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Wave-front sensing from focal plane multiple images is a promising technique for high-contrast imaging systems. However, the wave-front error of an optics system can be properly reconstructed only when it is very small. This paper presents…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jiangpei Dou , Deqing Ren , Yongtian Zhu

When used with coherent light, optical imaging systems, even diffraction-limited, are inherently unable to reproduce both the amplitude and the phase of a two-dimensional field distribution because their impulse response function varies…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Brainis , C. Muldoon , L. Brandt , A. Kuhn

We propose a new compressive imaging method for reconstructing 2D or 3D objects from their scattered wave-field measurements. Our method relies on a novel, nonlinear measurement model that can account for the multiple scattering phenomenon,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Hsiou-Yuan Liu , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Dehong Liu , Hassan Mansour , Petros T. Boufounos

In optical tomography a physical body is illuminated with near-infrared light and the resulting outward photon flux is measured at the object boundary. The goal is to reconstruct internal optical properties of the body, such as absorption…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Antti Hannukainen , Lauri Harhanen , Nuutti Hyvönen , Helle Majander

End-to-end optimization, which simultaneously optimizes optics and algorithms, has emerged as a powerful data-driven method for computational imaging system design. This method achieves joint optimization through backpropagation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Chi-Jui Ho , Yash Belhe , Steve Rotenberg , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Tzu-Mao Li , Nicholas Antipa

Aiming at the problems of color distortion, blur and excessive noise of underwater image, an underwater image enhancement algorithm based on structure-texture reconstruction is proposed. Firstly, the color equalization of the degraded image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-14 Sen Lin , Kaichen Chi

Metalenses offer a path toward creating ultra-thin optical systems, but they inherently suffer from severe, spatially varying optical aberrations, especially chromatic aberration, which makes image reconstruction a significant challenge.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Harshana Weligampola , Yuanrui Chen , Weiheng Tang , Qi Guo , Stanley H. Chan

This tutorial paper describes the problem of image reconstruction from interferometric data with a particular focus on the specific problems encountered at optical (visible/IR) wavelengths. The challenging issues in image reconstruction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-20 Éric Thiébaut , Jean-François Giovannelli

An optical imaging system forms an object image by recollecting light scattered by the object. However, intact optical information of the object delivered through the imaging system is deteriorated by imperfect optical elements and unwanted…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-28 SangYun Lee , Kyeoreh Lee , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park

Image reconstruction under multiple light scattering is crucial in a number of applications such as diffraction tomography. The reconstruction problem is often formulated as a nonconvex optimization, where a nonlinear measurement model is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Yu Sun , Zhihao Xia , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

The image reconstruction of partially coherent light is interpreted as the quantum state reconstruction. The efficient method based on maximum-likelihood estimation is proposed to acquire information from registered intensity measurements…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-22 M. Jezek , Z. Hradil

This contribution deals with image restoration in optical systems with coherent illumination, which is an important topic in astronomy, coherent microscopy and radar imaging. Such optical systems suffer from wavefront distortions, which are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-04 Claudius Zelenka , Reinhard Koch

Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Philipp M Pelz , Hamish G Brown , Jim Ciston , Scott D Findlay , Yaqian Zhang , Mary Scott , Colin Ophus

We consider the problem of blind ptychography, that is the joint estimation of an unknown object and an illumination function from diffraction intensity measurements. In ptychography, diffraction measurements from neighboring regions of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-04 Stefano Marchesini , Hau-Tieng Wu

Reconstruction of in-line holograms of unknown objects in general suffers from twin-image artifacts due to the appearance of an out-of-focus image overlapping with the desired image to be reconstructed. Computer-based iterative phase…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-28 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Aydogan Ozcan

An unbiased method for improving the resolution of astronomical images is presented. The strategy at the core of this method is to establish a linear transformation between the recorded image and an improved image at some desirable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 F. P. Pijpers

We propose a new technique for estimating spatially varying parametric materials from a single image of an object with unknown shape in unknown illumination. Our method uses a low-order parametric reflectance model, and incorporates strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Kevin Karsch , David Forsyth

This paper presents an innovative framework designed to train an image deblurring algorithm tailored to a specific camera device. This algorithm works by transforming a blurry input image, which is challenging to deblur, into another blurry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Bang-Dang Pham , Phong Tran , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham , Rang Nguyen , Minh Hoai

Moving objects are frequently seen in daily life and usually appear blurred in images due to their motion. While general object retrieval is a widely explored area in computer vision, it primarily focuses on sharp and static objects, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Rong Zou , Marc Pollefeys , Denys Rozumnyi

Coherent diffraction imaging methods enable imaging beyond lens-imposed resolution limits. In these methods, the object can be recovered by minimizing an error metric that quantifies the difference between diffraction patterns as observed,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Saugat Kandel , S. Maddali , Marc Allain , Stephan O. Hruszkewycz , Chris Jacobsen , Youssef S G Nashed