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Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) has emerged as a powerful label-free three-dimensional (3D) bioimaging techniques for observing living cells and thin tissue layers. We report a new reflection-mode ODT (rODT) method for imaging thick…

Diffractive screens are high-resolution elements with capability for generating holographic-like images from a sequence of planes where TV frames are seen oblique to it. If we project a sequence of contour lines of an object it could be…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. Lunazzi

Phase imaging is widely used in biomedical imaging, sensing, and material characterization, among other fields. However, direct imaging of phase objects with subwavelength resolution remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate subwavelength…

Flat optics have been proposed as an attractive approach for the implementation of new imaging and sensing modalities to replace and augment refractive optics. However, chromatic aberrations impose fundamental limitations on diffractive…

Imaging depth and spectrum have been extensively studied in isolation from each other for decades. Recently, hyperspectral-depth (HS-D) imaging emerges to capture both information simultaneously by combining two different imaging systems;…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-17 Seung-Hwan Baek , Hayato Ikoma , Daniel S. Jeon , Yuqi Li , Wolfgang Heidrich , Gordon Wetzstein , Min H. Kim

Bi-CamoDiffusion is introduced, an evolution of the CamoDiffusion framework for camouflaged object detection. It integrates edge priors into early-stage embeddings via a parameter-free injection process, which enhances boundary sharpness…

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Few-shot image generation aims to generate diverse and high-quality images for an unseen class given only a few examples in that class. A key challenge in this task is balancing category consistency and image diversity, which often compete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Lingxiao Li , Kaixuan Fan , Boqing Gong , Xiangyu Yue

Diffuse optical tomography (DOT) utilises near-infrared light for imaging spatially distributed optical parameters, typically the absorption and scattering coefficients. The image reconstruction problem of DOT is an ill-posed inverse…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Meghdoot Mozumder , Andreas Hauptmann , Ilkka Nissilä , Simon R. Arridge , Tanja Tarvainen

Many naturally-occuring models in the sciences are well-approximated by simplified models, using multiscale techniques. In such settings it is natural to ask about the relationship between inverse problems defined by the original problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-28 Kit Newton , Qin Li , Andrew Stuart

Spectro-polarimetric imaging provides multidimensional optical information acquisition capabilities, offering significant potential for diverse applications. Current spectro-polarimetric imaging systems typically suffer from large physical…

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It is generally thought that correcting chromatic aberrations in imaging requires multiple surfaces. Here, we show that by allowing the phase in the image plane of a flat lens to be a free parameter, it is possible to correct chromatic…

Memory-effect-based methods have been demonstrated to be feasible to observe hidden objects through thin scattering layers, even from a single-shot speckle pattern. However, most of the existing methods are performed with narrowband…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-09-20 Tengfei Wu , Chengfei Guo , Xiaopeng Shao

We present an upconversion imaging experiment from the near-infrared to the visible spectrum. Using a dedicated broadband pump laser to increase the number of resolved elements converted in the image we obtain up to 56x64 spatial elements…

Complex field imaging, which captures both the amplitude and phase information of input optical fields or objects, can offer rich structural insights into samples, such as their absorption and refractive index distributions. However,…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-30 Jingxi Li , Yuhang Li , Tianyi Gan , Che-Yung Shen , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

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…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab Kumar Dutta

In recent years, mode-division multiplexing (MDM) has been proposed as a promising solution in order to increase the information capacity of optical networks both in free-space and in optical fiber transmission. Here we present the design,…

We introduce bidirectional edge diffraction response function (BEDRF), a new approach to model wave diffraction around edges with path tracing. The diffraction part of the wave is expressed as an integration on path space, and the wave-edge…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Chunxiao Cao , Zili An , Zhong Ren , Dinesh Manocha , Kun Zhou

Comparing images captured by disparate sensors is a common challenge in remote sensing. This requires image translation -- converting imagery from one sensor domain to another while preserving the original content. Denoising Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 João Gabriel Vinholi , Marco Chini , Anis Amziane , Renato Machado , Danilo Silva , Patrick Matgen

Novel optical elements containing semitransparent wavelike films embedded into the bulk of transparent material, which form a reflection image without transmitted light distortion, are studied. The dynamic theory of light diffraction by a…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Anatoly M. Smolovich , Valery Chernov

High-resolution synthesis/projection of images over a large field-of-view (FOV) is hindered by the restricted space-bandwidth-product (SBP) of wavefront modulators. We report a deep learning-enabled diffractive display design that is based…