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X-ray ptychography is a data-intensive imaging technique expected to become ubiquitous at next-generation light sources delivering many-fold increases in coherent flux. The need for real-time feedback under accelerated acquisition rates…

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models that iteratively denoise samples to produce data. While many works have focused on the number of iterations in this sampling procedure, few have focused on the cost of each…

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One of the most prominent challenges in the field of diffractive imaging is the phase retrieval (PR) problem: In order to reconstruct an object from its diffraction pattern, the inverse Fourier transform must be computed. This is only…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Simon Welker , Tal Peer , Henry N. Chapman , Timo Gerkmann

Ptychographic Coherent Diffractive Imaging enables diffraction-limited imaging of nanoscale structures at extreme ultraviolet and x-ray wavelengths, where high-quality image-forming optics are not available. However, its reliance on a set…

In conventional x-ray ptychography, diffraction data is collected by scanning a sample through a monochromatic, and spatially coherent, x-ray beam. A high-resolution image is then retrieved using an iterative algorithm. Combined with a scan…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-26 Wiebe Stolp , Silvia Cipiccia , Darren Batey , Matthieu Boone

X-ray Ptychography is an advanced computational microscopy technique which is delivering exceptionally detailed quantitative imaging of biological and nanotechnology specimens. However coarse parametrisation in propagation distance,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-20 Francesco Guzzi , George Kourousias , Fulvio Billè , Roberto Pugliese , Alessandra Gianoncelli , Sergio Carrato

Ptychography is a coherent diffraction imaging method that uses phase retrieval techniques to reconstruct complex-valued images. It achieves this by sequentially illuminating overlapping regions of a sample with a coherent beam and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-04 Alexander Denker , Johannes Hertrich , Zeljko Kereta , Silvia Cipiccia , Ecem Erin , Simon Arridge

Ptychography is a computational imaging technique that has risen in popularity in the x-ray and electron microscopy communities in the past half decade. One of the reasons for this success is the development of new high performance electron…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Anton Gladyshev , Thomas C. Pekin , Marcel Schloz , Benedikt Haas , Johannes Müller , Christoph T. Koch

Ptychography is a lensless imaging technique, which considers reconstruction from a set of far-field diffraction patterns obtained by illuminating small overlapping regions of the specimen. In many cases, a distribution of light inside the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-05 Frank Filbir , Oleh Melnyk

X-ray phase-contrast imaging enhances soft tissue visualization by leveraging the phase shift of X-rays passing through materials. It permits to minimize radiation exposure due to high contrast, as well as high resolution imaging limited by…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-13 Emilie Pietersoone , Jean Michel Létang , Simon Rit , Max Langer

X-ray ptychography is one of the versatile techniques for nanometer resolution imaging. The magnitude of the diffraction patterns is recorded on a detector and the phase of the diffraction patterns is estimated using phase retrieval…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-21 Prasan Shedligeri , Florian Schiffers , Semih Barutcu , Pablo Ruiz , Aggelos K Katsaggelos , Oliver Cossairt

We have demonstrated the capability of spectral multiplexing in multi-distance diffractive imaging, enabling the reconstruction of samples with diverse spectral responses. While previous methods like ptychography utilize redundancy in…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-31 Qijun You , Lingshuo Meng , Yun Gao , Qing Liao , Wei Cao , Peixiang Lu

Diffusion models are a remarkably effective way of learning and sampling from a distribution $p(x)$. In posterior sampling, one is also given a measurement model $p(y \mid x)$ and a measurement $y$, and would like to sample from $p(x \mid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Shivam Gupta , Ajil Jalal , Aditya Parulekar , Eric Price , Zhiyang Xun

Ptychography has become prominent at synchrotron facilities worldwide for characterizing biological and material specimens' topological structures and properties at the nanometer or atomic scale, due to its lens - less, highly quantitative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Tao Liu , Bingyang Wang , JiangTao Zhao , Maik Kahnt , Fucai Zhang

Many important microscopy samples, such as liquid crystals, biological tissue, or starches, are birefringent in nature. They scatter light differently depending on the light polarization and molecular orientations. The complete…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-26 Herve Hugonnet , Moosung Lee , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park

Diffraction tomography is an inverse scattering technique used to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the material properties of a weakly scattering object. The object is exposed to radiation, typically light or ultrasound, and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Clemens Kirisits , Noemi Naujoks , Otmar Scherzer

Inverse rendering, the process of inferring scene properties from images, is a challenging inverse problem. The task is ill-posed, as many different scene configurations can give rise to the same image. Most existing solutions incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Linjie Lyu , Ayush Tewari , Marc Habermann , Shunsuke Saito , Michael Zollhöfer , Thomas Leimkühler , Christian Theobalt

Diffusion Probabilistic Methods are employed for state-of-the-art image generation. In this work, we present a method for extending such models for performing image segmentation. The method learns end-to-end, without relying on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Tomer Amit , Tal Shaharbany , Eliya Nachmani , Lior Wolf

Computational imaging is increasingly vital for a broad spectrum of applications, ranging from biological to material sciences. This includes applications where the object is known and sufficiently sparse, allowing it to be described with a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Jacob Seifert , Yifeng Shao , Allard P. Mosk

Ptychography is an emerging imaging technique that is able to provide wavelength-limited spatial resolution from specimen with extended lateral dimensions. As a scanning microscopy method, a typical two-dimensional image requires a number…