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This study explores the use of photometric techniques (shape-from-shading and uncalibrated photometric stereo) for upsampling the low-resolution depth map from an RGB-D sensor to the higher resolution of the companion RGB image. A…

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Single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are an emerging technology with a unique capability of capturing individual photons with high timing precision. SPADs are being used in several active imaging systems (e.g., fluorescence lifetime…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-25 Atul Ingle , Andreas Velten , Mohit Gupta

Single-photon detectors are an essential part of the toolbox of modern quantum optics for implementing quantum technologies and enabling tests of fundamental physics. The low energy of microwave photons, the natural signal path for…

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Three-dimensional imaging plays an important role in imaging applications where it is necessary to record depth. The number of applications that use depth imaging is increasing rapidly, and examples include self-driving autonomous vehicles…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Alice Ruget , Stephen McLaughlin , Robert K. Henderson , Istvan Gyongy , Abderrahim Halimi , Jonathan Leach

Single-Photon Image Super-Resolution (SPISR) aims to recover a high-resolution volumetric photon counting cube from a noisy low-resolution one by computational imaging algorithms. In real-world scenarios, pairs of training samples are often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Yiwei Chen , Chen Jiang , Yu Pan

A new algorithmic framework is presented for holographic phase retrieval via maximum likelihood optimization, which allows for practical and robust image reconstruction. This framework is especially well-suited for holographic coherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 David A. Barmherzig , Ju Sun

We demonstrate photon-counting single-pixel imaging in the ultraviolet region. Toward this target, we develop a high-performance compact single-photon detector based on a 4H-SiC single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), where a tailored readout…

Synthesizing a densely sampled light field from a single image is highly beneficial for many applications. The conventional method reconstructs a depth map and relies on physical-based rendering and a secondary network to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Andre Ivan , Williem , In Kyu Park

This paper considers the problem of single image depth estimation. The employment of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) has recently brought about significant advancements in the research of this problem. However, most existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Junjie Hu , Mete Ozay , Yan Zhang , Takayuki Okatani

Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) has been widely applied to 3D imaging in challenging scenarios. However, limited signal photon counts and high noises in the collected data have posed great challenges for predicting the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Gongxin Yao , Yiwei Chen , Yong Liu , Xiaomin Hu , Yu Pan

This paper discusses new methods for processing images in the photon-limited regime where the number of photons per pixel is binary. We present a new Bayesian denoising method for binary, single-photon images. Each pixel measurement is…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-19 Yoann Altmann , Reuben Aspden , Miles Padgett , Steve McLaughlin

The extraction of information carried by light plays an increasingly important role in optical communication, imaging, and detection. However, the information can only be successfully extracted when the light pulse is comparably strong,…

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Image composition is an important operation to create visual content. Among image composition tasks, image blending aims to seamlessly blend an object from a source image onto a target image with lightly mask adjustment. A popular approach…

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Under weak illumination, tracking and imaging moving object turns out to be hard. By spatially collecting the signal, single pixel imaging schemes promise the capability of image reconstruction from low photon flux. However, due to the…

Depth completion is an important vision task, and many efforts have been made to enhance the quality of depth maps from sparse depth measurements. Despite significant advances, training these models to recover dense depth from sparse…

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Single-photon light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is a key technology for depth imaging through complex environments. Despite recent advances, an open challenge is the ability to isolate the LiDAR signal from other spurious sources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Jiuxuan Zhao , Ashley Lyons , Arin Can Ulku , Hugo Defienne , Daniele Faccio , Edoardo Charbon

Single-photon sensing has generated great interest as a prominent technique of long-distance and ultra-sensitive imaging, however, it tends to yield sparse and spatially biased point clouds, thus limiting its practical utility. In this…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-19 Jinyi Liu , Guoyang Zhao , Lijun Liu , Yiguang Hong , Weiping Zhang , Shuming Cheng

Long-range active imaging has widespread applications in remote sensing and target recognition. Single-photon light detection and ranging (lidar) has been shown to have high sensitivity and temporal resolution. On the application front,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Zheng-Ping Li , Jun-Tian Ye , Xin Huang , Peng-Yu Jiang , Yuan Cao , Yu Hong , Chao Yu , Jun Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

The depth of a visible surface of a scene is the distance between the surface and the sensor. Recovering depth information from two-dimensional images of a scene is an important task in computer vision that can assist numerous applications…

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Estimating a scene's depth to achieve collision avoidance against moving pedestrians is a crucial and fundamental problem in the robotic field. This paper proposes a novel, low complexity network architecture for fast and accurate human…

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