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A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

The recent development of the on-chip micro-polarizer technology has made it possible to acquire four spatially aligned and temporally synchronized polarization images with the same ease of operation as a conventional camera. In this paper,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-13 Juiwen Ting , Xuesong Wu , Kangkang Hu , Hong Zhang

Multi-view image acquisition systems with two or more cameras can be rather costly due to the number of high resolution image sensors that are required. Recently, it has been shown that by covering a low resolution sensor with a non-regular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Markus Jonscher , Jürgen Seiler , Thomas Richter , Michel Bätz , André Kaup

Polarisation Filter Array (PFA) cameras allow the analysis of light polarisation state in a simple and cost-effective manner. Such filter arrays work as the Bayer pattern for colour cameras, sharing similar advantages and drawbacks. Among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mara Pistellato , Filippo Bergamasco , Tehreem Fatima , Andrea Torsello

Camera arrays provide spatial and angular information within a single snapshot. With refocusing methods, focal planes can be altered after exposure. In this letter, we propose a light field refocusing method to improve the imaging quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-29 Yingqian Wang , Jungang Yang , Yulan Guo , Chao Xiao , Wei An

To increase the flexibility and scalability of deep neural networks for image reconstruction, a framework is proposed based on bandpass filtering. For many applications, sensing measurements are performed indirectly. For example, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Joseph Y. Cheng , Feiyu Chen , Marcus T. Alley , John M. Pauly , Shreyas S. Vasanawala

A conventional camera performs various signal processing steps sequentially to reconstruct an image from a raw Bayer image. When performing these processing in multiple stages the residual error from each stage accumulates in the image and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Sivalogeswaran Ratnasingam

With the advent of high-precision nanoscale lithography technology, high-resolution image sensing has experienced rapid development in recent years. Currently, mainstream commercial image sensors predominantly utilize Bayer array color…

As conventional frame-based cameras suffer from high energy consumption and latency, several new types of image sensors have been devised, with some of them exploiting the sparsity of natural images in some transform domains. Instead of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-09-30 Lukas Mennel , Dmitry K. Polyushkin , Dohyun Kwak , Thomas Mueller

Most image deblurring methods assume an over-simplistic image formation model and as a result are sensitive to more realistic image degradations. We propose a novel variational framework, that explicitly handles pixel saturation, noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jérémy Anger , Mauricio Delbracio , Gabriele Facciolo

Demosaicking is standardly the first step in today's Image Signal Processing (ISP) pipeline of digital cameras. It reconstructs image RGB values from the spatially and spectrally sparse Color Filter Array (CFA) samples, which are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Niu Yan , Jihong Ouyang

Outdoor lighting has extremely high dynamic range. This makes the process of capturing outdoor environment maps notoriously challenging since special equipment must be used. In this work, we propose an alternative approach. We first capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Jinsong Zhang , Jean-François Lalonde

Hyperspectral (HS) images contain detailed spectral information that has proven crucial in applications like remote sensing, surveillance, and astronomy. However, because of hardware limitations of HS cameras, the captured images have low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Marija Vella , Bowen Zhang , Wei Chen , João F. C. Mota

Merging multi-exposure image stacks into a high dynamic range (HDR) image requires knowledge of accurate exposure times. When exposure times are inaccurate, for example, when they are extracted from a camera's EXIF metadata, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Param Hanji , Rafał K. Mantiuk

Cameras currently allow access to two image states: (i) a minimally processed linear raw-RGB image state (i.e., raw sensor data) or (ii) a highly-processed nonlinear image state (e.g., sRGB). There are many computer vision tasks that work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Mahmoud Afifi , Abdelrahman Abdelhamed , Abdullah Abuolaim , Abhijith Punnappurath , Michael S. Brown

Snapshot HDR imaging is essential to capture the full dynamic range of a scene in a single exposure, making it essential for video and dynamic environments where motion prevents the use of multi-exposure techniques or complex hardware…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-06 Teresa Stürzenhofäcker , Moritz Klimm , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Hyperspectral imaging is one of the most promising techniques for intraoperative tissue characterisation. Snapshot mosaic cameras, which can capture hyperspectral data in a single exposure, have the potential to make a real-time…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-02 Peichao Li , Michael Ebner , Philip Noonan , Conor Horgan , Anisha Bahl , Sebastien Ourselin , Jonathan Shapey , Tom Vercauteren

In this paper, we present new data pre-processing and augmentation techniques for DNN-based raw image denoising. Compared with traditional RGB image denoising, performing this task on direct camera sensor readings presents new challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Jiaming Liu , Chi-Hao Wu , Yuzhi Wang , Qin Xu , Yuqian Zhou , Haibin Huang , Chuan Wang , Shaofan Cai , Yifan Ding , Haoqiang Fan , Jue Wang

Stack-based high dynamic range (HDR) imaging is a technique for achieving a larger dynamic range in an image by combining several low dynamic range images acquired at different exposures. Minimizing the set of images to combine, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Peter van Beek

We report a method for super-resolution of range images. Our approach leverages the interpretation of LR image as sparse samples on the HR grid. Based on this interpretation, we demonstrate that our recently reported approach, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Arnav Bhavsar