Confocal scanning microscopy, a form of optical sectioning microscopy, has radically
transformed optical imaging in biology. These devices provide a powerful means to …

A key requirement for performing three-dimensional (3D) imaging using optical microscopes
is that they be capable of optical sectioning by distinguishing in-focus signal from out-of …

In his 1665 treatise, Micrographia, Robert Hooke described the many observations he had
made using a microscope, including compartment-like structures in cork samples that he …

Deconvolution is a computational method used to reduce out-of-focus fluorescence in three-
dimensional (3D) microscope images. It can be applied in principle to any type of …

Illumination plays an important role in optical microscopy. Köhler illumination, introduced
more than a century ago, has been the backbone of optical microscopes. The last few …

We consider the problem of deliberately manipulating the direct and indirect light flowing
through a time-varying, fully-general scene in order to simplify its visual analysis. Our …

Confocal microscopy is a family of imaging techniques that employ focused patterned
illumination and synchronized imaging to create cross-sectional views of 3D biological …

This work focuses on a slice through the field-Computer Vision Metrics–from the view of
feature description metrics, or how to describe, compute and design the macro-features and …

Fluorescence microscopy is an essential tool of modern biology, but, like all forms of optical
imaging, it is subject to physical limits on its resolving power. In recent years, several …

Many algorithms for computer vision rely on locating interest points, or keypoints in each
image, and calculating a feature description from the pixel region surrounding the interest …