Multimodal image and spectral feature learning for efficient analysis of water-suspended particles
Takahashi, Tomoko; Liu, Zonghua; Thevar, Thangavel; Burns, Nicholas; Lindsay, Dhugal; Watson, John; Mahajan, Sumeet; Yukioka, Satoru; Tanaka, Shuhei; Nagai, Yukiko; Thornton, Blair. 2023 Multimodal image and spectral feature learning for efficient analysis of water-suspended particles. Optics Express, 31 (5). 7492. 10.1364/OE.470878
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Abstract/Summary
We have developed a method to combine morphological and chemical information for the accurate identification of different particle types using optical measurement techniques that require no sample preparation. A combined holographic imaging and Raman spectroscopy setup is used to gather data from six different types of marine particles suspended in a large volume of seawater. Unsupervised feature learning is performed on the images and the spectral data using convolutional and single-layer autoencoders. The learned features are combined, where we demonstrate that non-linear dimensional reduction of the combined multimodal features can achieve a high clustering macro F1 score of 0.88, compared to a maximum of 0.61 when only image or spectral features are used. The method can be applied to long-term monitoring of particles in the ocean without the need for sample collection. In addition, it can be applied to data from different types of sensor measurements without significant modifications.
| Item Type: | Publication - Article |
|---|---|
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | 10.1364/OE.470878 |
| ISSN: | 1094-4087 |
| Date made live: | 28 Feb 2023 13:08 +0 (UTC) |
| URI: | https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/534101 |
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