Synthetic microfibers discriminated by AI-enabled polarization resolved Digital Holography
2022 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters (MetroSea)2022
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Raffaella Mossotti,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Marika Valentino,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Marika Valentino,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Marika Valentino,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Marika Valentino,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Marika Valentino,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Jaromír Běhal,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Marika Valentino,
Marika Valentino,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Marika Valentino,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Marika Valentino,
Marika Valentino,
Marika Valentino,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Jaromír Běhal,
Marika Valentino,
Jaromír Běhal,
Jaromír Běhal,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Lisa Miccio,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Simona Itri,
Simona Itri,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Vittorio Bianco,
Jaromír Běhal,
Jaromír Běhal,
Jaromír Běhal,
Vittorio Bianco,
Lisa Miccio,
Vittorio Bianco,
Lisa Miccio,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Lisa Miccio,
Lisa Miccio,
Vittorio Bianco,
Vittorio Bianco,
Simona Itri,
Simona Itri,
Simona Itri,
Simona Itri,
Simona Itri,
Simona Itri,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Pietro Ferraro
Lisa Miccio,
Simona Itri,
Lisa Miccio,
Lisa Miccio,
Simona Itri,
Simona Itri,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Vittorio Bianco,
Pietro Ferraro
Simona Itri,
Jaromír Běhal,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Vittorio Bianco,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Pietro Ferraro
Raffaella Mossotti,
Pietro Ferraro
Raffaella Mossotti,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Lisa Miccio,
Vittorio Bianco,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Raffaella Mossotti,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Raffaella Mossotti,
Lisa Miccio,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Giulia Dalla Fontana,
Vittorio Bianco,
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Ettore Stella,
Ettore Stella,
Pietro Ferraro
Lisa Miccio,
Ettore Stella,
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Ettore Stella,
Ettore Stella,
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Vittorio Bianco,
Lisa Miccio,
Jaromír Běhal,
Pietro Ferraro
Lisa Miccio,
Jaromír Běhal,
Lisa Miccio,
Pietro Ferraro
Raffaella Mossotti,
Pietro Ferraro
Vittorio Bianco,
Pietro Ferraro
Lisa Miccio,
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Pietro Ferraro
Summary
Researchers developed an AI-enabled polarization-resolved Digital Holography system to detect and discriminate synthetic microfibers in aquatic environments, leveraging the birefringent optical properties unique to synthetic polymers to distinguish them from natural fibers. The approach achieved automated classification without chemical preprocessing, offering a scalable tool for monitoring textile-derived microplastic pollution in marine waters.
The release of synthetic microfibers in marine waters, caused by textile industries and washing machine drains, is severely impacting the ecosystem, especially animals up to humans. The detection and identification of microplastic fibers is aimed to fight pollution, and several methodologies take the field. Among the recent imaging technologies, Digital Holography (DH) is contributing a lot for microplastic discrimination. Here, we demonstrate how the polarization-resolved DH microscopy, for both static and in-flow experiments, is capable to be material specific, exploiting the intrinsic optical features of synthetic and natural samples fiber-shaped, such as Jones matrix characterization and birefringence property. We reach high accuracy for the microfibers in-flow classification applying a machine-learning pipeline and a good clustering of the different specimens' classes using the Jones formalism. Our results pave the way to the in-situ monitoring analyses.