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Image quality is the basis of image communication and understanding tasks. Due to the blur and noise effects caused by imaging, transmission and other processes, the image quality is degraded. Blind image restoration is widely used to…

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Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear…

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Decomposing an object's appearance into representations of its materials and the surrounding illumination is difficult, even when the object's 3D shape is known beforehand. This problem is especially challenging for diffuse objects: it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Dor Verbin , Ben Mildenhall , Peter Hedman , Jonathan T. Barron , Todd Zickler , Pratul P. Srinivasan

The quantum analogue of ptychography, a powerful coherent diffractive imaging technique, is a simple method for reconstructing $d$-dimensional pure states. It relies on measuring partially overlapping parts of the input state in a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 M. F. Fernandes , M. A. Solís-Prosser , L. Neves

Medical images often incorporate doctor-added markers that can hinder AI-based diagnosis. This issue highlights the need of inpainting techniques to restore the corrupted visual contents. However, existing methods require manual mask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Xuechen Guo , Wenhao Hu , Chiming Ni , Wenhao Chai , Shiyan Li , Gaoang Wang

Ghost imaging leverages a single-pixel detector with no spatial resolution to acquire object echo intensity signals, which are correlated with illumination patterns to reconstruct an image. This architecture inherently mitigates scattering…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yue-Gang Li , Ze Zheng , Jun-jie Wang , Ming He , Jianping Fan , Tailong Xiao , Guihua Zeng

In this paper, we consider the highly ill-posed problem of jointly recovering two real-valued signals from the phaseless measurements of their circular convolution. The problem arises in various imaging modalities such as Fourier…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Fahad Shamshad , Ali Ahmed

Using diffusion models to solve inverse problems is a growing field of research. Current methods assume the degradation to be known and provide impressive results in terms of restoration quality and diversity. In this work, we leverage the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Charles Laroche , Andrés Almansa , Eva Coupete

We present a novel method for efficient acquisition of shape and spatially varying reflectance of 3D objects using polarization cues. Unlike previous works that have exploited polarization to estimate material or object appearance under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Valentin Deschaintre , Yiming Lin , Abhijeet Ghosh

By circumventing the resolution limitations of optics, coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) and ptychography are making their way into scientific fields ranging from X-ray imaging to astronomy. Yet, the need for time consuming iterative phase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Oliver Hoidn , Aashwin Ananda Mishra , Apurva Mehta

We present the experimental reconstruction of sub-wavelength features from the far-field intensity of sparse optical objects: sparsity-based sub-wavelength imaging combined with phase-retrieval. As examples, we demonstrate the recovery of…

Image restoration is the task of recovering a clean image from a degraded version. In most cases, the degradation is spatially varying, and it requires the restoration network to both localize and restore the affected regions. In this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Maitreya Suin , Kuldeep Purohit , A. N. Rajagopalan

Existing image enhancement methods fall short of expectations because with them it is difficult to improve global and local image contrast simultaneously. To address this problem, we propose a histogram equalization-based method that adapts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Xiaomeng Wu , Takahito Kawanishi , Kunio Kashino

Non-line-of-sight imaging has attracted more attentions for its wide applications.Even though ultrasensitive cameras or detectors with high time-resolution are available, current back-projection methods are still powerless to acquire a…

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Image-based relighting, projector compensation and depth/normal reconstruction are three important tasks of projector-camera systems (ProCams) and spatial augmented reality (SAR). Although they share a similar pipeline of finding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Bingyao Huang , Haibin Ling

Computational ghost imaging retrieves the spatial information of a scene using a single pixel detector. By projecting a series of known random patterns and measuring the back reflected intensity for each one, it is possible to reconstruct a…

Image Phase Alignment Super-sampling (ImPASS) is a computational method for combining displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The general steps include measuring the relative displacements, up-sampling, aligning…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 James N. Caron

The appearance of an object is significantly affected by the illumination conditions in the environment. This is more evident with strong reflective objects as they suffer from more dominant specular reflections, causing information loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Samar M. Alsaleh , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Noemie Debroux , James K. Hahn

Recovering the 3D geometry of a purely texture-less object with generally unknown surface reflectance (e.g. non-Lambertian) is regarded as a challenging task in multi-view reconstruction. The major obstacle revolves around establishing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Ziang Cheng , Hongdong Li , Yuta Asano , Yinqiang Zheng , Imari Sato

Ptychography employs a set of diffraction patterns that capture redundant information about an illuminated specimen as a localized beam is moved over the specimen. The robustness of this method comes from the redundancy of the dataset that…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-27 Tega Boro Edo