Publications related to Film frame

Computational Imaging SPAD Cameras

Vision systems built around conventional image sensors have to read, encode and transmit large quantities of pixel information, a majority of which is redundant. As a result, new computational imaging sensor architectures were developed to preprocess the r ...

EPFL2023

A KL Divergence-Based Loss for In Vivo Ultrafast Ultrasound Image Enhancement with Deep Learning

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Roser Vinals Terres

Ultrafast ultrasound imaging, characterized by high frame rates, generates low-quality images. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated great potential to enhance image quality without compromising the frame rate. However, CNNs have been most ...

2023

Quality-Constrained Encoding Optimization for Omnidirectional Video Streaming

Pascal Frossard, Roberto Gerson De Albuquerque Azevedo, Chaofan He

Omnidirectional video streaming is usually implemented based on the representations of tiles, where the tiles are obtained by splitting the video frame into several rectangular areas and each tile is converted into multiple representations with different r ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Asynchrony Increases Efficiency: Time Encoding of Videos and Low-Rank Signals

Martin Vetterli, Adam James Scholefield, Karen Adam

In event-based sensing, many sensors independently and asynchronously emit events when there is a change in their input. Event-based sensing can present significant improvements in power efficiency when compared to traditional sampling, because (1) the out ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

How Asynchronous Events Encode Video

Martin Vetterli, Adam James Scholefield, Karen Adam

As event-based sensing gains in popularity, theoretical understanding is needed to harness this technology’s potential. Instead of recording video by capturing frames, event-based cameras have sensors that emit events when their inputs change, thus encodin ...

IEEE2021

CNN-Based Ultrasound Image Reconstruction for Ultrafast Displacement Tracking

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Dimitris Perdios, Marcel Arditi, Florian Martinez, Manuel Vonlanthen

Thanks to its capability of acquiring full-view frames at multiple kilohertz, ultrafast ultrasound imaging unlocked the analysis of rapidly changing physical phenomena in the human body, with pioneering applications such as ultrasensitive flow imaging in t ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Adaptive extreme video completion

Sabine Süsstrunk, Radhakrishna Achanta, Majed El Helou, Ruofan Zhou

A computer-implemented video completion method is proposed for reconstructing a sparsely sampled video comprising sparsely sampled video frames comprising sparse sets of picture element intensity values. The method comprises: distributing the sparse sets o ...

2021

Ultrasound Imaging: From Physical Modeling to Deep Learning

Dimitris Perdios

Among the medical imaging modalities, ultrasound (US) imaging is one of the safest, most widespread, and least expensive method used in medical diagnosis. In the past decades, several technological advances enabled the advent of ultrafast US imaging, an ac ...

EPFL2021

A Pixel Design of a Branching Ultra-Highspeed Image Sensor

Edoardo Charbon

A burst image sensor named Hanabi, meaning fireworks in Japanese, includes a branching CCD and multiple CMOS readout circuits. The sensor is backside-illuminated with a light/charge guide pipe to minimize the temporal resolution by suppressing the horizont ...

2021

A Neuro-Inspired Computational Model for a Visually Guided Robotic Lamprey Using Frame and Event Based Cameras

Auke Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi, Mehmet Hasan Mutlu, Simon Lukas Hauser, Jorg Conradt, Ibrahim Youssef Youssef, Alexandre Bernardino

The computational load associated with computer vision is often prohibitive, and limits the capacity for on-board image analysis in compact mobile robots. Replicating the kind of feature detection and neural processing that animals excel at remains a chall ...

2020

Temporal Super-Resolution Microscopy Using a Hue-Encoded Shutter

Sylvain Calinon, Michael Stefan Daniel Liebling, Emmanuel Pignat, Christian Jaques

Limited time-resolution in microscopy is an obstacle to many biological studies. Despite recent advances in hardware, digital cameras have limited operation modes that constrain frame-rate, integration time, and color sensing patterns. In this paper, we pr ...

2019

Coherent rendering of virtual smile previews with fast neural style transfer

Valentin Vasiliu

Coherent rendering in augmented reality deals with synthesizing virtual content that seamlessly blends in with the real content. Unfortunately, capturing or modeling every real aspect in the virtual rendering process is often unfeasible or too expensive. W ...

IEEE2019

A 512 x 512 SPAD Image Sensor With Integrated Gating for Widefield FLIM

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Ivan Michel Antolovic, Arin Can Ülkü

In this paper, we report on SwissSPAD2, an image sensor with 512 x 512 photon-counting pixels, each comprising a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), a 1-b memory, and a gating mechanism capable of turning the SPAD ON and OFF, with a skew of 250 and 344 p ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019

An Ultra-Low Power PPG and mm-Resolution ToF PPD-Based CMOS Chip Towards All-in-One Photonic Sensors

Christian Enz, Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone

This paper presents a CMOS photonic sensor covering multiple applications from ambient light sensing to time resolved photonic sensing. The sensor is made of an array of gated pinned photodiodes (PPDs) averaged using binning and passive switched-capacitor ...

2019

Learning an event sequence embedding for event-based deep stereo

François Fleuret, Stepan Tulyakov, Michael Hirsch

Today, a frame-based camera is the sensor of choice for machine vision applications. However, these cameras, originally developed for acquisition of static images rather than for sensing of dynamic uncontrolled visual environments, suffer from high power c ...

IEEE2019

Online Efficient Bio-Medical Video Transcoding on MPSoCs Through Content-Aware Workload Allocation

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Ali Pahlevan

Bio-medical image processing in the field of telemedicine, and in particular the definition of systems that allow medical diagnostics in a collaborative and distributed way is experiencing an undeniable growth. Due to the high quality of bio-medical videos ...

IEEE and ACM Press2018

Holographic Visualisation and Interaction of Fused CT, PET and MRI Volumetric Medical Imaging Data Using Dedicated Remote GPGPU Ray Casting

Patric Hagmann, Adrien Raphaël Depeursinge, Stéphane Gobron

Medical experts commonly use imaging including Computed Tomography (CT), Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for diagnosis or to plan a surgery. These scans give a highly detailed representation of the patient anatomy, b ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

A versatile setup for ultrafast broadband optical spectroscopy of coherent collective modes in strongly correlated quantum systems

Fabrizio Carbone, Edoardo Baldini, Frank van Mourik, Christopher Alexander Arrell, Andreas Helmut Christian Mann, Simone Borroni

A femtosecond pump-probe setup is described that is optimised for broadband tran- sient reflectivity experiments on solid samples over a wide temperature range. By combining high temporal resolution and a broad detection window, this apparatus can investig ...

2016

Ultra Low Noise CMOS Image Sensors

Assim Boukhayma

CMOS Image Sensors (CIS) overtook the charge coupled devices (CCDs) in low noise performance. Photoelectron counting capability is the next step for CIS for ultimate low light performance and new imaging paradigms. This work presents a review of CMOS image ...

EPFL2016

Analyzing blinking effects in super resolution localization microscopy with single-photon SPAD imagers

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, Samuel Burri, Ivan Michel Antolovic

For many scientific applications, electron multiplying charge coupled devices (EMCCDs) have been the sensor of choice because of their high quantum efficiency and built-in electron amplification. Lately, many researchers introduced scientific complementary ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2016