The explosively increasing digital photo urges for an efficient image retrieval system so that digital images can be organized, shared, and reused. Current content based image retrieval (CBIR) systems face multiple challenges in all aspects: image...
A unifying theme of this thesis is the implementation and characterization of point probes for surface metrology. The implementations include two optical non-contact profiling methods; fiber-based Fabry-Perot interferometry, and confocal microscop...
The optical pitch polishing process has been used over 300 years to obtain high quality optical surface finish with little subsurface damage. A pitch tool consists of a metal platen coated with a layer of polishing pitch whereby pitch is a highly ...
To leverage large-scale collaboratively-tagged (loosely-tagged) images for training a large number of classifiers to support large-scale image classification, we need to develop new frameworks to deal with the following issues: (1) spam tags, i.e....
