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Ghost imaging (GI) is an intriguing imaging technology which achieves the object images through intensity correlation between reference patterns and bucket signal. Here, we propose a probability model to explain the imaging mechanism of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Wen-Kai Yu , Jian Leng

Ghost imaging can capture 2D images with a point detector instead of an array sensor. It therefore offers a solution to the challenge of building area format sensors in wavebands where such sensors are difficult and expensive to produce and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Baolei Liu , Fan Wang , Chaohao Chen , Fei Dong , David McGloin

We present an imaging framework which converts three images from a gated camera into high-resolution depth maps with depth accuracy comparable to pulsed lidar measurements. Existing scanning lidar systems achieve low spatial resolution at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Tobias Gruber , Frank Julca-Aguilar , Mario Bijelic , Werner Ritter , Klaus Dietmayer , Felix Heide

In certain applications or wavelength regimes, essential optical components for imaging systems are either unavailable or challenging to fabricate. To address this, we propose an optics-free classical ghost imaging (GI) scheme utilizing…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yuhan Guo , Xiangyu Yin , Chunguang Meng , Liming Li , Huiqiang Liu

Ghost imaging radar is a new system of gaze imaging radar with high detection sensitivity, super-resolution and better anti-interference performance, but the relative motion between the radar system and the target will make the target…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Yuliang Li

Ghost imaging (GI) is a novel imaging technique based on the second-order correlation of light fields. Due to limited number of samplings in practice, traditional GI methods often reconstruct objects with unsatisfactory quality. To improve…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Chenyu Hu , Zhisheng Tong , Zhentao Liu , Zengfeng Huang , Jian Wang , Shensheng Han

Ghost imaging needs massive measurements to obtain an image with good visibility and the imaging speed is usually very low. In order to realize real-time high-resolution ghost imaging of a target which is located in a scenario with a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Cheng Zhou , Tian Tian , Chao Gao , Wenli Gong , Lijun Song

Imaging with hard x-rays is an invaluable tool in medicine, biology, materials science, and cultural heritage. Propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography have been mostly used to resolve micrometer-scale structures inside…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Margie P. Olbinado , David M. Paganin , Yin Cheng , Alexander Rack

Ghost imaging LiDAR via sparsity constraints using push-broom scanning is proposed. It can image the stationary target scene continuously along the scanning direction by taking advantage of the relative movement between the platform and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Shuang Ma , Zhentao Liu , Chenglong Wang , Chenyu Hu , Enrong Li , Wenlin Gong , Zhishen Tong , Jianrong Wu , Xia Shen , Shensheng Han

Experimental data with digital masks and a theoretical analysis are presented for an imaging scheme that we call time-correspondence differential ghost imaging (TCDGI). It is shown that by conditional averaging of the information from the…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-25 Ming-Fei Li , Yu-Ran Zhang , Kai-Hong Luo , Ling-An Wu , Heng Fan

Compared with two-dimensional imaging, three-dimensional imaging is much more advantageous to catch the characteristic information of the target for remote sensing. We report a range-resolving ghost imaging ladar system together with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Wenlin Gong , Chengqiang Zhao , Jia Jiao , Enrong Li , Mingliang Chen , Hui Wang , Wendong Xu , Shensheng Han

Benefit from the promising features of second-order correlation, ghost imaging (GI) has received extensive attentions in recent years. Simultaneously, GI is affected by the poor trade-off between sampling rate and imaging quality. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-29 Yuchen He , Sihong Duan , Jianxing Li , Hui Chen , Huaibin Zheng , Jianbin Liu , Yu Zhou , Zhuo Xu

X-ray Fluorescence Ghost Imaging (XRF-GI) was recently demonstrated for x-ray lab sources. It has the potential to reduce acquisition time and deposited dose by choosing their trade-off with spatial resolution, while alleviating the…

This paper presents a novel scheme to efficiently compress Light Detection and Ranging~(LiDAR) point clouds, enabling high-precision 3D scene archives, and such archives pave the way for a detailed understanding of the corresponding 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Akihiro Kuwabara , Sorachi Kato , Toshiaki Koike-Akino , Takuya Fujihashi

Coherent LiDAR (Light Detecting And Ranging) is a promising 3D imaging technology that provides significant advantages over more traditional LiDAR systems. In addition to being immune to ambient light, it directly measures the velocity of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Alexander Y. Piggott

Temporal Ghost Imaging (TGI), which reconstructs fast temporal signals using a slow detector, holds significant potential in optical communication, high-speed imaging, and quantum information processing. However, achieving high-quality…

In this paper, we propose an advanced framework of ghost edge imaging, named compressed ghost edge imaging (CGEI). In the scheme, a set of structured speckle patterns with pixel shifting are illuminated on an unknown object, and the output…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Hui Guo , Le Wang , Shengmei Zhao

In this letter, we proposed a ghost imaging (GI) and distributed antennas based microwave surveillance scheme. By analyzing its imaging resolution and sampling requirement, the potential of employing microwave GI to achieve high-quality…

Applications · Statistics 2016-12-21 Xiaopeng Wang , Zihuai Lin

Global Illumination (GI) is of utmost importance in the field of photo-realistic rendering. However, its computation has always been very complex, especially diffuse GI. State of the art real-time GI methods have limitations of different…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jinkai Hu , Milo Yip , G. Elias Alonso , Shihao Gu , Xiangjun Tang , Xiaogang Jin

Quantum Ghost Imaging (QGI) is an intriguing imaging protocol that exploits photon-pair correlations stemming from spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). QGI retrieves images from two-path joint measurements, where single-path…