Publications related to Imaging

Imaging sensor device using an array of single-photon avalanche diode photodetectors

The invention relates to an Imaging sensor device in a stacked arrangement comprising: - a pixel array tier comprising a plurality of pixel segments each having a plurality of pixels for photon detection each providing a digital pixel output; - a processin ...

2024

Imaging system with silicon photomultipliers and method for operating thereof

Edoardo Charbon, Andrada Alexandra Muntean

The invention relates to an integrated imaging system comprising: - an array of analog photomultiplier elements - a plurality of submodules, each submodule having a number of the photomultiplier elements; - a plurality of time-to-digital converters each as ...

2023

From Nano to Macro An overview of the IEEE Bio Image and Signal Processing Technical Committee

Michaël Unser, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Michael Stefan Daniel Liebling

The Bio Image and Signal Processing (BISP) Technical Committee (TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) promotes activities within the broad technical field of biomedical image and signal processing. Areas of interest include medical and biological ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Time-resolved imaging with SPAD detectors

Jiuxuan Zhao

With the capabilities such as single-photon detection, time stamping and high-speed acquisition, time-resolved imaging based on single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) detectors has found significant applications across diverse domains, including but not limi ...

EPFL2023

Practical computational imaging by use of spatiotemporal light modulation: from simulations to applications in biological microscopy

François Thierry M Marelli

Optical microscopy is an essential tool for biologists, who are often faced with the need to overcome the spatial and temporal resolution limitations of their devices to capture finer details. As upgrading imaging hardware is expensive, computational metho ...

EPFL2023

3DHumanGAN: 3D-Aware Human Image Generation with 3D Pose Mapping

Zhuoqian Yang, Siyuan Li

We present 3DHumanGAN, a 3D-aware generative adversarial network that synthesizes photo-like images of fullbody humans with consistent appearances under different view-angles and body-poses. To tackle the representational and computational challenges in sy ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

3D reconstruction of curvilinear one-dimensional objects viewed in transmission electron microscopy

Gulnaz Ganeeva

To obtain a more complete understanding of material microstructure at the nanoscale and to gain profound insights into their properties, there is a growing need for more efficient and precise methods that can streamline the process of 3D imaging using a tr ...

EPFL2023

Functional neuroimaging options for tinnitus

Patrick Karl Alois Neff

Background: The pathophysiology behind tinnitus is still not well understood. Different imaging methods help in the understanding of the complex relationships that lead to the perception of tinnitus.Objective: Herein, different functional imaging methods t ...

SPRINGER2023

Burst Vision Using Single-Photon Cameras

Edoardo Charbon, Paul Mos, Mohit Gupta

Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are novel image sensors that record the arrival of individual photons at extremely high temporal resolution. In the past, they were only available as single pixels or small-format arrays, for various active imaging ap ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2023

Remote wide angle view broad wavelength viewing system compatible with D-T operations in JET

Gilles Arnoux, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia

Imaging diagnostics in Joint European Torus have become essential in the study of plasma wall interactions and the protection of the plasma facing components. During deuterium operations, the location of these diagnostics was at close proximity to the vess ...

2023

Medipix4, a high granularity four sides buttable pixel readout chip for high resolution spectroscopic X-ray imaging at rates compatible with medical CT scans

Viros Sriskaran

Medipix4 is the latest member in the Medipix/Timepix family of pixel detector chips aimed at high rate spectroscopic X-ray imaging using high-Z materials. The chip address the limitations of conventional hybrid pixel detectors for X-ray imaging. Its predec ...

EPFL2022

Decoding the Mechanisms of Phase Transitions from In Situ Microscopy Observations

Vasiliki Tileli, Reinis Ignatans

Analysis of the temperature- and stimulus-dependent imaging data toward elucidation of the physical transformations is an ubiquitous problem in multiple fields. Here, temperature-induced phase transition in BaTiO3 is explored using the machine learning ana ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

On combining denoising with learning-based image decoding

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina

Noise is an intrinsic part of any sensor and is present, in various degrees, in any content that has been captured in real life environments. In imaging applications, several pre- and post-processing solutions have been proposed to cope with noise in captu ...

SPIE2022

Pixel super-resolution with spatially entangled photons

Edoardo Charbon, Jiuxuan Zhao

Pixelation is common in quantum imaging systems and limit the image spatial resolution. Here, the authors introduce a pixel super-resolution approach based on measuring the full spatially-resolved joint probability distribution of spatially-entangled photo ...

Nature Portfolio2022

A Compressive Sensing Framework for EMI Source Localization Using a Metalens Structure: Localization Beyond the Diffraction Limit

Marcos Rubinstein, Mohammad Azadifar, Farhad Rachidi-Haeri, Hamidreza Karami

In this article, we propose a novel approach for the localization of electromagnetic interference (EMI) sources based on the concept of compressive sensing and metalenses. We show that using the spatial and frequency dispersion offered by the metalens, we ...

2022

Search for long-lasting electronic coherence using on-the-fly ab initio semiclassical dynamics

Jiri Vanicek, Alan Scheidegger, Nikolay Golubev

Using a combination of high-level ab initio electronic structure methods with efficient on-the-fly semiclassical evaluation of nuclear dynamics, we performed a massive scan of small polyatomic molecules searching for a long-lasting oscillatory dynamics of ...

AIP Publishing2022

Photoresponsive Nanocarriers Based on Lithium Niobate Nanoparticles for Harmonic Imaging and On-Demand Release of Anticancer Chemotherapeutics

Sandrine Gerber, Jérémy Vuilleumier, Adrian Stefan Gheata, Dario Diviani, Luigi Bonacina, Simon Kaiser

Nanoparticle-based drug delivery systems have the potential for increasing the efficiency of chemotherapeutics by enhancing the drug accumulation at specific target sites, therebyreducing adverse side effects and mitigating patient acquired resistance. In ...

2022

Amplitude and phase reconstruction for Low-Energy Electron Holography of individual proteins

Hannah Julia Ochner

Single-molecule imaging methods are of importance in structural biology, and specifically in the imaging of proteins, since they can elucidate conformational variability and structural changes that might be lost in imaging methods relying on averaging proc ...

EPFL2022

Advanced Techniques in Optical Diffraction Tomography

Ahmed Bassam Sayed Ayoub Mohamed Emam

In this thesis, we study the 3 challenges described above. First, we study different reconstruction techniques and assess the fidelity of each reconstruction results by means of structured illumination and phase conjugation. By reconstructing the 3D refrac ...

EPFL2022

Bayesian Inversion for Nonlinear Imaging Models Using Deep Generative Priors

Michaël Unser, Thanh-An Michel Pham, Pakshal Narendra Bohra, Jonathan Yuelin Dong

Most modern imaging systems incorporate a computational pipeline to infer the image of interest from acquired measurements. The Bayesian approach to solve such ill-posed inverse problems involves the characterization of the posterior distribution of the im ...

2022