no code implementations • 25 Mar 2024 • Pengcheng Hao, Oktay Karakus, Alin Achim
Driven by the filtering challenges in linear systems disturbed by non-Gaussian heavy-tailed noise, the robust Kalman filters (RKFs) leveraging diverse heavy-tailed distributions have been introduced.
no code implementations • 6 Feb 2024 • Kamirul Kamirul, Odysseas Pappas, Igor G. Rizaev, Alin Achim
We present a novel ship wake simulation system for generating S-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images, and demonstrate the use of such imagery for the classification of ships based on their wake signatures via a deep learning approach.
no code implementations • 20 Jan 2024 • Ruixiong Wang, Alin Achim, Renata Raele-Rolfe, Qiao Tong, Dylan Bergen, Chrissy Hammond, Stephen Cross
In this work, we present 'Rotation-Equivariant network and Transformers for Image Registration' (RoTIR), a deep-learning-based method for the alignment of fish scale images captured by light microscopy.
1 code implementation • 17 Nov 2023 • Xin Tian, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Lindsay Nicholson, Alin Achim
This marks the first attempt to exploit the inherent 3D information of OCT and translate it into the rich, detailed color domain of confocal microscopy.
no code implementations • 11 Nov 2023 • Tianqi Yang, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Oktay Karakuş, Marco Allinovi, Hatice Ceylan Koydemir, Alin Achim
In the context of lung ultrasound, the detection of B-lines, which are indicative of interstitial lung disease and pulmonary edema, plays a pivotal role in clinical diagnosis.
1 code implementation • 13 May 2023 • Pengcheng Hao, Oktay Karakuş, Alin Achim
Motivated by filtering tasks under a linear system with non-Gaussian heavy-tailed noise, various robust Kalman filters (RKFs) based on different heavy-tailed distributions have been proposed.
no code implementations • 25 Nov 2022 • Tianqi Yang, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Oktay Karakuş, Marco Allinovi, Alin Achim
Studies have proved that the number of B-lines in lung ultrasound images has a strong statistical link to the amount of extravascular lung water, which is significant for hemodialysis treatment.
no code implementations • 11 Aug 2022 • Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Thanarat H. Chalidabhongse, Duangdao Palasuwan, Korranat Naruenatthanaset, Thananop Kobchaisawat, Nuntiporn Nunthanasup, Kanyarat Boonpeng, Xudong Ma, Alin Achim
Manual examination of faecal smear samples to identify the existence of parasitic eggs is very time-consuming and can only be done by specialists.
no code implementations • 6 Mar 2022 • Perla Mayo, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Thanarat H. Chalidabhongse, Duangdao Palasuwan, Alin Achim
Automatic detection of parasitic eggs in microscopy images has the potential to increase the efficiency of human experts whilst also providing an objective assessment.
no code implementations • 5 Mar 2022 • Odysseas Pappas, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Byron Adams, Alin Achim
High accuracy coastline/shoreline extraction from SAR imagery is a crucial step in a number of maritime and coastal monitoring applications.
no code implementations • 4 Mar 2022 • Odysseas Pappas, Juliet Biggs, David Bull, Alin Achim, Nantheera Anantrasirichai
Monitoring of ground movement close to the rail corridor, such as that associated with landslips caused by ground subsidence and/or uplift, is of great interest for the detection and prevention of possible railway faults.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2022 • Xin Tian, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Lindsay Nicholson, Alin Achim
Finally, registration along the direction orthogonal to the x-y plane (the z-direction) is guided by the segmentation of two important anatomical features peculiar to mouse b-scans, the Internal Limiting Membrane (ILM) and the hyaloid remnant (HR).
no code implementations • 18 Oct 2021 • Xudong Ma, Paul Hill, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Alin Achim
The results are compared with state-of-the-art image fusion methods.
no code implementations • 22 Aug 2021 • Zi-Yao Zhang, Odysseas Pappas, Igor G. Rizaev, Alin Achim
In this paper, SAR image reconstruction with joint phase error estimation (autofocusing) is formulated as an inverse problem.
no code implementations • 21 Mar 2021 • Tianqi Yang, Oktay Karakuş, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Alin Achim
In the field of biomedical imaging, ultrasonography has become increasingly widespread, and an important auxiliary diagnostic tool with unique advantages, such as being non-ionising and often portable.
no code implementations • 17 Dec 2020 • Zi-Yao Zhang, Odysseas Pappas, Alin Achim
In this paper, an optimization model using Cauchy regularization is proposed for simultaneous SAR image reconstruction and autofocusing.
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2020 • Wanli Ma, Alin Achim, Oktay Karakuş
In this paper, we analyse synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of the sea surface using an inverse problem formulation whereby Radon domain information is enhanced in order to accurately detect ship wakes.
no code implementations • 11 Dec 2020 • Oktay Karakuş, Igor Rizaev, Alin Achim
The analysis of ocean surface is widely performed using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery as it yields information for wide areas under challenging weather conditions, during day or night, etc.
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2020 • Gabriele Scrivanti, Luca Calatroni, Serena Morigi, Lindsay Nicholson, Alin Achim
We propose a non-convex variational model for the super-resolution of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) images of the murine eye, by enforcing sparsity with respect to suitable dictionaries learnt from high-resolution OCT data.
no code implementations • 8 Aug 2020 • Perla Mayo, Oktay Karakuş, Robin Holmes, Alin Achim
In representation learning, Convolutional Sparse Coding (CSC) enables unsupervised learning of features by jointly optimising both an \(\ell_2\)-norm fidelity term and a sparsity enforcing penalty.
1 code implementation • 15 Jun 2020 • Oktay Karakuş, Ercan E. Kuruoglu, Alin Achim
In this paper, we present a novel statistical model, $\textit{the generalized-Gaussian-Rician}$ (GG-Rician) distribution, for the characterization of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images.
no code implementations • 7 May 2020 • Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Juliet Biggs, Krisztina Kelevitz, Zahra Sadeghi, Tim Wright, James Thompson, Alin Achim, David Bull
The large volumes of Sentinel-1 data produced over Europe are being used to develop pan-national ground motion services.
1 code implementation • 6 May 2020 • Oktay Karakuş, Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Amazigh Aguersif, Stein Silva, Adrian Basarab, Alin Achim
In this paper, we present a novel method for line artefacts quantification in lung ultrasound (LUS) images of COVID-19 patients.
1 code implementation • 1 May 2020 • Oktay Karakuş, Alin Achim
We show that the proposed Cauchy-based penalty function leads to better image reconstruction results when compared to the reference penalty functions for all SAR imaging inverse problems in this paper.
1 code implementation • 27 Mar 2020 • Perla Mayo, Robin Holmes, Alin Achim
The Cauchy distribution is known to be able to capture heavy-tails in the data, which are linked to sparse processes.
Image and Video Processing
3 code implementations • 10 Mar 2020 • Oktay Karakus, Perla Mayo, Alin Achim
In this paper, we propose a proximal splitting methodology with a non-convex penalty function based on the heavy-tailed Cauchy distribution.
no code implementations • 12 Feb 2020 • Tianqi Yang, Oktay Karakuş, Alin Achim
A Bayesian method, the Moreau-Yoshida unadjusted Langevin algorithm (MYULA), which is computationally efficient and robust is used to estimate the image in the transform domain by minimizing the negative log-posterior distribution.
1 code implementation • 23 May 2019 • Nantheera Anantrasirichai, Rencheng Zheng, Ivan Selesnick, Alin Achim
The performance of the proposed method is benchmarked against a number of state-of-the-art image fusion techniques and superior performance is demonstrated both visually and in terms of various assessment measures.
1 code implementation • 5 Apr 2019 • Oktay Karakuş, Igor Rizaev, Alin Achim
We show that the GMC achieves the best results and we subsequently study the merits of the corresponding method in comparison to two state-of-the-art approaches for ship wake detection.
no code implementations • 10 Aug 2018 • N. Anantrasirichai, Alin Achim, David Bull
This paper describes a new method for mitigating the effects of atmospheric distortion on observed sequences that include large moving objects.