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Ghost imaging is usually based on optoelectronic process and eletronic computing. We here propose a new ghost imaging scheme, which avoids any optoelectronic or electronic process. Instead, the proposed scheme exploits all-optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-16 Gao Wang , Huaibin Zheng , Yu Zhou , Hui Chen , Jianbin Liu , Yuchen He , Yuan Yuan , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu

In this work, we propose using camera arrays coupled with coherent illumination as an effective method of improving spatial resolution in long distance images by a factor of ten and beyond. Recent advances in ptychography have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-29 Jason Holloway , M. Salman Asif , Manoj Kumar Sharma , Nathan Matsuda , Roarke Horstmeyer , Oliver Cossairt , Ashok Veeraraghavan

We demonstrate a simple and robust high-resolution ghost spectroscopy approach for x-ray and extreme ultraviolet absorption spectroscopy at free-electron laser sources. Our approach requires an on-line spectrometer before the sample and a…

Computational ghost imaging (CGI) and single-pixel camera (SPC) are two types of single-pixel imaging and attracts increasing interest in recent years. The performance differences of CGI and SPC in difference light disturbance environment…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Wenlin Gong

We present LiDAR-GS, a Gaussian Splatting (GS) method for real-time, high-fidelity re-simulation of LiDAR scans in public urban road scenes. Recent GS methods proposed for cameras have achieved significant advancements in real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Qifeng Chen , Sheng Yang , Sicong Du , Tao Tang , Rengan Xie , Peng Chen , Yuchi Huo

Classical ghost imaging is a new paradigm in imaging where the image of an object is not measured directly with a pixelated detector. Rather, the object is subject to a set of illumination patterns and the total interaction of the object,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Andrew M. Kingston , Lindon Roberts , Alaleh Aminzadeh , Daniele Pelliccia , Imants D. Svalbe , David M. Paganin

We study the imaging of a penetrable scatterer, aka target, in a waveguide with randomly perturbed boundary. The target is located between a partially coherent source which transmits the wave, and a detector which measures the spatially…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Liliana Borcea , Josselin Garnier

We use a Lucky Imaging system to obtain I-band images with much improved angular resolution on a ground-based 2.5m telescope. We present results from a 10-night assessment campaign on the 2.56m Nordic Optical Telescope and quantify the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas M. Law , Craig D. Mackay , John E. Baldwin

A new focal-plane three-dimensional (3D) imaging method based on temporal ghost imaging is proposed and demonstrated. By exploiting the advantages of temporal ghost imaging, this method enables slow integrating cameras have an ability of 3D…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-18 Zunwang Bo , Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

Coincidence imaging, also known as ghost imaging, is a technique that exploits correlations between two particles to reconstruct information about a specimen. The particle that relays the spatial information about the object remains…

The Fourier-Transform ghost imaging of both amplitude-only and pure-phase objects was experimentally observed with classical incoherent light at Fresnel distance by a new lensless scheme. The experimental results are in good agreement with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Minghui Zhang , Qing Wei , Xia Shen , Yongfeng Liu , Honglin Liu , Jing Cheng , Shensheng Han

Ghost imaging is a method to nonlocally image an object by transmitting pairs of entangled photons through the object and a reference optical system respectively. We present a theoretical analysis of the quantum noise in this imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jing Cheng , Shensheng Han

In quantum mechanics, entanglement and correlations are not just a mere sporadic curiosity, but rather common phenomena at the basis of an interacting quantum system. In electron microscopy, such concepts have not been extensively explored…

Temporal ghost imaging (TGI) enables ultrafast temporal signal recovery using slow detectors, offering a promising route for high-speed mid-infrared (MIR) detection. However, conventional schemes remain limited in temporal resolution by the…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Wen Zhang , Kun Huang , Zhibin Zhao , Huijie Ma , Ziyu He , Jianan Fang , Heping Zeng

Imaging and analysis of many single cells hold great potential in our understanding of heterogeneous and complex life systems and in enabling biomedical applications. We here introduce a recently realized image-free "imaging" cytometry…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-29 Sadao Ota , Ryoichi Horisaki , Yoko Kawamura , Issei Sato , Hiroyuki Noji

The performance of image based stereo estimation suffers from lighting variations, repetitive patterns and homogeneous appearance. Moreover, to achieve good performance, stereo supervision requires sufficient densely-labeled data, which are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yu-Kai Huang , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Tsung-Han Wu , Hung-Ting Su , Winston H. Hsu

The theory of ghost imaging is developed in a Gaussian-state framework that both encompasses prior work - on thermal-state and biphoton-state imagers - and provides a complete understanding of the boundary between classical and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Baris I. Erkmen , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

A remote-sensing system that can determine the position of hidden objects has applications in many critical real-life scenarios, such as search and rescue missions and safe autonomous driving. Previous work has shown the ability to range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Susan Chan , Ryan E. Warburton , Genevieve Gariepy , Jonathan Leach , Daniele Faccio

A recent thermal ghost imaging experiment by Wu's group constructed positive and negative images using a novel algorithm. This algorithm allows to form the images with use of partial measurements from the reference arm, even which never…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-30 Jianming Wen

Conventionally, human intuition defines vision as a modality of passive optical sensing, relying on ambient light to perceive the environment. However, active optical sensing, which involves emitting and receiving signals, offers unique…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Wei Gao , Jie Zhang , Mingle Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang , Shu Kong , Maani Ghaffari , Dezhen Song , Cheng-Zhong Xu , Hui Kong