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Image reconstruction through a multimode fiber with a simple neural network architecture

Image and Video Processing 2020-09-02 v3 Other Condensed Matter Optics

Abstract

Multimode fibers (MMFs) have the potential to carry complex images for endoscopy and related applications, but decoding the complex speckle patterns produced by mode-mixing and modal dispersion in MMFs is a serious challenge. Several groups have recently shown that convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be trained to perform high-fidelity MMF image reconstruction. We find that a considerably simpler neural network architecture, the single hidden layer dense neural network, performs at least as well as previously-used CNNs in terms of image reconstruction fidelity, and is superior in terms of training time and computing resources required. The trained networks can accurately reconstruct MMF images collected over a week after the cessation of the training set, with the dense network performing as well as the CNN over the entire period.

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@article{arxiv.2006.05708,
  title  = {Image reconstruction through a multimode fiber with a simple neural network architecture},
  author = {Changyan Zhu and Eng Aik Chan and You Wang and Weina Peng and Ruixiang Guo and Baile Zhang and Cesare Soci and Yidong Chong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.05708},
  year   = {2020}
}

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17 pages, 10 figures

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