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Multispectral disparity estimation is a difficult task for many reasons: it has all the same challenges as traditional visible-visible disparity estimation (occlusions, repetitive patterns, textureless surfaces), in addition of having very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-04 David-Alexandre Beaupre , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau

Multispectral imaging is very beneficial in diverse applications, like healthcare and agriculture, since it can capture absorption bands of molecules in different spectral areas. A promising approach for multispectral snapshot imaging are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Frank Sippel , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

We are developing a rugged and person-transportable Compton gamma imager for use in security investigations of radioactive materials, and for radiological incident remediation. The imager is composed of layers of scintillator with light…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-07-05 P. R. B. Saull , L. E. Sinclair , H. C. J. Seywerd , D. S. Hanna , P. J. Boyle , A. M. L. MacLeod

We have developed a compact Compton gamma-ray imager with a large field of view and a low channel-count that is capable of quickly localizing gamma-ray sources in the few hundred keV - several MeV range. The two detector planes (scatter and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-18 A. M. L. MacLeod , P. J. Boyle , D. S. Hanna , P. R. B. Saull , L. E. Sinclair , H. C. J. Seywerd

An imaging system based on single photon counting and compressive sensing (ISSPCCS) is developed to reconstruct a sparse image in absolute darkness. The single photon avalanche detector and spatial light modulator (SLM) of aluminum…

Capturing more information, e.g. geometry and material, using optical cameras can greatly help the perception and understanding of complex scenes. This paper proposes a novel method to capture the spectral and light field information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Qian Huang , Yunqian Li , Linsen Chen , Xiaoming Zhong , Jinli Suo , Zhan Ma , Tao Yue , Xun Cao

X-ray detectors made of crystalline silicon have several advantages including low dark currents, fast charge collection and high energy resolution. For high-energy x-rays, however, silicon suffers from its low atomic number, which might…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-01-26 Moa Yveborg , Cheng Xu , Erik Fredenberg , Mats Danielsson

For MeV gamma-ray astronomy, we have developed an electron-tracking Compton camera (ETCC) as a MeV gamma-ray telescope capable of rejecting the radiation background and attaining the high sensitivity of near 1 mCrab in space. Our ETCC…

A semiconductor tracker for muon scattering tomography is presented. The tracker contains silicon strip sensors with an $80\,\mu$m pitch, precision mechanics and integrated cooling. The electronic readout of the sensors is performed by a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-30 F. Keizer , A. Gorbatch , M. A. Parker , C. Steer , S. A. Wotton

Spontaneous downconversion is a versatile source for correlated biphotons that has been employed in many quantum sensing and imaging experiments. Spatially-resolved photon-counting detectors allow to access a large number of modes, posing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-26 Ermes Toninelli , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Thomas Gregory , Miles J. Padgett

We introduce a charge coupled device (CCD) camera based detection scheme in dynamic light scattering that provides information on the single-scattered auto-correlation function even for fairly turbid samples. It is based on the single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel Zakharov , Suresh Bhat , Peter Schurtenberger , Frank Scheffold

The Mega electron volt (MeV) gamma-ray observation is a promising diagnostic tool for observing the universe. However, the sensitivity of MeV gamma-ray telescopes is limited due to peculiar backgrounds, restricting the application of MeV…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Tomonori Ikeda , Atsushi Takada , Taito Takemura , Kei Yoshikawa , Yuta nakamura , Ken Onozaka , Mitsuru Abe , Toru Tanimori

Micro-channel-plate-based photo-detectors are unique in being capable of covering areas of many square-meters while providing sub-millimeter space resolution, time resolutions of less than 10 picoseconds for charged particles, time…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-10-28 Jinseo Park , Fangjian Wu , Evan Angelico , Henry J. Frisch , Eric Spieglan

A future mission in medium-energy gamma-ray astrophysics would allow for many scientific advancements, e.g. a possible explanation for the excess positron emission from the Galactic Center, a better understanding of nucleosynthesis and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-20 Michelle Galloway , Andreas Zoglauer , Steven E. Boggs , Mark Amman

We implement a double-pixel, compressive sensing camera to efficiently characterize, at high resolution, the spatially entangled fields produced by spontaneous parametric downconversion. This technique leverages sparsity in spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Gregory A. Howland , John C. Howell

High contrast imaging and spectroscopy provide unique constraints for exoplanet formation models as well as for planetary atmosphere models. But this can be challenging because of the planet-to-star small angular separation and high flux…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-06 J. -R. Delorme , R. Galicher , P. Baudoz , G. Rousset , J. Mazoyer , O. Dupuis

A scanning pixel camera is a novel low-cost, low-power sensor that is not diffraction limited. It produces data as a sequence of samples extracted from various parts of the scene during the course of a scan. It can provide very detailed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yusuf Duman , Jean-Yves Guillemaut , Simon Hadfield

Silicon photonics (SiP) integrated coherent image sensors offer higher sensitivity and improved range-resolution-product compared to direct detection image sensors such as CCD and CMOS devices. Previous generation of SiP coherent imagers…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-24 Aroutin Khachaturian , Reza Fatemi , Ali Hajimiri

A full-field chromatic confocal microscopy using a multispectral sensor was developed for quasi-one-shot microscopic 3D surface measurement. An innovative optical configuration employs a digital micromirror device (DMD) and a multispectral…

Image-based anomaly detection systems are of vital importance in various manufacturing applications. The resolution and acquisition rate of such systems is increasing significantly in recent years under the fast development of image sensing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Shancong Mou , Jianjun Shi