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Recently an optical amplification process called the plasmon injection scheme was introduced as an effective solution to overcoming losses in metamaterials. Implementations with near-field imaging applications have indicated substantial…

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Imaging through scattering media is a fundamental and pervasive challenge in fields ranging from medical diagnostics to astronomy. A promising strategy to overcome this challenge is wavefront modulation, which induces measurement diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Mingyang Xie , Haiyun Guo , Brandon Y. Feng , Lingbo Jin , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Christopher A. Metzler

Image correction aims to adjust an input image into a visually pleasing one. Existing approaches are proposed mainly from the perspective of image pixel manipulation. They are not effective to recover the details in the under/over exposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Xin Yang , Ke Xu , Yibing Song , Qiang Zhang , Xiaopeng Wei , Rynson Lau

Astronomical adaptive optics systems with open-loop deformable mirror control have recently come on-line. In these systems, the deformable mirror surface is not included in the wavefront sensor paths, and so changes made to the deformable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Alastair Basden , Richard Myers , Eric Gendron

Multiple scattering of waves in disordered media is a nightmare whether it be for detection or imaging purposes. The best approach so far to get rid of multiple scattering is optical coherence tomography. It basically combines confocal…

We propose and demonstrate a new phase retrieval method for imaging through random media. Although methods to recover the Fourier amplitude through random distortions are well established, recovery of the Fourier phase has been a more…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-14 Byungjae Hwang , Taeseong Woo , Cheolwoo Ahn , Jung-Hoon Park

Image restoration is one of the most important areas in imaging science. Mathematical tools have been widely used in image restoration, where wavelet frame based approach is one of the successful examples. In this paper, we introduce a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Bin Dong , Zuowei Shen , Peichu Xie

Low-photon phase imaging is essential in applications where the signal is limited by short exposure times, faint targets, or the need to protect delicate samples. We address this challenge with Poisson Wavefront Imaging (PWI), an…

We consider the imaging problem of the reconstruction of a three-dimensional object via optical diffraction tomography under the assumptions of the Born approximation. Our focus lies in the situation that a rigid object performs an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Robert Beinert , Michael Quellmalz

Dynamic wavefront aberrations negatively impact a wide range of optical applications including astronomy, optical free-space telecommunications and bio-imaging. Wavefront errors can be compensated by an adaptive optics system comprised of a…

Change detection is one of the most challenging issues when analyzing remotely sensed images. Comparing several multi-date images acquired through the same kind of sensor is the most common scenario. Conversely, designing robust, flexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Vinicius Ferraris , Nicolas Dobigeon , Qi Wei , Marie Chabert

A solution to the inversion problem of scattering would offer aberration-free diffraction-limited 3D images without the resolution and depth-of-field limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. Powerful algorithms are increasingly being…

In real-world scenarios, image impairments often manifest as composite degradations, presenting a complex interplay of elements such as low light, haze, rain, and snow. Despite this reality, existing restoration methods typically target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yu Guo , Yuan Gao , Yuxu Lu , Huilin Zhu , Ryan Wen Liu , Shengfeng He

A transfer-matrix algorithm is presented herein as a beginning to study the transmission characteristics of coherent light through three-dimensional periodic microstructures, in which the structures are treated as two-dimensional-layer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 I. L. Ho , Y. C. Chang , W. Y. Li , M. T. Lee , C. Y. Yin

Exposure correction is one of the fundamental tasks in image processing and computational photography. While various methods have been proposed, they either fail to produce visually pleasing results, or only work well for limited types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Qing Zhang , Yongwei Nie , Wei-Shi Zheng

Atmospheric turbulence in long-range imaging significantly degrades the quality and fidelity of captured scenes due to random variations in both spatial and temporal dimensions. These distortions present a formidable challenge across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zhicheng Zou , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Recovering scene color from images captured in scattering media is a fundamental inverse problem in optical imaging. Yet the problem is intrinsically ill-posed as multiple solutions can explain the same observation, and prediction error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Grigory Solomatov , Derya Akkaynak

Coherent diffractive imaging is unique as the only route for achieving diffraction-limited spatial resolution in the extreme ultraviolet and X-ray regions, limited only by the wavelength of the light. Recently, advances in coherent short…

Image retargeting, which resizes images to one with a prescribed aspect ratio by determining an optimal warping map, has gained substantial interest in imaging science. Despite significant advances, existing methods often fail to ensure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Chengyang Liu , Michael K. Ng

Three-photon (3P) microscopy is getting traction due to its superior performance in deep tissues. Yet, aberrations and light scattering still pose one of the main limitations in the attainable depth ranges for high-resolution imaging. Here,…