Dual energy computed tomography (DECT) imaging plays an important role in advanced imaging applications due to its material decomposition capability. Image-domain decomposition operates directly on CT images using linear matrix inversion, but the decomposed material images can be severely degraded by noise and artifact…
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Framework automates microstructure image analysis for materials science.
problem Complex microstructures in materials require automated analysis.
method Combines unsupervised and supervised learning for classification and segmentation.
result Framework can automatically segment and classify micrographs.
One of the grand challenges of deep learning is the requirement to obtain large labeled training data sets. While synthesized data sets can be used to overcome this challenge, it is important that these data sets close the reality gap, i.e., a model trained on synthetic image data is able to generalize to real images. …
Estimating physical properties from liquid crystal textures via machine learning and complexity-entropy methodsphysics.data-an
Imaging techniques are essential tools for inquiring a number of properties from different materials. Liquid crystals are often investigated via optical and image processing methods. In spite of that, considerably less attention has been paid to the problem of extracting physical properties of liquid crystals directly …
Efficient deep learning on exascale supercomputers solves materials imaging inverse problems.
problem Solving scientific inverse problems in materials imaging using deep learning.
method Novel communication strategies in synchronous distributed deep learning, including decentralized gradient reduction and computational graph-aware grouping.
result Achieved near-linear scaling of distributed training up to 27,600 GPUs on Summit, reaching 2.15(4) EFLOPS.
Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are ushering in a new age of automation, as machines match or outperform human performance. Machine intelligence can enable businesses to improve performance by reducing errors, improving sensitivity, quality and speed, and in some cases achieving outc…
Deep learning improves material recognition in construction monitoring.
problem Varying illuminations and low accuracy rates in material classification.
method Deep learning methods, including convolutional neural networks, were used to classify and recognize materials in construction sites.
result Achieved 97.35% accuracy rate for material classification.
A key problem in computational material science deals with understanding the effect of material distribution (i.e., microstructure) on material performance. The challenge is to synthesize microstructures, given a finite number of microstructure images, and/or some physical invariances that the microstructure exhibits. …
We present a learning-based system for rapid mass-scale material synthesis that is useful for novice and expert users alike. The user preferences are learned via Gaussian Process Regression and can be easily sampled for new recommendations. Typically, each recommendation takes 40-60 seconds to render with global illumi…
A Conditional Generative Model for Predicting Material Microstructures from Processing Methodseess.IV
Deep learning model predicts material microstructures from processing methods.
problem Linking processing conditions to material properties for material design.
method Conditional image synthesis using Wasserstein GAN with gradient penalty.
result Deep learning model synthesizes high-quality microstructures for given cooling methods.
Paper proposes PCA-GMM for efficient superresolution of material images.
problem Efficiently handling large and high-dimensional data sets.
method PCA-GMM combining Gaussian Mixture Model and PCA for dimensionality reduction.
result PCA-GMM improves superresolution of material images with moderate dimensionality reduction.
Hyperspectral Unmixing Overview: Geometrical, Statistical, and Sparse Regression-Based Approachesphysics.data-an
Imaging spectrometers measure electromagnetic energy scattered in their instantaneous field view in hundreds or thousands of spectral channels with higher spectral resolution than multispectral cameras. Imaging spectrometers are therefore often referred to as hyperspectral cameras (HSCs). Higher spectral resolution ena…
Deep learning surrogate interacting Markov chain Monte Carlo based full wave inversion scheme for properties of materials quantificationcond-mat.mtrl-sci
Deep learning speeds up material property quantification using stress waves.
problem Quantifying material properties from stress waves in complex media.
method Surrogate deep learning FWI scheme trained on random sampled properties and local minima.
result Demonstrates feasibility of deep learning for high-accuracy material property estimation.
Generative model calibrates 3D battery cathode morphologies from 2D images.
problem Calibrate 3D morphologies of all-solid-state battery cathodes from 2D microscopy images.
method Combining GANs with excursion sets of Gaussian random fields.
result Calibrated digital twins enable systematic exploration of morphological scenarios.
Stochastic image reconstruction is a key part of modern digital rock physics and materials analysis that aims to create numerous representative samples of material micro-structures for upscaling, numerical computation of effective properties and uncertainty quantification. We present a method of three-dimensional stoch…
Bayesian neural networks predict stress fields and uncertainty in materials.
problem Uncertainty in stress field predictions for complex materials.
method Modified Bayesian U-net architecture with three inference algorithms.
result High accuracy predictions and interpretable uncertainty estimates.
Deep Learning has been shown to learn efficient representations for structured data such as image, text or audio. In this chapter, we present neural network architectures that are able to learn efficient representations of molecules and materials. In particular, the continuous-filter convolutional network SchNet accura…
Compressed Sensing of Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) on Non-Rectangular Scansphysics.ins-det
Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) has become the main stay for materials characterization on atomic level, with applications ranging from visualization of localized and extended defects to mapping order parameter fields. In the last several years, attention was attracted by potential of STEM to explore b…
Cost-effective search for lower-error region in material parameter space using multifidelity Gaussian process modelingcond-mat.mtrl-sci
Efficiently estimates material parameter space with multifidelity Gaussian process modeling.
problem Estimating a region of material parameter space with similar precipitate shapes.
method Multifidelity Gaussian process modeling to reduce computational cost.
result Significant reduction in sampling cost for accurate LER estimation.
We explore visual representations of tilings corresponding to Schläfli symbols. In three dimensions, we call these tilings "honeycombs". Schläfli symbols encode, in a very efficient way, regular tilings of spherical, euclidean and hyperbolic spaces in all dimensions. In three dimensions, there are only a finite number …
Automates hair color digitization using imaging and deep learning.
problem Challenges in capturing and rendering realistic hair colors.
method Combines imaging, path-tracing, and self-supervised machine learning.
result Accurately captures and renders hair color with synthetic images.
RADAR uses diffusion models to detect anomalies without reconstruction, improving accuracy and efficiency.
problem Challenges in anomaly detection and segmentation, especially in real-time applications.
method RADAR uses attention-based diffusion models to directly produce anomaly maps from the diffusion process, bypassing reconstruction.
result RADAR improves F1 score by 7% on MVTec-AD and 13% on 3D-printed material compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Localizing targets of interest in a given hyperspectral (HS) image has applications ranging from remote sensing to surveillance. This task of target detection leverages the fact that each material/object possesses its own characteristic spectral response, depending upon its composition. As of diff…
Analyzes properties of stiffness tensors for elastic wave imaging.
problem Characterizing stiffness tensor fields for elastic wave imaging.
method Finsler-geometric methods applied to anisotropic stiffness tensor fields.
result Conditions for Finsler-geometric methods to be applicable.
Unified framework for non-uniform materials evolving over time.
problem Dealing with non-uniform materials evolving over time.
method Constructing a material groupoid and material distribution.
result Unified framework for general non-uniform evolution materials.
Elasticity images map biomechanical properties of soft tissues to aid in the detection and diagnosis of pathological states. In particular, quasi-static ultrasonic (US) elastography techniques use force-displacement measurements acquired during an US scan to parameterize the spatio-temporal stress-strain behavior. Curr…
A Dictionary-Based Generalization of Robust PCA Part II: Applications to Hyperspectral Demixingcs.CV
We consider the task of localizing targets of interest in a hyperspectral (HS) image based on their spectral signature(s), by posing the problem as two distinct convex demixing task(s). With applications ranging from remote sensing to surveillance, this task of target detection leverages the fact that each material/obj…
Data-driven topology design using a deep generative modelphysics.comp-ph
Paper proposes a new method for designing materials using deep learning.
problem Designing high-performance material distributions from given distributions.
method Iterative process of selecting, generating, and merging material distributions using a deep generative model.
result The method improves material performance through iterative refinement.
Novel data acquisition schemes have been an emerging need for scanning microscopy based imaging techniques to reduce the time in data acquisition and to minimize probing radiation in sample exposure. Varies sparse sampling schemes have been studied and are ideally suited for such applications where the images can be re…
Blind source separation is a common processing tool to analyse the constitution of pixels of hyperspectral images. Such methods usually suppose that pure pixel spectra (endmembers) are the same in all the image for each class of materials. In the framework of remote sensing, such an assumption is no more valid in the p…
MAGIC generates image collages from set templates using attention and set representations.
problem Generating image collages from set templates is challenging for classical models.
method Memory Attentive Generation of Image Collages (MAGIC) using Set-Transformer layers and set-pooling.
result MAGIC can generate image collages from set templates in one forward pass.
MatGAN uses GAN to efficiently generate new inorganic materials.
problem Efficiently searching the vast chemical design space for new materials.
method Generative adversarial network (GAN) trained on ICSD materials database.
result 92.53% novelty and 84.5% chemically valid samples generated.
Deep Image Priorcs.CV
Deep convolutional networks have become a popular tool for image generation and restoration. Generally, their excellent performance is imputed to their ability to learn realistic image priors from a large number of example images. In this paper, we show that, on the contrary, the structure of a generator network is suf…
A groupoid called material groupoid is naturally associated to any simple body . The material distribution is introduced due to the (possible) lack of differentiability of the material groupoid. Thus, the inclusion of these new objects in the theory of material bodies opens th…
In this paper we address the problem of artist style transfer where the painting style of a given artist is applied on a real world photograph. We train our neural networks in adversarial setting via recently introduced quadratic potential divergence for stable learning process. To further improve the quality of genera…
Classification methods based on sparse estimation have drawn much attention recently, due to their effectiveness in processing high-dimensional data such as images. In this paper, a method to improve the performance of a sparse representation classification (SRC) approach is proposed; it is then applied to the problem …
Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) of local atomic diffraction patterns is emerging as a powerful technique for probing intricate details of atomic structure and atomic electric fields. However, efficient processing and interpretation of large volumes of data remain challenging, especi…
Lie groupoids and algebroids applied to the study of uniformity and homogeneity of material bodiesmath.DG
A Lie groupoid, called \textit{material Lie groupoid}, is associated in a natural way to any elastic material. The corresponding Lie algebroid, called \textit{material algebroid}, is used to characterize the uniformity and the homogeneity properties of the material. The relation to previous results in terms of stru…
Microstructure Representation and Reconstruction of Heterogeneous Materials via Deep Belief Network for Computational Material Designcond-mat.mtrl-sci
Integrated Computational Materials Engineering (ICME) aims to accelerate optimal design of complex material systems by integrating material science and design automation. For tractable ICME, it is required that (1) a structural feature space be identified to allow reconstruction of new designs, and (2) the reconstructi…
Recognizing an object's material can inform a robot on the object's fragility or appropriate use. To estimate an object's material during manipulation, many prior works have explored the use of haptic sensing. In this paper, we explore a technique for robots to estimate the materials of objects using spectroscopy. We d…
This paper presents a proof-of-concept demonstration of triaxial strain tomography from Bragg-edge neutron imaging within a three-dimensional sample. Bragg-edge neutron transmission can provide high-resolution images of the average through thickness strain within a polycrystalline material. This poses an associated ric…
This paper addresses the problem of blind and fully constrained unmixing of hyperspectral images. Unmixing is performed without the use of any dictionary, and assumes that the number of constituent materials in the scene and their spectral signatures are unknown. The estimated abundances satisfy the desired sum-to-one …
New algorithm improves materials discovery using max K-Armed Bandit.
problem Maximizing material breakthroughs in materials discovery.
method Proposed a search algorithm based on max K-Armed Bandit (MKB) for materials discovery.
result Stable performance in late search stages, outperforming other bandit algorithms.
Serial crystallography is the field of science that studies the structure and properties of crystals via diffraction patterns. In this paper, we introduce a new serial crystallography dataset comprised of real and synthetic images; the synthetic images are generated through the use of a simulator that is both scalable …
New method integrates latent variables for Bayesian Optimization of materials with both qualitative and quantitative factors.
problem Bayesian Optimization for materials design with mixed qualitative and quantitative variables.
method Integrates latent variables for mixed-variable Gaussian process modeling within the Bayesian Optimization framework.
result LVGP provides superior modeling accuracy compared to existing methods for mixed-variable problems.
The paper introduces new uniformity and homogeneity concepts for Cosserat media.
problem Characterizing uniformity and homogeneity in Cosserat media.
method Using groupoids and smooth distributions, the authors derive three canonical equations to characterize uniformity and homogeneity.
result The paper provides a unique and maximal division of Cosserat media into uniform and second-grade parts.
FlowLLM: Flow Matching for Material Generation with Large Language Models as Base Distributionscs.LG
FlowLLM uses LLMs and flow matching to efficiently generate novel materials.
problem Challenging material discovery due to vast chemical space.
method Combines LLMs and Riemannian flow matching to design novel crystalline materials.
result Significantly increases generation rate of stable materials and unique crystals.
Fast and efficient homology algorithms are in demand in the applied sciences for analyzing solid materials and proteins, processing digital imaging data, or pattern classification among others. Recent advances employ discrete Morse theory as a preprocessor. Research in this area has lead to the need to find complicated…