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When use the image mutual information to assess the quality of reconstructed image in pseudo-thermal light ghost imaging, a negative exponential behavior with respect to the measurement number is observed. Based on information theory and a…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-01 Junhui Li , Bin Luo , Dongyue Yang , Longfie Yin , Guohua Wu , Hong Guo

An approach to ghost imaging with a single SPAD array used simultaneously as a several-pixel "bucket" detector and an imaging camera is described. The key points of the approach are filtering data frames used for ghost-image reconstruction…

Computational temporal ghost imaging (CTGI) allows the reconstruction of a fast signal from a two dimensional detection with no temporal resolution. High speed spatial modulation is implemented to encode temporal detail of the signal into…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Wenjie Jiang , Xianye Li , Shan Jiang , Yupeng Wang , Zexin Zhang , Guanbai He , Baoqing Sun

We present the first experimental demonstration of ghost imaging realized with intense beams generated by a parametric downconversion interaction seeded with pseudo-thermal light. As expected, the real image of the object is reconstructed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Puddu , A. Andreoni , I. P. Degiovanni , M. Bondani , S. Castelletto

To extract the maximum information about the object from a series of binary samples in ghost imaging applications, we propose and demonstrate a framework for optimizing the performance of ghost imaging with binary sampling to approach the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-03-12 Dongyue Yang , Guohua Wu , Bin Luo , Longfei Yin

In this Letter we present experimental results concerning the retrieval of images of absorbing objects immersed in turbid media via differential ghost imaging (DGI) in a backscattering configuration. The method has been applied, for the…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-01 M. Bina , D. Magatti , M. Molteni , A. Gatti , L. A. Lugiato , F. Ferri

Temporal ghost imaging (TGI) enables ultrafast temporal signal recovery using slow detectors, offering a promising route for high-speed mid-infrared (MIR) detection. However, conventional schemes remain limited in temporal resolution by the…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Wen Zhang , Kun Huang , Zhibin Zhao , Huijie Ma , Ziyu He , Jianan Fang , Heping Zeng

Random field and random cluster theory are used to describe certain mathematical results concerning the probability distribution of image pixel intensities characterized as generic $2D$ integer arrays. The size of the smallest bounded…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Robert A. Murphy

Correlation Plenoptic Imaging (CPI) is a novel imaging technique, that exploits the correlations between the intensity fluctuations of light to perform the typical tasks of plenoptic imaging (namely, refocusing out-of-focus parts of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Giovanni Scala , Milena D'Angelo , Augusto Garuccio , Saverio Pascazio , Francesco V. Pepe

This article studies the problem of image restoration of observed images corrupted by impulse noise and mixed Gaussian impulse noise. Since the pixels damaged by impulse noise contain no information about the true image, how to find this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-30 Ming Yan

Techniques based on classical and quantum correlations in light beams, such as ghost imaging, allow us to overcome many limitations of conventional imaging and sensing protocols. Despite their advantages, applications of such techniques are…

A thermal ghost imaging scheme between two distant parties is proposed and experimentally demonstrated over long-distance optical fibers. In the scheme, the weak thermal light is split into two paths. Photons in one path are spatially…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-14 Xin Yao , Wei Zhang , Hao Li , Lixing You , Zhen Wang , Yidong Huang

Light field modulation matrix is closely related to the quality of reconstructed image in ghost imaging. The orthogonality light field modulation matrix with better noise immunity and high quality reconstructed image is urgently needed in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-14 Xiwei Zhao , Xue Wang , Wenying Zhang , Shanshan Jia , Cheng Zhou , Lijun Song

X-ray imaging is widely employed in clinical medicine, industrial inspection, and various scientific research fields. Unfortunately, most currently used X-ray two-dimensional (2D) detectors suffer from a fundamental trade-off between the…

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

Imaging with hard x-rays is an invaluable tool in medicine, biology, materials science, and cultural heritage. Propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography have been mostly used to resolve micrometer-scale structures inside…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Margie P. Olbinado , David M. Paganin , Yin Cheng , Alexander Rack

We propose a new space-variant regularization term for variational image restoration based on the assumption that the gradient magnitudes of the target image distribute locally according to a half-Generalized Gaussian distribution. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-27 Alessandro Lanza , Serena Morigi , Monica Pragliola , Fiorella Sgallari

We investigate Hermite Gaussian Imaging (HGI) -- a novel passive super-resolution technique -- for complex 2D incoherent objects in the sub-Rayleigh regime. The method consists of measuring the field's spatial mode components in the image…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-20 Jernej Frank , Alexander Duplinskiy , Kaden Bearne , A. I. Lvovsky

We provide a unified treatment of classical and quantum Gaussian-state sources that unambiguously identifies which features of ghost imaging are strictly quantum mechanical. We show that ghost-image formation is fundamentally classical,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Baris I. Erkmen , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Computational ghost imaging is a promising technique for single-pixel imaging because it is robust to disturbance and can be operated over broad wavelength bands, unlike common cameras. However, one disadvantage of this method is that it…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-16 Ikuo Hoshi , Tomoyoshi Shimobaba , Takashi Kakue , Tomoyoshi Ito