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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…

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Coded Aperture Imaging (CAI) has been proposed as an alternative collimation technique in nuclear imaging. To maximize spatial resolution small pinholes in the coded aperture mask are required. However, a high-resolution detector is needed…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Tobias Meißner , Werner Nahm , Jürgen Hesser , Nikolas Löw

Quantum error mitigation is a critical technology for extracting reliable computations from noisy quantum processors, proving itself essential not only in the near term but also as a valuable supplement to fully fault-tolerant systems in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Dayue Qin , Ying Li , You Zhou

We investigate the precision limits and optimal protocols for sensing single qubit signals in the presence of erasure noise. We study a hierarchy of precision limits achievable with metrological strategies of differing complexity, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Michal Arieli , Alex Retzker , Tuvia Gefen

Quantum metrology employs quantum resources to enhance the measurement sensitivity beyond that can be achieved classically. While multi-photon entangled NOON states can in principle beat the shot-noise limit and reach the Heisenberg limit,…

Quantum sensing is an important application of emerging quantum technologies. We explore whether a hybrid system of quantum sensors and quantum circuits can surpass the classical limit of sensing. In particular, we use optimization…

Quantum computing has emerged as a transformative paradigm, capable of tackling complex computational problems that are infeasible for classical methods within a practical timeframe. At the core of this advancement lies the concept of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Hyunju Lee , Kyungtaek Jun

We address the ambiguities in the super-resolution problem under translation. We demonstrate that combinations of low-resolution images at different scales can be used to make the super-resolution problem well posed. Such differences in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Daniel Fu , Gabby Litterio , Pedro Felzenszwalb , Rashid Zia

Quantum-enhanced sensing has a goal of enhancing a parameter sensitivity with input quantum states, while quantum illumination has a goal of enhancing a target detection capability with input entangled states in a heavy noise environment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Su-Yong Lee , Yong Sup Ihn , Zaeill Kim

Quantum physics has brought enhanced capability in various sensing applications. Despite challenges from noise and loss in the radio-frequency (RF) domain, [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 150502 (2020)] demonstrates a route for enhanced RF-receiver…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Haowei Shi , Christopher M. Jones , Mengjie Yu , Zheshen Zhang , Quntao Zhuang

Super-resolution is a machine-learning technique in image processing which generates high-resolution images from low-resolution images. Inspired by this approach, we perform a numerical experiment of quantum machine learning, which takes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Rei Sakuma , Yutaro Iiyama , Lento Nagano , Ryu Sawada , Koji Terashi

We present a technique that improves the signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) of range-finding, sensing, and other light-detection applications. The technique filters out low photon numbers using photon-number-resolving detectors (PNRDs). This…

Properties of quantum states have disclosed new and revolutionary technologies, ranging from quantum information to quantum imaging. This last field is addressed to overcome limits of classical imaging by exploiting specific properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Giorgio Brida , Marco Genovese , Alice Meda , Ivano Ruo Berchera

Non-classical correlations in optical beams offer the unprecedented opportunity of surpassing conventional limits of sensitivity and resolution in optical measurements and imaging, especially but not only, when a low photon flux down to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Ivano Ruo-Berchera , Ivo Pietro Degiovanni

Optomechanical sensors are capable of transducing external perturbations to resolvable optical signals. A particular regime of interest is that of high-bandwidth force detection, where an impulse is delivered to the system over a short…

Imaging in low light is difficult because the number of photons arriving at the sensor is low. Imaging dynamic scenes in low-light environments is even more difficult because as the scene moves, pixels in adjacent frames need to be aligned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Yiheng Chi , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Vladlen Koltun , Stanley H. Chan

Overcoming the influence of noise and imperfections in quantum devices is one of the main challenges for viable quantum applications. In this article, we present different protocols, which we denote as "superposed quantum error mitigation",…

Quantum imaging exploits the spatial correlations between photons to image object features with a higher resolution than a corresponding classical light source could achieve. Using a quantum correlated $N$-photon state, the method of…

The sequential analysis of the problem of joint signal detection and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) estimation for a linear Gaussian observation model is considered. The problem is posed as an optimization setup where the goal is to minimize…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-20 M. Fauß , K. G. Nagananda , A. M. Zoubir , H. V. Poor

Quantum techniques can be used to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio in optical imaging. Leveraging the latest advances in single photon avalanche diode array cameras and multi-photon detection techniques, here we introduce a super-sensitive…