Spatial-Spectral Representation for X-Ray Fluorescence Image Super-Resolution. Dai, Q., Pouyet, E., Cossairt, O., Walton, M., & Katsaggelos, A. K. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 3(3):432–444, sep, 2017.
Spatial-Spectral Representation for X-Ray Fluorescence Image Super-Resolution [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) scanning of works of art is becoming an increasing popular non-destructive analytical method. The high quality XRF spectra is necessary to obtain significant information on both major and minor elements used for characterization and provenance analysis. However, there is a trade-off between the spatial resolution of an XRF scan and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of each pixel's spectrum, due to the limited scanning time. In this project, we propose an XRF image super-resolution method to address this trade-off, thus obtaining a high spatial resolution XRF scan with high SNR. We fuse a low resolution XRF image and a conventional RGB highresolution image into a product of both high spatial and high spectral resolution XRF image. There is no guarantee of a one to one mapping between XRF spectrum and RGB color since, for instance, paintings with hidden layers cannot be detected in visible but can in X-ray wavelengths. We separate the XRF image into the visible and non-visible components. The spatial resolution of the visible component is increased utilizing the high-resolution RGB image while the spatial resolution of the non-visible component is increased using a total variation superresolution method. Finally, the visible and non-visible components are combined to obtain the final result.
@article{Qiqin2017,
abstract = {X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) scanning of works of art is becoming an increasing popular non-destructive analytical method. The high quality XRF spectra is necessary to obtain significant information on both major and minor elements used for characterization and provenance analysis. However, there is a trade-off between the spatial resolution of an XRF scan and the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of each pixel's spectrum, due to the limited scanning time. In this project, we propose an XRF image super-resolution method to address this trade-off, thus obtaining a high spatial resolution XRF scan with high SNR. We fuse a low resolution XRF image and a conventional RGB highresolution image into a product of both high spatial and high spectral resolution XRF image. There is no guarantee of a one to one mapping between XRF spectrum and RGB color since, for instance, paintings with hidden layers cannot be detected in visible but can in X-ray wavelengths. We separate the XRF image into the visible and non-visible components. The spatial resolution of the visible component is increased utilizing the high-resolution RGB image while the spatial resolution of the non-visible component is increased using a total variation superresolution method. Finally, the visible and non-visible components are combined to obtain the final result.},
author = {Dai, Qiqin and Pouyet, Emeline and Cossairt, Oliver and Walton, Marc and Katsaggelos, Aggelos K.},
doi = {10.1109/TCI.2017.2703987},
issn = {2333-9403},
journal = {IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging},
month = {sep},
number = {3},
pages = {432--444},
title = {{Spatial-Spectral Representation for X-Ray Fluorescence Image Super-Resolution}},
url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7927468/},
volume = {3},
year = {2017}
}

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