We present a computational mobile imaging device that captures holograms of aerosols through a virtual impactor, a flow-based device designed to detect aerosols. A differential detection scheme localizes all the flowing particles in air, and their auto-focused holograms are used to classify them using a trained neural network without any labels/stains. To test this cost-effective mobile device, we aerosolized different types of pollen (Bermuda, Elm, Oak, Pine, Sycamore, and Wheat) and achieved a blind testing classification accuracy of 92.91%. This cost-effective mobile system can be used as a long-term air quality monitor to automatically count/sense particulate matter and various allergens.
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