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Long-range active imaging has a variety of applications in remote sensing and target recognition. Single-photon LiDAR (light detection and ranging) offers single-photon sensitivity and picosecond timing resolution, which is desirable for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Zheng-Ping Li , Xin Huang , Yuan Cao , Bin Wang , Yu-Huai Li , Weijie Jin , Chao Yu , Jun Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

This paper introduces a new approach to localize user devices located in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) areas using a passive, non-reconfigurable, and frequency-selective metasurface called metaprism. By analyzing the spatial filtering of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Marina Lotti , Giacomo Calesini , Davide Dardari

Consumer LiDARs in mobile devices and robots typically output a single depth value per pixel. Yet internally, they record full time-resolved histograms containing direct and multi-bounce light returns; these multi-bounce returns encode rich…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Nikhil Behari , Diego Rivero , Luke Apostolides , Suman Ghosh , Paul Pu Liang , Ramesh Raskar

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a nonlinear-optics approach to pattern recognition with single-pixel imaging and deep neural network. It employs mode selective image up-conversion to project a raw image onto a set of coherent…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ting Bu , Santosh Kumar , He Zhang , Irwin Huang , Yuping Huang

Entangled photons have the remarkable ability to be more sensitive to signal and less sensitive to noise than classical light. Joint photons can sample an object collectively, resulting in faster phase accumulation and higher spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-04 Chien-Hung Lu , Matthew Reichert , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer

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

This paper aims to facilitate more practical NLOS imaging by reducing the number of samplings and scan areas. To this end, we introduce a phasor-based enhancement network that is capable of predicting clean and full measurements from noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 In Cho , Hyunbo Shim , Seon Joo Kim

Nonlinear optics is of crucial importance in several fields of science and technology with applications in frequency conversion, entangled-photon generation, self-referencing of frequency combs, crystal characterization, sensing, and…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-19 O. Dogadov , C. Trovatello , B. Yao , G. Soavi , G. Cerullo

Active 3D imaging systems have broad applications across disciplines, including biological imaging, remote sensing and robotics. Applications in these domains require fast acquisition times, high timing resolution, and high detection…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Felix Heide , Steven Diamond , David B. Lindell , Gordon Wetzstein

Modern autonomous vehicles rely heavily on mechanical LiDARs for perception. Current perception methods generally require 360{\deg} point clouds, collected sequentially as the LiDAR scans the azimuth and acquires consecutive wedge-shaped…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Mazen Abdelfattah , Kaiwen Yuan , Z. Jane Wang , Rabab Ward

Recently, there has been an increase in the demand of virtual 3D objects representing real-life objects. A plethora of methods and systems have already been proposed for the acquisition of the geometry of real-life objects ranging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Qing Gu , Kyriakos Herakleous , Charalambos Poullis

Low-light-level imaging techniques have application in many diverse fields, ranging from biological sciences to security. We demonstrate a single-photon imaging system based on a time-gated inten- sified CCD (ICCD) camera in which the image…

Electromagnetically induced transparency in an optically thick, cold medium creates a unique system where pulse-propagation velocities may be orders of magnitude less than $c$ and optical nonlinearities become exceedingly large. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Danielle A. Braje , Vlatko Balic , G. Y. Yin , S. E. Harris

We demonstrate suppression and enhancement of spontaneous parametric down- conversion via quantum interference with two weak fields from a local oscillator (LO). Pairs of LO photons are observed to upconvert with high efficiency for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. J. Resch , J. S. Lundeen , A. M. Steinberg

Object detection has achieved a huge breakthrough with deep neural networks and massive annotated data. However, current detection methods cannot be directly transferred to the scenario where the annotated data is scarce due to the severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Qihan Huang , Haofei Zhang , Mengqi Xue , Jie Song , Mingli Song

Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) communication stands as an indispensable element within defense communication strategies, facilitating information exchange in scenarios where traditional Line of Sight (LOS) methodologies encounter obstruction.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Ruhul Amin Khalil , Muhammad Haris , Nasir Saeed

Images acquired by computer vision systems under low light conditions have multiple characteristics like high noise, lousy illumination, reflectance, and bad contrast, which make object detection tasks difficult. Much work has been done to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Winston Chen , Tejas Shah

I present a simple view of nonlinear optcal phenomena as being determined mostly by the length of interaction time between photons and matter. This may explain why in the last decades the progress in developing better nonlinear materials…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-25 Jacob B Khurgin

The analysis of symmetries is extremely useful across science. In Physics, symmetries are used to derive conservation laws and selection rules for transitions in interacting systems. In the early days of nonlinear optics (NLO), symmetries…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-26 Ofer Neufeld , Matan Even Tzur , Ofer Kfir , Avner Fleischer , Oren Cohen

We present a passive non-line-of-sight method that infers the number of people or activity of a person from the observation of a blank wall in an unknown room. Our technique analyzes complex imperceptible changes in indirect illumination in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Prafull Sharma , Miika Aittala , Yoav Y. Schechner , Antonio Torralba , Gregory W. Wornell , William T. Freeman , Fredo Durand