A non-destructive, autoencoder-based approach to detecting defects and contamination in reusable food packaging.

Today, environmental sustainability is one of the most critical issue. Hence, the food service industry is actively seeking ways to minimize its ecological footprint. One solution to address this issue is the adoption of reusable foodware in the food service industry.

Depth Completion and Super-Resolution with Arbitrary Scale Factors for Indoor Scenes.

Depth sensing has improved rapidly in recent years, which allows for structural information to be utilized in various applications, such as virtual reality, scene and object recognition, view synthesis, and 3D reconstruction. Due to the limitations of the current generation of depth sensors, the resolution of depth maps is often still much lower than the resolution of color images. This hinders applications, such as view synthesis or 3D reconstruction, from providing high-quality results.

Local polymer replacement for neuron patterning and in situ neurite guidance.

By locally dispensing poly-L-lysine (PLL) molecules with a FluidFM onto a protein and cell resistant poly-L-lysine-graft-polyethylene glycol (PLL-g-PEG) coated substrate, the antifouling layer can be replaced under the tip aperture by the cell adhesive PLL. We used this approach for guiding the adhesion and axonal outgrowth of embryonic hippocampal neurons in situ. Cultures of hippocampal neurons were chosen because they mostly contain pyramidal neurons.

Exchangeable colloidal AFM probes for the quantification of irreversible and long-term interactions.

An original method is presented to study single-colloid interaction with a substrate in liquid environment. Colloids, either in solution or adsorbed on a surface, are fixed by suction against the aperture of a microchanneled atomic force microscopy cantilever. Their adhesion to the substrate is measured, followed by their release via a short overpressure surge.