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Because image sensor chips have a finite bandwidth with which to read out pixels, recording video typically requires a trade-off between frame rate and pixel count. Compressed sensing techniques can circumvent this trade-off by assuming…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-31 Nick Antipa , Patrick Oare , Emrah Bostan , Ren Ng , Laura Waller

Lensless cameras replace bulky optics with thin modulation masks, enabling compact imaging systems. However, existing methods rely on an idealized model that assumes a globally shift-invariant point spread function (PSF) and sufficiently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yu Ren , Xiaoling Zhang , Xu Zhan , Xiangdong Ma , Yunqi Wang , Edmund Y. Lam , Tianjiao Zeng

Presented is a novel way to combine snapshot compressive imaging and lateral shearing interferometry in order to capture the spatio-spectral phase of an ultrashort laser pulse in a single shot. A deep unrolling algorithm is utilised for the…

In this paper, we present a modular approach for reconstructing lensless measurements. It consists of three components: a newly-proposed pre-processor, a physics-based camera inverter to undo the multiplexing of lensless imaging, and a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-26 Yohann Perron , Eric Bezzam , Martin Vetterli

Ptychography is now integrated as a tool in mainstream microscopy allowing quantitative and high-resolution imaging capabilities over a wide field of view. However, its ultimate performance is inevitably limited by the available coherent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Wenhui Xu , Shoucong Ning , Pengju Sheng , Huixiang Lin , Angus I Kirkland , Yong Peng , Fucai Zhang

Accurate determination of the complex effective permittivity is fundamental to optical material engineering, but it remains a critical metrology challenge for heterogeneous systems. In polymer blends and optical composites, scattering and…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-03 Proity Nayeeb Akbar

This study presents a practical and dose-efficient strategy for resolution enhancement in planar radiography, based on mechanically supersampled acquisition with high-Z photon-counting detectors (PCDs). Unlike prior event-based or cluster…

A micro-ring-resonator (MRR) optical biosensor based on the evanescent field sensing mechanism has been extensively studied due to its high sensitivity and compact device size. However, a suitable on-chip integrated spectrometer device has…

Optics · Physics 2022-07-19 Kyoung Min Yoo , May Hlaing , Sourabh Jain , James Fan , Yue An , Ray T. Chen

The emerging optical multiplexing within nanoscale shows super-capacity in encoding information by using the time-domain fingerprints from uniform nanoparticles. However, the optical diffraction limit compromises the decoding throughput and…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-09 Baolei Liu , Jiayan Liao , Yiliao Song , Jie Lu , Jiajia Zhou , Fan Wang

Miniaturized spectrometers employing chip solutions are essential for a wide range of applications, such as wearable health monitoring, biochemical sensing, and portable optical coherence tomography. However, the development of integrated…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-22 Wenzhang Tian , Hao Chen , Mingyuan Zhang , Zengqi Chen , Yeyu Tong

Achieving high spatial resolution is the goal of many imaging systems. Designing a high-resolution lens with diffraction-limited performance over a large field of view remains a difficult task in imaging system design. On the other hand,…

X-ray polarization is a powerful tool for unveiling the anisotropic characteristics of high-energy celestial objects. We present a novel imaging reconstruction method designed for hard X-ray polarimeters employing a Si CMOS sensor and coded…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Taihei Watanabe , Toshiya Iwata , Tomoaki Kasuga , Atsushi Tanimoto , Satoshi Takashima , Masahiro Ichihashi , Hiromasa Suzuki , Aya Bamba

While electron microscopy offers crucial atomic-resolution insights into structure-property relationships, radiation damage severely limits its use on beam-sensitive materials like proteins and 2D materials. To overcome this challenge, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Zifei Wang , Zian Mao , Xiaoya He , Xi Huang , Haoran Zhang , Chun Cheng , Shufen Chu , Tingzheng Hou , Xiaoqin Zeng , Yujun Xie

Snapshot multi-dimensional imaging offers a promising alternative to traditional low-dimensional imaging techniques by enabling the simultaneous capture of spatial, spectral, polarization, and other information in a single shot for improved…

Multiview super-resolution image reconstruction (SRIR) is often cast as a resampling problem by merging non-redundant data from multiple low-resolution (LR) images on a finer high-resolution (HR) grid, while inverting the effect of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Vildan Atalay Aydin , Hassan Foroosh

We propose OrbCam, a lensless architecture for imaging with spherical sensors. Prior work in lensless imager techniques have focused largely on using planar sensors; for such designs, it is important to use a modulation element, e.g.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Yi Hua , Yongyi Zhao , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan

Ptychography has become prominent at synchrotron facilities worldwide for characterizing biological and material specimens' topological structures and properties at the nanometer or atomic scale, due to its lens - less, highly quantitative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Tao Liu , Bingyang Wang , JiangTao Zhao , Maik Kahnt , Fucai Zhang

Extracting colorimetric image information from the spectral characteristics of image sensors is a key issue in accurate image acquisition. Technically feasible filter/sensor combinations usually do not replicate colorimetric responses with…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-08-11 C. Mayr , S. Henker , A. Krause , J. -U. Schlüßler , R. Schüffny

Microscopes face a trade-off between spatial resolution, field-of-view, and frame rate -- improving one of these properties typically requires sacrificing the others, due to the limited spatiotemporal throughput of the sensor. To overcome…

Imaging through complex scattering media is severely limited by aberrations and scattering which obscure images and reduce resolution. Confocal and temporal gatings partly filter out multiple scattering but are severely degraded by…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-18 Yiwen Zhang , Minh Dinh , Zeyu Wang , Tianhao Zhang , Tianhang Chen , Chia Wei Hsu