Last ~20 days have been completely crazy. First, I went to a meeting organized by the Royal Society: Light transport and imaging through complex media. It was amazing. Beautiful place, incredible researchers, and a nice combination of signal processing and optical imaging. I am sure I will be looking for future editions.
After that, I assisted Photonics West. Both BIOS and OPTO were full of interesting talks. Scattering media, adaptive optics, DMDs, some compressive sensing… Fantastic week. There I talked about two recent works we made in Spain: balanced photodetection single-pixel imaging and phase imaging using a DMD and a lateral position detector. Both contributions were very well received, and I am happy with the feedback I got. So many new ideas… now I need some time to implement them! I plan on writing a bit here on the blog about the last work, which has been published in the last issue of Optica.
Some of the cool stuff I heard about:
Valentina Emiliani – Optical manipulation of neuronal circuits by optical wave front shaping. Very cool implementations combining multiple SLMs and temporal focusing to see how neurons work.
Richard Baraniuk – Phase retrieval: tradeoffs and a new algorithm. How to recover phase information from intensity measurements. Compressive sensing and inverse problems. Very interesting, and a really good speaker. It is difficult to find someone capable of explaining these concepts as easily as Richard.
Michael Unser – GlobalBioIm
When being confronted with a new imaging problem, the common experience is that one has to reimplement (if not reinvent) the wheel (=forward model + optimization algorithm), which is very time consuming and also acts as a deterrent for engaging in new developments. This Matlab library aims at simplifying this process by decomposing the workflow onto smaller modules, including many reusable ones since several aspects such as regularization and the injection of prior knowledge are rather generic. It also capitalizes on the strong commonalities between the various image formation models that can be exploited to obtain fast, streamlined implementations.
Oliver Pust – High spatial resolution hyperspectral camera based on a continously variable filter. Really cool concept of merging a continous filter and multiple expositions to obtain hyperspectral information and even 3D images.
Seungwoo Shin – Exploiting a digital micromirror device for a multimodal approach combinning optical diffraction tomography and 3D structured illumination microscopy. I am always happy to see cool implementations with DMDs. This is one of them. KAIST delivers.
We propose a multimodal system combining ODT and 3-D SIM to measure both 3-D RI and fluorescence distributions of samples with advantages including high spatiotemporal resolution as well as molecular specificity. By exploiting active illumination control of a digital micromirror device and two different illumination wavelengths, our setup allows to individually operate either ODT or 3-D SIM. To demonstrate the feasibility of our method, 3-D RI and fluorescence distributions of a planar cluster of fluorescent beads were reconstructed. To further demonstrate the applicability, a 3-D fluorescence and time-lapse 3-D RI distributions of fluorescent beads inside a HeLa cell were measured.
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