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Clifford Algebra-Based Iterated Extended Kalman Filter with Application to Low-Cost INS/GNSS Navigation

Nov 15, 2023
Wei Ouyang, Yutian Wang, Yuanxin Wu

The traditional GNSS-aided inertial navigation system (INS) usually exploits the extended Kalman filter (EKF) for state estimation, and the initial attitude accuracy is key to the filtering performance. To spare the reliance on the initial attitude, this work generalizes the previously proposed trident quaternion within the framework of Clifford algebra to represent the extended pose, IMU biases and lever arms on the Lie group. Consequently, a quasi-group-affine system is established for the low-cost INS/GNSS integrated navigation system, and the right-error Clifford algebra-based EKF (Clifford-RQEKF) is accordingly developed. The iterated filtering approach is further applied to significantly improve the performances of the Clifford-RQEKF and the previously proposed trident quaternion-based EKFs. Numerical simulations and experiments show that all iterated filtering approaches fulfill the fast and global convergence without the prior attitude information, whereas the iterated Clifford-RQEKF performs much better than the others under especially large IMU biases.

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BioImage.IO Chatbot: A Personalized Assistant for BioImage Analysis Augmented by Community Knowledge Base

Oct 31, 2023
Wanlu Lei, Caterina Fuster-Barceló, Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia, Wei Ouyang

The rapidly expanding landscape of bioimage analysis tools presents a navigational challenge for both experts and newcomers. Traditional search methods often fall short in assisting users in this complex environment. To address this, we introduce the BioImage$.$IO Chatbot, an AI-driven conversational assistant tailored for the bioimage community. Built upon large language models, this chatbot provides personalized, context-aware answers by aggregating and interpreting information from diverse databases, tool-specific documentation, and structured data sources. Enhanced by a community-contributed knowledge base and fine-tuned retrieval methods, the BioImage$.$IO Chatbot offers not just a personalized interaction but also a knowledge-enriched, context-aware experience. It fundamentally transforms the way biologists, bioimage analysts, and developers navigate and utilize advanced bioimage analysis tools, setting a new standard for community-driven, accessible scientific research.

* 6 pages, 1 figure 
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JDLL: A library to run Deep Learning models on Java bioimage informatics platforms

Jun 07, 2023
Carlos Garcia Lopez de Haro, Stephane Dallongeville, Thomas Musset, Estibaliz Gomez de Mariscal, Daniel Sage, Wei Ouyang, Arrate Munoz-Barrutia, Jean-Yves Tinevez, Jean-Christophe Olivo-Marin

We present JDLL, an agile Java library that offers a comprehensive toolset/API to unify the development of high-end applications of DL for bioimage analysis and to streamline their installation and maintenance. JDLL provides all the functions required to consume DL models seamlessly, without being burdened by the configuration of the Python-based DL frameworks, within Java bioimage informatics platforms. Moreover, it allows the deployment of pre-trained models in the Bioimage Model Zoo (BMZ) by shipping the logic to connect to the BMZ website, download and run a selected model inference.

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Roadmap on Deep Learning for Microscopy

Mar 07, 2023
Giovanni Volpe, Carolina Wählby, Lei Tian, Michael Hecht, Artur Yakimovich, Kristina Monakhova, Laura Waller, Ivo F. Sbalzarini, Christopher A. Metzler, Mingyang Xie, Kevin Zhang, Isaac C. D. Lenton, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Daniel Brunner, Bijie Bai, Aydogan Ozcan, Daniel Midtvedt, Hao Wang, Nataša Sladoje, Joakim Lindblad, Jason T. Smith, Marien Ochoa, Margarida Barroso, Xavier Intes, Tong Qiu, Li-Yu Yu, Sixian You, Yongtao Liu, Maxim A. Ziatdinov, Sergei V. Kalinin, Arlo Sheridan, Uri Manor, Elias Nehme, Ofri Goldenberg, Yoav Shechtman, Henrik K. Moberg, Christoph Langhammer, Barbora Špačková, Saga Helgadottir, Benjamin Midtvedt, Aykut Argun, Tobias Thalheim, Frank Cichos, Stefano Bo, Lars Hubatsch, Jesus Pineda, Carlo Manzo, Harshith Bachimanchi, Erik Selander, Antoni Homs-Corbera, Martin Fränzl, Kevin de Haan, Yair Rivenson, Zofia Korczak, Caroline Beck Adiels, Mite Mijalkov, Dániel Veréb, Yu-Wei Chang, Joana B. Pereira, Damian Matuszewski, Gustaf Kylberg, Ida-Maria Sintorn, Juan C. Caicedo, Beth A Cimini, Muyinatu A. Lediju Bell, Bruno M. Saraiva, Guillaume Jacquemet, Ricardo Henriques, Wei Ouyang, Trang Le, Estibaliz Gómez-de-Mariscal, Daniel Sage, Arrate Muñoz-Barrutia, Ebba Josefson Lindqvist, Johanna Bergman

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Through digital imaging, microscopy has evolved from primarily being a means for visual observation of life at the micro- and nano-scale, to a quantitative tool with ever-increasing resolution and throughput. Artificial intelligence, deep neural networks, and machine learning are all niche terms describing computational methods that have gained a pivotal role in microscopy-based research over the past decade. This Roadmap is written collectively by prominent researchers and encompasses selected aspects of how machine learning is applied to microscopy image data, with the aim of gaining scientific knowledge by improved image quality, automated detection, segmentation, classification and tracking of objects, and efficient merging of information from multiple imaging modalities. We aim to give the reader an overview of the key developments and an understanding of possibilities and limitations of machine learning for microscopy. It will be of interest to a wide cross-disciplinary audience in the physical sciences and life sciences.

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A Trident Quaternion Framework for Inertial-based Navigation Part II: Error Models and Application to Initial Alignment

Feb 24, 2021
Wei Ouyang, Yuanxin Wu

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This work deals with error models for trident quaternion framework proposed in the companion paper "A Trident Quaternion Framework for Inertial-based Navigation Part I: Motion Representation and Computation" and further uses them to investigate the static and in-motion alignment for land vehicles. Specifically, the zero-velocity and odometer velocity measurements are applied in the static and in-motion alignment process, respectively. By linearizing the trident quaternion kinematic equation, the right and left trident quaternion error models are obtained. The resultant models are found to be equivalent to those derived from profound group affine. Then the two models are used to design the corresponding extended Kalman filters (EKF), namely, the left-quaternion EKF (LQEKF) and the right-quaternion EKF (RQEKF). Simulations and field tests are conducted to evaluate their actual performances. For the static alignment, owing to their high consistency, the L/RQEKF converge much faster than the EKF even without any heading information. For the in-motion alignment, however, the two filters still need the assistance of the analytical/optimization-based in-motion alignment methods at the very start to avoid extremely large attitude errors, although they possess much larger convergence region than the traditional EKF does.

* 15 pages, 14 figures 
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A Trident Quaternion Framework for Inertial-based Navigation Part I: Rigid Motion Representation and Computation

Feb 24, 2021
Wei Ouyang, Yuanxin Wu

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Strapdown inertial navigation research involves the parameterization and computation of the attitude, velocity and position of a rigid body in a chosen reference frame. The community has long devoted to finding the most concise and efficient representation for the strapdown inertial navigation system (INS). The current work is motivated by simplifying the existing dual quaternion representation of the kinematic model. This paper proposes a compact and elegant representation of the body's attitude, velocity and position, with the aid of a devised trident quaternion tool in which the position is accounted for by adding a second imaginary part to the dual quaternion. Eventually, the kinematics of strapdown INS are cohesively unified in one concise differential equation, which bears the same form as the classical attitude quaternion equation. In addition, the computation of this trident quaternion-based kinematic equation is implemented with the recently proposed functional iterative integration approach. Numerical results verify the analysis and show that incorporating the new representation into the functional iterative integration scheme achieves high inertial navigation computation accuracy as well.

* 10 pages, 5 figures 
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INS/Odometer Land Navigation by Accurate Measurement Modeling and Multiple-Model Adaptive Estimation

Jul 21, 2020
Wei Ouyang, Yuanxin Wu, Hongyue Chen

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Land vehicle navigation based on inertial navigation system (INS) and odometers is a classical autonomous navigation application and has been extensively studied over the past several decades. In this work, we seriously analyze the error characteristics of the odometer (OD) pulses and investigate three types of odometer measurement models in the INS/OD integrated system. Specifically, in the pulse velocity model, a preliminary Kalman filter is designed to obtain accurate vehicle velocity from the accumulated pulses; the pulse increment model is accordingly obtained by integrating the pulse velocity; a new pulse accumulation model is proposed by augmenting the travelled distance into the system state. The three types of measurements, along with the nonhonolomic constraint (NHC), are implemented in the standard extended Kalman filter. In view of the motion-related pulse error characteristics, the multiple model adaptive estimation (MMAE) approach is exploited to further enhance the performance. Simulations and long-distance experiments are conducted to verify the feasibility and effectiveness of the proposed methods. It is shown that the standard pulse velocity measurement achieves the superior performance, whereas the accumulated pulse measurement is most favorable with the MMAE enhancement.

* 16 pages 
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ImJoy: an open-source computational platform for the deep learning era

May 30, 2019
Wei Ouyang, Florian Mueller, Martin Hjelmare, Emma Lundberg, Christophe Zimmer

Deep learning methods have shown extraordinary potential for analyzing very diverse biomedical data, but their dissemination beyond developers is hindered by important computational hurdles. We introduce ImJoy (https://imjoy.io/), a flexible and open-source browser-based platform designed to facilitate widespread reuse of deep learning solutions in biomedical research. We highlight ImJoy's main features and illustrate its functionalities with deep learning plugins for mobile and interactive image analysis and genomics.

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