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Capturing more information, e.g. geometry and material, using optical cameras can greatly help the perception and understanding of complex scenes. This paper proposes a novel method to capture the spectral and light field information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-27 Qian Huang , Yunqian Li , Linsen Chen , Xiaoming Zhong , Jinli Suo , Zhan Ma , Tao Yue , Xun Cao

Consumer light-field (LF) cameras suffer from a low or limited resolution because of the angular-spatial trade-off. To alleviate this drawback, we propose a novel learning-based approach utilizing attention mechanism to synthesize novel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 M. Shahzeb Khan Gul , Umair Mukati , Michel Bätz , Søren Forchhammer , Joachim Keinert

The segmentation of transparent objects can be very useful in computer vision applications. However, because they borrow texture from their background and have a similar appearance to their surroundings, transparent objects are not handled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-24 Yichao Xu , Hajime Nagahara , Atsushi Shimada , Rin-ichiro Taniguchi

MISTRAL is the new Faint Object Spectroscopic Camera mounted at the folded Cassegrain focus of the 1.93m telescope of Haute-Provence Observatory. We describe the design and components of the instrument and give some details about its…

Spectral cameras with integrated thin-film Fabry-P\'erot filters have become increasingly important in many applications. These applications often require the detection of spectral features at specific wavelengths or to quantify small…

Optics · Physics 2019-05-16 Thomas Goossens , Bert Geelen , Andy Lambrechts , Chris Van Hoof

Low-light image enhancement task is essential yet challenging as it is ill-posed intrinsically. Previous arts mainly focus on the low-light images captured in the visible spectrum using pixel-wise loss, which limits the capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shulin Tian , Yufei Wang , Renjie Wan , Wenhan Yang , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

In this work, we propose using camera arrays coupled with coherent illumination as an effective method of improving spatial resolution in long distance images by a factor of ten and beyond. Recent advances in ptychography have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-29 Jason Holloway , M. Salman Asif , Manoj Kumar Sharma , Nathan Matsuda , Roarke Horstmeyer , Oliver Cossairt , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Access to low cost retinal imaging devices in low and middle income countries is limited, compromising progress in preventing needless blindness. The Arclight is a recently developed low-cost solar powered direct ophthalmoscope which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Keylor Daniel Chaves Viquez , Ognjen Arandjelovic , Andrew Blaikie , In Ae Hwang

Optical photothermal microscopy is a powerful, emerging method that overcomes the diffraction limit in infrared hyperspectral imaging by utilizing a visible probe laser beam to detect local temperature-induced modulation at the visible…

The lensless pinhole camera is perhaps the earliest and simplest form of an imaging system using only a pinhole-sized aperture in place of a lens. They can capture an infinite depth-of-field and offer greater freedom from optical distortion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Joshua D. Rego , Huaijin Chen , Shuai Li , Jinwei Gu , Suren Jayasuriya

Optical blur is an inherent property of any lens system and is challenging to model in modern cameras because of their complex optical elements. To tackle this challenge, we introduce a high-dimensional neural representation of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Esther Y. H. Lin , Zhecheng Wang , Rebecca Lin , Daniel Miau , Florian Kainz , Jiawen Chen , Xuaner Cecilia Zhang , David B. Lindell , Kiriakos N. Kutulakos

A minimalist vision system uses the smallest number of pixels needed to solve a vision task. While traditional cameras use a large grid of square pixels, a minimalist camera uses freeform pixels that can take on arbitrary shapes to increase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jeremy Klotz , Shree K. Nayar

Thermal cameras are an important tool for agricultural research because they allow for non-invasive measurement of plant temperature, which relates to important photochemical, hydraulic, and agronomic traits. Utilizing low-cost thermal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Heesup Yun , Sassoum Lo , Christine H. Diepenbrock , Brian N. Bailey , J. Mason Earles

Light field (LF) images containing information for multiple views have numerous applications, which can be severely affected by low-light imaging. Recent learning-based methods for low-light enhancement have some disadvantages, such as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Shansi Zhang , Nan Meng , Edmund Y. Lam

This paper proposes a non-computational method of counteracting the effect of image degradation introduced by the diffraction phenomenon in lensless microscopy. All the optical images (whether focused by lenses or not) are diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab Kumar Dutta

We report the development and detailed calibration of a multiphoton fluorescence lifetime imaging system (FLIM) using a streak camera. The present system is versatile with high spatial (0.2 micron) and temporal (50 psec) resolution and…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 R. V. Krishnan , H. Saitoh , H. Terada , V. E. Centonze , B. Herman

Light field cameras have been proved to be powerful tools for 3D reconstruction and virtual reality applications. However, the limited resolution of light field images brings a lot of difficulties for further information display and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-27 Qingyan Sun , Shuo Zhang , Song Chang , Lixi Zhu , Youfang Lin

Significance: Access to diagnostic eye care could be expanded with high-throughput and easy-to-use tools. Phase mask-based imaging may improve the fundus camera by enabling computational refocusing with no moving parts. While phase…

Most computer vision systems and computational photography systems are visible light based which is a small fraction of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. In recent years radio frequency (RF) hardware has become more widely available, for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-15 Manikanta Kotaru , Guy Satat , Ramesh Raskar , Sachin Katti

We quantitatively investigate multiple algorithms for microlens array grid estimation for microlens array-based light field cameras. Explicitly taking into account natural and mechanical vignetting effects, we propose a new method for…

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