RIT Imaging Science Seminar Series
The RIT Center for Imaging Science Seminar Series presents a wide range of speakers across diverse fields including, but not limited to, AI, remote sensing, AR/VR, machine learning, and environmental imaging.
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Enhance your understanding and connect with industry leaders at our seminar series designed specifically for students. Join us for inspiring talks featuring a diverse lineup of speakers!
Bringing Our History to Light – X-ray Imaging of Ancient Materials from Archimedes to Gutenberg
Wednesday, October 16
3:00 - 4:00 PM
CAR-1125 (Carlson Auditorium)
Uwe Bergmann, Ph.D
Martin L. Perl Professor in Ultrafast X-ray Science
Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The 10th century parchment document known as the Archimedes Palimpsest, contains the oldest surviving copy of works by the Greek genius Archimedes of Syracuse (287 – 212 BC). To uncover his obscured writings, 20 years ago we developed the synchrotron-based technique of rapid-scan X-ray fluorescence (XRF) imaging at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. Since its successful application in the Archimedes imaging project, we further optimized the method, enabling us to carry out numerous XRF imaging studies of large objects of cultural, archaeological, and paleontological importance. We will describe the X-ray sources and imaging methods and present several examples of our quest to bring to light our cultural and natural heritage with X-rays. We will conclude the lecture with our recent work on disentangling the carbon chemistry of Australian plant exudates from a unique historical collection. These extraordinary plant materials have been used for millennia for various applications and are still employed in contemporary art. To probe deep into the bulk of these materials, we employed a powerful hard X-ray technique that overcomes some of the limitations of conventional carbon X-ray spectroscopy. Please join me in a fascinating journey through our ancient history and see how powerful modern X-ray imaging methods help us to uncover it.
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Seminars for Fall 2024
Optimal Fourier analysis techniques for astronomical time series, with a side trip into interesting astronomical imaging techniques
Wednesday, October 2
3:00 - 4:00 PM
CAR-1125 (Carlson Auditorium)
Sarah Dodson-Robinson
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Delaware
With the advent of a new generation of high-performance astronomical spectrographs, the discovery of “Earth 2.0” is within reach. Yet Doppler searches for earthlike, habitable planets are plagued by parasitic signals from gas motion in stellar atmospheres and false positives produced by observing cadence and data analysis methods. Almost all Doppler planet-search teams use some variant of the periodogram to identify velocity signals caused by planets. Unfortunately, the Lomb-Scargle periodogram for unevenly spaced time series suffers from bias-causing spectral leakage and does not become less noisy as the number of observations increases. I will describe how adapting the Thomson multitaper technique to unevenly sampled, gapped astronomical time series can improve our prospects for planet detection. I will then show how magnitude-squared coherence and phase estimates allow us to diagnose the insidious false positives that come from stellar rotation and magnetism. Finally, I will illustrate two interesting astronomical imaging methods that are useful for exoplanet science - bolometry and angular differential imaging - and discuss the possible use of 2-d Slepian tapers in Fourier analysis of images.
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Past Seminar Speakers
Computational Framework for the Elastography Inverse Problem
Basca Jadamba
Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics
Associate Head, Applied and Computational Mathematics
Rochester Institute of Technology
Early detection and treatments are key components in improvements in patient survival rates in cases of soft tissue cancers such as breast cancer. In this talk, we will introduce a computational framework for a parameter identification problem involving a system of partial differential equations (PDEs) describing displacements in soft tissues under applied forces where tissue displacements are obtained from imaging systems such as ultrasound. The focus of the work is the recovery of a spatially varying parameter in the model where the underlying mathematical problem is an optimization problem where the system of PDEs serves as a constraint. We introduce an adaptive mesh refinement framework based on finite element methods where the main goal is improved computational efficiency while still providing the resolution needed for accurate recovery of the parameter.
Optimal Fourier analysis techniques for astronomical time series, with a side trip into interesting astronomical imaging techniques
Sarah Dodson-Robinson
Professor of Physics and Astronomy
University of Delaware
With the advent of a new generation of high-performance astronomical spectrographs, the discovery of “Earth 2.0” is within reach. Yet Doppler searches for earthlike, habitable planets are plagued by parasitic signals from gas motion in stellar atmospheres and false positives produced by observing cadence and data analysis methods. Almost all Doppler planet-search teams use some variant of the periodogram to identify velocity signals caused by planets. Unfortunately, the Lomb-Scargle periodogram for unevenly spaced time series suffers from bias-causing spectral leakage and does not become less noisy as the number of observations increases. I will describe how adapting the Thomson multitaper technique to unevenly sampled, gapped astronomical time series can improve our prospects for planet detection. I will then show how magnitude-squared coherence and phase estimates allow us to diagnose the insidious false positives that come from stellar rotation and magnetism. Finally, I will illustrate two interesting astronomical imaging methods that are useful for exoplanet science - bolometry and angular differential imaging - and discuss the possible use of 2-d Slepian tapers in Fourier analysis of images.
Spectral Imaging for Heritage Science: Workflows for Image Processing and Analysis
David Messinger, Professor
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
While on sabbatical at the University of Durham, UK, I worked with “Team Pigment,” a multidisciplinary collaboration between the departments of Chemistry, History, and the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (IMEMS), to build image capture, calibration, and processing workflows for multispectral and hyperspectral imaging of historical artifacts. Our camera systems include spectrally filtered multispectral imagers that are portable for use in a wide range of institutions, as well as Vis-NIR-SWIR hyperspectral imaging systems for use in the Palace Green Library at Durham. While there, we imaged over 100 artifacts, ranging from medieval manuscripts, Shakespeare’s First Folio, Persian art works, and an obscure medieval book binding, all with the goal of learning more about the content, and context, of these artifacts. The workflows will be introduced and examples of tasks such as pigment mapping, ink mapping, faded text enhancement, and underdrawing identification will be shown. Ongoing projects will also be presented.
The World Where Every Photon Counts
Speaker: Sergey Polyakov
Physicist
Quantum Measurement Division, Physics Measurement Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Photon counting opens a door into a new world. Quantum effects emerge. Beyond fundamental interest, those effects lead to unprecedented accuracy of measuring light, often surpassing capabilities of classical sensors. Quantum-enabled photonic techniques can enhance nearly every traditional application in optics: from astronomy to biology and from communications to imaging. I will talk about our recent experiments with faint light that enable practical quantum advantage by demonstrating below-the-shot-noise sensitivity and super-resolution. Let me show you a new world that connects fundamental laws of nature with everyday optical technologies.
What’s Hot with Diffractive Solar Sails
Speaker: Grover Swartzlander
Professor
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science
A series of fortunate events: from firing lasers at small cartoon trees, to a virtual Harvard Forest
Seminar Date: 01/17/24
Speaker: Jan van Aardt
Director
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science
View the seminar here (YouTube)
Examining Accuracy and Resolution Requirements for the future NASA SurfaceTopography and Vegetation Structure Observing System
Seminar Date: 01/24/24
Speaker: Dr. Craig Glennie
Lidar for Detection of Mayan Civilizations
University of Houston
Unveiling the Mystique of Bayesian Thinking: A Hands on Dive with R and Python
Seminar Date: 01/31/24
Speaker: Ernest Fokoué
Professor
School of Mathematics and Statistics
College of Science
View the seminar here (YouTube)
Digital Camera Myths, Misstatements, and Misunderstandings
Seminar Date: 02/07/24
Speaker: Wayne Prentice
Owner
Prentice Imaging Consulting Service
View the seminar here (YouTube)
Advances in measuring, modeling, and understanding the consequences of climate change on snow hydrology
Seminar Date: 02/14/24
Speaker: Dr. Anne Nolin
University of Nevada
Perception of depth in real and virtual environments: The role of experience
02/21/24
Speaker: Dr. Laurie Wilcox
Centre for Vision Research
York University
Spatially-Selective Lenses
Seminar Date: 02/21/24
Speaker: Aswin Sankaranarayanan
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon
Using X-ray Photons to Study RNA editing in Trypanosomes and Tools to ease the use of PyMOL
Seminar Date: 03/06/24
Speaker: Dr. Blaine Mooers
Health Sciences Center
University of Oklahoma
Seeing in 3D – the journey of one startup
Seminar Date: 03/20/24
Speaker: Leslie Kimerling
Co-founder and CEO
Double Helix Optics
Ultrafast-Laser Photonics, Imaging, and Sensing
Seminar Date: 04/03/24
Speaker: Jie Qiao
Associate Professor
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science
High-Quality Lensless Imaging: Experiments and Theoretical Foundations
Seminar Date: 04/10/24
Speaker: Leyla Kabuli
University of California
Communicating the Power of Earth Observation (EO) Technologies: A Picture is worth a Thousand Actions
Seminar Date: 04/17/24
Speaker: Ron Eguchi
CEO
ImageCat Inc.
Foundation Models and Their Potential Role in Future Cancer Care
Seminar Date: 04/24/24
Speaker: Ghulan Rasool
Assistant Member
Department of Machine Learning and Neuro-Oncology
Vision Science in Imaging Science: 1984-2024
Seminar Date: 8/30/23
Speaker: Jeff Pelz
Endowed Professorship in RIT's Center for Imaging Science
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science
Understanding Learning from Streaming and Difficult Data: Why it's Essential in Imaging Science
Seminar Date: 9/06/23
Speaker: Bartek Krawczyk
Assistant Professor
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science
Pushing the Edge of the Cosmic Frontier with JWST
Seminar Date: 9/20/23
Speaker: Jeyhan Karteltepe
Associate Professor
School of Physics and Astronomy
College of Science
Harnessing Remote Sensing and Imaging Spectroscopy for Scalable Solutions in Agricultural Disease Management: A Novel Framework for Risk Prediction
Seminar Date: 9/27/23
Speaker: Kaitlin Gold
Assistant Professor
Cornell University
Understanding the Robustness in Machine Learning and its Importance in Imaging Science
Seminar Date: 10/04/23
Speaker: Dimah Dera
Assistant Professor
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science
Applications of Imaging Modalities in Engineering and Sciences: A Journey through Visible-range Color, Thermal, and Hyperspectral Imaging Projects
Seminar Date: 11/01/23
Speaker: Ruby Mehrubeoglu
Ph.D., Department of Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Technology Programs
University of Texas
Green Color Science
Seminar Date: 11/01/23
Speaker: Erik Reinhard
Ph.D., Distinguished Scientist at InterDigital, Inc.
Applications of Computer Generated Holograms for measuring optical surfaces and systems
Seminar Date: 11/29/23
Speaker: Dr. Jim Burge
University of Arizona
The current and evolving state of head-mounted eye tracking using frame and event-based sensors
Seminar Date: 12/06/23
View the seminar here (YouTube)
Speaker: Gabriel J. Diaz
Associate Professor
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
College of Science