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3D object localisation based on a sequence of camera measurements is essential for safety-critical surveillance tasks, such as drone-based wildfire monitoring. Localisation of objects detected with a camera can typically be solved with…

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We consider the case in which a robot has to navigate in an unknown environment but does not have enough on-board power or payload to carry a traditional depth sensor (e.g., a 3D lidar) and thus can only acquire a few (point-wise) depth…

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Deconvolution is the most widely used aberration correction technique in microscopy, however most techniques assume that the aberrations are the same for each point in the image, which is rarely true. Methods for tracking spatially varying…

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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…

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This work addresses image restoration tasks through the lens of inverse problems using unpaired datasets. In contrast to traditional approaches -- which typically assume full knowledge of the forward model or access to paired degraded and…

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This paper proposes a non-computational method of counteracting the effect of image degradation introduced by the diffraction phenomenon in lensless microscopy. All the optical images (whether focused by lenses or not) are diffraction…

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Many imaging science tasks can be modeled as a discrete linear inverse problem. Solving linear inverse problems is often challenging, with ill-conditioned operators and potentially non-unique solutions. Embedding prior knowledge, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Elizabeth Newman , Jack Michael Solomon , Matthias Chung

We consider an inverse source problem in the stationary radiative transport through an absorbing and scattering medium in two dimensions. Using the angularly resolved radiation measured on an arc of the boundary, we propose a numerical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-08 Hiroshi Fujiwara , Kamran Sadiq , Alexandru Tamasan

Gaussian Splatting (GS) has gained attention as a fast and effective method for novel view synthesis. It has also been applied to 3D reconstruction using multi-view images and can achieve fast and accurate 3D reconstruction. However, GS…

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The analysis of astronomical images is a non-trivial task. The D3PO algorithm addresses the inference problem of denoising, deconvolving, and decomposing photon observations. Its primary goal is the simultaneous but individual…

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In this paper we study the high-dimensional super-resolution imaging problem. Here we are given an image of a number of point sources of light whose locations and intensities are unknown. The image is pixelized and is blurred by a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Bakytzhan Kurmanbek , Elina Robeva

In this paper, we propose a method for image block loss restoration based on the notion of sparse representation. We use the sparsity pattern as side information to efficiently restore block losses by iteratively imposing the constraints of…

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The quality of microscopy images often suffers from optical aberrations. These aberrations and their associated point spread functions have to be quantitatively estimated to restore aberrated images. The recent state-of-the-art method…

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A robust method and strategy for efficient full field-ofview and depth separation optical imaging through scattering media regardless of the three-dimensional (3D) optical memory effect are proposed. In this method, the problem of imaging…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-17 Wei Li , Jietao Liu , Shunfu He , Lixian Liu , Xiaopeng Shao

Accurate and fast 3D imaging of specular surfaces still poses major challenges for state-of-the-art optical measurement principles. Frequently used methods, such as phase-measuring deflectometry (PMD) or shape-from-polarization (SfP), rely…

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We present a generic algorithm for performing astronomical image registration and pointing refinement. The method is based on matching the positions and fluxes of available point sources in image overlap regions. This information is used to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Frank J. Masci , David Makovoz , Mehrdad Moshir

We investigate efficient algorithmic realisations for robust deconvolution of grey-value images with known space-invariant point-spread function, with emphasis on 1D motion blur scenarios. The goal is to make deconvolution suitable as…

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By placing a diffractive element in front of an image sensor, we are able to multiplex the spectral and angular information of a scene onto the image sensor. Reconstruction of the angular-spectral distribution is attained by first…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-06 Peng Wang , Rajesh Menon

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

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