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Imaging with optical resolution through and inside complex samples is a difficult challenge with important applications in many fields. The fundamental problem is that inhomogeneous samples, such as biological tissues, randomly scatter and…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-17 Ori Katz , Pierre Heidmann , Mathias Fink , Sylvain Gigan

The proposal of Pseudo-Lidar representation has significantly narrowed the gap between visual-based and active Lidar-based 3D object detection. However, current researches exclusively focus on pushing the accuracy improvement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Haitao Meng , Changcai Li , Gang Chen , Alois Knoll

We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that a coherent image of a pure phase object may be obtained by use of a spatially incoherent illumination beam. This is accomplished by employing a two-beam source of entangled photons…

Temporal-spectral modes of light provide a fundamental window into the nature of atomic and molecular systems and offer robust means for information encoding. Methods to precisely characterize the temporal-spectral state of light at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Alex O. C. Davis , Valérian Thiel , Michał Karpiński , Brian J. Smith

Efficient coupling of light to single atomic systems has gained considerable attention over the past decades. This development is driven by the continuous growth of quantum technologies. The efficient coupling of light and matter is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-24 Markus Sondermann , Gerd Leuchs

With the advancement of computing resources, an increasing number of Neural Networks (NNs) are appearing for image detection and segmentation appear. However, these methods usually accept as input a RGB 2D image. On the other side, Light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Ignacio de Loyola Páez-Ubieta , Edison P. Velasco-Sánchez , Santiago T. Puente

3D scene reconstruction from a single measurement is challenging, especially in the presence of occluded regions and specular materials, such as mirrors. We address these challenges by leveraging single-photon lidars. These lidars estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tzofi Klinghoffer , Siddharth Somasundaram , Xiaoyu Xiang , Yuchen Fan , Christian Richardt , Akshat Dave , Ramesh Raskar , Rakesh Ranjan

Linear-optics gates, the enabling tool of photonic quantum information processing, depend on indistinguishable photons, as they harness quantum interference to achieve nonlinear operations. Traditionally, meeting this criterion involves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Ziv Aqua , Barak Dayan

Single-photon detectors have achieved impressive performance, and have led to a number of new scientific discoveries and technological applications. Existing models of photodetectors are semiclassical in that the field-matter interaction is…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-28 Steve M. Young , Mohan Sarovar , François Léonard

We propose an algorithm for automatic, targetless, extrinsic calibration of a LiDAR and camera system using semantic information. We achieve this goal by maximizing mutual information (MI) of semantic information between sensors, leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Peng Jiang , Philip Osteen , Srikanth Saripalli

The complementary fusion of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data and image data is a promising but challenging task for generating high-precision and high-density point clouds. This study proposes an innovative LiDAR-guided stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Yongjun Zhang , Siyuan Zou , Xinyi Liu , Xu Huang , Yi Wan , Yongxiang Yao

The light produced by parametric down-conversion shows strong spatial entanglement that leads to violations of EPR criteria for separability. Historically, such studies have been performed by scanning a single-element, single-photon…

Optical nonlinearities typically require macroscopic media, thereby making their implementation at the quantum level an outstanding challenge. Here we demonstrate a nonlinearity for one atom enclosed by two highly reflecting mirrors. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-13 I. Schuster , A. Kubanek , A. Fuhrmanek , T. Puppe , P. W. H. Pinkse , K. Murr , G. Rempe

We propose an automatic method to infer high dynamic range illumination from a single, limited field-of-view, low dynamic range photograph of an indoor scene. In contrast to previous work that relies on specialized image capture, user…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Marc-André Gardner , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Ersin Yumer , Xiaohui Shen , Emiliano Gambaretto , Christian Gagné , Jean-François Lalonde

Despite advances in low-light level detection, single-photon methods such as photon correlation have rarely been used in the context of imaging. The few demonstrations, for example of sub-diffraction limited imaging utilizing quantum…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-14 Yonatan Israel , Ron Tenne , Dan Oron , Yaron Silberberg

Entangled photon pairs are predicted to linearize and increase the efficiency of two-photon absorption, allowing continuous wave laser diodes to drive ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy and nonlinear processes. Despite a range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Bryce P. Hickam , Manni He , Nathan Harper , Szilard Szoke , Scott Cushing

Deploying 3D single-photon Lidar imaging in real world applications faces several challenges due to imaging in high noise environments and with sensors having limited resolution. This paper presents a deep learning algorithm based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Abderrahim Halimi , Jakeoung Koo , Stephen McLaughlin

The development of spectroscopic techniques able to detect and verify quantum coherence is a goal of increasing importance given the rapid progress of new quantum technologies, the advances in the field of quantum thermodynamics, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Carlos Sánchez Muñoz , Frank Schlawin

We investigate the computational power of passive and active linear optical elements and photo-detectors. We show that single photon sources, passive linear optics and photo-detectors are sufficient for implementing reliable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Knill , R. Laflamme , G. Milburn

We propose a quantum metrology protocol for the localization of a non-cooperative point-like target in three-dimensional space, by illuminating it with electromagnetic waves. It employs all the spatial degrees of freedom of N entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Lorenzo Maccone , Changliang Ren