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Ex uno plures: how to construct high-speed movies of collapsing cavitation bubbles from a single image

Mohamed Farhat, Armand Baptiste Sieber, Davide Bernardo Preso

The time-resolved visualization of the dynamics of a cavitation bubble usually requires the use of expensive high-speed cameras, which often provide a limited spatial resolution. In the present study, we propose an alternative to these high-speed imaging t ...

Springer2023

Towards learning-based denoising of light fields

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina, Tomás Soares De Carvalho Feith

In recent years, new emerging immersive imaging modalities, e.g. light fields, have been receiving growing attention, becoming increasingly widespread over the years. Light fields are often captured through multi-camera arrays or plenoptic cameras, with th ...

2023

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

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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

LenslessPiCam: A Hardware and Software Platform for Lensless Computational Imaging with a Raspberry Pi

Martin Vetterli, Sepand Kashani, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni, Eric Bezzam

This toolkit has everything you need to perform imaging with a lensless camera. We make use of a low-cost implementation of DiffuserCam, namely replacing the lens with a piece of tape and using the Raspberry Pi HQ camera sensor. Similar principles and meth ...

Zenodo2023

Performance investigation of cameras using HDR sensors for daylight glare evaluations

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This study presents a novel framework for evaluating the luminance measurement capabilities of High Dynamic Range (HDR) sensor cameras in indoor glare conditions. Results indicate that the practical usage range of the CSEM VIP camera is significantly lower ...

International Commission on Illumination2023

Real-Time Localization for Closed-Loop Control of Assistive Furniture

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For people with limited mobility, navigating in cluttered indoor environment is challenging. In this work, we propose a mobile assistive furniture suite that is designed to ease the life of people with special needs in indoor movement. To enable intelligen ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Regressive Tomography and Direct Regressive Reconstruction: A Research Note

Henri Weisen

Two related methods for inverting line-integrated measurements are presented in this research paper in the context of the recent deuterium-tritium experiments in the JET tokamak. Unlike traditional methods of tomography, these methods rely on making use of ...

2023

In vitro and in vivo NIR fluorescence lifetime imaging with a time-gated SPAD camera

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Arin Can Ülkü

Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLI) provides a unique contrast mechanism to monitor biological parameters and molecular events in vivo. Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) cameras have been recently demonstrated in FLI microscopy (FLIM ...

Optica Publishing Group2022

AI-based telepresence for broadcast applications

Touradj Ebrahimi, Rayan Daod Nathoo, Laurent Deillon, Henrique Piñeiro Monteagudo

In this paper, we introduce a new solution and underlying architecture that allows remote participants to interact with hosts in a broadcast scenario. To achieve this, background extraction is first applied to video received from remote participants to ext ...

SPIE2022

Self-supervised Segmentation via Background Inpainting

Pascal Fua, Mathieu Salzmann, Victor Constantin, Isinsu Katircioglu, Helge Jochen Rhodin

While supervised object detection and segmentation methods achieve impressive accuracy, they generalize poorly to images whose appearance significantly differs from the data they have been trained on. To address this when annotating data is prohibitively e ...

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Effects of illuminance intensity on the green channel of remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signals

Ata Jedari Golparvar

Point-of-care remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) devices that utilize low-cost RGB cameras have drawn considerable attention due to their convenience in contactless and non-invasive vital signs monitoring. In rPPG, sufficient lighting conditions are essent ...

SPRINGER2022

LiftPose3D, a deep learning-based approach for transforming two-dimensional to three-dimensional poses in laboratory animals

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LiftPose3D infers three-dimensional poses from two-dimensional data or from limited three-dimensional data. The approach is illustrated for videos of behaving Drosophila, mice, rats and macaques. ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2021

Tracking and Relative Localization of Drone Swarms With a Vision-Based Headset

Dario Floreano, Giuseppe Loianno, Maxim Pavliv, Fabrizio Schiano

We address the detection, tracking, and relative localization of the agents of a drone swarm from a human perspective using a headset equipped with a single camera and an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). We train and deploy a deep neural network detector o ...

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Perceiving Humans: from Monocular 3D Localization to Social Distancing

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Sven Kreiss, Lorenzo Bertoni

Perceiving humans in the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) often relies on multiple cameras or expensive LiDAR sensors. In this work, we present a new cost-effective vision-based method that perceives humans' locations in 3D and their bod ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Vision-based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments

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Decentralized deployment of drone swarms usually relies on inter-agent communication or visual markers that are mounted on the vehicles to simplify their mutual detection. This letter proposes a vision-based detection and tracking algorithm that enables gr ...

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Estimating Nonplanar Flow from 2D Motion-blurred Widefield Microscopy Images via Deep Learning

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Optical flow is a method aimed at predicting the movement velocity of any pixel in the image and is used in medicine and biology to estimate flow of particles in organs or organelles. However, a precise optical flow measurement requires images taken at hig ...

IEEE2021

Learning stereo reconstruction with deep neural networks

Stepan Tulyakov

Stereo reconstruction is a problem of recovering a 3d structure of a scene from a pair of images of the scene, acquired from different viewpoints. It has been investigated for decades and many successful methods were developed. The main drawback of these ...

EPFL2020

Beyond Cameras: Real-Time High-Resolution 3D and Panoramic MultiView Vision Systems with Their Applications

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The cameras are invented by imitating the human visual system to capture the scene. The camera technologies have been substantially advanced in recent years. 108 MP resolution with 100x hybrid zoom has become standard features for smartphone flagships. In ...

EPFL2020

Camera Calibration Models and Methods for Corridor Mapping with UAVs

Jan Skaloud, Davide Antonio Cucci, Emmanuel Pierre Quentin Clédat

Camera calibration refers to the modeling of the relationship between the coordinates of object points and their projections on the image plane. This is usually done by parametric models that describe the physical properties of the lens systems and camera ...

2020

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

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

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