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This paper introduces ROI-Packing, an efficient image compression method tailored specifically for machine vision. By prioritizing regions of interest (ROI) critical to end-task accuracy and packing them efficiently while discarding less…

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Classical ghost imaging is a new paradigm in imaging where the image of an object is not measured directly with a pixelated detector. Rather, the object is subject to a set of illumination patterns and the total interaction of the object,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-02 Andrew M. Kingston , Lindon Roberts , Alaleh Aminzadeh , Daniele Pelliccia , Imants D. Svalbe , David M. Paganin

Encoding the Region Of Interest (ROI) with better quality than the background has many applications including video conferencing systems, video surveillance and object-oriented vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a ROI-based image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Binglin Li , Jie Liang , Haisheng Fu , Jingning Han

We present a new self-supervised deep-learning-based Ghost Imaging (GI) reconstruction method, which provides unparalleled reconstruction quality for noisy acquisitions among unsupervised methods. We present the supporting mathematical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mathieu Manni , Dmitry Karpov , K. Joost Batenburg , Sharon Shwartz , Nicola Viganò

Photon counting detection is a promising approach toward effectively reducing the radiation dose in x-ray computed tomography (CT). Full CT reconstruction from a fraction of the detected photons required by scintillation-based detectors has…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Zheyuan Zhu , Hsin-Hsiung Huang , Shuo Pang

Ghost imaging can capture 2D images with a point detector instead of an array sensor. It therefore offers a solution to the challenge of building area format sensors in wavebands where such sensors are difficult and expensive to produce and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Baolei Liu , Fan Wang , Chaohao Chen , Fei Dong , David McGloin

Generative adversarial networks (GANs), trained on a large-scale image dataset, can be a good approximator of the natural image manifold. GAN-inversion, using a pre-trained generator as a deep generative prior, is a promising tool for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Shancong Mou , Xiaoyi Gu , Meng Cao , Haoping Bai , Ping Huang , Jiulong Shan , Jianjun Shi

In certain applications or wavelength regimes, essential optical components for imaging systems are either unavailable or challenging to fabricate. To address this, we propose an optics-free classical ghost imaging (GI) scheme utilizing…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yuhan Guo , Xiangyu Yin , Chunguang Meng , Liming Li , Huiqiang Liu

To accelerate MRI, the field of compressed sensing is traditionally concerned with optimizing the image quality after a partial undersampling of the measurable $\textit{k}$-space. In our work, we propose to change the focus from the quality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Artem Razumov , Oleg Y. Rogov , Dmitry V. Dylov

Conventional multi-view re-ranking methods usually perform asymmetrical matching between the region of interest (ROI) in the query image and the whole target image for similarity computation. Due to the inconsistency in the visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Jun Li , Chang Xu , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun , Dacheng Tao , Hong Zhang

We propose a computational ghost imaging scheme using customized pink noise speckle pattern illumination. By modulating the spatial frequency amplitude of the speckles, we generate speckle patterns with a significant positive spatial…

The CGI (CGI) has the potential of low cost, low dose, and high resolution, which is very attractive for the development of radiation imaging field. However, many sub-coding plates must be used in the modulation process, which greatly…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Zhi Zhou , Sangang Li , Shan Liao , Sirun Gong , Rongrong Su , Chuxiang Zhao , Li Yang , Qi Liu , Yucheng Yan , Mingzhe Liu , Yi Cheng

Quantum optimization for computed tomography (CT) reconstruction is constrained by the number of binary variables required for image representation, making direct whole-image quantum reconstruction difficult for large or structurally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Hyunju Lee , Jeonghwa Lee , Kyungtaek Jun

Computational ghost imaging generally requires a large number of pattern illumination to obtain a high-quality image. The colored noise speckle pattern was recently proposed to substitute the white noise pattern in a variety of noisy…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-11 Xiaoyu Nie , Xingchen Zhao , Tao Peng , Marlan O. Scully

Ghost imaging (GI) and single-pixel imaging (SPI) techniques enable image reconstruction without spatially resolved detectors, offering unique access to wide spectral ranges and challenging imaging environments. Yet, their adoption has been…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-23 Shin Motooka , Noriki Komori , Tomoaki Niiyama , Satoshi Sunada

Region of Interest (ROI)-based image compression has rapidly developed due to its ability to maintain high fidelity in important regions while reducing data redundancy. However, existing compression methods primarily apply masks to suppress…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Kai Hu , Han Wang , Renhe Liu , Zhilin Li , Shenghui Song , Yu Liu

In ghost imaging schemes information about an object is extracted by measuring the correlation between a beam that passed the object and a reference beam. We present a spatial averaging technique that substantially improves the imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Bache , E. Brambilla , A. Gatti , L. A. Lugiato

High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is essential in clinical diagnosis. However, its long acquisition time remains a critical issue. Parallel imaging (PI) is a common approach to reduce acquisition time by periodically skipping…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-10 Hao Li , Yusheng Zhou , Jianan Liu , Xiling Liu , Tao Huang , Zhihan Lyu , Weidong Cai , Wei Chen

Spectral photon-counting X-ray CT (sCT) opens up new possibilities for the quantitative measurement of materials in an object, compared to conventional energy-integrating CT or dual energy CT. However, achieving reliable and accurate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Bingqing Xie , Pei Niu , Ting Su , Valérie Kaftandjian , Loic Boussel , Philippe Douek Feng Yang , Philippe Duvauchelle , Yuemin Zhu

Region-of-Interest (ROI)-based image compression allocates bits unevenly according to the semantic importance of different regions. Such differentiated coding typically induces a sharp-peaked and heavy-tailed distribution. This distribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Kai Hu , Junfu Tan , Fang Xu , Ramy Samy , Yu Liu