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3D single-photon LiDAR imaging has an important role in many applications. However, full deployment of this modality will require the analysis of low signal to noise ratio target returns and a very high volume of data. This is particularly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Mohamed Amir Alaa Belmekki , Jonathan Leach , Rachael Tobin , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen Mclaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi

Lensless imaging is an important and challenging problem. One notable solution to lensless imaging is a single pixel camera which benefits from ideas central to compressive sampling. However, traditional single pixel cameras require many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-31 Guy Satat , Matthew Tancik , Ramesh Raskar

Single Pixel Imaging is an emerging imaging technique that employs a bucket detector (photodiode) to sample a spatially modulated light field, rather than measuring the spatial distribution with an array of detectors. This approach provides…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-22 Dennis Scheidt

We demonstrate how to efficiently implement extremely high-dimensional compressive imaging of a bi-photon probability distribution. Our method uses fast-Hadamard-transform Kronecker-based compressive sensing to acquire the joint space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-26 Daniel J. Lum , Samuel H. Knarr , John C. Howell

We present a novel approach to implement compressive sensing in laser scanning microscopes (LSM), specifically in image scanning microscopy (ISM), using a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array detector. Our method addresses two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Ajay Gunalan , Marco Castello , Simonluca Piazza , Shunlei Li , Alberto Diaspro , Leonardo S. Mattos , Paolo Bianchini

This paper presents a novel scheme to efficiently compress Light Detection and Ranging~(LiDAR) point clouds, enabling high-precision 3D scene archives, and such archives pave the way for a detailed understanding of the corresponding 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Akihiro Kuwabara , Sorachi Kato , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Takuya Fujihashi

The development of single-photon counting detectors and arrays has made tremendous steps in recent years, not the least because of various new applications in, e.g., LIDAR devices. In this work, a 3D imaging device based on real thermal…

As an alternative to conventional multi-pixel cameras, single-pixel cameras enable images to be recorded using a single detector that measures the correlations between the scene and a set of patterns. However, to fully sample a scene in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-29 David B. Phillips , Ming-Jie Sun , Jonathan M. Taylor , Matthew P. Edgar , Stephen M. Barnett , Graham G. Gibson , Miles J. Padgett

Spectral vision task plays a pivotal role in extracting discriminative spectral-spatial features from high-dimensional data, enabling fine-grained identification beyond human vision. Traditional methods usually involve first collecting rich…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jiaqi Song , Baolei Liu , Muchen Zhu , Yao Wang , Yue Yu , Zhaohua Yang , Xiaolan Zhong , Fan Wang

The incorporation of LiDAR technology into some high-end smartphones has unlocked numerous possibilities across various applications, including photography, image restoration, augmented reality, and more. In this paper, we introduce a novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Alessandro Gnutti , Stefano Della Fiore , Mattia Savardi , Yi-Hsin Chen , Riccardo Leonardi , Wen-Hsiao Peng

Femtosecond spectroscopy is an important tool for tracking rapid photoinduced processes in a variety of materials. To spatially map the processes in a sample would substantially expand the capabilities of the method. This is, however,…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-01 Ondřej Denk , Kaibo Zheng , Donatas Zigmantas , Karel Žídek

We propose a computational imaging method for time-efficient light-field acquisition that combines a coded aperture with an event-based camera. Different from the conventional coded-aperture imaging method, our method applies a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Shuji Habuchi , Keita Takahashi , Chihiro Tsutake , Toshiaki Fujii , Hajime Nagahara

Single-photon lidar has become a prominent tool for depth imaging in recent years. At the core of the technique, the depth of a target is measured by constructing a histogram of time delays between emitted light pulses and detected photon…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-06 Michael P. Sheehan , Julián Tachella , Mike E. Davies

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

Compressive spectral imaging enables to reconstruct the entire three-dimensional (3D) spectral cube from a few multiplexed images. Here, we develop a novel compressive spectral imaging technique using diffractive lenses. Our technique uses…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Figen S. Oktem

Reconstructing 3D object models is playing an important role in many applications in the field of computer vision. Instead of employing a collection of cameras and/or sensors as in many studies, this paper proposes a simple way to build a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Trong Nguyen Nguyen , Huu Hung Huynh , Jean Meunier

Sensitive mid-infrared (MIR) spectroscopy plays an indispensable role in various photon-starved conditions. However, the detection sensitivity of conventional MIR spectrometers is severely limited by excessive noises of the involved…

Real-time 3D reconstruction enables fast dense mapping of the environment which benefits numerous applications, such as navigation or live evaluation of an emergency. In contrast to most real-time capable approaches, our approach does not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Max Hermann , Boitumelo Ruf , Martin Weinmann

In this paper we consider the problem of estimating a dense depth map from a set of sparse LiDAR points. We use techniques from compressed sensing and the recently developed Alternating Direction Neural Networks (ADNNs) to create a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Nathaniel Chodosh , Chaoyang Wang , Simon Lucey

Is it possible to detect a feature in an image without ever looking at it? Images are known to have sparser representation in Wavelets and other similar transforms. Compressed Sensing is a technique which proposes simultaneous acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Suyash Shandilya