We present a new optical microscope in which the light transmitted by a sample-scanned transmission confocal microscope is frequency-tripled by SiOx nanocrystallites in lieu of being transmitted by a confocal pinhole....We present a new optical microscope in which the light transmitted by a sample-scanned transmission confocal microscope is frequency-tripled by SiOx nanocrystallites in lieu of being transmitted by a confocal pinhole. This imaging technique offers an increased contrast and a high scattered light rejection. It is demonstrated that the contrast close to the Sparrow resolution limit is enhanced and the sectioning power are increased with respect to the linear confocal detection mode. An experimental implementation is presented and compared with the conventional linear confocal mode.展开更多
Sea cucumbers usually live in an environment where lighting and visibility are generally not controllable,which cause the underwater image of sea cucumbers to be distorted,blurred,and severely attenuated.Therefore,the...Sea cucumbers usually live in an environment where lighting and visibility are generally not controllable,which cause the underwater image of sea cucumbers to be distorted,blurred,and severely attenuated.Therefore,the valuable information from such an image cannot be fully extracted for further processing.To solve the problems mentioned above and improve the quality of the underwater images of sea cucumbers,pre-processing of a sea cucumber image is attracting increasing interest.This paper presents a newmethod based on contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization and wavelet transform(CLAHE-WT)to enhance the sea cucumber image quality.CLAHE was used to process the underwater image for increasing contrast based on the Rayleigh distribution,and WTwas used for de-noising based on a soft threshold.Qualitative analysis indicated that the proposed method exhibited better performance in enhancing the quality and retaining the image details.For quantitative analysis,the test with 120 underwater images showed that for the proposed method,the mean square error(MSE),peak signal to noise ratio(PSNR),and entropy were 49.2098,13.3909,and 6.6815,respectively.The proposed method outperformed three established methods in enhancing the visual quality of sea cucumber underwater gray image.展开更多
基金The Si0x nanocrystals and clusters were deposited by D. Scuderi, 0. Albert, A. Dos Santos and J. Etchepare at the L0A. We thank Bertrand Reynier, Unité de Mécanique, ENSTA, France, for sample characterization by electron microscopy.
文摘We present a new optical microscope in which the light transmitted by a sample-scanned transmission confocal microscope is frequency-tripled by SiOx nanocrystallites in lieu of being transmitted by a confocal pinhole. This imaging technique offers an increased contrast and a high scattered light rejection. It is demonstrated that the contrast close to the Sparrow resolution limit is enhanced and the sectioning power are increased with respect to the linear confocal detection mode. An experimental implementation is presented and compared with the conventional linear confocal mode.
基金supported by the International Science&Technology Cooperation Program of China(2015DFA00090)Special Fund for Agro-scientific Research in the Public Interest(201203017).
文摘Sea cucumbers usually live in an environment where lighting and visibility are generally not controllable,which cause the underwater image of sea cucumbers to be distorted,blurred,and severely attenuated.Therefore,the valuable information from such an image cannot be fully extracted for further processing.To solve the problems mentioned above and improve the quality of the underwater images of sea cucumbers,pre-processing of a sea cucumber image is attracting increasing interest.This paper presents a newmethod based on contrast limited adaptive histogram equalization and wavelet transform(CLAHE-WT)to enhance the sea cucumber image quality.CLAHE was used to process the underwater image for increasing contrast based on the Rayleigh distribution,and WTwas used for de-noising based on a soft threshold.Qualitative analysis indicated that the proposed method exhibited better performance in enhancing the quality and retaining the image details.For quantitative analysis,the test with 120 underwater images showed that for the proposed method,the mean square error(MSE),peak signal to noise ratio(PSNR),and entropy were 49.2098,13.3909,and 6.6815,respectively.The proposed method outperformed three established methods in enhancing the visual quality of sea cucumber underwater gray image.