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We propose a new technique to obtain super-resolution images with radio interferometer using sparse modeling. In standard radio interferometry, sampling of ($u$, $v$) is quite often incomplete and thus obtaining an image from observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-10 Mareki Honma , Kazunori Akiyama , Makoto Uemura , Shiro Ikeda

Coherent X-ray photons with energies higher than 50 keV offer new possibilities for imaging nanoscale lattice distortions in bulk crystalline materials using Bragg peak phase retrieval methods. However, the compression of reciprocal space…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-14 Siddharth Maddali , Irene Calvo-Almazan , Jonathan Almer , Peter Kenesei , Jun-Sang Park , Ross Harder , Youssef Nashed , Stephan Hruszkewycz

Conventional microscope objective lenses are diffraction limited, which means that they cannot resolve features smaller than half the illumination wavelength. Under white light illumination, such resolution limit is about 250-300 nm for an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-08-26 Bing Yan , Zengbo Wang , Alan Parker , Yukun Lai , John Thomas , Liyang Yue , James Monks

We consider the use of digital signal processing to reconstruct continuous reflectance spectra using a small finite set of randomly illuminated light emitting diodes (LEDs). We simulate the use of LEDs having identical spectral distance and…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-29 John C. Howell , Pieter H. Neethling , Tjaart P. J. Kruger

We introduce a novel learning-based method to reconstruct the high-quality geometry and complex, spatially-varying BRDF of an arbitrary object from a sparse set of only six images captured by wide-baseline cameras under collocated point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Kalyan Sunkavalli , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

A sparsity-exploiting algorithm intended for few-view Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) reconstruction is proposed and characterized. The algorithm models the object as piecewise constant subject to a blurring operation. To…

Medical Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Paul A Wolf , Jakob H Jørgensen , Taly G Schmidt , Emil Y Sidky

Restoring images degraded by spatially varying blur is a problem encountered in many disciplines such as astrophysics, computer vision or biomedical imaging. One of the main challenges to perform this task is to design efficient numerical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-13 Paul Escande , Pierre Weiss

We explore whether medium-resolution stellar spectra can be reconstructed from photometric observations, taking advantage of the highly compressible nature of the spectra. We formulate the spectral reconstruction as a least-squares problem…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Asensio Ramos , C. Allende Prieto

Recovering a sparse signal from its low-pass projections in the Fourier domain is a problem of broad interest in science and engineering and is commonly referred to as super-resolution. In many cases, however, Fourier domain may not be the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Ayush Bhandari , Yonina C. Eldar

We combine single-pixel imaging and homodyne detection to perform full object recovery (phase and amplitude). Our method does not require any prior information about the object or the illuminating fields. As a demonstration, we reconstruct…

A new far-field optical microscopy technique capable of reaching nanometer-scale resolution has been developed recently using the in-plane image magnification by surface plasmon polaritons. This microscopy is based on the optical properties…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Igor I. Smolyaninov

We propose a novel technique of microscopy to overcome the effects of both scattering and limitation of the accessible depth due to the objective working distance. By combining Laser Optical Feedback Imaging (LOFI) with Acoustic Photon…

We propose a new method for reconstruction of sparse signals with and without noisy perturbations, termed the subspace pursuit algorithm. The algorithm has two important characteristics: low computational complexity, comparable to that of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2009-01-08 Wei Dai , Olgica Milenkovic

As the perception range of LiDAR expands, LiDAR-based 3D object detection contributes ever-increasingly to the long-range perception in autonomous driving. Mainstream 3D object detectors often build dense feature maps, where the cost is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Lue Fan , Yuxue Yang , Feng Wang , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

This paper develops new theory and algorithms to recover signals that are approximately sparse in some general dictionary (i.e., a basis, frame, or over-/incomplete matrix) but corrupted by a combination of interference having a sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Christoph Studer , Richard G. Baraniuk

Outlined here is a technique for sub-wavelength infrared surface imaging performed using a phase matched optical parametric oscillator laser and an atomic force microscope as the detection mechanism. The technique uses a novel surface…

Optical absorption is usually considered deleterious, something to avoid if at all possible. We propose a broadband nanoabsorber that completely eliminates the diffracting wave, resulting in a subwavelength enhancement of the field.…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-31 Heeso Noh , Sebastien M. Popoff , Hui Cao

Light field photography enables to record 4D images, containing angular information alongside spatial information of the scene. One of the important applications of light field imaging is post-capture refocusing. Current methods require for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Shachar Ben Dayan , David Mendlovic , Raja Giryes

This paper considers the problem of sampling and reconstruction of a continuous-time sparse signal without assuming the knowledge of the sampling instants or the sampling rate. This topic has its roots in the problem of recovering multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Ayush Bhandari , Aurelien Bourquard , Ramesh Raskar

It has been shown that a slab of materials with refractive index = -1 behaves like a perfect lens focussing all light to an exact electromagnetic copy of an object. The original lens is limited to producing images the same size as the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 J. B. Pendry , S. Anantha Ramakrishna