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Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) are fast emerging sensors in the field of Earth Observation. It is a remote sensing technology that utilizes laser beams to measure distances and create detailed three-dimensional representations of…

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The search for refining 3D LiDAR data has attracted growing interest motivated by recent techniques such as supervised learning or generative model-based methods. Existing approaches have shown the possibilities for using diffusion models…

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The image reconstruction of partially coherent light is interpreted as the quantum state reconstruction. The efficient method based on maximum-likelihood estimation is proposed to acquire information from registered intensity measurements…

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We experimentally demonstrated that infrared light imprinted with orbital angular momentum (OAM) was linearly converted into visible light using four-wave mixing (FWM) via a ladder-type configuration in 85Rb atoms. Simultaneously, we…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-04 Dong-Sheng Ding , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Bao-Sen Shi , Xu-Bo Zou , Guang-Can Guo

Various imaging methods for small animals are rapidly gaining acceptance in biology and medical research. Optical imaging is a very fast and convenient method of biological interrogation, but suffers from significant disadvantages, such as…

Hyperspectral (HS) images contain detailed spectral information that has proven crucial in applications like remote sensing, surveillance, and astronomy. However, because of hardware limitations of HS cameras, the captured images have low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-15 Marija Vella , Bowen Zhang , Wei Chen , João F. C. Mota

Humans possess an exceptional ability to imagine 4D scenes, encompassing both motion and 3D geometry, from a single still image. This ability is rooted in our accumulated observations of similar scenes and an intuitive understanding of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Emily Yue-Ting Jia , Jiageng Mao , Zhiyuan Gao , Yajie Zhao , Yue Wang

In recent years, the fusion of camera data with LiDAR measurements has emerged as a powerful approach to enhance spatial understanding. This study introduces a novel, hardware-agnostic methodology that generates colourised point clouds from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Pasindu Ranasinghe , Dibyayan Patra , Bikram Banerjee , Simit Raval

Multiphoton microscopy (MPM) has gained enormous popularity over the years for its capacity to provide high resolution images from deep within scattering samples1. However, MPM is generally based on single-point laser-focus scanning, which…

Optics · Physics 2018-12-14 Devin R. Beaulieu , Ian G. Davison , Thomas G. Bifano , Jerome Mertz

Plane Wave imaging enables many applications that require high frame rates, including localisation microscopy, shear wave elastography, and ultra-sensitive Doppler. To alleviate the degradation of image quality with respect to conventional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-24 Nishith Chennakeshava , Ben Luijten , Massimo Mischi , Yonina C. Eldar , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Spinning LiDAR data are prevalent for 3D vision tasks. Since LiDAR data is presented in the form of point clouds, expensive 3D operations are usually required. This paper revisits spinning LiDAR scan formation and presents a cylindrical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Wei Dong , Kwonyoung Ryu , Michael Kaess , Jaesik Park

Depth acquisition, based on active illumination, is essential for autonomous and robotic navigation. LiDARs (Light Detection And Ranging) with mechanical, fixed, sampling templates are commonly used in today's autonomous vehicles. An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Adam Wolff , Shachar Praisler , Ilya Tcenov , Guy Gilboa

Reconstructing 4D spatial intelligence from visual observations has long been a central yet challenging task in computer vision, with broad real-world applications. These range from entertainment domains like movies, where the focus is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yukang Cao , Jiahao Lu , Zhisheng Huang , Zhuowen Shen , Chengfeng Zhao , Fangzhou Hong , Zhaoxi Chen , Xin Li , Wenping Wang , Yuan Liu , Ziwei Liu

We propose a method for compressively acquiring a dynamic light field (a 5-D volume) through a single-shot coded image (a 2-D measurement). We designed an imaging model that synchronously applies aperture coding and pixel-wise exposure…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Ryoya Mizuno , Keita Takahashi , Michitaka Yoshida , Chihiro Tsutake , Toshiaki Fujii , Hajime Nagahara

The light stage has been widely used in computer graphics for the past two decades, primarily to enable the relighting of human faces. By capturing the appearance of the human subject under different light sources, one obtains the light…

A unified method for three-dimensional reconstruction of objects from transmission images collected at multiple illumination directions is described. The method may be applicable to experimental conditions relevant to absorption-based,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Timur E. Gureyev , Hamish G. Brown , Harry M. Quiney , Leslie J. Allen

Image restoration methods are commonly used to improve the quality of astronomical images. In recent years, developments of deep neural networks and increments of the number of astronomical images have evoked a lot of data--driven image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Peng Jia , Ruiyu Ning , Ruiqi Sun , Xiaoshan Yang , Dongmei Cai

Mid-infrared hyperspectral imaging has become an indispensable tool to spatially resolve chemical information in a wide variety of samples. However, acquiring three-dimensional data cubes is typically time-consuming due to the limited speed…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jianan Fang , Kun Huang , Ruiyang Qin , Yan Liang , E Wu , Ming Yan , Heping Zeng

This work derives and validates a noise model that encapsulates deadtime of non-paralyzable detectors with random photon arrivals to enable advanced processing, like maximum-likelihood estimation, of high resolution atmospheric lidar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Grant J. Kirchhoff , Matthew Hayman , Willem J. Marais , Jeffrey P. Thayer , Rory A. Barton-Grimley

Recent differentiable rendering techniques have become key tools to tackle many inverse problems in graphics and vision. Existing models, however, assume steady-state light transport, i.e., infinite speed of light. While this is a safe…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Shinyoung Yi , Donggun Kim , Kiseok Choi , Adrian Jarabo , Diego Gutierrez , Min H. Kim