The present paper describes the basic principles of acoustic emission (AE) tomography. This method uses acoustic emission events as point sources and combines the usual iterative localization algorithm of AE testing with algorithms for travel time tomography like ART (algebraic reconstruction technique). The procedure is equivalent to the solution of the generalized inverse localization problem...

The hyperspectral imaging technique described in [12] leads to the interesting problem of reconstructing a three-dimensional data cube from measured data. This problem involves three separate steps in which we must estimate values of a function from values of its Fourier transform. Depending on which of the two functions involved at each step has bounded support, that is, is zero off of a bound...

In this paper, an iterative super-resolution reconstruction method is introduced for license plate recognition. A high-resolution image of the license plate is reconstructed by fusing the information derived from a set of subpixel shifted low-resolution images. The reconstruction problem is formulated as a system of linear equations that is solved by using the simultaneous algebraic reconstruct...

The nondestructive testing (NDT) of long object (such as pipeline) has significant value. Computed tomography (CT) is able to generate 3D images and display the inner defects of the inspected object. Sometimes the long object fixed outdoors can’t be rotated, and the rotating of the X-ray source and detector is also difficult. So the linear scan CT, translating the X-ray source and detector alon...

Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is used to obtain information about the distribution of a mixture of dielectric materials inside a vessel or pipe. ECT has several advantages over other reconstruction algorithms and has found many applications in the industrial fields. However, there are some difficulties with image reconstruction in ECT: The relationship between the permittivity distrib...

For characterization and activity distribution of radioisotopes in nuclear waste, Active and Passive Computed Tomography (A&PCT) method can be employed. During the Active CT measurements, an external gamma/X-ray source is used to determine the attenuation map of the object. With this knowledge of the attenuation map, the Passive CT measurements are then carried out to reconstruct the activity o...

Algebraic methods for image reconstruction provide good solutions even if only few projections are available. However, they can create noisy images if the number of iterations or the computational time is limited. In this paper, we show how to decrease the effect of noise by using median filters during the iterations. We present an extensive study by applying filters of different sizes and in v...