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Event sensors output a stream of asynchronous brightness changes (called ``events'') at a very high temporal rate. Previous works on recovering the lost intensity information from the event sensor data have heavily relied on the event…

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Optical imaging of quantum emitters is essential for a wide range of quantum applications. Conventional confocal imaging relies on point-by-point raster scanning, which is inherently time-consuming and photon-inefficient, particularly for…

Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems (EISP) seek to reconstruct relative permittivity from scattered fields and are fundamental to applications like medical imaging. This inverse process is inherently ill-posed and highly nonlinear,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Yizhe Cheng , Chunxun Tian , Haoru Wang , Wentao Zhu , Xiaoxuan Ma , Yizhou Wang

Conventional approaches for 3D imaging in or through scattering media are usually limited to 2D reconstruction of objects at some discontinuous locations, although the time-consuming iteration, guide-star, or complex system are implemented.…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-26 Aiping Zhai , Yuancheng Li , Wenjing Zhao , Dong Wang

Complex amplitude measurement is an essential prerequisite for light field characterization. In this work, we propose a one-time measurement method to characterize the complex amplitude of symmetry superposed optical vortices (SSOVs) with…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Chen Wang , Yuan Ren

Imaging through a single optical fiber offers attractive possibilities in many applications such as microendoscopy or remote sensing. However, the direct transmission of an image through an optical fiber is difficult because spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-29 Roman Barankov , Jerome Mertz

We propose a numerical interferometry method for identification of optical multiply-scattering systems when only intensity can be measured. Our method simplifies the calibration of optical transmission matrices from a quadratic to a linear…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Sidharth Gupta , Rémi Gribonval , Laurent Daudet , Ivan Dokmanić

We lay the foundations for a new fast method to reconstruct the electron density in x-ray scanning applications using measurements in the dark field. This approach is applied to a type of machine configuration with fixed energy sensitive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-08 James Webber

Multiple scattering of waves in disordered media is a nightmare whether it be for detection or imaging purposes. The best approach so far to get rid of multiple scattering is optical coherence tomography. It basically combines confocal…

The presence of a scattering medium in the imaging path between an object and an observer is known to severely limit the visual acuity of the imaging system. We present an approach to circumvent the deleterious effects of scattering, by…

Incoherent Diffraction Imaging - IDI - is a diffraction-based imaging technique that has been recently proposed to exploit the partial coherence of incoherently scattered light to retrieve structural information from the scattering centers.…

Light scattering is the main limitation for optical imaging. However, light can be focused through or inside turbid media by spatially shaping the incident wavefront. Wavefront shaping is ultimately limited by the available photon budget.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-03-24 Bahareh Mastiani , Ivo M. Vellekoop

Spectral Doppler ultrasound imaging allows visualizing blood flow by estimating its velocity distribution over time. Duplex ultrasound is a modality in which an ultrasound system is used for displaying simultaneously both B-mode images and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Regev Cohen , Yonina C. Eldar

Light scattering in inhomogeneous media induces wavefront distortions which pose an inherent limitation in many optical applications. Examples range from microscopy and nanosurgery to astronomy. In recent years, ongoing efforts have made…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ori Katz , Yaron Bromberg , Eran Small , Yaron Silberberg

Image segmentation is an important task in the domain of computer vision and medical imaging. In natural and medical images, intensity inhomogeneity, i.e. the varying image intensity, occurs often and it poses considerable challenges for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-04 Raymond Chan , Hongfei Yang , Tieyong Zeng

Optical interferometers provide multiple wavelength measurements. In order to fully exploit the spectral and spatial resolution of these instruments, new algorithms for image reconstruction have to be developed. Early attempts to deal with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Éric Thiébaut , Ferréol Soulez , Loïc Denis

Image sensing often relies on a high-quality machine vision system with a large field of view and high resolution. It requires fine imaging optics, has high computational costs, and requires a large communication bandwidth between image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Xinrui Zhan , Xuyang Chang , Daoyu Li , Rong Yan , Yinuo Zhang , Liheng Bian

The microwave imaging based on inverse scattering strategy holds important promising in the science, engineering, and military applications. Here we present a compressed-sensing (CS) inspired large- aperture computational single-sensor…

Applied Physics · Physics 2017-05-29 Dapeng Lao , Lianlin Li , Jun Ding , Yun Bo Li , Tie Jun Cui

We study an inverse problem for the wave equation where localized wave sources in random scattering media are to be determined from time resolved measurements of the waves at an array of receivers. The sources are far from the array, so the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-18 Liliana Borcea , Ilker Kocyigit

Stellar amplitude interferometry is limited by the need to have optical distances fixed and known to a fraction of the wavelength. We suggest reviving intensity interferometry, which requires hardware which is many orders of magnitude less…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Aviv Ofir , Erez N. Ribak