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In this article, we address the challenges of image super-resolution and noise reduction, which are crucial for enhancing the quality of images derived from low-resolution or noisy data. We compared and assessed several approaches for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-06-17 Ngoc-Giau Pham , Thanh-Hai Tong Le , Van-Hieu Duong , Hong-Ngoc Tran , Phuoc-Hung Vo

I point out the mathematical correspondence between an incoherent imaging model proposed by my group in the study of quantum-inspired superresolution [Tsang, Nair, and Lu, Physical Review X 6, 031033 (2016)] and a noise spectroscopy model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-20 Mankei Tsang

We study the problem of super-resolving a superposition of point sources from noisy low-pass data with a cut-off frequency f. Solving a tractable convex program is shown to locate the elements of the support with high precision as long as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Carlos Fernandez-Granda

The ultimate sensitivity of optical detection is limited by the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The first part of the paper shows that coherence plays an important role in the noise analysis. Although interference between an auxiliary wave and…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Taras Plakhotnik

The existence of hybrid noise in hyperspectral images (HSIs) severely degrades the data quality, reduces the interpretation accuracy of HSIs, and restricts the subsequent HSIs applications. In this paper, the spatial-spectral gradient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Qiang Zhang , Qiangqiang Yuan , Jie Li , Xinxin Liu , Huanfeng Shen , Liangpei Zhang

The field of quantum sensing explores the use of quantum phenomena to measure a broad range of physical quantities, of both static and time-dependent types. An important figure of merit for sensing time dependent signals is the spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-05 Tuvia Gefen , Amit Rotem , Alex Retzker

I propose a spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) measurement scheme for the far-field imaging of spatially incoherent optical sources. For any object too small to be resolved by direct imaging under the diffraction limit, I show that SPADE…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-01 Mankei Tsang

Intensity interferometry is a well known method in astronomy. Recently, a related method called incoherent diffractive imaging (IDI) was proposed to apply intensity correlations of x-ray fluorescence radiation to determine the 3D…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-27 Fabian Trost , Kartik Ayyer , Henry Chapman

I present a semiclassical analysis of a spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) measurement scheme for far-field incoherent optical imaging under the effects of diffraction and photon shot noise. Building on previous results that assume two…

Optics · Physics 2018-02-28 Mankei Tsang

Imaging systems measuring intensity in the far field succumb to Rayleigh's curse, a resolution limitation dictated by the finite aperture of the optical system. Many proof-of-principle and some two-dimensional imaging experiments have shown…

Super-resolution is the problem of recovering a superposition of point sources using bandlimited measurements, which may be corrupted with noise. This signal processing problem arises in numerous imaging problems, ranging from astronomy to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Qingqing Huang , Sham M. Kakade

Atomic norm methods have recently been proposed for spectral super-resolution with flexibility in dealing with missing data and miscellaneous noises. A notorious drawback of these convex optimization methods however is their lower…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Zai Yang , Yi-Lin Mo , Gongguo Tang , Zongben Xu

Resolving sources beyond the diffraction limit is important in imaging, communications, and metrology. Current image-based methods of super-resolution require phase information (either of the source points or an added filter) and perfect…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-16 S. A. Wadood , Shaurya Aarav , Kevin Liang , Jason W Fleischer

While today's high dynamic range (HDR) image fusion algorithms are capable of blending multiple exposures, the acquisition is often controlled so that the dynamic range within one exposure is narrow. For HDR imaging in photon-limited…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Yiheng Chi , Xingguang Zhang , Stanley H. Chan

The paper proposes a new high spatial resolution hyperspectral (HR-HS) image estimation method based on convex optimization. The method assumes a low spatial resolution HS (LR-HS) image and a guide image as observations, where both…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-08 Saori Takeyama , Shunsuke Ono

Spatially resolving two incoherent point sources whose separation is well below the diffraction limit dictated by classical optics has recently been shown possible using techniques that decompose the incoming radiation into orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 J. O. de Almeida , J. Kołodyński , C. Hirche , M. Lewenstein , M. Skotiniotis

Estimating the angular separation between two incoherent thermal sources is a challenging task for direct imaging, especially when it is smaller than or comparable to the Rayleigh length. In addition, the task of discriminating whether…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Ugo Zanforlin , Cosmo Lupo , Peter W. R. Connolly , Pieter Kok , Gerald S. Buller , Zixin Huang

We experimentally demonstrate the simultaneous estimation of the three parameters characterizing a pair of incoherent optical sources in the sub-Rayleigh regime, enabling super-resolved scene characterization. Using spatial-mode…

The lack of large-scale real raw image denoising dataset gives rise to challenges on synthesizing realistic raw image noise for training denoising models. However, the real raw image noise is contributed by many noise sources and varies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-24 Yi Zhang , Hongwei Qin , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li

This paper proposes a method for detecting multiple scatterers (targets) in the elevation direction for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography. The proposed method can resolve closely spaced targets through a twostep procedure. In the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Ahmad Naghavi , Mohammad Sadegh Fazel , Mojtaba Beheshti , Ehsan Yazdian