In this talk, we will present PhyCV: the first physics-inspired computer vision library. PhyCV is a new class of computer vision algorithms directly derived from the equations of physics governing physical phenomena. The algorithms appearing in the first release emulate, in a metaphoric sense, the propagation of light through a physical medium with natural and engineered diffractive properties followed by coherent detection.
This talk will present a science-as-a-service application that will provide public access to a new family of computational imaging algorithms that are inspired by optical physics. These algorithms are emerging as the best-in-class tools for certain digital image processing functions such as edge and texture detection, and more. A cloud application developed in collaboration with and hosted by AWS, the application features various tools, sample data, and workflows. The cloud approach provides data security, a crucial issue in the biomedical industry and exposes the broader biomedical community to the ongoing innovations in algorithms.
Through evolution, nature has developed the most energy efficient method for achieving a certain goal. In contrast to the traditional hand-crafted algorithms pervasive in computational imaging, our approach takes inspiration from nature, and in particular optical physics, to craft qualitatively new algorithms. Here, we show that propagation of light through an optical medium has properties that can be exploited for development of a new class of image and video enhancement algorithms that offer unprecedented improvements in performance over conventional counterparts. In certain cases, these algorithms also have the potential to be implemented physically compared to synthetically fashioned computational techniques in practice today.
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