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Ghost projection is the reversed process of computational classical ghost imaging that allows any desired image to be synthesized using a linear combination of illuminating patterns. Typically, physical attenuating masks are used to produce…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 James A. Monro , Andrew M. Kingston , David M. Paganin

3D imaging of specular surfaces remains challenging in real-world scenarios, such as in-line inspection or hand-held scanning, requiring fast and accurate measurement of complex geometries. Optical metrology techniques such as deflectometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jiazhang Wang , Hyelim Yang , Tianyi Wang , Florian Willomitzer

Temporal ghost imaging is based on the temporal correlations of two optical beams and aims at forming a temporal image of a temporal object with a resolution, fundamentally limited by the photodetector resolution time and reaching 55 ps in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Dmitri B. Horoshko

Polarization information of the light can provide rich cues for computer vision and scene understanding tasks, such as the type of material, pose, and shape of the objects. With the advent of new and cheap polarimetric sensors, this imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Joaquin Rodriguez , Lew-Fock-Chong Lew-Yan-Voon , Renato Martins , Olivier Morel

Shape from Polarization (SfP) estimates surface normals using photos captured at different polarizer rotations. Fundamentally, the SfP model assumes that light is reflected either diffusely or specularly. However, this model is not valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Vage Taamazyan , Achuta Kadambi , Ramesh Raskar

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

Ghost imaging (GI) is an unconventional imaging method that retrieves the image of an object by correlating a series of known illumination patterns with the total reflected (or transmitted) intensity. We here demonstrate a scheme which can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Yuan Yuan , Hui Chen

Visual Cryptography is a special encryption technique to hide information in images, which divide secret image into multiple layers. Each layer holds some information. The receiver aligns the layers and the secret information is revealed by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Sozan Abdulla

Ghost imaging is demonstrated using a poly-energetic reactor source of thermal neutrons. The method presented enables position resolution to be incorporated, into a variety of neutron instruments that are not position resolving. In an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Andrew M. Kingston , Glenn R. Myers , Daniele Pelliccia , Filomena Salvemini , Joseph J. Bevitt , Ulf Garbe , David M. Paganin

Distinguishing visually similar objects like forged/authentic bills and healthy/unhealthy plants is beyond the capabilities of even the most sophisticated classifiers. We propose the use of multiplexed illumination to extend the range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Taihua Wang , Donald G. Dansereau

A scenario of ghost imaging with hybrid transform approach is proposed by integrating Hadamard, discrete cosine, and Haar matrices. The measurement matrix is formed by the Kronecker product of the two different transform matrices. The image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Yi-Ning Zhao , Lin-Shan Chen , Liu-Ya Chen , Lingxin Kong , Chong Wang , Cheng Ren , Su-Heng Zhang , De-Zhong Cao

In this paper we present a differential approach to photo-polarimetric shape estimation. We propose several alternative differential constraints based on polarisation and photometric shading information and show how to express them in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Silvia Tozza , William A. P. Smith , Dizhong Zhu , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Edwin R. Hancock

Many polarisation techniques have been harnessed for decades in biological and clinical research, each based upon measurement of the vectorial properties of light or the vectorial transformations imposed on light by objects. Various…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-11 Chao He , Honghui He , Jintao Chang , Binguo Chen , Hui Ma , Martin J. Booth

We present the method of multiplexed imaging designed for astronomical observations of large sky areas in the IR, visible and UV frequencies. Our method relies on the sparse nature of astronomical observations. The method consists of an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 Barak Zackay , Avishay Gal-Yam

PatchMatch Multi-View Stereo (PatchMatch MVS) is one of the popular MVS approaches, owing to its balanced accuracy and efficiency. In this paper, we propose Polarimetric PatchMatch multi-view Stereo (PolarPMS), which is the first method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jinyu Zhao , Jumpei Oishi , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Polarization de-multiplexing and multiplexing by means of conical refraction is proposed to increase the channel capacity for free space optical communication applications. The proposed technique is based on the forward-backward optical…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-25 Alex Turpin , Yurii Loiko , Todor K. Kalkandjiev , Jordi Mompart

Recently it has been suggested that an enhancement in the visibility of ghost images obtained with thermal light can be achieved exploiting higher order correlations [3]. This paper reports on the status of an higher order ghost imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 G. Brida , I. P. Degiovanni , G. A. Fornaro , M. Genovese , A. Meda

Autonomous robotics is critically affected by the robustness of its scene understanding algorithms. We propose a two-axis pipeline based on polarization indices to analyze dynamic urban scenes. As robots evolve in unknown environments, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Marc Blanchon , Désiré Sidibé , Olivier Morel , Ralph Seulin , Fabrice Meriaudeau

Classical ghost imaging has received considerable attention in recent years because of its remarkable ability to image a scene without direct observation by a light-detecting imaging device. In this article, we show that this imaging…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-13 Pradeep Sen

Ghost-imaging experiments correlate the outputs from two photodetectors: a high spatial-resolution (scanning pinhole or CCD camera) detector that measures a field which has not interacted with the object to be imaged, and a bucket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jeffrey H Shapiro