Radio modulation classification is widely used in the field of wireless communication. In this paper, in order to realize radio modulation classification with the help of the existing ImageNet classification models, we propose a radio–image tra...
In remote-sensing imaging, the modulation transfer function (MTF) for image motion relevant to the mixing of multiple forms of motions is hard to calculate because of the complicated image motion expression. In this paper, a new method for calculatin...
Image super-resolution (SR) is a formidable challenge due to the intricacies of the underwater environment such as light absorption, scattering, and color distortion. Plenty of deep learning methods have provided a substantial performance boost for S...
To address the issues of image blurring and color distortion in hazy conditions, an image restoration method based on a parametric analytical modulation transfer function model is proposed under turbid atmospheric conditions. A source database is est...
Endoscopes are widely used in medicine, making objective evaluation of imaging performance essential for device development and quality assurance. Image resolution is commonly characterized by the modulation transfer function (MTF); however, its inte...
To address the problem of a poor security image encryption algorithm based on a single chaotic map, this paper proposes a cascade modulation chaotic system (CMCS) that can generate multiple chaotic maps. On this basis, a multi-image encryption algori...
The quality of underwater imagery is inherently degraded by light absorption and scattering, a challenge that severely limits its application in critical domains such as marine robotics and archeology. While existing enhancement methods, including re...
A spatial modulation (SM) scheme has been developed as a hopeful candidate for spectral and energy-efficient wireless communication systems, as it provides a great judgment for the system performance, data transmission rate, receiver complexity, and...
Lensless imaging allows for designing imaging systems that are free from the constraints of traditional imaging architectures. As a broadly investigated technique, mask-modulated lensless imaging encodes light signals via a mask plate integrated with...
Recently, there have been many types of research applying drones with a thermal camera to detect deteriorations in photovoltaic (PV) modules. A thermal camera can measure temperatures on the surface of PV modules and find the deteriorated area. Howev...
This paper develops fifth-generation-sized silicon thin-film tandem photovoltaic (PV) modules with animated images. Front PV cell stripes are created using a laser scribing technique, and specially edited and shifted images are printed onto the back...
Compressed sensing (CS) provides an innovative framework for signal sampling, which enables accurate recovery of the sparse or compressible signal from a small set of linear measurements far fewer than the Nyquist rate in traditional signal processin...
With the industrial demand caused by multi-sensor image fusion, infrared and visible image fusion (IVIF) technology is flourishing. In recent years, scale decomposition methods have led the trend for feature extraction. Such methods, however, have lo...
In this paper, self-modulated ghost imaging (SMGI) in a surrounded scattering medium is proposed. Different from traditional ghost imaging, SMGI can take advantage of the dynamic scattering medium that originally affects the imaging quality and gener...
Polarimetric spectral imaging systems have unique application advantages in environmental remote sensing, military target recognition, astronomy, medicine, etc., because of their ability to acquire multidimensional information. However, traditional s...
Rainy degeneration damages an image’s visual effect and influences the performance of subsequent vision tasks. Various deep learning methods for single image deraining have been proposed, obtaining appropriate recovery results. Unfortunately, m...
Cloud segmentation is a fundamental step in accurately acquiring cloud cover. However, due to the nonrigid structures of clouds, traditional cloud segmentation methods perform worse than expected. In this paper, a novel deep convolutional neural netw...
Long-distance imaging in time-varying scattering media, such as atmosphere, is a significant challenge. Light is often heavily diffused while propagating through scattering media, because of which the clear imaging of objects concealed by media becom...
Several factors cause the output degradation of the photovoltaic (PV) module. The main affecting elements are the higher PV module temperature, the shaded cell, the shortened or conducting bypass diodes, and the soiled and degraded PV array. In this...
Morphological microwave imaging has shown interesting results on reconstructing biological objects inside the human body, and these parameters represent their actual biological condition, but not their biological activity. In this paper, we propose a...
The application of a pulse radar in anechoic chamber imaging is a new way to obtain the electromagnetic characteristics of targets. However, the limited size of an anechoic chamber causes the coupling between the transmitted signal and echo so the ta...
Although digital holography is used widely at present, the information contained in the digital hologram is still underutilized. For example, the phase values of the Fourier spectra of the hologram are seldom used directly. In this paper, we take ful...
Object detection is one of the core technologies in aerial image processing and analysis. Although existing aerial image object detection methods based on deep learning have made some progress, there are still some problems remained: (1) Most existin...
A method for enhancing the resolution of 3D imaging reconstruction by employing the polarization modulation of electro-optical crystals is proposed. This technique utilizes two polarizers oriented perpendicular to each other along with an electro-opt...
Terahertz (THz) technique has become one of the most promising analytical methods and has been applied in many fields. Attenuated total reflection (ATR) technique applied in THz spectroscopy and imaging has been proven to be superior in functionaliti...
Indirect time-of-flight (iToF) imaging is a widely applied technique to obtain a depth image from the phase difference of amplitude-modulated signals between emitted light and reflected light. The phase difference is computed via electrical correlati...
The complexity of scene images makes the research on remote-sensing image scene classification challenging. With the wide application of deep learning in recent years, many remote-sensing scene classification methods using a convolutional neural netw...
Leveraging Fourier optics theory and Abbe’s imaging principle, this study establishes that optical imaging fundamentally involves selective spatial spectrum recombination at the Fourier plane. Three classical experiments quantitatively validate...
Thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules often suffer from a variety of parasitic resistive losses in transparent conductive oxide (TCO) and absorber layers that significantly affect the module electrical performance. This paper presents the holistic inve...
In this paper, we propose a zoom auxiliary imaging lens based on the four-component mechanical zoom method for a modulation transfer function (MTF) test system. The auxiliary imaging lenses of the current MTF test system typically use fixed-focus opt...
Image registration is the basis for the joint interpretation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and optical images. However, the significant nonlinear radiation difference (NRD) and the geometric imaging model difference render the registration quite...
This paper studied the general mechanism of spatial-frequency-shift (SFS) super-resolution imaging based on multiplex illumination modulation. The theory of SFS joint intensity was first proposed. Experiments on parallel slots with discrete spatial f...
In this research, inspired by the principles of biological visual attention mechanisms and swarm intelligence found in nature, we present an Enhanced Self-Correlation Attention and Multi-Branch Joint Module Network (EMNet), a novel model for few-shot...
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common progressive life-shortening genetic conditions worldwide. Ground-breaking translational research has generated therapies that target the primary cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)...
Many fields of human activity benefit from the ability to create images of obscured objects placed behind walls and to map their displacement in a noninvasive way. Usually, imaging devices like Synthetic Aperture Radars (SARs) and Ground-Penetrating...
Electroluminescence (EL) imaging is a widely adopted method in quality assurance of the photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing industry. With the growing demand for high-quality PV products, automatic inspection methods based on machine vision have become a...
Star image registration is the most important step in the application of astronomical image differencing, stacking, and mosaicking, which requires high robustness, accuracy, and real-time capability on the part of the algorithm. At present, there are...
In this study, we developed a numerical model of the coupled modulation transfer function (coupled-MTF) based on the discrete sampling system from the perspective of optical system imaging quality evaluation for coupled two-dimensional discrete sampl...
Image super resolution (SR) is an important image processing technique in computer vision to improve the resolution of images and videos. In recent years, deep convolutional neural network (CNN) has made significant progress in the field of image SR;...
Millimeter wave (MMW) technology is expanding rapidly into security screening for dangerous items concealed under clothing. It uses safe non-ionizing radiation and penetrates clothing well. We present a new planar system at Ka band for the three-dime...
Depth image acquisition with structured light approaches in outdoor environments is a challenging problem due to external factors, such as ambient sunlight, which commonly affect the acquisition procedure. This paper presents a novel structured light...
Image captioning is a challenging AI problem that connects computer vision and natural language processing. Many deep learning (DL) models have been proposed in the literature for solving this problem. So far, the primary concern of image captioning...
The spatially modulated full-polarization imaging system encodes complete polarization information into a single interferogram, enabling rapid demodulation. However, traditional single Gaussian low-pass filtering cannot adequately suppress crosstalk...
In the field of thermal non-destructive testing and evaluation (TNDT&E), active thermography gained popularity due to its fast wide-area monitoring and remote inspection capability to assess materials without compromising their future usability....
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is a glycoprotein present in the prostate, that is overexpressed in prostate cancer (PCa). Recently, PSMA-directed radiopharmaceuticals have been developed, allowing the pinpointing of tumors with the Positro...
Recent advances in time-modulated metasurfaces (TMMs) have introduced approaches for controlling target features in radar imaging. These technologies enable dynamic reconstruction of scattering center locations and intensities by flexibly manipulatin...
As the acquisition of very high resolution (VHR) images becomes easier, the complex characteristics of VHR images pose new challenges to traditional machine learning semantic segmentation methods. As an excellent convolutional neural network (CNN) st...
Change detection is an important application of remote sensing image interpretation, which identifies changed areas of interest from a pair of bi-temporal remote sensing images. Various deep-learning-based approaches have demonstrated promising resul...
A robust and efficient segmentation framework is essential for accurately detecting and classifying various defects in electroluminescence images of solar PV modules. With the increasing global focus on renewable energy resources, solar PV energy sys...
Nowadays, M-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (M-QAM) techniques are widely used to modulate information by bit packets due to their ability to increase transfer rates. These techniques require more power when increasing the modulation index M to avoid...
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