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Space objects in Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) present significant detection challenges in optical imaging due to weak signals, complex stellar backgrounds, and environmental interference. In this paper, we enhance high-frequency features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Xiaoqing Lan , Biqiao Xin , Bingshu Wang , Han Zhang , Rui Zhu , Laixian Zhang

Common methods to achieve photon number resolution rely on fast on-off single-photon detectors in conjunction with temporal or spatial mode multiplexing. Yet, these methods suffer from an inherent trade-off between the efficiency of photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Anton N. Vetlugin , Filippo Martinelli , Shuyu Dong , Cesare Soci

We propose a new algorithm for real-time detection and tracking of elliptic patterns suitable for real-world robotics applications. The method fits ellipses to each contour in the image frame and rejects ellipses that do not yield a good…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Azarakhsh Keipour , Guilherme A. S. Pereira , Sebastian Scherer

We tackle a new task of few-shot object counting and detection. Given a few exemplar bounding boxes of a target object class, we seek to count and detect all objects of the target class. This task shares the same supervision as the few-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-29 Thanh Nguyen , Chau Pham , Khoi Nguyen , Minh Hoai

We present a scheme for a photon-counting detection system that can be operated at incident photon rates higher than otherwise possible by suppressing the effects of detector deadtime. The method uses an array of N detectors and a 1-by-N…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Castelletto , I. P. Degiovanni , V. Schettini , A. Migdall

In this paper we presented the modified algorithm for astrometric reduction of the wide-field images. This algorithm is based on the iterative using of the method of ordinary least squares (OLS) and statistical Student t-criterion. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Volodymyr Akhmetov , Sergii Khlamov , Vladislav Khramtsov , Artem Dmytrenko

Optical absorption imaging is a basic detection technique for obtaining information from matter waves, in which the absorption signal can be obtained by comparing the recorded detection light field with the light field in the presence of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-03 Linxiao Niu , Xinxin Guo , Yuan Zhan , Xuzong Chen , W. M. Liu , Xiaoji Zhou

In a few years, the second generation instruments of the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) will routinely provide observations with 4 to 6 telescopes simultaneously. To reach their ultimate performance, they will need a fringe…

Standard decoding approaches for convolutional codes, such as the Viterbi and BCJR algorithms, entail significant complexity when correcting synchronization errors. The situation worsens when multiple received sequences should be jointly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Anisha Banerjee , Lorenz Welter , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Antonia Wachter-Zeh , Eirik Rosnes

In this paper, we propose a new approach to automatically retrieve the first-order design of double-sided telecentric zoom systems with high efficiency based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithms. We transform the design problem…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-28 Zichao Fan , Shili Wei , Zhengbo Zhu , Yan Mo , Yiming Yan , Donglin Ma

The increasing demand for wireless communication services has led to the development of non-terrestrial networks, which enables various air and space applications. Free-space optical (FSO) communication is considered one of the essential…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Hyung-Joo Moon , Chan-Byoung Chae , Kai-Kit Wong , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and multiple-input single-output (MISO) schemes have yielded promising results in free space optical (FSO) communications by providing diversity against fading of the received signal intensity. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-02 Muhammad Salman Bashir , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

A novel search method for large polarization kernels is proposed. The algorithm produces a kernel with given partial distances by employing the depth-first search combined with the computation of coset leaders weight tables and sufficient…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Grigorii Trofimiuk

Acquisition and tracking systems form an important component of free-space optical communications due to directional nature of the optical signal. Acquisition subsystems are needed in order to search and locate the receiver terminal in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Muhammad Salman Bashir , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this article, a novel fast randomized subspace system identification method for estimating combined deterministic-stochastic LTI state-space models, is proposed. The algorithm is especially well-suited to identify high-order and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Vatsal Kedia , Debraj Chakraborty

We present the software system developed to implement the Locus Algorithm, a novel algorithm designed to maximise the performance of differential photometry systems by optimising the number and quality of reference stars in the Field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-12 Kevin Nolan , Eugene Hickey , Oisín Creaner

Given n subspaces of a finite-dimensional vector space over a fixed finite field $\mathbb F$, we wish to find a linear layout $V_1,V_2,\ldots,V_n$ of the subspaces such that $\dim((V_1+V_2+\cdots+V_i) \cap (V_{i+1}+\cdots+V_n))\le k$ for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Jisu Jeong , Eun Jung Kim , Sang-il Oum

We propose and demonstrate a photon-efficient optical classifier to overcome the Rayleigh limit in spatial resolution. It utilizes mode-selective sum frequency generation and single-pixel photon detection to resolve closely spaced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 He Zhang , Santosh Kumar , Yu-Ping Huang

In this paper we derive a multi-sensor multi-Bernoulli (MS-MeMBer) filter for multi-target tracking. Measurements from multiple sensors are employed by the proposed filter to update a set of tracks modeled as a multi-Bernoulli random finite…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-11 Augustin-Alexandru Saucan , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

In recent years, the use of object proposal as a preprocessing step for target detection to improve computational efficiency has become an effective method. Good object proposal methods should have high object detection recall rate and low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Jiang Chao , Liang Huawei , Wang Zhiling