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Correlated-photon imaging, popularly known as ghost imaging, is a technique whereby an image is formed from light that has never interacted with the object. In ghost imaging experiments two correlated light fields are produced. One of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Reuben S. Aspden , Daniel S. Tasca , Robert W. Boyd , Miles J. Padgett

High visibility temporal ghost imaging with classical light is possible when superbunching pseudothermal light is employed. In the numerical simulation, the visibility of temporal ghost imaging with pseudothermal light equaling ($4.7\pm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-08 Jianbin Liu , Jingjing Wang , Hui Chen , Huaibin Zheng , Yanyan Liu , Yu Zhou , Fu-li Li , Zhuo Xu

We provide a unified treatment of classical and quantum Gaussian-state sources that unambiguously identifies which features of ghost imaging are strictly quantum mechanical. We show that ghost-image formation is fundamentally classical,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Baris I. Erkmen , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Traditional metrics for evaluating the efficacy of image processing techniques do not lend themselves to understanding the capabilities and limitations of modern image processing methods - particularly those enabled by deep learning. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Chris M. Ward , Josh Harguess , Brendan Crabb , Shibin Parameswaran

Ghost imaging is a remarkable technique where light that never interacts with an object is detected with a camera and still the image of the object is recorded. The method relies on the use of correlated light and an additional bucket…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-07 Anjaneshwar Ganesan , Herman Batelaan

Traditional ghost imaging acquires images via the correlation of the intensity fluctuations of reference patterns and bucket values, and can even generate positive-negative images by conditionally averaging partial patterns. Here, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Ya-Xin Li , Wen-Kai Yu , Shuo-Fei Wang

Artificial intelligence has recently been widely used in computational imaging. The deep neural network (DNN) improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the retrieved images, whose quality is otherwise corrupted due to the low sampling ratio or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Wenhan Ren , Xiaoyu Nie , Tao Peng , Marlan O. Scully

Ghost imaging uses two light beams correlated in the transverse position, time, or frequency to create an image of a spatial, temporal, or spectral object. We propose a scheme of time-to-space ghost imaging for creating a spatial image of a…

Active polarimetric imagery is a powerful tool for accessing the information present in a scene. Indeed, the polarimetric images obtained can reveal polarizing properties of the objects that are not avalaible using conventional imaging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Muriel Roche , Philippe Réfrégier

In ghost imaging scheme, an illuminated light is split into test and reference beams which pass through two different optical systems respectively and an image is constructed by the second-order correlation between the two light beams.…

In ghost imaging with narrow-band signal in thermal light background, signal arm filters bring higher value and upper limit of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and faster speed to reach that limit. The narrower bandwidth, the better.

Optics · Physics 2016-02-23 Dongyue Yang , Junhui Li , Guohua Wu , Bin Luo , Longfei Yin , Hong Guo

Ghost imaging (GI) is an imaging technique that uses the second-order correlation between two light beams to obtain the image of an object. However, standard GI is affected by optical background noise, which reduces its practical use. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-13 Zhe Yang , Wei-Xing Zhang , Ma-Chi Zhang , Dong Ruan , Jun-Lin Li

A novel technique for polarization-multiplexing ghost imaging is proposed to simultaneously obtain multiple polarimetric information by a single detector. Here, polarization-division multiplexing speckles are employed for object…

Recently, ghost imaging has been attracting attentions because its mechanism would lead to many applications inaccessible to conventional imaging methods. However, it is challenging for high contrast and high resolution imaging, due to its…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Mengjia Xi , Hui Chen , Yuan Yuan , Gao Wang , Yuchen He , Yan Liang , Jianbin Liu , Huaibin Zheng , Zhuo Xu

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 analytically show that it is possible to perform coherent imaging by using the classical correlation of two beams obtained by splitting incoherent thermal radiation. A formal analogy is demonstrated between two such classically…

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

Ghost imaging (GI) is an intriguing imaging technology which achieves the object images through intensity correlation between reference patterns and bucket signal. Here, we propose a probability model to explain the imaging mechanism of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Wen-Kai Yu , Jian Leng

The unpaired training can be the only option available for fast deep learning-based ghost imaging, where obtaining a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) image copy of each low SNR ghost image could be practically time-consuming and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Fatemeh Alishahi , Amirhossein Mohajerin-Ariaei

Night vision imaging is a technology that converts non-visible object to human eyes into visible image in night and other low light environments. However, the conventional night vision imaging can only directly produce grayscale image.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Deyang Duan , Yunjie Xia

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