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This letter is focused on the design and analysis of computational wideband time-reversal imaging algorithms, designed to be adaptive with respect to the noise levels pertaining to the frequencies being employed for scene probing. These…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 D. Ciuonzo

Optical imaging of the intensity, phase and polarization distributions of optical field is fundamental to numerous applications. Traditional methods rely on bulky optical components and require multiple measurements. Recently,…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-19 Yanjun Bao , Baojun Li

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 work is concerned with optical imaging in strongly diffusive environments. We consider a typical setting in optical coherence tomography where a sample is probed by a collection of wavefields produced by a laser and propagating through…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-10 Randy Bartels , Olivier Pinaud , Maxine Varughese

Conventional intensity cameras recover objects in the direct line-of-sight of the camera, whereas occluded scene parts are considered lost in this process. Non-line-of-sight imaging (NLOS) aims at recovering these occluded objects by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Wenzheng Chen , Simon Daneau , Fahim Mannan , Felix Heide

Reflection phase imaging provides label-free, high-resolution characterization of biological samples, typically using interferometric-based techniques. Here, we investigate reflection phase microscopy from intensity-only measurements under…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-18 Alex Matlock , Anne Sentenac , Patrick C. Chaumet , Ji Yi , Lei Tian

Traditional paradigms for imaging rely on the use of a spatial structure, either in the detector (pixels arrays) or in the illumination (patterned light). Removal of the spatial structure in the detector or illumination, i.e., imaging with…

Sparsity regularization has garnered significant interest across multiple disciplines, including statistics, imaging, and signal processing. Standard techniques for addressing sparsity regularization include iterative soft thresholding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Long Li , Liang Ding

The wavefront is scrambled when coherent light propagates through a random scattering medium and which makes direct use of the conventional optical methods ineffective. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a structured light…

Microwave imaging is commonly based on the solution of linearized inverse scattering problems by matched filtering algorithms, i.e., by applying the adjoint of the forward scattering operator to the observation data. A more rigorous…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-23 Matthias M. Saurer , Han Na , Marius Brinkmann , Thomas F. Eibert

Non-invasive detection of objects embedded inside an optically scattering medium is essential for numerous applications in engineering and sciences. However, in most applications light at visible or near-infrared wavebands is scattered by…

An efficient nonlinear contrast source inversion scheme for electromagnetic imaging of sparse two-dimensional investigation domains is proposed. To avoid generating a sequence of linear sparse optimization problems, the non-linearity is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-13 Ali I. Sandhu , Abdulla Desmal , Hakan Bagci

Dynamic scattering remains a significant challenge to the practical deployment of anti-scattering imaging. Existing methods, such as transmission matrix measurements, iterative wavefront shaping, and optical phase conjugation, depend on a…

Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Time-resolved single photon imaging is a promising imaging modality characterized by the unique capability of timestamping the arrivals of single photons. Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) are the leading technology for implementing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Aleksi Suonsivu , Lauri Salmela , Edoardo Peretti , Leevi Uosukainen , Radu Ciprian Bilcu , Giacomo Boracchi

This paper presents two approaches for filter design based on stochastic distances for intensity speckle reduction. A window is defined around each pixel, overlapping samples are compared and only those which pass a goodness-of-fit test are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-21 Leonardo Torres , Alejandro C. Frery

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…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Philipp M Pelz , Hamish G Brown , Jim Ciston , Scott D Findlay , Yaqian Zhang , Mary Scott , Colin Ophus

In this paper we analyze an imaging technique based on intensity speckle correlations over incident field position proposed in [J. A. Newmann and K. J. Webb, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 263903 (2014)]. Its purpose is to reconstruct a field…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Josselin Garnier , Knut Solna

Optical tweezers can manipulate tiny particles. However, the distortion caused by the scattering medium restricts the applications of optical tweezers. Wavefront shaping techniques including the transmission matrix (TM) method are powerful…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-17 Kaige Liu , Hengkang Zhang , Shanshan Du , Zeqi Liu , Bin Zhang , Xing Fu , Qiang Liu

We experimentally demonstrate a non-imaging approach to displacement measurement for complex scattering materials. By spatially controlling the wave front of the light that incidents on the material we concentrate the scattered light in a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. G. van Putten , A. Lagendijk , A. P. Mosk