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This paper considers a compressive multi-spectral light field camera model that utilizes a one-hot spectralcoded mask and a microlens array to capture spatial, angular, and spectral information using a single monochrome sensor. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Wen Cao , Ehsan Miandji , Jonas Unger

Modern cameras with large apertures often suffer from a shallow depth of field, resulting in blurry images of objects outside the focal plane. This limitation is particularly problematic for fixed-focus cameras, such as those used in smart…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xinge Yang , Chuong Nguyen , Wenbin Wang , Kaizhang Kang , Wolfgang Heidrich , Xiaoxing Li

Wide-field lensfree on-chip microscopy, which leverages holography principles to capture interferometric light-field encodings without lenses, is an emerging imaging modality with widespread interest given the large field-of-view compared…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-31 Farnoud Kazemzadeh , Alexander Wong

Cross-grating phase microscopy (CGM) is a quantitative phase microscopy technique based on the association of a 2-dimensional diffraction grating (cross-grating) and a regular camera sensor, separated by a millimetric distance. This simple…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-04 Baptiste Marthy , Guillaume Baffou

Clio is an adaptive-optics camera mounted on the 6.5 meter MMT optimized for diffraction-limited L' and M-band imaging over a ~15'' field. The instrument was designed from the ground up with a large well-depth, fast readout thermal infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Sivanandam , P. M. Hinz , A. N. Heinze , M. Freed , A. H. Breuninger

We present a compact, diffuser-assisted, single-pixel computational camera. A rotating ground glass diffuser is adopted, in preference to a commonly used digital micro-mirror device (DMD), to encode a two-dimensional (2D) image into…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-04 Baolei Liu , Fan Wang , Chaohao Chen , David McGloin

Multi-spectral imagers reveal information unperceivable to humans and conventional cameras. Here, we demonstrate a compact single-shot multi-spectral video-imaging camera by placing a micro-structured diffractive filter in close proximity…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-14 Peng Wang , Rajesh Menon

Traditional glass-based optics are typically optimized for narrow spectral bands, such as the visible (400-700nm) or shortwave infrared (1000-1800nm). While the emergence of VIS-SWIR sensors (400-1700nm) offers transformative potential,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Vishwanath Saragadam , Niki Nezakati , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Vivek Boominathan

Light-field imaging facilitates the miniaturization of 3D cameras while it requires the extension of the depth-of-field (DoF) for practical applications such as endoscopy and intraoral scanning. Here we report a light-field camera (LFC)…

Optics · Physics 2022-03-21 Jae-Myeong Kwon , Sang-In Bae , Taehan Kim , Jeong Kun Kim , Ki-Hun Jeong

Multifocal plane microscopy (MUM) allows three dimensional objects to be imaged in a single camera frame. Our approach uses dual orthogonal diffraction phase gratings with a quadratic distortion of the lines to apply defocus to the first…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-13 Benjamin Gore , Noah Schwartz , Paul Dalgarno

Light field (LF) image super-resolution (SR) aims at reconstructing high-resolution LF images from their low-resolution counterparts. Although CNN-based methods have achieved remarkable performance in LF image SR, these methods cannot fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Zhengyu Liang , Yingqian Wang , Longguang Wang , Jungang Yang , Shilin Zhou

In recent years, consumer-level depth cameras have been adopted for various applications. However, they often produce depth maps at only a moderately high frame rate (approximately 30 frames per second), preventing them from being used for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Ming-Ze Yuan , Lin Gao , Hongbo Fu , Shihong Xia

Low-field (LF) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) improves accessibility and reduces costs but generally has lower signal-to-noise ratios and degraded contrast compared to high field (HF) MRI, limiting its clinical utility. Simulating LF MRI…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Ziqi Gao , Nicha Dvornek , Xiaoran Zhang , Gigi Galiana , Hemant Tagare , Todd Constable

Long-exposure stellar images recorded with large ground-based telescopes are blurred due to the turbulent nature of the atmosphere. The VLT employs active and adaptive optics (AO) systems to compensate for the deleterious effects of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-29 Sridharan Rengaswamy , Julien Girard , Willem-Jan de Wit , Henri Boffin

We report on a new x-ray imaging method, which combines the high spatial resolution of coherent diffraction imaging with the ability of dark field microscopy to map grains within thick polycrystalline specimens. An x-ray objective serves to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-07-15 Anders Filsøe Pedersen , Virginie Chamard , Carsten Detlefs , Tao Zhou , Dina Carbone , Henning Friis Poulsen

Accurate calibration of internal parameters is a crucial yet challenging prerequisite for 3D reconstruction using light field cameras. In this paper, we propose a linear fractional transformation(LFT) parameter $\alpha$ to decoupled the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zhong Chen , Changfeng Chen

Multispectral cameras capture images in multiple wavelengths in narrow spectral bands. They offer advanced sensing well beyond normal cameras and many single sensor based multispectral cameras have been commercialized aimed at a broad range…

Light-field cameras play a vital role for rich 3-D information retrieval in narrow range depth sensing applications. The key obstacle in composing light-fields from exposures taken by a plenoptic camera is to computationally calibrate,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Christopher Hahne , Amar Aggoun

Overcoming the trade-off between wide field of view (FOV) and compactness remains a central challenge for integrating near-infrared (NIR) imaging into smartphones and AR glasses. Existing refractive NIR optics cannot simultaneously achieve…

Light field (LF) cameras record both intensity and directions of light rays, and capture scenes from a number of viewpoints. Both information within each perspective (i.e., spatial information) and among different perspectives (i.e.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Yingqian Wang , Longguang Wang , Jungang Yang , Wei An , Jingyi Yu , Yulan Guo