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Frederic Truchetet

The Kolmogorov superposition theorem and its application to image processing

Best student paper award; International audience

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The noise estimator NOLSE

This report is not self-content and presents complementary definitions and demonstrations for the paper "Noise estimation from digital step-model signal" published inTransactions on Image Processing.

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Non conventional Imaging Systems for 3D Digitization of transparent and/or specular manufactured objects

International audience; 3D scanning has been investigated for several years and most of the proposed approaches assume a diffuse or near diffuse reflectance of the object's surface, also called cooperative surfaces. For the case of "non cooperative surfaces", such as transparent objects or mirror-like surfaces, usually, a thin layer of powder is sprayed onto the object surface (to make it opaque and diffuse) prior to its digitization. This extra step is troublesome, time consuming (the object needs to be cleaned afterwards), and the final accuracy is often dependent on the powder thickness and its homogeneousness. To avoid this step, various methods have been investigated over the last few …

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Translucent medium

8 pages; article in McGraw-Hill Science & Technology Encyclopedia; International audience; A medium allowing light to pass through partially or diffusely. An object cannot be seen clearly through translucent matter. In the most accepted meaning, translucency is used to describe a medium transmitting most of the light but scattering it more or less so that objects seen through it are blurry with soft contours and without details. The closer the object is to the medium the sharper its image through it. There are many examples of such media among natural or manufactured artifacts, including wax paper, milky water, colloidal and hydrogel materials, aerogels, smoke, fog, clouds, optical ceramics…

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A novel approach for image sweeping functions using approximating scheme

International audience; Using Kolmogorov's superposition theorem, complex N-dimensional signal can be expressed by simpler 1D functions. Precisely, Kolmogorov has demonstrated that any multivariate function can be decomposed into sums and compositions of monovariate functions, that are called inner and external functions. We present one of the most recent method of monovariate functions construction. The algorithm proposed by Igelnik approximates the monovariate functions. Different layers are constructed and superposed. A layer is constituted by a couple of internal and external functions, that realizes an approximation of the multivariate function with a given precision, which corresponds…

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