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Dynamic Atomic Column Detection in Transmission Electron Microscopy Videos via Ridge Estimation
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Dynamic Atomic Column Detection in Transmission Electron Microscopy Videos via Ridge Estimation

Yuchen Xu, Andrew M Thomas, Peter A Crozier and David S Matteson
ArXiv.org
Cornell University
02/01/2023
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2302.00816
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Abstract

Ridge detection is a classical tool to extract curvilinear features in image processing. As such, it has great promise in applications to material science problems; specifically, for trend filtering relatively stable atom-shaped objects in image sequences, such as Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) videos. Standard analysis of TEM videos is limited to frame-by-frame object recognition. We instead harness temporal correlation across frames through simultaneous analysis of long image sequences, specified as a spatio-temporal image tensor. We define new ridge detection algorithms to non-parametrically estimate explicit trajectories of atomic-level object locations as a continuous function of time. Our approach is specially tailored to handle temporal analysis of objects that seemingly stochastically disappear and subsequently reappear throughout a sequence. We demonstrate that the proposed method is highly effective and efficient in simulation scenarios, and delivers notable performance improvements in TEM experiments compared to other material science benchmarks.
Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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