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Ghost imaging is demonstrated using a poly-energetic reactor source of thermal neutrons. The method presented enables position resolution to be incorporated, into a variety of neutron instruments that are not position resolving. In an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Andrew M. Kingston , Glenn R. Myers , Daniele Pelliccia , Filomena Salvemini , Joseph J. Bevitt , Ulf Garbe , David M. Paganin

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

Correspondence imaging can achieve positive-negative ghost images by just conditional averaging of partial patterns, without treating bucket intensities as weights. To explain its imaging mechanism, we develop a probability theory assuming…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-01 Jian Leng , Wen-Kai Yu , Shuo-Fei Wang

Computational ghost imaging is a robust and compact system that has drawn wide attentions over the last two decades. Multispectral imaging possesses spatial and spectral resolving abilities, is very useful for surveying scenes and…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Jian Huang , Dongfeng Shi

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…

The distortion of light's degrees of freedom when passing through complex random media is of great interest across a diversity of fields, e.g., scattering in biological studies. Emulating such media in a controlled laboratory setting…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kelsey Everts , Cade Peters , Andrew Forbes

Ghost imaging is a fascinating framework which constructs the image of an object by correlating measurements between received beams and reference beams, none of which carries the structure information of the object independently. Recently,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-04 Honghao Huang , Chengyang Hu , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

We present a theoretical study of ghost imaging by using blackbody radiation source. A Gaussian thin lens equation for the ghost imaging, which depends on both paths, is derived. The dependences of the visibility and quality of the image on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yangjian Cai , Shiyao Zhu

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

The use of x-ray imaging in medicine and other research is well known. Generally, the image quality is proportional to the total flux, but high photon energy could severely damage the specimen, so how to decrease the radiation dose while…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Ai-Xin Zhang , Yu-Hang He , Ling-An Wu , Li-Ming Chen , Bing-Bing Wang

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 incorporating deep learning technology has recently attracted much attention in the optical imaging field. However, deterministic illumination and multiple exposure are still essential in most scenarios. Here we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Ruiguo Zhu , Hong Yu , Zhijie Tan , Ronghua Lu , Shensheng Han , Zengfeng Huang , Jian Wang

We present a novel iterative scheme for restoring uneven illumination in grayscale images. Our approach solves, at each global iteration, a nonlinear elliptic equation for an auxiliary field $u$ and then updates the illumination via an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Dragos-Patru Covei

We describe an advanced image reconstruction algorithm for pseudothermal ghost imaging, reducing the number of measurements required for image recovery by an order of magnitude. The algorithm is based on compressed sensing, a technique that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ori Katz , Yaron Bromberg , Yaron Silberberg

We investigate the effect of turbulence on quantum ghost imaging. We use entangled photons and demonstrate that for a novel experimental configuration the effect of turbulence can be greatly diminished. By decoupling the entangled photon…

Ghost imaging (GI) is an unconventional imaging method that retrieves the image of an object by correlating a series of known illumination patterns with the total reflected (or transmitted) intensity. We here demonstrate a scheme which can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Yuan Yuan , Hui Chen

We propose a experimental scenario of edge enhancement ghost imaging of phase objects with nonlocal orbital angular momentum (OAM) phase filters. Spatially incoherent thermal light is separated into two daughter beams, the test and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Hanquan Song , Zhidan Yuan , Yuhang Ren , Dayu Zhao , Zili Zhang , Zhiyuan Zheng , Lu Gao

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

There is a consensus that turbulence-free images cannot be obtained by conventional computational ghost imaging (CGI) because the CGI is only a classic simulation, which does not satisfy the conditions of turbulence-free imaging. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-05 Hao Zhang , Deyang Duan

Ghost projection is the reversed process of computational classical ghost imaging that allows any desired image to be synthesized using a linear combination of illuminating patterns. Typically, physical attenuating masks are used to produce…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 James A. Monro , Andrew M. Kingston , David M. Paganin