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On chip optical neural networks based on mmi microring resonators for image classification
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We propose a new on-chip optical neural network (OONN) based on multimode interference-microring resonators (MMI-RRs). The suggested structure eliminates the need for wavelength division multiplexers (WDM) to create an optical neuron on a single chip. New microring resonator structure based on 4×4 MMI coupler with a size of 24µm × 2900 µm is used for the basic elements of the computation matrix, as a result a higher bandwidth and free spectral range (FSR) can be achieved. The Si3N4 platform along with the graphene sheet is designed to modulate the signals and weights of the neural networks at a very high speed. The Si3N4 can provide wide range of operating wavelengths and can work directly with the wavelengths of color images. The structure's benefits include rapid computing speed, little loss, and the ability to handle both positive and negative values. The OONN has been applied to the MNIST dataset with a speed faster than 2.8 to 14x times compared with the conventional GPU methods.
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On the automation of gestalt perception in remotely sensed data
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Gestalt perception, the laws of seeing, and perceptual grouping is rarely addressed in the con-text of remotely sensed imagery. The paper at hand reviews the corresponding state as well in ma-chine vision as in remote sensing, in particular concerning urban areas. Automatic methods can be separated into three types: 1) knowledge-based inference, which needs machine-readable knowl-edge, 2) automatic learning methods, which require labeled or un-labeled example images, and 3) perceptual grouping along the lines of the laws of seeing, which should be pre-coded and should work on any kind of imagery, but in particular on urban aerial or satellite data. Perceptual group-ing of parts into aggregates is a combinatorial problem. Exhaustive enumeration of all combina-tions is intractable. The paper at hand presents a constant-false-alarm-rate search rationale. An open problem is the choice of the extraction method for the primitive objects to start with. Here super-pixel-segmentation is used.
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One-shot learning with triplet loss for vegetation classification tasks
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Triplet loss function is one of the options that can significantly improve the accuracy of the One-shot Learning tasks. Starting from 2015, many projects use Siamese networks and this kind of loss for face recognition and object classification. In our research, we focused on two tasks related to vegetation. The first one is plant disease detection on 25 classes of five crops (grape, cotton, wheat, cucumbers, and corn). This task is motivated because harvest losses due to diseases is a serious problem for both large farming structures and rural families. The second task is the identification of moss species (5 classes). Mosses are natural bioaccumulators of pollutants; therefore, they are used in environmental monitoring programs. The identification of moss species is an important step in the sample preprocessing. In both tasks, we used self-collected image databases. We tried several deep learning architectures and approaches. Our Siamese network architecture with a triplet loss function and MobileNetV2 as a base network showed the most impressive results in both above-mentioned tasks. The average accuracy for plant disease detection amounted to over 97.8 % and 97.6 % for moss species classification.
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Optical elements based on silicon photonics
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Silicon photonics is gaining substantial impulse because it permits optical devices to be realized inexpensively using standard semiconductor fabrication techniques and integrated with microelectronic chips. In this paper, we designed few optical elements such as optical power splitter, polarization beam splitter and Bragg grating based on silicon platform simulated using finite element method.
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Optical properties of lowest-energy carbon allotropes from first-principles calculations
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We study optical properties of lowest-energy carbon allotropes in the infrared, visible and ultraviolet spectral ranges in the general gradient approximation of the density functional theory. In our calculations we use an all-electron approach as well as a pseudo-potential approximation. In the infrared range, complex dielectric functions, infrared and Raman spectra have been calculated using a CRYSTAL14 program. Electronic properties and energy-dependent dielectric functions in the visible and ultraviolet spectral ranges are calculated using a VASP program. We describe with good accuracy the experimentally known optical properties of a cubic diamond crystal. Using the obtained set of relevant calculation parameters, we predict the optical constants, dielectric functions and Raman spectra of the lowest-energy hypothetical carbon allotropes and lonsdaleite.
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Optical-digital system for real-time fingerprint identification
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Performance of the optical-digital system for real-time fingerprint identification using a method of the optical construction of the direction field is reported.
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Optimal affine image normalization approach for optical character recognition
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Optical character recognition (OCR) in images captured from arbitrary angles requires preliminary normalization, i.e. a geometric transformation resulting in an image as if it was captured at an angle suitable for OCR. In most cases, a surface containing characters can be considered flat, and a pinhole model can be adopted for a camera. Thus, in theory, the normalization should be projective. Usually, the camera optical axis is approximately perpendicular to the document surface, so the projective normalization can be replaced with an affine one without a significant loss of accuracy. An affine image transformation is performed significantly faster than a projective normalization, which is important for OCR on mobile devices. In this work, we propose a fast approach for image normalization. It utilizes an affine normalization instead of a projective one if there is no significant loss of accuracy. The approach is based on a proposed criterion for the normalization accuracy: root mean square (RMS) coordinate discrepancies over the region of interest (ROI). The problem of optimal affine normalization according to this criterion is considered. We have established that this unconstrained optimization is quadratic and can be reduced to a problem of fractional quadratic functions integration over the ROI. The latter was solved analytically in the case of OCR where the ROI consists of rectangles. The proposed approach is generalized for various cases when instead of the affine transform its special cases are used: scaling, translation, shearing, and their superposition, allowing the image normalization procedure to be further accelerated.
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Optimal calibration of a prism-based videoendoscopic system for precise 3D measurements
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Modern videoendoscopes are capable of performing precise three-dimensional (3D) measurements of hard-to-reach elements. An attachable prism-based stereo adapter allows one to register images from two different viewpoints using a single sensor and apply stereoscopic methods. The key condition for achieving high measurement accuracy is the optimal choice of a mathematical model for calibration and 3D reconstruction procedures. In this paper, the conventional pinhole camera models with polynomial distortion approximation were analyzed and compared to the ray tracing model based on the vector form of Snell’s law. We, first, conducted a series of experiments using an industrial videoendoscope and utilized the criteria based on the measurement error of a segment length to evaluate the mathematical models considered. The experimental results confirmed a theoretical conclusion that the ray tracing model outperforms the pinhole models in a wide range of working distances. The results may be useful for the development of new stereoscopic measurement tools and algorithms for remote visual inspection in industrial and medical applications.
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Orbital angular momentum of the spiral beams
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At first sight, any rotation generates some angular momentum (it is true for a solid body). But these characteristics (rotation and orbital angular momentum) are rather different for optics and mechanics. In optics there are the situation when the rotation is important. On the other hand, there are the cases where the nonzero orbital angular momentum is necessary. The main goal of this article is to investigate a relationship between a rotation under propagation of spiral beam and its angular momentum. It can be done the following conclusion: there is no any relation between rotation under propagation of spiral beam and its OAM.
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Parallel implementation of a multi-view image segmentation algorithm using the Hough transform
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We report on the parallel implementation of a multi-view image segmentation algorithm via segmenting the corresponding three-dimensional scene. The algorithm includes the reconstruction of a three-dimensional scene model in the form of a point cloud, and the segmentation of the resulting point cloud in three-dimensional space using the Hough space. The developed parallel algorithm was implemented on graphics processing units using CUDA technology. Experiments were performed to evaluate the speedup and efficiency of the proposed algorithm. The developed parallel program was tested on modelled scenes.
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Parallel implementation of the informative areas generation method in the spatial spectrum domain
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This paper proposes a parallel implementation of the image informative segments extraction method. The images are segmented in the spatial spectrum domain. The median energy in each selected segment is viewed upon as an area. For purposes of time savings, a parallel implementation of the algorithm for calculating the areas is developed. The developed approach to the parallel algorithm implementation is tested on a high performance multicore computing system. The experiments have shown that the parallel implementation of the method allows us to obtain a three-fold speedup, which is a good result.
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The tracking-by-detection paradigm is widely used for people multi-object tracking tasks. Up to now, there exist many detectors and trackers, many evaluation benchmarks, which necessitates the use of relatively uniform estimation methods and metrics. It leads to necessity to choose better combined models of detectors and trackers. To solve this task, we developed a comprehensive performance evaluation methodology for estimation of people tracking accuracy and real-time by using different detectors and trackers. We conducted experiments by choosing the official pre-trained models of YOLOv5, YOLOv6, YOLOv7, YOLOv8 with representative BoTSORT, ByteTrack, DeepOCSORT, OCSORT, StrongSORT trackers under two benchmarks of MOT17 and MOT20. Detailed metrics in terms of error and speed such as higher order tracking accuracy and frames per second were analyzed for the combinations of detectors and trackers. It is concluded that the OCSORT+YOLOv6l model has the best comprehensive performance and the combination of OCSORT and YOLOv7 has the best average performance under MOT17 and MOT20.
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Phase reconstruction using a Zernike decomposition filter
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Coherent wavefronts are analysed using a Zernike filter that decomposes the analyzed light field into a set of diffraction orders with amplitudes proportional to the circular Zernike polynomials. We also apply the algorithm to the calculation of the light field phase from measurements of the modules of decomposition coefficients. Operation of several filter are simulated.
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Polarization properties of three-dimensional electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model sources
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The polarization properties of the recently introduced three-dimensional electromagnetic Gaussian Schell-model sources [Opt. Lett. 42, 1792 (2017)] are examined. Both cases of uniform and non-uniform polarization are considered. The three-dimensional polarization states are characterized via the eigenvalues of a 3×3 source polarization matrix and, more specifically, via the indices of polarimetric purity. We show that the considered sources exhibit a variety of polarization states throughout their volumes conveniently controlled by several physically accessible source parameters.
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Preliminary results in investigation of diffractive high-efficiency objectives
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It has been shown that high-efficiency diffractive objectives are an alternative to their refractive counterparts for applications requiring high precision transformation of monochromatic light (for example in interferometers). A 80 mm diameter prototype (N.A. - 0.158; design wavelength 632.8 nm) has been fabricated by direct laser writing on photoresist. It was manufactured on a polar coordinate laser writing system CLWS-300 that is able to write high precision DOEs up to a diameter of 300 mm. The blazed diffractive structures were written directly into a photoresist layer that was spinned on a high-precision substrate. The fabricated objective has a rms wavefront error of less than л/20 in single pass. The residual errors are predictable using manufacturing data that is recorded during the writing process for each element. This permits to provide each element with calibration data. Measurements of the fabricated DOEs show excellent agreement between the predicted and measured wavefront quality.
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Nematic liquid crystal planar and smoothly-irregular waveguide structures were studied experimentally and by the computer modeling. Two types of optical smoothly-irregular waveguide structures promising for application in telecommunications and control systems are studied by numerical simulation: liquid crystal waveguides and thin film solid generalized waveguide Lune-burg lens. Study of the behavior of these waveguide structures where liquid crystal layer can be used to control the properties of the entire device, of course, promising, especially since such devices are also able to perform various sensory functions when changing some external parameters, accompanied by a change in a number of their properties. It can be of interest to researchers not only in the field of the integrated optics but also in some others areas: nano-photonics, optofluid-ics, telecommunications, and control systems. The dependences of the attenuation coefficient (optical losses) of waveguide modes and the effective sizes (correlation radii) of quasi-stationary irregularities of the liquid-crystal layers on the linear laser radiation polarization and on the presence of pulse-periodic electric field were experimentally observed...
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Quality inspection of fertilizer granules using computer vision – a review
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This research explores the fusion of computer vision and agricultural quality control. It investigates the efficacy of computer vision algorithms, particularly in image classification and object detection, for non-destructive assessment. These algorithms offer objective, rapid, and error-resistant analysis compared to human inspection. The study provides an extensive overview of using computer vision to evaluate grain and fertilizer granule quality, highlighting granule size’s significance. It assesses prevailing object detection methods, outlining their advantages and drawbacks. The paper identifies the prevailing trend of framing quality inspection as an image classification challenge and suggests future research directions. These involve exploring object detection, image segmentation, or hybrid models to enhance fertilizer granule quality assessment.
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In this report we describe a fast 3-color method of the measurement of temperature distributions on a surface of a heated solid using a RGB color camera with a high frame rate (100 images per second). Statistical error the RGB method is not high, and do not exceed around 5.5 % which is surprising taking in to account the number of the measurements at each pixel. Comparison of the results of the temperature measurements on a tungsten plate heated by infra-red laser radiation and conducted with this technique and those obtained with the acousto-optical tunable filter technique demonstrate that error of the temperature measured by 3-color method is only two times as high as that of the tandem acousto-optic filter technique method.
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Recognition of biosignals with nonlinear properties by approximate entropy parameters
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More and more attention is being paid to the development of methods for the objective analysis of biosignals for computer medical systems. The search for new non-standard methods is aimed at improving the reliability of diagnostics and expanding the areas of their practical application. In this paper, methods for recognizing biomedical signals by the degree of severity of their nonlinear components are considered. An approach based on the use of approximate entropy closely related to Kolmogorov entropy ( K -entropy) is used. Its parameters can be used to detect dynamic irregularities associated with nonlinear properties of signals. The algorithm for calculating this characteristic is considered in detail. Based on model experiments, its main properties are analyzed. It is shown that the entropy of a finite sequence, calculated in accordance with a multistep procedure, can give an erroneous estimate of the degree of regularity of the signal. A procedure for correcting the approximate entropy is proposed, which expands the area of analysis of this function for estimating nonlinearity. It has been established that the transition to adjusted entropy makes it possible to increase the reliability of the detection of chaotic components. A set of entropy parameters is proposed for constructing recognition procedures. Examples of solving the problems of detecting atrial fibrillation by the parameters of the nonlinearity of the rhythmogram, as well as assessing the depth of anesthesia by the electroencephalogram (EEG) are given. Experiments conducted on real recordings of electrocardiogram (ECG) and EEG signals have shown the high efficiency of the proposed algorithms. The proposed methods and algorithms can be used in the development of systems for monitoring ECG of cardiological patients, as well as monitoring the depth of anesthesia by EEG during surgical operations.
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