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Advancements in imaging technology have enabled hardware to support 10 to 16 bits per channel, facilitating precise manipulation in applications like image editing and video processing. While deep neural networks promise to recover high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-13 Xuanshuo Fu , Danna Xue , Javier Vazquez-Corral

Super-resolution is the problem of recovering a superposition of point sources using bandlimited measurements, which may be corrupted with noise. This signal processing problem arises in numerous imaging problems, ranging from astronomy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Qingqing Huang , Sham M. Kakade

Imaging is an important means by which information is gathered regarding the physical world. Spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio are underpinning concepts. There is a paucity of rigorous definitions for these quantities, which are…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-27 David M. Paganin , Alexander Kozlov , Timur E. Gureyev

Quantitative phase microscopy (QPM), a technique combining phase imaging and microscopy, enables visualization of the 3D topography in reflective samples, as well as the inner structure or refractive index distribution of transparent and…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-17 Vicente Mico , Juanjuan Zheng , Javier Garcia , Zeev Zalevsky , Peng Gao

In this paper we address the problem of matching two images with two different resolutions: a high-resolution image and a low-resolution one. The difference in resolution between the two images is not known and without loss of generality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yves Dufournaud , Cordelia Schmid , Radu Horaud

An unbiased method for improving the resolution of astronomical images is presented. The strategy at the core of this method is to establish a linear transformation between the recorded image and an improved image at some desirable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. P. Pijpers

Multi-image super-resolution (MISR) allows to increase the spatial resolution of a low-resolution (LR) acquisition by combining multiple images carrying complementary information in the form of sub-pixel offsets in the scene sampling, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Luca Savant Aira , Diego Valsesia , Andrea Bordone Molini , Giulia Fracastoro , Enrico Magli , Andrea Mirabile

We investigate analytically and numerically the role of quantum fluctuations in reconstruction of optical objects from diffraction-limited images. Taking as example of an input object two closely spaced Gaussian peaks we demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vladislav N. Beskrovnyy , Mikhail I. Kolobov

Super-resolution techniques overcome the diffraction-limit and get very high resolutions. A category of these techniques, e.g., STED achieves this by creating an illumination spot smaller than the Airy Disk. As a result, points are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Yaohua Xie

Super-resolution imaging refers to imaging techniques that surpass the Rayleigh resolution limit. One standard way to achieve super-resolution is by structuring the phase of the field illuminating the object. Although super-resolution…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Nilakshi Senapati , Abhinandan Bhattacharjee , Kedar Khare , Anand K Jha

In recent years, deep learning has made great progress in many fields such as image recognition, natural language processing, speech recognition and video super-resolution. In this survey, we comprehensively investigate 33 state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Hongying Liu , Zhubo Ruan , Peng Zhao , Chao Dong , Fanhua Shang , Yuanyuan Liu , Linlin Yang , Radu Timofte

Given an image, we wish to produce an image of larger size with significantly more pixels and higher image quality. This is generally known as the Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) problem. The idea is that with sufficient training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-06 Yaniv Romano , John Isidoro , Peyman Milanfar

Since the first success of Dong et al., the deep-learning-based approach has become dominant in the field of single-image super-resolution. This replaces all the handcrafted image processing steps of traditional sparse-coding-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Shunta Maeda

Optical scattering presents a major obstacle to high resolution imaging in biological tissue and other turbid media. Conventional photoacoustic imaging can partially overcome this obstacle, enabling imaging of optical absorption in the…

Optical super-resolution microscopy is a key technology for structural biology that offers high imaging contrast and live-cell compatibility. Minimal (fluorescence) photons flux microscopy, or MINFLUX, is an emerging super-resolution…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-29 Lukas Scheiderer , Zach Marin , Jonas Ries

Super-resolution microscopy, or nanoscopy, enables the use of fluorescent-based molecular localization tools to study molecular structure at the nanoscale level in the intact cell, bridging the mesoscale gap to classical structural biology…

Subcellular Processes · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-28 Ivan R. Nabi , Ben Cardoen , Ismail M. Khater , Guang Gao , Timothy H. Wong , Ghassan Hamarneh

With the recent advancement in deep learning, we have witnessed a great progress in single image super-resolution. However, due to the significant information loss of the image downscaling process, it has become extremely challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Zhifei Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Zhe Lin , Hairong Qi

We resolve the long standing controversy regarding the imaging by a planar lens made of left-handed media and demonstrate theoretically that its far field image has a fundamentally different origin depending on the relationship between…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-04 Nicholas A. Kuhta , Viktor A. Podolskiy , Alexei L. Efros

Numerous single-image super-resolution algorithms have been proposed in the literature, but few studies address the problem of performance evaluation based on visual perception. While most super-resolution images are evaluated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-20 Chao Ma , Chih-Yuan Yang , Xiaokang Yang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Super-resolution (SR) has become a widely researched topic in recent years. SR methods can improve overall image and video quality and create new possibilities for further content analysis. But the SR mainstream focuses primarily on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Eugene Lyapustin , Anastasia Kirillova , Viacheslav Meshchaninov , Evgeney Zimin , Nikolai Karetin , Dmitriy Vatolin