.g., scattering in biological studies. Emulating such media in a controlled laboratory setting…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kelsey Everts , Cade Peters , Andrew Forbes

Scanning Probe Microscopy or SPM offers nanoscale resolution but is frequently marred by structured artefacts such as line scan dropout, gain induced noise, tip convolution, and phase hops. While most available methods treat SPM artefact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ziwei Wei , Yao Shen , Wanheng Lu , Ghim Wei Ho , Kaiyang Zeng

Diffusion model shows remarkable potential on sparse-view computed tomography (SVCT) reconstruction. However, when a network is trained on a limited sample space, its generalization capability may be constrained, which degrades performance…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-11 Zekun Zhou , Tan Liu , Bing Yu , Yanru Gong , Liu Shi , Qiegen Liu

We used scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) to characterize nickel nanoclusters grown inside single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNT). The nanotubes were filled with Ni(II) acetylacetonate and the molecules were…