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Ghost imaging is a developing imaging technique that employs random masks to image a sample. Ghost projection utilizes ghost-imaging concepts to perform the complementary procedure of projection of a desired image. The key idea underpinning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 David Ceddia , David M. Paganin

We experimentally demonstrate pseudothermal ghost imaging and ghost diffraction using only a single single-pixel detector. We achieve this by replacing the high resolution detector of the reference beam with a computation of the propagating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yaron Bromberg , Ori Katz , Yaron Silberberg

Ghost imaging is a method to nonlocally image an object by transmitting pairs of entangled photons through the object and a reference optical system respectively. We present a theoretical analysis of the quantum noise in this imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jing Cheng , Shensheng Han

Since its discovery, the "ghost" diffraction phenomenon has emerged as a non-conventional technique for optical imaging with very promising advantages. However, extracting intensity and phase information of a structured and realistic object…

The extraction of information carried by light plays an increasingly important role in optical communication, imaging, and detection. However, the information can only be successfully extracted when the light pulse is comparably strong,…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-25 Zhen Yang , Zeng-Quan Yan , Li Wang , Xiao-Wei Wang , Ka-Di Zhu , Xian-Min Jin

One of the possible types of n-th order ghost imaging is experimentally performed using multi-photon (higher-order) intensity correlations of pseudothermal light. It is shown that although increasing the order of intensity correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 I. N. Agafonov , M. V. Chekhova , A. N. Penin

This paper discusses new methods for processing images in the photon-limited regime where the number of photons per pixel is binary. We present a new Bayesian denoising method for binary, single-photon images. Each pixel measurement is…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-19 Yoann Altmann , Reuben Aspden , Miles Padgett , Steve McLaughlin

Recent work has indicated that ghost imaging may have applications in standoff sensing. However, most theoretical work has addressed transmission-based ghost imaging. To be a viable remote-sensing system, the ghost imager needs to image…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Nicholas D. Hardy , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

The degradation of the acquired signal by Poisson noise is a common problem for various imaging applications, such as medical imaging, night vision and microscopy. Up to now, many state-of-the-art Poisson denoising techniques mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Wensen Feng , Yunjin Chen

Imaging systems' performance at low light intensity is affected by shot noise, which becomes increasingly strong as the power of the light source decreases. In this paper we experimentally demonstrate the use of deep neural networks to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-19 Alexandre Goy , Kwabena Arthur , Shuai Li , George Barbastathis

Recent advances in photographic sensing technologies have made it possible to achieve light detection in terms of a single photon. Photon counting sensors are being increasingly used in many diverse applications. We address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Paramanand Chandramouli , Samuel Burri , Claudio Bruschini , Edoardo Charbon , Andreas Kolb

As one of important analysis tools, microscopes with high spatial resolution are indispensable for scientific research and medical diagnosis, and much attention is always focused on the improvement of resolution. Over the past decade, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-04 Pengli Zhang , Wenlin Gong , Xia Shen , Dajie Huang , Shensheng Han

Coincidence imaging, also known as ghost imaging, is a technique that exploits correlations between two particles to reconstruct information about a specimen. The particle that relays the spatial information about the object remains…

Poisson distribution is used for modeling noise in photon-limited imaging. While canonical examples include relatively exotic types of sensing like spectral imaging or astronomy, the problem is relevant to regular photography now more than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Tal Remez , Or Litany , Raja Giryes , Alex M. Bronstein

We apply the measurement reduction technique to optimally reconstruct an object image from multiplexed ghost images (GI) while taking into account both GI correlations and object image sparsity. We show that one can reconstruct an image in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 D. A. Balakin , A. V. Belinsky , A. S. Chirkin

We demonstrate a compressive normalized ghost imaging system with entangled photons employing complementary compressive imaging (CCI) technique. The quantum ghost image reconstruction was achieved at only 19.53% sampling ratio of raster…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 Dawei Liu , Lifei Li

We present an approach to separating reflection from a single image. The approach uses a fully convolutional network trained end-to-end with losses that exploit low-level and high-level image information. Our loss function includes two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Xuaner Zhang , Ren Ng , Qifeng Chen

Ghost imaging is an unconventional optical imaging technique that reconstructs the shape of an object combining the measurement of two signals: one that interacted with the object, but without any spatial information, the other containing…

The unpaired training can be the only option available for fast deep learning-based ghost imaging, where obtaining a high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) image copy of each low SNR ghost image could be practically time-consuming and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-10 Fatemeh Alishahi , Amirhossein Mohajerin-Ariaei

Scene understanding under low-light conditions is a challenging problem. This is due to the small number of photons captured by the camera and the resulting low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Single-photon cameras (SPCs) are an emerging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 Bhavya Goyal , Mohit Gupta