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Analytic Sensing: Noniterative Retrieval Of Point Sources From Boundary Measurements

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu, Djano Kandaswamy

We consider the problem of locating point sources in the planar domain from overdetermined boundary measurements of solutions of Poisson's equation. In this paper, we propose a novel technique, termed "analytic sensing," which combines the application of G ...

SIAM2009

EEG source localization by multi-planar analytic sensing

Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu, Djano Kandaswamy

Source localization from EEG surface measurements is an important problem in neuro-imaging. We propose a new mathematical framework to estimate the parameters of a multidipole source model. To that aim, we perform 2-D analytic sensing in multiple planes. T ...

Ieee Service Center, 445 Hoes Lane, Po Box 1331, Piscataway, Nj 08855-1331 Usa2008

Multiframe SURE-LET denoising of timelapse fluorescence microscopy images

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu, Florian Luisier, Sathish Ramani, Saskia Joëlle Delpretti Anex

Due to the random nature of photon emission and the various internal noise sources of the detectors, real timelapse fluorescence microscopy images are usually modeled as the sum of a Poisson process plus some Gaussian white noise. In this paper, we propose ...

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3-D Shape Estimation of DNA Molecules from Stereo Cryo-Electron Micro-Graphs Using a Projection-Steerable Snake

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu, Mathews Jacob

We introduce a three-dimensional (3-D) parametric active contour algorithm for the shape estimation of DNA molecules from stereo cryo-electron micrographs. We estimate the shape by matching the projections of a 3-D global shape model with the micrographs; ...

IEEE2006

Generalized Daubechies Wavelets

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu, Cédric René Jean Vonesch

We present a generalization of the Daubechies wavelet family. The context is that of a non-stationary multiresolution analysis—i.e., a sequence of embedded approximation spaces generated by scaling functions that are not necessarily dilates of one another. ...

IEEE2005

Generalized Biorthogonal Daubechies Wavelets

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu, Cédric René Jean Vonesch

We propose a generalization of the Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau (CDF) and 9⁄7 biorthogonal wavelet families. This is done within the framework of non-stationary multiresolution analysis, which involves a sequence of embedded approximation spaces generated by ...

SPIE2005

SURE-Based Wavelet Thresholding Integrating Inter-Scale Dependencies

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu, Florian Luisier

We propose here a new pointwise wavelet thresholding function that incorporates inter-scale dependencies. This non-linear function depends on a set of four linear parameters per subband which are set by minimizing Stein's unbiased MSE estimate (SURE). Our ...

IEEE2006

Annihilation-driven Localised Image Edge Models

Martin Vetterli, Thierry Blu, Hanjie Pan

We propose a novel edge detection algorithm with sub-pixel accuracy based on annihilation of signals with finite rate of innovation. We show that the Fourier domain annihilation equations can be interpreted as spatial domain multiplications. From this new ...

IEEE2015

Undecimated Haar Thresholding For Poisson Intensity Estimation

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu, Florian Luisier

We propose a novel algorithm for denoising Poisson-corrupted images, that performs a signal-adaptive thresholding of the undecimated Haar wavelet coefficients. A Poisson's unbiased MSE estimate is devised and adapted to arbitrary transform-domain pointwise ...

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Which Wavelet Bases Are the Best for Image Denoising?

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu, Florian Luisier

We use a comprehensive set of non-redundant orthogonal wavelet transforms and apply a denoising method called SUREshrink in each individual wavelet subband to denoise images corrupted by additive Gaussian white noise. We show that, for various images and a ...

SPIE2005

Beyond Interpolation: Optimal Reconstruction by Quasi-Interpolation

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu

ICIP'05 Best Student Paper Award We investigate the use of quasi-interpolating approximation schemes, to construct an estimate of an unknown function from its given discrete samples. We show theoretically and with practical experiments that such methods pe ...

IEEE2005

Fast Computation of Polyharmonic B-Spline Autocorrelation Filters

Michaël Unser, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu, Yann Barbotin

A fast computational method is given for the Fourier transform of the polyharmonic B-spline autocorrelation sequence in d dimensions. The approximation error is exponentially decaying with the number of terms taken into account. The algorithm improves spee ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2008

Generalized Daubechies Wavelet Families

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu, Cédric René Jean Vonesch

We present a generalization of the orthonormal Daubechies wavelets and of their related biorthogonal flavors (Cohen-Daubechies-Feauveau, 9⁄7). Our fundamental constraint is that the scaling functions should reproduce a predefined set of exponential polynom ...

IEEE2007

Self-Similarity: Part II—Optimal Estimation of Fractal Processes

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu

IEEE2007

Shift-Invariant Spaces from Rotation-Covariant Functions

Michaël Unser, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Thierry Blu

We consider shift-invariant multiresolution spaces generated by rotation-covariant functions ρ in

\mathbb{R}^{ 2 }

. To construct corresponding scaling and wavelet functions, ρ has to be localized with an appropriate multiplier, such that the localized ...

Elsevier2008

Image denoising by pointwise thresholding of the undecimated wavelet coefficients: A global sure optimum

Thierry Blu, Florian Luisier

We devise a new undecimated wavelet thresholding for denoising images corrupted by additive Gaussian white noise. The first key point of our approach is the use of a linearly parameterized pointwise thresholding function. The second key point consists in o ...

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Optimal Interpolation of Fractional Brownian Motion Given Its Noisy Samples

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu

We consider the problem of estimating a fractional Brownian motion known only from its noisy samples at the integers. We show that the optimal estimator can be expressed using a digital Wiener-like filter followed by a simple time-variant correction accoun ...

IEEE2006

Sampling and exact reconstruction of bandlimited signals with additive shot noise

Martin Vetterli, Thierry Blu, Pina Marziliano

In this correspondence, we consider sampling continuous-time periodic bandlimited signals which contain additive shot noise. The classical sampling scheme does not perfectly recover these particular nonbandlimited signals but only reconstructs a lowpass fi ...

IEEE2006

Generalized L-Spline Wavelet Bases

Michaël Unser, Thierry Blu, Ildar Khalidov

We build wavelet-like functions based on a parametrized family of pseudo-differential operators

L _{ v }

that satisfy some admissibility and scalability conditions. The shifts of the generalized B-splines, which are localized versions of the Green func ...

SPIE2005

SURE-LET Multichannel Image Denoising: Interscale Orthonormal Wavelet Thresholding

Thierry Blu, Florian Luisier

We propose a vector/matrix extension of our denoising algorithm initially developed for grayscale images, in order to efficiently process multichannel (e.g., color) images. This work follows our recently published SURE-LET approach where the denoising algo ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2008