Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Hassan Mansour

Petros T Boufounos

Dehong Liu

Anthony Vetro

Ulugbek Kamilov

Dong Tian

Philip Orlik

Pu Wang

Yanting Ma

Karl Berntorp

Mouhacine Benosman

Muhammad Lodhi

Tim Marks

Andrei Kniazev

Yudai Nakamura

Suhas Lohit

Caglayan Dicle

Gang Yao

Ewa Nowara

Shantanu Rane

Toshiaki Koike-Akino

Zafer Sahinoglu

Kieran Parsons

Yuichi Taguchi

Hiroyuki Handa

Jeroen Van Baar

Ashok Veeraraghavan

Antonio Ortega

Richard C Waters

Saleh Nabi

Toshiaki Koike Akino

Shigeru Takushima

Yongzhe Wang

Nobuyuki Ota

Bihan Wen

Vahan Huroyan

Ashok Veeraghavan

Joshua Rapp

Muhammad Asad Lodhi

Yuxuan Xia

Shuchin Aeron

Lantao Yu

Li Li

Jiun-Yu Kao

Toshiaki Akino

Akshay Gadde

Xin Jiang

Rakshith Sharma Srinivasa

Abdullah Al-Shabili

Ajinkya Kadu

Yuying Liu

Alfred Ulvog

Youye Xie

A tracking system for tracking an expanded state of an object is provided. The tracking system executes, for a predetermined time period, a probabilistic filter that iteratively tracks a belief on the expanded state of the object, wherein the belief is predicted using a motion model of the object and is further updated using a compound measurement model of the object. After the predetermined time period, the updated beliefs are smoothed to generate a state-decoupled online batch of training data. The compound measurement model includes multiple probabilistic distributions constrained to lie around a contour of the object with a predetermined relative geometrical mapping to the center of the object. The compound measurement model is updated using the online batch of training data. Further, the tracking system tracks the expanded state of the object based on the updated compound measurement model.

System and method for tracking an expanded state of a moving object using an online adapted compound measurement model

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wire electric discharge machine (EDM) including a delivery system with one or combination of a wire electrode and a workpiece for delivering the wire electrode and the workpiece into proximity of each other and an energy source for creating electric discharge between the wire electrode and the workpiece. The wire EDM includes a wire electrode position measurement unit including light source to illuminate the wire electrode with encoded illumination pattern and a camera for acquiring a set of images of the wire electrode illuminated by the encoded illumination pattern. The wire EDM includes a processor to reconstruct positions of a segment of the wire electrode at a reconstruction rate greater than an acquisition rate of the camera by utilization of compressive sensing with sparse reconstruction technique and a controller to control the delivery system and the energy source based on the reconstructed positions.

System and method for controlling a wire electric discharge machine

An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system comprises an interferometer configured to split incident light into a reference beam and a test beam, and to interfere the test beam reflected from the specimen with the reference beam reflected from a reference mirror to produce an interference pattern. The OCT system also comprises a spectrometer configured to analyze spectral components of the interference pattern at non-uniformly sampled wavenumbers. A computer-readable memory of the OCT system is configured to store a measurement model with elements connecting different depth values with different non-uniformly sampled wavenumbers and weighted with weights derived from a power spectral density (PSD) of the incident light for corresponding wavenumbers. The OCT system further comprises a processor configured to determine the profilometry measurements of the specimen as a maximum likelihood estimate of the specimen surface depth by back-projection of the measured intensities with the measurement model.

Systems and methods for surface profile estimation via optical coherence tomography

The present disclosure provides a system and a method for generating a radar image of a scene. The method comprises receiving radar measurements of a scene collected from a set of antennas, wherein the set of antennas are under uncertainties caused by one or a combination of position ambiguities and clock ambiguities of each of the antennas. The method further comprises generating the radar image of the scene by solving a sparse recovery problem. The sparse recovery problem determines, until a termination condition is met, a set of image shifts of the radar image corresponding to different uncertainties of the antennas and updates an estimate of the radar image, based on the determined set of image shifts of the radar image. The sparse recovery problem is solved with a neural network denoiser that denoises a filtering of the estimate of the radar image.

System and method for generating a radar image of a scene

A remote photoplethysmography (RPPG) system for estimating vital signs of a person is provided. The RPPG system is configured to receive a set of imaging photoplethysmography (iPPG) signals measured from different regions of a skin of a person. The RPPG system is further configured to determine frequency coefficients at the frequency bins of the quantized frequency spectrum of the measured iPPG signals by minimizing a distance between the measured iPPG signals and corresponding iPPG signals reconstructed from the determined frequency coefficients, while enforcing joint sparsity of the determined frequency coefficients subject to the sparsity level constraint, such that the determined frequency coefficients of different iPPG signals have the non-zero values at the same frequency bins; and output one or a combination of the determined frequency coefficients, the iPPG signals reconstructed from the determined frequency coefficients, and a vital sign signal corresponding to the reconstructed iPPG signals.

System and method for remote measurements of vital signs of a person in a volatile environment

Embodiment of the present disclosure disclose a tomographic imaging system for reconstructing an image of an internal structure of an object. An incident wavefield is transmitted into the object occupying a background domain embedding the object. The incident wavefield is scattered into multiple scattered wavefield by the object. The incident and scattered wavefields are measured as a total wavefield. The total wavefield propagates through a computational domain and a residual domain in the background domain that are defined by cross-domain and residual measurement operators. The total wavefield is used for the image reconstruction. The image is reconstructed by solving an optimization problem corresponding to the computational domain. The optimization problem is solved iteratively to minimize a difference between the total wavefield and a wavefield synthesized using a measurement operator and a Green's function operator from the reconstructed image. The reconstructed image is outputted via an output interface.

Method for tomographic imaging of object reflectivity under inhomogeneous background media

A tracking system for tracking an expanded state of an object is provided. The tracking system comprises at least one processor and a memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the tracking system to execute a probabilistic filter that iteratively tracks a belief on the expanded state of the object, wherein the belief is predicted using a motion model of the object and is further updated using a compound measurement model of the object. The compound measurement model includes multiple probabilistic distributions constrained to lie on a contour of the object with a predetermined relative geometrical mapping to the center of the object. Further, the tracking system tracks the expanded state of the object based on the updated belief on the expanded state.

System and method for tracking an expanded state of a moving object using a compound measurement model

A system and a method for tracking an expanded state of an object including a kinematic state indicative of a position of the object and an extended state indicative of one or combination of a dimension and an orientation of the object is provided herein. The system comprises at least one sensor configured to probe a scene including a moving object with one or multiple signal transmissions to produce one or multiple measurements of the object per the transmission, and a processor configured to execute a probabilistic filter tracking a joint probability of the expanded state of the object estimated by a motion model of the object and a measurement model of the object, wherein the measurement model includes a center-truncated distribution having predetermined truncation intervals. The system further comprises an output interface configured to output the expanded state of the object.

System and method for tracking expanded state of moving object with model geometry learning

A permittivity sensor, for determining an image of a distribution of permittivity of a material of an object in a scene, comprising an input interface, a hardware processor, and an output interface is provided. The input interface is configured to accept phaseless measurements of propagation of a known incident field through the scene and scattered by the material of the object in the scene. The hardware processor is configured to solve a multi-variable minimization problem over unknown phases of the phaseless measurements and unknown image of the permittivity of the material of the object by minimizing a difference of a nonlinear function of the known incident field and the unknown image with a product of known magnitudes of the phaseless measurements and the unknown phases. Further, the output interface is configured to render the permittivity of the material of the object provided by the solution of the multi-variable minimization problem.

Sensing using inverse multiple scattering with phaseless measurements

A system and a method for tracking an expanded state of an object including a kinematic state indicative of a position of the object and an extended state indicative of one or combination of a dimension and an orientation of the object is provided herein. The system comprises at least one sensor configured to probe a scene including a moving object with one or multiple signal transmissions to produce one or multiple measurements of the object per the transmission, and a processor configured to execute a probabilistic filter tracking a joint probability of the expanded state of the object estimated by a motion model of the object and a measurement model of the object, wherein the measurement model includes a center-truncated distribution having truncation intervals. The system further comprises an output interface configured to output the expanded state of the object.

System and method for tracking expanded state of an object

A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radar system for detecting a moving object is based on an explicit signal model. The explicit signal model accounts for waveform separation residuals by relating measurements of the virtual array to an auto-term including a Kronecker product of object-receiver signatures and transmitter-object signatures; and a cross-term including a Kronecker product of object-receiver signatures and transmitter-object residual signatures. The radar system uses a spatial MIMO object detector that is based on the explicit signal model to detect the moving object.

Radar detection of moving object with waveform separation residual

An imaging system to reconstruct a reflectivity image of a scene including an object moving with the scene. A tracking system to track a deforming object to estimate an object deformation for each time step. Sensors acquire snapshots of the scene, each acquired snapshot of the object includes measurements in the object deformation for that time step, to produce a set of object measurements with deformed shapes over the time steps. Compute a correction to estimates of object deformation for each time step, with matching measurements of the corrected object deformation for each time step to measurements in the acquired snapshot of object for that time step. Select a corrected deformation over other corrected deformations for each time step, according to a distance between the corrected deformation and the estimate of the deformation, to obtain a final estimate of the deformation of the deformable object moving in the scene.

System and method for tracking a deformation

Systems, methods and apparatus for image processing for reconstructing a super resolution image from multispectral (MS) images. Receive image data and initialize a fused image using a panchromatic (PAN) image, and estimate a blur kernel between the PAN image and the MS images as an initialization function. Iteratively, fuse a MS image with an associated PAN image of a scene using a fusing algorithm. Each iteration includes: update the blur kernel based on a Second-Order Total Generalized Variation function to regularize a kernel shape; fuse the PAN image and MS images with the updated blur kernel based on a local Laplacian prior function to regularize the high-resolution information to obtain an estimated fused image; compute a relative error between the estimated fused image of the current iteration and a previous estimated fused image from a previous iteration, to a predetermined threshold, to stop iterations stop, to obtain a PAN-sharpened image.

Systems and methods for blind multi-spectral image fusion

A radar system for generating a radar image of a scene. Receive radar measurements of reflectivity of each point in the scene measured by receivers. Solve a radar image recovery (RIR) problem using stored data to produce the radar image. By connecting the radar measurements to a shift of a reflection field with a receiver shift. The receiver shift defines an error between stored receiver positions and actual receivers positions, the reflection field is generated by reflecting the transmitted field from the scene in accordance with the reflectivity of each point in the scene. Connecting the reflection field to a shift of an incident field with a transmitter shift. The transmitter shift defines an error between stored transmitter positions and actual transmitters positions. Solve as a multilinear problem of joint estimation of the reflectivity of each point in the scene, the receiver shift, and the transmitter shift.

System and method for radar imaging for antennas with position ambiguities

A radar system for generating a radar image of a scene includes an input interface to accept radar measurements of a scene collected from a set of antennas with clock ambiguities, wherein the radar measurements are measurements of reflections of a radar pulse transmitted to the scene, a hardware processor configured to solve a convex sparse recovery problem to produce a radar image of the scene, wherein the convex sparse recovery problem matches a time shift of the radar measurements with a signal generated by propagation of the radar pulse through a radar propagation function of the scene, wherein the time shift of the radar measurements is represented as a convolution of the radar measurements with a shift kernel that is one-sparse in time, and an output interface configured to render the radar image.

Radar imaging for antennas with clock ambiguities

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