Learning-based Correlation Analysis Between Laser Speckle and Surface Size Distribution

Extracting quantitative information about highly scattering surfaces from an imaging system is challenging because the phase of the scattered light undergoes multiple folds upon propagation, resulting in complex speckle patterns. One specific application is the drying of wet powders in the pharmaceu...

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Main Author: Zhang, Qihang
Other Authors: Barbastathis, George
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150316
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description Extracting quantitative information about highly scattering surfaces from an imaging system is challenging because the phase of the scattered light undergoes multiple folds upon propagation, resulting in complex speckle patterns. One specific application is the drying of wet powders in the pharmaceutical industry, where quantifying the particle size distribution (PSD) is of particular interest. A non-invasive and real-time monitoring probe in the drying process is required, but there is no suitable candidate for this purpose. In this thesis, we develop a theoretical relationship from the PSD to the speckle image and describe a physics-enhanced autocorrelation-based estimator (PEACE) machine learning algorithm for speckle analysis to measure the PSD of a powder surface. This method solves both the forward and inverse problems together and enjoys increased interpretability, since the machine learning approximator is regularized by the physical law. Moreover, we utilized an engineered intensity pupil to boost the sidelobe intensity more than 30 times and proposed a learning-based model to estimate the particle sizes from a single snapshot. It reduces the data collection time from 15 sec to 0.25 sec, broadening its application to many manufacturing industries which require a real-time refresh rate.
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spelling mit-1721.1/1503162023-04-01T03:59:37Z Learning-based Correlation Analysis Between Laser Speckle and Surface Size Distribution Zhang, Qihang Barbastathis, George Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Extracting quantitative information about highly scattering surfaces from an imaging system is challenging because the phase of the scattered light undergoes multiple folds upon propagation, resulting in complex speckle patterns. One specific application is the drying of wet powders in the pharmaceutical industry, where quantifying the particle size distribution (PSD) is of particular interest. A non-invasive and real-time monitoring probe in the drying process is required, but there is no suitable candidate for this purpose. In this thesis, we develop a theoretical relationship from the PSD to the speckle image and describe a physics-enhanced autocorrelation-based estimator (PEACE) machine learning algorithm for speckle analysis to measure the PSD of a powder surface. This method solves both the forward and inverse problems together and enjoys increased interpretability, since the machine learning approximator is regularized by the physical law. Moreover, we utilized an engineered intensity pupil to boost the sidelobe intensity more than 30 times and proposed a learning-based model to estimate the particle sizes from a single snapshot. It reduces the data collection time from 15 sec to 0.25 sec, broadening its application to many manufacturing industries which require a real-time refresh rate. Ph.D. 2023-03-31T14:47:15Z 2023-03-31T14:47:15Z 2023-02 2023-02-28T14:39:31.797Z Thesis https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/150316 0000-0001-5018-8310 In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted Copyright MIT http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-EDU/1.0/ application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Learning-based Correlation Analysis Between Laser Speckle and Surface Size Distribution
title Learning-based Correlation Analysis Between Laser Speckle and Surface Size Distribution
title_full Learning-based Correlation Analysis Between Laser Speckle and Surface Size Distribution
title_fullStr Learning-based Correlation Analysis Between Laser Speckle and Surface Size Distribution
title_full_unstemmed Learning-based Correlation Analysis Between Laser Speckle and Surface Size Distribution
title_short Learning-based Correlation Analysis Between Laser Speckle and Surface Size Distribution
title_sort learning based correlation analysis between laser speckle and surface size distribution
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