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Recently, sparsity-based algorithms are proposed for super-resolution spectrum estimation. However, to achieve adequately high resolution in real-world signal analysis, the dictionary atoms have to be close to each other in frequency,…

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In the Reverse Engineering and Hardware Assurance domain, a majority of the data acquisition is done through electron microscopy techniques such as Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). However, unlike its counterparts in optical imaging,…

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Accelerated MRI shortens acquisition time by subsampling in the measurement $\kappa$-space. Recovering a high-fidelity anatomical image from subsampled measurements requires close cooperation between two components: (1) a sampler that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-28 Tianwei Yin , Zihui Wu , He Sun , Adrian V. Dalca , Yisong Yue , Katherine L. Bouman

In light of globalized hardware supply chains, the assurance of hardware components has gained significant interest, particularly in cryptographic applications and high-stakes scenarios. Identifying metal lines on scanning electron…

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We apply two sparse reconstruction techniques, the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) and the sparse exponential mode analysis (SEMA), to two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy. The algorithms are first tested on model data,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-01 Zhengjun Wang , Shiwen Lei , Khadga Jung Karki , Andreas Jakobsson , Tönu Pullerits

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is a widely used tool for nanoparticle characterization, but long-term directional drift can compromise image quality. We present a novel algorithm for post-imaging drift correction in SEM nanoparticle…

This paper discusses the reconstruction of partially sampled spectrum-images to accelerate the acquisition in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). The problem of image reconstruction has been widely considered in the literature…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Etienne Monier , Thomas Oberlin , Nathalie Brun , Xiaoyan Li , Marcel Tencé , Nicolas Dobigeon

The 3D characterization of microstructures is crucial for understanding and designing functional materials. However, the scanning electron microscope (SEM), widely used in scientific research, captures only 2D electron intensity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-06 Shuo Chen , Yijin Li , Xi Zheng , Guofeng Zhang

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is critical in nanotechnology, materials science, and biological imaging due to its high spatial resolution and depth of focus. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is an essential parameter in SEM because it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 K. S. Sim , I. Bukhori , D. C. Y. Ong , K. B. Gan

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a crucial medical imaging technology for the screening and diagnosis of frequently occurring cancers. However image quality may suffer by long acquisition times for MRIs due to patient motion, as well as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Edward Li , Farzad Khalvati , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Masoom A. Haider , Alexander Wong

Ultrasound imaging faces a trade-off between image quality and hardware complexity caused by dense transducers. Sparse arrays are one popular solution to mitigate this challenge. This work proposes an end-to-end optimization framework that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Sergio Urrea , Adrian Basarab , Hervé Liebgott , Henry Arguello

Image super-resolution (SR) aims to reconstruct high-quality, high-resolution (HR) images from low-resolution (LR) inputs and plays a critical role in various downstream applications. Despite recent advancements, balancing reconstruction…

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Single particle cryo-electron microscopy has become a critical tool in structural biology over the last decade, able to achieve atomic scale resolution in three dimensional models from hundreds of thousands of (noisy) two-dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Aaditya V. Rangan , Leslie Greengard

Support estimation (SE) of a sparse signal refers to finding the location indices of the non-zero elements in a sparse representation. Most of the traditional approaches dealing with SE problem are iterative algorithms based on greedy…

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State-of-the-art electron microscopes such as scanning electron microscopes (SEM), scanning transmission electron microscopes (STEM) and transmission electron microscopes (TEM) have become increasingly sophisticated. However, the quality of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-31 I. Lobato , T. Friedrich , S. Van Aert

Two-dimensional terahertz spectroscopy (2DTS) is a low-frequency analogue of two-dimensional optical spectroscopy that is rapidly maturing as a probe of a wide variety of condensed matter systems. However, a persistent problem of 2DTS is…

In Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM) experiments, the acquisition parameters are generally kept constant throughout the collection of a data set. This limits data collection to one data set at a time, and frequent human…

We develop new efficient online algorithms for detecting transient sparse signals in TEM video sequences, by adopting the recently developed framework for sequential detection jointly with online convex optimization [1]. We cast the problem…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-01 Y. Cao , S. Zhu , Y. Xie , J. Key , J. Kacher , R. R. Unocic , C. M. Rouleau

Nonlinear spatial encoding magnetic (SEM) fields have been studied to complement multichannel RF encoding and accelerate MRI scans. Published schemes include PatLoc, O-Space, Null Space, 4D-RIO, and others, but the large variety of possible…

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Tomographic imaging has benefited from advances in X-ray sources, detectors and optics to enable novel observations in science, engineering and medicine. These advances have come with a dramatic increase of input data in the form of faster…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Stefano Marchesini , Anuradha Trivedi , Pablo Enfedaque , Talita Perciano , Dilworth Parkinson