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We demonstrated a laser depth imaging system based on the time-correlated single-photon counting technique, which was incorporated with a low-jitter superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD), operated at the wavelength of 1550…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 H. Zhou , Y. He , L. You , S. Chen , W. Zhang , J. Wu , Z. Wang , X. Xie

Neutron imaging is an invaluable noninvasive technique for exploring new science and assisting industrial manufacture. However, state-of-the-art neutron facilities are extremely expensive and inconvenient to access, while the flux of…

Accurate 3D imaging is essential for machines to map and interact with the physical world. While numerous 3D imaging technologies exist, each addressing niche applications with varying degrees of success, none have achieved the breadth of…

The EMCCD is a CCD type that delivers fast readout and negligible detector noise, making it an ideal detector for high frame rate applications. Because of the very low detector noise, this detector can potentially count single photons.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-08 Kennet B. W. Harpsøe , Michael I. Andersen , Per Kjægaard

Low-light-level imaging techniques have application in many diverse fields, ranging from biological sciences to security. We demonstrate a single-photon imaging system based on a time-gated inten- sified CCD (ICCD) camera in which the image…

Removing undesired reflections from images taken through the glass is of great importance in computer vision. It serves as a means to enhance the image quality for aesthetic purposes as well as to preprocess images in machine learning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Yang Yang , Wenye Ma , Yin Zheng , Jian-Feng Cai , Weiyu Xu

Benefiting from its single-photon sensitivity, single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array has been widely applied in various fields such as fluorescence lifetime imaging and quantum computing. However, large-scale high-fidelity…

We present an approach to separating reflection from a single image. The approach uses a fully convolutional network trained end-to-end with losses that exploit low-level and high-level image information. Our loss function includes two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Xuaner Zhang , Ren Ng , Qifeng Chen

Illumination using correlated photon sources has been established as an approach to allowing high-fidelity images to be reconstructed from noisy camera frames by taking advantage of the knowledge that signal photons are spatially correlated…

We present Neural Reflectance Fields, a novel deep scene representation that encodes volume density, normal and reflectance properties at any 3D point in a scene using a fully-connected neural network. We combine this representation with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Sai Bi , Zexiang Xu , Pratul Srinivasan , Ben Mildenhall , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Miloš Hašan , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , David Kriegman , Ravi Ramamoorthi

We present a novel structured light technique that uses Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) arrays to enable 3D scanning at high-frame rates and low-light levels. This technique, called "Single-Photon Structured Light", works by sensing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Varun Sundar , Sizhuo Ma , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Mohit Gupta

This paper proposes a novel method to filter out the false alarm of LiDAR system by using the temporal correlation of target reflected photons. Because of the inevitable noise, which is due to background light and dark counts of the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-08-22 Zhenchao Feng , Weiji He , Jian Fang , Guohua Gu , Qian Chen , Ping Zhang , Yuanjin Chen , Beibei Zhou , Minhua Zhou

Detecting object with low reflectivity embedded within a noisy background is a challenging task. Quantum correlations between pairs of quantum states of light, though are highly sensitive to background noise and losses, offer advantages…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 K. Muhammed Shafi , A. Padhye , C. M. Chandrashekar

A new algorithmic framework is presented for holographic phase retrieval via maximum likelihood optimization, which allows for practical and robust image reconstruction. This framework is especially well-suited for holographic coherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 David A. Barmherzig , Ju Sun

Single-photon light detection and ranging (lidar) captures depth and intensity information of a 3D scene. Reconstructing a scene from observed photons is a challenging task due to spurious detections associated with background illumination…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-03 Julián Tachella , Michael P. Sheehan , Mike E. Davies

Photon-limited imaging arises when the number of photons collected by a sensor array is small relative to the number of detector elements. Photon limitations are an important concern for many applications such as spectral imaging, night…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Joseph Salmon , Zachary Harmany , Charles-Alban Deledalle , Rebecca Willett

Correlated photon pairs, carrying strong quantum correlations, have been harnessed to bring quantum advantages to various fields from biological imaging to range finding. Such inherent non-classical properties support extracting more valid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Zhan-Ming Li , Shi-Bao Wu , Jun Gao , Heng Zhou , Zeng-Quan Yan , Ruo-Jing Ren , Si-Yuan Yin , Xian-Min Jin

Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) are affordable photodetectors, capable to collect extremely fast low-energy events, due to their single-photon sensibility. This makes them very suitable for time-of-flight-based range imaging systems,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-09 Quercus Hernandez , Diego Gutierrez , Adrian Jarabo

A photon-number-resolving detector based on a four-element superconducting nanowire single photon detector is demonstrated to have sub-30-ps resolution in measuring the arrival time of individual photons. This detector can be used to…

Photon counting 3D imaging allows to obtain 3D images with single-photon sensitivity and sub-ns temporal resolution. However, it is challenging to scale to high spatial resolution. In this work, we demonstrate a photon counting 3D imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Huidong Dai , Weiji He , Guohua Gu , Ling Ye , Tianyi Mao , Qian Chen