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Ghost imaging (GI) reconstructs images using a single-pixel or bucket detector, which has the advantages of scattering robustness, wide spectrum and beyond-visual-field imaging. However, this technique needs large amount of measurements to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Jie Cao , Dong Zhou , Ying-Qiang Zhang , Huan Cui , Fang-Hua Zhang , Qun Hao

We present a robust imaging method based on time-correspondence imaging and normalized ghost imaging (GI) that sets two thresholds to select the reference frame exposures for image reconstruction. This double-threshold time-correspondence…

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Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has a wide range of applications from environmental monitoring to biotechnology. Current snapshot HSI techniques all require a trade-off between spatial and spectral resolution and are thus unable to achieve high…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-11 Yingwen Zhang , Duncan England , Benjamin Sussman

Computational ghost imaging has been demonstrated experimentally recently. In this comment we wish to clarify the difference between pseudothermal ghost imaging (PGI) and computational ghost imaging (CGI). In particular, to emphasize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-12 Morton H. Rubin

Long-range active imaging has widespread applications in remote sensing and target recognition. Single-photon light detection and ranging (lidar) has been shown to have high sensitivity and temporal resolution. On the application front,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Zheng-Ping Li , Jun-Tian Ye , Xin Huang , Peng-Yu Jiang , Yuan Cao , Yu Hong , Chao Yu , Jun Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

We present the experimental reconstruction of sub-wavelength features from the far-field intensity of sparse optical objects: sparsity-based sub-wavelength imaging combined with phase-retrieval. As examples, we demonstrate the recovery of…

Single-pixel imaging (SPI) uses a single-pixel detector to create an image of an object. SPI relies on a computer to construct an image, thus increasing both the size and cost of SPI and limiting its application. We developed instant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Zhe Yang , Jun Liu , Wei-Xing Zhang , Dong Ruan , Jun-Lin Li

Ghost imaging leverages a single-pixel detector with no spatial resolution to acquire object echo intensity signals, which are correlated with illumination patterns to reconstruct an image. This architecture inherently mitigates scattering…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yue-Gang Li , Ze Zheng , Jun-jie Wang , Ming He , Jianping Fan , Tailong Xiao , Guihua Zeng

We present GLIMPSE - Gravitational Lensing Inversion and MaPping with Sparse Estimators - a new algorithm to generate density reconstructions in three dimensions from photometric weak lensing measurements. This is an extension of earlier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Adrienne Leonard , François Lanusse , Jean-Luc Starck

We demonstrate experimentally ghost optical coherence tomography using a broadband incoherent supercontinuum light source with shot-to-shot random spectral fluctuations. The technique is based on ghost imaging in the spectral domain where…

Compressive sensing is considered a huge breakthrough in signal acquisition. It allows recording an image consisting of $N^2$ pixels using much fewer than $N^2$ measurements if it can be transformed to a basis where most pixels take on…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-02 Marc Aßmann , Manfred Bayer

We report, for the first time, the observation of sub-wavelength coherent image of a pure phase object with thermal light,which represents an accurate Fourier transform. We demonstrate that ghost-imaging scheme (GI) retrieves amplitude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-27 Minghui Zhang , Qing Wei , Xia Shen , Yongfeng Liu , Honglin Liu , Yanfeng Bai , Shensheng Han

We demonstrate the measurement of ultrafast dynamics using ghost spectroscopy and a pump-probe approach with an optical pump and a short-wavelength radiation probe. The ghost spectroscopy approach is used to overcome the challenge of the…

Ghost imaging (GI) achieves 2D image reconstruction through high-order correlation of 1D bucket signals and 2D light field information, particularly demonstrating enhanced detection sensitivity and high-quality image reconstruction via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Yifan Chen , Hongjun An , Zhe Sun , Tong Tian , Mingliang Chen , Christian Spielmann , Xuelong Li

Experimental data with digital masks and a theoretical analysis are presented for an imaging scheme that we call time-correspondence differential ghost imaging (TCDGI). It is shown that by conditional averaging of the information from the…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-25 Ming-Fei Li , Yu-Ran Zhang , Kai-Hong Luo , Ling-An Wu , Heng Fan

Radar sensors are an important part of driver assistance systems and intelligent vehicles due to their robustness against all kinds of adverse conditions, e.g., fog, snow, rain, or even direct sunlight. This robustness is achieved by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Florian Kraus , Nicolas Scheiner , Werner Ritter , Klaus Dietmayer

Computational ghost imaging generally requires a large number of pattern illumination to obtain a high-quality image. The colored noise speckle pattern was recently proposed to substitute the white noise pattern in a variety of noisy…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-11 Xiaoyu Nie , Xingchen Zhao , Tao Peng , Marlan O. Scully

One of the possible types of n-th order ghost imaging is experimentally performed using multi-photon (higher-order) intensity correlations of pseudothermal light. It is shown that although increasing the order of intensity correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 I. N. Agafonov , M. V. Chekhova , A. N. Penin

Computational ghost imaging is a promising technique for single-pixel imaging because it is robust to disturbance and can be operated over broad wavelength bands, unlike common cameras. However, one disadvantage of this method is that it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-16 Ikuo Hoshi , Tomoyoshi Shimobaba , Takashi Kakue , Tomoyoshi Ito

Imaging of scenes using light or other wave phenomena is subject to the diffraction limit. The spatial profile of a wave propagating between a scene and the imaging system is distorted by diffraction resulting in a loss of resolution that…

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