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Raw images taken in low-light conditions are very noisy due to low photon count and sensor noise. Learning-based denoisers have the potential to reconstruct high-quality images. For training, however, these denoisers require large paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Liying Lu , Raphaël Achddou , Sabine Süsstrunk

Efficient simulation of photon registrations in single-photon LiDAR (SPL) is essential for applications such as depth estimation under high-flux conditions, where hardware dead time significantly distorts photon measurements. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Weijian Zhang , Hashan K. Weerasooriya , Stanley Chan

Imaging systems' performance at low light intensity is affected by shot noise, which becomes increasingly strong as the power of the light source decreases. In this paper we experimentally demonstrate the use of deep neural networks to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-19 Alexandre Goy , Kwabena Arthur , Shuai Li , George Barbastathis

Single-pixel cameras based on the concepts of compressed sensing (CS) leverage the inherent structure of images to retrieve them with far fewer measurements and operate efficiently over a significantly broader spectral range than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Qiang Guo , Hongwei Chen , Yuxi Wang , Yong Guo , Peng Liu , Xiurui Zhu , Zheng Cheng , Zhenming Yu , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Shizhong Xie

The conventional high-level sensing techniques require high-fidelity images as input to extract target features, which are produced by either complex imaging hardware or high-complexity reconstruction algorithms. In this letter, we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-24 Hao Fu , Liheng Bian , Jun Zhang

Object detection in low-light conditions remains a challenging but important problem with many practical implications. Some recent works show that, in low-light conditions, object detectors using raw image data are more robust than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Igor Morawski , Yu-An Chen , Yu-Sheng Lin , Shusil Dangi , Kai He , Winston H. Hsu

Traditional cameras face a trade-off between low-light performance and high-speed imaging: longer exposure times to capture sufficient light results in motion blur, whereas shorter exposures result in Poisson-corrupted noisy images. While…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Manasi Muglikar , Siddharth Somasundaram , Akshat Dave , Edoardo Charbon , Ramesh Raskar , Davide Scaramuzza

This work introduces an advanced technique optimized for detecting photons generated by charged particles, leveraging Skipper-CCD sensors. By analyzing background sources and detection efficiencies, the technique achieves strong agreement…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-10 Guillermo Fernandez Moroni , Fernando Chierchie , Lucas Giardino , Javier Tiffenberg , Juan Estrada

In typical single-pixel detection multiplexing, an unknown object is sequentially illuminated with intensity patterns: the total signal is summed into a single-pixel detector and is then demultiplexed to retrieve the object. Because of…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-14 Camille Scotté , Frédéric Galland , Hervé Rigneault

We tackle the challenge of learning a distribution over complex, realistic, indoor scenes. In this paper, we introduce Generative Scene Networks (GSN), which learns to decompose scenes into a collection of many local radiance fields that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Terrance DeVries , Miguel Angel Bautista , Nitish Srivastava , Graham W. Taylor , Joshua M. Susskind

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

Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPAD) are affordable photodetectors, capable to collect extremely fast low-energy events, due to their single-photon sensibility. This makes them very suitable for time-of-flight-based range imaging systems,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-03-09 Quercus Hernandez , Diego Gutierrez , Adrian Jarabo

Challenging to capture, and challenging to display on a cellphone screen, the panorama paradoxically remains both a staple and underused feature of modern mobile camera applications. In this work we address both of these challenges with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Ilya Chugunov , Amogh Joshi , Kiran Murthy , Francois Bleibel , Felix Heide

We analyse the capability of distinguishing between different intensities in a monochromatic, pixellated image acquisition system at low light intensities. In practice, the latter means that each pixel detects a countable number of photons…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-11-19 Mattias Jönsson , Gunnar Björk

Single-Photon Avalanche Detector (SPAD) arrays are a rapidly emerging technology. These multi-pixel sensors have single-photon sensitivities and pico-second temporal resolutions thus they can rapidly generate depth images with millimeter…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-12 Stirling Scholes , Germán Mora-Martín , Feng Zhu , Istvan Gyongy , Phil Soan , Jonathan Leach

The limited dynamic range of commercial compact camera sensors results in an inaccurate representation of scenes with varying illumination conditions, adversely affecting image quality and subsequently limiting the performance of underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Pranjay Shyam , Sandeep Singh Sengar , Kuk-Jin Yoon , Kyung-Soo Kim

In recent years, significant progress has been made in image recognition technology based on deep neural networks. However, improving recognition performance under low-light conditions remains a significant challenge. This study addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Seitaro Ono , Yuka Ogino , Takahiro Toizumi , Atsushi Ito , Masato Tsukada

Videos captured under low light conditions suffer from severe noise. A variety of efforts have been devoted to image/video noise suppression and made large progress. However, in extremely dark scenarios, extensive photon starvation would…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-16 Yuxiao Cheng , Runzhao Yang , Zhihong Zhang , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

Single photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are starting to play a pivotal role in the development of photon-efficient, long-range LiDAR systems. However, due to non-linearities in their image formation model, a high photon flux (e.g., due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Anant Gupta , Atul Ingle , Andreas Velten , Mohit Gupta

A 3D digital scene contains many components: lights, materials and geometries, interacting to reach the desired appearance. Staging such a scene is time-consuming and requires both artistic and technical skills. In this work, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Kai Yan , Fujun Luan , MiloŠ HaŠAn , Thibault Groueix , Valentin Deschaintre , Shuang Zhao