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Laser-based manufacturing of freeform glass micro-optics through topological transformation

Glass has been the material of choice for making optical elements, in large part due to its intrinsic properties: a temperature-dependent viscosity, which enables shaping the material into a broad variety of functional and artistic glassware. Silica glass ...

EPFL2024

Searching for Strong Gravitational Lenses

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Strong gravitational lenses provide unique laboratories for cosmological and astrophysical investigations, but they must first be discovered - a task that can be met with significant contamination by other astrophysical objects and asterisms. Here we revie ...

Springer2024

Aggregating Spatial and Photometric Context for Photometric Stereo

David Honzátko

Photometric stereo, a computer vision technique for estimating the 3D shape of objects through images captured under varying illumination conditions, has been a topic of research for nearly four decades. In its general formulation, photometric stereo is an ...

EPFL2024

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

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 ...

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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

Cross-resolution Face Recognition via Identity-Preserving Network and Knowledge Distillation

Touradj Ebrahimi, Yuhang Lu

Cross-resolution face recognition has become a challenging problem for modern deep face recognition systems. It aims at matching a low-resolution probe image with high-resolution gallery images registered in a database. Existing methods mainly leverage pri ...

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In situ detection of multitarget impurities on contact lens by electrochemical scanning probe

Fang Liu, Tzu-En Lin, Yingdi Zhu

Identifying multitarget impurities on contact lenses is challenging because traditional methods such as polymerase chain reaction cannot be used on the unknown target. Other sampling methods often require expensive antibodies or dyes. Therefore, this resea ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

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

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

Auke Ijspeert, Alexandre Massoud Alahi, George Adaimi, Chuanfang Ning, Lixuan Tang, Anastasia Bolotnikova

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

Cascaded all-optical quantization employing step-size MMI and shape-optimized power splitter

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As a key unit of future high-throughput communications, optical analog to digital converter (OADC) with all-optical quantizer element that simultaneously possesses high resolution, large bandwidth and compact size is highly promising. A pending issue of co ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Automated Human Motion Analysis and Synthesis

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Human motion analysis and synthesis is integral to many computer vision applications, from autonomous driving to sports analysis. In this thesis, we address several problems in this domain. First we consider active viewpoint selection for pose estimation w ...

EPFL2023

Direct Data-Driven Vibration Control for Adaptive Optics

Alireza Karimi, Vaibhav Gupta

Adaptive optics (AO) systems are used in ground- based telescopes to improve image resolutions, especially for long-exposure photography, by compensating for the effects of atmospheric turbulence and internal vibrations. Most current AO systems are based o ...

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MaxwellNet: Physics-driven deep neural network training based on Maxwell's equations

Demetri Psaltis, Joowon Lim

Maxwell's equations govern light propagation and its interaction with matter. Therefore, the solution of Maxwell's equations using computational electromagnetic simulations plays a critical role in understanding light-matter interaction and designing optic ...

AIP Publishing2022

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

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

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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

TOCOSMO VIII. A key test of systematics in the hierarchical method of time-delay cosmography

Frédéric Courbin

The largest source of systematic errors in the time-delay cosmography method likely arises from the lens model mass distribution, where an inaccurate choice of model could in principle bias the value of H-0. A Bayesian hierarchical framework has been propo ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2022

Teaching machines how to find strongly lensed galaxies in cosmological sky surveys

Elodie Marie Charlène Savary

Analyzing gravitationally lensed objects enables a wide range of physical and cosmological applications, such as probing the dark matter content in galaxies and clusters or measuring the Universe's expansion rate. The precision of these applications can be ...

EPFL2022

Towards quantum 3D imaging devices

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

We introduce a new generation of 3D imaging devices based on quantum plenoptic imaging. Position-momentum entanglement and photon number correlations are exploited to provide a scan-free 3D image after post-processing of the collected light intensity signa ...

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Towards Quantum 3D Imaging Devices

Claudio Bruschini, Edoardo Charbon, Samuel Burri, Arin Can Ülkü, Paul Mos, Michael Alan Wayne

We review the advancement of the research toward the design and implementation of quantum plenoptic cameras, radically novel 3D imaging devices that exploit both momentum–position entanglement and photon–number correlations to provide the typical refocusin ...

2021