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A thermal ghost imaging scheme between two distant parties is proposed and experimentally demonstrated over long-distance optical fibers. In the scheme, the weak thermal light is split into two paths. Photons in one path are spatially…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-14 Xin Yao , Wei Zhang , Hao Li , Lixing You , Zhen Wang , Yidong Huang

Assessing the presence of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats is a crucial task which is usually dealt with by analyzing the presence of spectral features in a measured absorption profile. The use of quantum light allows…

A simple and robust experiment demonstrating computational ghost imaging with structured illumination and a single-pixel detector has been performed. Our experimental setup utilizes a general computer for generating pseudo-randomly patterns…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-10 Lijun Song , Cheng Zhou , Li Chen , Xiaoguang Wang , Jing Cheng

We investigate experimentally fundamental properties of coherent ghost imaging using spatially incoherent beams generated from a pseudo-thermal source. A complementarity between the coherence of the beams and the correlation between them is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Gatti , M. Bache , D. Magatti , E. Brambilla , F. Ferri , L. A. Lugiato

Group sparsity has shown great potential in various low-level vision tasks (e.g, image denoising, deblurring and inpainting). In this paper, we propose a new prior model for image denoising via group sparsity residual constraint (GSRC). To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Zhiyuan Zha , Xin Liu , Ziheng Zhou , Xiaohua Huang , Jingang Shi , Zhenhong Shang , Lan Tang , Yechao Bai , Qiong Wang , Xinggan Zhang

In certain applications or wavelength regimes, essential optical components for imaging systems are either unavailable or challenging to fabricate. To address this, we propose an optics-free classical ghost imaging (GI) scheme utilizing…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yuhan Guo , Xiangyu Yin , Chunguang Meng , Liming Li , Huiqiang Liu

Ghost imaging allows to image an object without directly seeing this object. Origi- nally demonstrated in the spatial domain using classical or entangled-photon sources, it was recently shown that ghost imaging can be transposed into the…

Ghost imaging via sparsity constraints (GISC) spectral camera modulates the three-dimensional (3D) hyperspectral image into a two-dimensional (2D) compressive image with speckles in a single shot. It obtains a 3D hyperspectral image (HSI)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-27 Ziyan Chen , Zhentao Liu , Jianrong Wu , Shensheng Han

In ghost imaging schemes information about an object is extracted by measuring the correlation between a beam that passed the object and a reference beam. We present a spatial averaging technique that substantially improves the imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bache , E. Brambilla , A. Gatti , L. A. Lugiato

Classical ghost imaging is a computational imaging technique that employs patterned illumination. It is very similar in concept to the single-pixel camera in that an image may be reconstructed from a set of measurements even though all…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Andrew M. Kingston , Wilfred K. Fullagar , Glenn R. Myers , Daishi Adams , Daniele Pelliccia , David M. Paganin

For ghost imaging, pursuing high resolution images and short acquisition times required for reconstructing images are always two main goals. We report an image reconstruction algorithm called compressive sampling (CS) reconstruction to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-27 Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

Recently it has been suggested that an enhancement in the visibility of ghost images obtained with thermal light can be achieved exploiting higher order correlations [3]. This paper reports on the status of an higher order ghost imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 G. Brida , I. P. Degiovanni , G. A. Fornaro , M. Genovese , A. Meda

We report ghost imaging of a single non-reproducible temporal signal in the range of tens kHz by using pseudo-thermal speckle light patterns and a single detector array with a million of pixels working without any temporal resolution. A set…

In the last few years,the field of ghost imaging has seen many new developments. From computational ghost imaging to 3D ghost imaging, this field has shown many interesting applications. But the method of obtaining an image in ghost imaging…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-06 Nandan Jha

We introduced a new kind of patterns named Special-Hadamard patterns, which could be used as structured illuminations of computational ghost imaging. Special-Hadamard patterns can get a better image quality than Hadamard patterns in a noisy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-14 Jie Hou , Yuan Sun , Wanqing Yang , Ting Lv , Xiaoqian Wang

Illumination patterns of computational ghost imaging (CGI) systems suffer from reduced contrast when passing through a scattering medium, which causes the effective information in the reconstruction result to be drowned out by noise. A…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-18 Li-Xing Lin , Jie Cao , Qun Hao

To extract the maximum information about the object from a series of binary samples in ghost imaging applications, we propose and demonstrate a framework for optimizing the performance of ghost imaging with binary sampling to approach the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-03-12 Dongyue Yang , Guohua Wu , Bin Luo , Longfei Yin

Computer-generated hologram (CGH) allows for the on-demand scaling and projection of artificially designed target patterns, while incorporating benefits such as a lensless setup and high-frame-rate operation. In this work, we actively…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Liming Li , Zhenguo Zhao , Gongxiang Wei , Wenfei Zhang , Huiqiang Liu

Ghost-imaging experiments correlate the outputs from two photodetectors: a high spatial-resolution (scanning pinhole or CCD camera) detector that measures a field which has not interacted with the object to be imaged, and a bucket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey H Shapiro

The InfraRed Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a first-light instrument for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) that will be used to sample the corrected adaptive optics field by NFIRAOS with a near-infrared (0.8 - 2.4 $\mu$m) imaging camera and…