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  1. Article ; Online: Fast Scalable Image Restoration Using Total Variation Priors and Expectation Propagation.

    Yao, Dan / McLaughlin, Stephen / Altmann, Yoann

    IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

    2022  Volume 31, Page(s) 5762–5773

    Abstract: This paper presents a scalable approximate Bayesian method for image restoration using Total Variation (TV) priors, with the ability to offer uncertainty quantification. In contrast to most optimization methods based on maximum a posteriori estimation, ... ...

    Abstract This paper presents a scalable approximate Bayesian method for image restoration using Total Variation (TV) priors, with the ability to offer uncertainty quantification. In contrast to most optimization methods based on maximum a posteriori estimation, we use the Expectation Propagation (EP) framework to approximate minimum mean squared error (MMSE) estimates and marginal (pixel-wise) variances, without resorting to Monte Carlo sampling. For the classical anisotropic TV-based prior, we also propose an iterative scheme to automatically adjust the regularization parameter via Expectation Maximization (EM). Using Gaussian approximating densities with diagonal covariance matrices, the resulting method allows highly parallelizable steps and can scale to large images for denoising, deconvolution, and compressive sensing (CS) problems. The simulation results illustrate that such EP methods can provide a posteriori estimates on par with those obtained via sampling methods but at a fraction of the computational cost. Moreover, EP does not exhibit strong underestimation of posteriori variances, in contrast to variational Bayes alternatives.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-09-09
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1941-0042
    ISSN (online) 1941-0042
    DOI 10.1109/TIP.2022.3202092
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  2. Book ; Online: Unsupervised Hyperspectral and Multispectral Images Fusion Based on the Cycle Consistency

    Shi, Shuaikai / Zhang, Lijun / Altmann, Yoann / Chen, Jie

    2023  

    Abstract: Hyperspectral images (HSI) with abundant spectral information reflected materials property usually perform low spatial resolution due to the hardware limits. Meanwhile, multispectral images (MSI), e.g., RGB images, have a high spatial resolution but ... ...

    Abstract Hyperspectral images (HSI) with abundant spectral information reflected materials property usually perform low spatial resolution due to the hardware limits. Meanwhile, multispectral images (MSI), e.g., RGB images, have a high spatial resolution but deficient spectral signatures. Hyperspectral and multispectral image fusion can be cost-effective and efficient for acquiring both high spatial resolution and high spectral resolution images. Many of the conventional HSI and MSI fusion algorithms rely on known spatial degradation parameters, i.e., point spread function, spectral degradation parameters, spectral response function, or both of them. Another class of deep learning-based models relies on the ground truth of high spatial resolution HSI and needs large amounts of paired training images when working in a supervised manner. Both of these models are limited in practical fusion scenarios. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised HSI and MSI fusion model based on the cycle consistency, called CycFusion. The CycFusion learns the domain transformation between low spatial resolution HSI (LrHSI) and high spatial resolution MSI (HrMSI), and the desired high spatial resolution HSI (HrHSI) are considered to be intermediate feature maps in the transformation networks. The CycFusion can be trained with the objective functions of marginal matching in single transform and cycle consistency in double transforms. Moreover, the estimated PSF and SRF are embedded in the model as the pre-training weights, which further enhances the practicality of our proposed model. Experiments conducted on several datasets show that our proposed model outperforms all compared unsupervised fusion methods. The codes of this paper will be available at this address: https: //github.com/shuaikaishi/CycFusion for reproducibility.
    Keywords Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ; Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing
    Subject code 006
    Publishing date 2023-07-07
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  3. Article ; Online: Robust real-time imaging through flexible multimode fibers.

    Abdulaziz, Abdullah / Mekhail, Simon Peter / Altmann, Yoann / Padgett, Miles J / McLaughlin, Stephen

    Scientific reports

    2023  Volume 13, Issue 1, Page(s) 11371

    Abstract: Conventional endoscopes comprise a bundle of optical fibers, associating one fiber for each pixel in the image. In principle, this can be reduced to a single multimode optical fiber (MMF), the width of a human hair, with one fiber spatial-mode per image ... ...

    Abstract Conventional endoscopes comprise a bundle of optical fibers, associating one fiber for each pixel in the image. In principle, this can be reduced to a single multimode optical fiber (MMF), the width of a human hair, with one fiber spatial-mode per image pixel. However, images transmitted through a MMF emerge as unrecognizable speckle patterns due to dispersion and coupling between the spatial modes of the fiber. Furthermore, speckle patterns change as the fiber undergoes bending, making the use of MMFs in flexible imaging applications even more complicated. In this paper, we propose a real-time imaging system using flexible MMFs, but which is robust to bending. Our approach does not require access or feedback signal from the distal end of the fiber during imaging. We leverage a variational autoencoder to reconstruct and classify images from the speckles and show that these images can still be recovered when the bend configuration of the fiber is changed to one that was not part of the training set. We utilize a MMF 300 mm long with a 62.5 μm core for imaging [Formula: see text] cm objects placed approximately at 20 cm from the fiber and the system can deal with a change in fiber bend of 50[Formula: see text] and range of movement of 8 cm.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Equipment Design ; Optical Fibers ; Diagnostic Imaging/methods ; Endoscopes
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-14
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2615211-3
    ISSN 2045-2322 ; 2045-2322
    ISSN (online) 2045-2322
    ISSN 2045-2322
    DOI 10.1038/s41598-023-38480-4
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  4. Article ; Online: Fast online 3D reconstruction of dynamic scenes from individual single-photon detection events.

    Altmann, Yoann / McLaughlin, Stephen / Davies, Michael E

    IEEE transactions on image processing : a publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

    2019  

    Abstract: In this paper, we present an algorithm for online 3D reconstruction of dynamic scenes using individual times of arrival (ToA) of photons recorded by single-photon detector arrays. One of the main challenges in 3D imaging using single-photon Lidar is the ... ...

    Abstract In this paper, we present an algorithm for online 3D reconstruction of dynamic scenes using individual times of arrival (ToA) of photons recorded by single-photon detector arrays. One of the main challenges in 3D imaging using single-photon Lidar is the integration time required to build ToA histograms and reconstruct reliably 3D profiles in the presence of non-negligible ambient illumination. This long integration time also prevents the analysis of rapid dynamic scenes using existing techniques. We propose a new method which does not rely on the construction of ToA histograms but allows, for the first time, individual detection events to be processed online, in a parallel manner in different pixels, while accounting for the intrinsic spatiotemporal structure of dynamic scenes. Adopting a Bayesian approach, a Bayesian model is constructed to capture the dynamics of the 3D profile and an approximate inference scheme based on assumed density filtering is proposed, yielding a fast and robust reconstruction algorithm able to process efficiently thousands to millions of frames, as usually recorded using single-photon detectors. The performance of the proposed method, able to process hundreds of frames per second, is assessed using a series of experiments conducted with static and dynamic 3D scenes and the results obtained pave the way to a new family of real-time 3D reconstruction solutions.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-11-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1941-0042
    ISSN (online) 1941-0042
    DOI 10.1109/TIP.2019.2952008
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  5. Book ; Online: Fast Scalable Image Restoration using Total Variation Priors and Expectation Propagation

    Yao, Dan / McLaughlin, Stephen / Altmann, Yoann

    2021  

    Abstract: This paper presents a scalable approximate Bayesian method for image restoration using total variation (TV) priors. In contrast to most optimization methods based on maximum a posteriori estimation, we use the expectation propagation (EP) framework to ... ...

    Abstract This paper presents a scalable approximate Bayesian method for image restoration using total variation (TV) priors. In contrast to most optimization methods based on maximum a posteriori estimation, we use the expectation propagation (EP) framework to approximate minimum mean squared error (MMSE) estimators and marginal (pixel-wise) variances, without resorting to Monte Carlo sampling. For the classical anisotropic TV-based prior, we also propose an iterative scheme to automatically adjust the regularization parameter via expectation-maximization (EM). Using Gaussian approximating densities with diagonal covariance matrices, the resulting method allows highly parallelizable steps and can scale to large images for denoising, deconvolution and compressive sensing (CS) problems. The simulation results illustrate that such EP methods can provide a posteriori estimates on par with those obtained via sampling methods but at a fraction of the computational cost. Moreover, EP does not exhibit strong underestimation of posteriori variances, in contrast to variational Bayes alternatives.

    Comment: 14 pages
    Keywords Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Subject code 310 ; 518
    Publishing date 2021-10-04
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Book ; Online: Accelerated Bayesian imaging by relaxed proximal-point Langevin sampling

    Klatzer, Teresa / Dobson, Paul / Altmann, Yoann / Pereyra, Marcelo / Sanz-Serna, Jesús María / Zygalakis, Konstantinos C.

    2023  

    Abstract: This paper presents a new accelerated proximal Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology to perform Bayesian inference in imaging inverse problems with an underlying convex geometry. The proposed strategy takes the form of a stochastic relaxed proximal-point ... ...

    Abstract This paper presents a new accelerated proximal Markov chain Monte Carlo methodology to perform Bayesian inference in imaging inverse problems with an underlying convex geometry. The proposed strategy takes the form of a stochastic relaxed proximal-point iteration that admits two complementary interpretations. For models that are smooth or regularised by Moreau-Yosida smoothing, the algorithm is equivalent to an implicit midpoint discretisation of an overdamped Langevin diffusion targeting the posterior distribution of interest. This discretisation is asymptotically unbiased for Gaussian targets and shown to converge in an accelerated manner for any target that is $\kappa$-strongly log-concave (i.e., requiring in the order of $\sqrt{\kappa}$ iterations to converge, similarly to accelerated optimisation schemes), comparing favorably to [M. Pereyra, L. Vargas Mieles, K.C. Zygalakis, SIAM J. Imaging Sciences, 13,2 (2020), pp. 905-935] which is only provably accelerated for Gaussian targets and has bias. For models that are not smooth, the algorithm is equivalent to a Leimkuhler-Matthews discretisation of a Langevin diffusion targeting a Moreau-Yosida approximation of the posterior distribution of interest, and hence achieves a significantly lower bias than conventional unadjusted Langevin strategies based on the Euler-Maruyama discretisation. For targets that are $\kappa$-strongly log-concave, the provided non-asymptotic convergence analysis also identifies the optimal time step which maximizes the convergence speed. The proposed methodology is demonstrated through a range of experiments related to image deconvolution with Gaussian and Poisson noise, with assumption-driven and data-driven convex priors. Source codes for the numerical experiments of this paper are available from https://github.com/MI2G/accelerated-langevin-imla.

    Comment: 34 pages, 13 figures
    Keywords Statistics - Computation ; Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ; Mathematics - Numerical Analysis ; Statistics - Machine Learning ; 65C40 ; 68U10 ; 62F15 ; 65C60 ; 65J22 ; 68W25
    Subject code 518
    Publishing date 2023-08-18
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  7. Article ; Online: High-speed particle detection and tracking in microfluidic devices using event-based sensing.

    Howell, Jessie / Hammarton, Tansy C / Altmann, Yoann / Jimenez, Melanie

    Lab on a chip

    2020  Volume 20, Issue 16, Page(s) 3024–3035

    Abstract: Visualising fluids and particles within channels is a key element of microfluidic work. Current imaging methods for particle image velocimetry often require expensive high-speed cameras with powerful illuminating sources, thus potentially limiting ... ...

    Abstract Visualising fluids and particles within channels is a key element of microfluidic work. Current imaging methods for particle image velocimetry often require expensive high-speed cameras with powerful illuminating sources, thus potentially limiting accessibility. This study explores for the first time the potential of an event-based camera for particle and fluid behaviour characterisation in a microfluidic system. Event-based cameras have the unique capacity to detect light intensity changes asynchronously and to record spatial and temporal information with low latency, low power and high dynamic range. Event-based cameras could consequently be relevant for detecting light intensity changes due to moving particles, chemical reactions or intake of fluorescent dyes by cells to mention a few. As a proof-of-principle, event-based sensing was tested in this work to detect 1 μm and 10 μm diameter particles flowing in a microfluidic channel for average fluid velocities of up to 1.54 m s
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-07-23
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 2056646-3
    ISSN 1473-0189 ; 1473-0197
    ISSN (online) 1473-0189
    ISSN 1473-0197
    DOI 10.1039/d0lc00556h
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  8. Article ; Online: Quantitative imaging and automated fuel pin identification for passive gamma emission tomography.

    Fang, Ming / Altmann, Yoann / Della Latta, Daniele / Salvatori, Massimiliano / Di Fulvio, Angela

    Scientific reports

    2021  Volume 11, Issue 1, Page(s) 2442

    Abstract: Compliance of member States to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is monitored through nuclear safeguards. The Passive Gamma Emission Tomography (PGET) system is a novel instrument developed within the framework of the International ... ...

    Abstract Compliance of member States to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is monitored through nuclear safeguards. The Passive Gamma Emission Tomography (PGET) system is a novel instrument developed within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) project JNT 1510, which included the European Commission, Finland, Hungary and Sweden. The PGET is used for the verification of spent nuclear fuel stored in water pools. Advanced image reconstruction techniques are crucial for obtaining high-quality cross-sectional images of the spent-fuel bundle to allow inspectors of the IAEA to monitor nuclear material and promptly identify its diversion. In this work, we have developed a software suite to accurately reconstruct the spent-fuel cross sectional image, automatically identify present fuel rods, and estimate their activity. Unique image reconstruction challenges are posed by the measurement of spent fuel, due to its high activity and the self-attenuation. While the former is mitigated by detector physical collimation, we implemented a linear forward model to model the detector responses to the fuel rods inside the PGET, to account for the latter. The image reconstruction is performed by solving a regularized linear inverse problem using the fast-iterative shrinkage-thresholding algorithm. We have also implemented the traditional filtered back projection (FBP) method based on the inverse Radon transform for comparison and applied both methods to reconstruct images of simulated mockup fuel assemblies. Higher image resolution and fewer reconstruction artifacts were obtained with the inverse-problem approach, with the mean-square-error reduced by 50%, and the structural-similarity improved by 200%. We then used a convolutional neural network (CNN) to automatically identify the bundle type and extract the pin locations from the images; the estimated activity levels finally being compared with the ground truth. The proposed computational methods accurately estimated the activity levels of the present pins, with an associated uncertainty of approximately 5%.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-01-28
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2615211-3
    ISSN 2045-2322 ; 2045-2322
    ISSN (online) 2045-2322
    ISSN 2045-2322
    DOI 10.1038/s41598-021-82031-8
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  9. Article ; Online: Compressive hyperspectral imaging in the molecular fingerprint band.

    Charsley, Jake M / Rutkauskas, Marius / Altmann, Yoann / Risdonne, Valentina / Botticelli, Michela / Smith, Margaret J / Young, Christina R T / Reid, Derryck T

    Optics express

    2022  Volume 30, Issue 10, Page(s) 17340–17350

    Abstract: Spectrally-resolved imaging provides a spectrum for each pixel of an image that, in the mid-infrared, can enable its chemical composition to be mapped by exploiting the correlation between spectroscopic features and specific molecular groups. The ... ...

    Abstract Spectrally-resolved imaging provides a spectrum for each pixel of an image that, in the mid-infrared, can enable its chemical composition to be mapped by exploiting the correlation between spectroscopic features and specific molecular groups. The compatibility of Fourier-transform interferometry with full-field imaging makes it the spectroscopic method of choice, but Nyquist-limited fringe sampling restricts the increments of the interferometer arm length to no more than a few microns, making the acquisition time-consuming. Here, we demonstrate a compressive hyperspectral imaging strategy that combines non-uniform sampling and a smoothness-promoting prior to acquire data at 15% of the Nyquist rate, providing a significant acquisition-rate improvement over state-of-the-art techniques. By illuminating test objects with a sequence of suitably designed light spectra, we demonstrate compressive hyperspectral imaging across the 700-1400 cm
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-10-12
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1491859-6
    ISSN 1094-4087 ; 1094-4087
    ISSN (online) 1094-4087
    ISSN 1094-4087
    DOI 10.1364/OE.451380
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  10. Book ; Online: Sparse Linear Spectral Unmixing of Hyperspectral images using Expectation-Propagation

    Li, Zeng / Altmann, Yoann / Chen, Jie / Mclaughlin, Stephen / Rahardja, Susanto

    2021  

    Abstract: This paper presents a novel Bayesian approach for hyperspectral image unmixing. The observed pixels are modeled by a linear combination of material signatures weighted by their corresponding abundances. A spike-and-slab abundance prior is adopted to ... ...

    Abstract This paper presents a novel Bayesian approach for hyperspectral image unmixing. The observed pixels are modeled by a linear combination of material signatures weighted by their corresponding abundances. A spike-and-slab abundance prior is adopted to promote sparse mixtures and an Ising prior model is used to capture spatial correlation of the mixture support across pixels. We approximate the posterior distribution of the abundances using the expectation-propagation (EP) method. We show that it can significantly reduce the computational complexity of the unmixing stage and meanwhile provide uncertainty measures, compared to expensive Monte Carlo strategies traditionally considered for uncertainty quantification. Moreover, many variational parameters within each EP factor can be updated in a parallel manner, which enables mapping of efficient algorithmic architectures based on graphics processing units (GPU). Under the same approximate Bayesian framework, we then extend the proposed algorithm to semi-supervised unmixing, whereby the abundances are viewed as latent variables and the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm is used to refine the endmember matrix. Experimental results on synthetic data and real hyperspectral data illustrate the benefits of the proposed framework over state-of-art linear unmixing methods.
    Keywords Statistics - Applications ; Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Image and Video Processing
    Subject code 006
    Publishing date 2021-06-18
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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