Publications by authors named "Jean-Francois Lalonde"

This paper describes three datasets which include 443 folders and approximately 4430 images. The images were obtained from the interior of a 1:50 scale model using a fisheye camera connected to a Raspberry Pi microcomputer. This dataset aims to analyze the photobiological effects (visual and non-visual) of the interplay between coloured surfaces and different types of lighting strategies.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

This paper details an imagery dataset of interior and exterior ambiances to assess and represent photobiological outcomes of the built environment in northern territories. The images were obtained using a Raspberry Pi Camera Module (RPiCM) mounted in a holder that fixes the camera in place. This holder allows to rotate the camera by 30° and take 12 high dynamic range (HDR) images which are then combined to create a panoramic image.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Image editing and compositing have become ubiquitous in entertainment, from digital art to AR and VR experiences. To produce beautiful composites, the camera needs to be geometrically calibrated, which can be tedious and requires a physical calibration target. In place of the traditional multi-image calibration process, we propose to infer the camera calibration parameters such as pitch, roll, field of view, and lens distortion directly from a single image using a deep convolutional neural network.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Background: The route into the body for many pathogens is through the eyes, nose and mouth (i.e., the 'T-zone') via inhalation or fomite-based transfer during face touching.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Article Synopsis
  • Plankton imaging systems with automated classification have enhanced the study of aquatic ecosystems by enabling detailed tracking of plankton populations.
  • These systems capture high-resolution imaging data, offering insights not only into species abundance but also into functional traits of individual plankton.
  • The text suggests using machine learning and computer vision techniques to analyze this imaging data, proposing that these methods could be applied to other organisms in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF

This paper describes eight imagery datasets including around 12000 images grouped in 1220 sets. The images were captured inside an architectural model aimed at exploring the impact of shading panels on photobiological lighting parameters. The architectural model represents a generic space at 1:10 scale with a single side fully glazing façade used to install shading panels.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Lens design extrapolation (LDE) is a data-driven approach to optical design that aims to generate new optical systems inspired by reference designs. Here, we build on a deep learning-enabled LDE framework with the aim of generating a significant variety of microscope objective lenses (MOLs) that are similar in structure to the reference MOLs, but with varied sequences-defined as a particular arrangement of glass elements, air gaps, and aperture stop placement. We first formulate LDE as a one-to-many problem-specifically, generating varied lenses for any set of specifications and lens sequence.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

We present a simple, highly modular deep neural network (DNN) framework to address the problem of automatically inferring lens design starting points tailored to the desired specifications. In contrast to previous work, our model can handle various and complex lens structures suitable for real-world problems such as Cooke Triplets or Double Gauss lenses. Our successfully trained dynamic model can infer lens designs with realistic glass materials whose optical performance compares favorably to reference designs from the literature on 80 different lens structures.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Photometric Stereo (PS) under outdoor illumination remains a challenging, ill-posed problem due to insufficient variability in illumination. Months-long capture sessions are typically used in this setup, with little success on shorter, single-day time intervals. In this paper, we investigate the solution of outdoor PS over a single day, under different weather conditions.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

We propose for the first time a deep learning approach in assisting lens designers to find a lens design starting point. Using machine learning, lens design databases can be expanded in a continuous way to produce high-quality starting points from various optical specifications. A deep neural network (DNN) is trained to reproduce known forms of design (supervised training) and to jointly optimize the optical performance (unsupervised training) for generalization.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF
Deep 6-DOF Tracking.

IEEE Trans Vis Comput Graph

November 2017

We present a temporal 6-DOF tracking method which leverages deep learning to achieve state-of-the-art performance on challenging datasets of real world capture. Our method is both more accurate and more robust to occlusions than the existing best performing approaches while maintaining real-time performance. To assess its efficacy, we evaluate our approach on several challenging RGBD sequences of real objects in a variety of conditions.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

We have developed a simple system for tagging and purifying proteins. Recent experiments have demonstrated that RTX (Repeat in Toxin) motifs from the adenylate cyclase toxin gene (CyaA) of B. pertussis undergo a conformational change upon binding calcium, resulting in precipitation of fused proteins and making this method a viable alternative for bioseparation.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF