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Computed tomography (CT) has been developed as a non-destructive technique for observing minute internal images of samples. It has been difficult to obtain photo-realistic (clean or clear) CT images due to various unwanted artifacts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Kyungtaek Jun

360{\deg} images are informative -- it contains omnidirectional visual information around the camera. However, the areas that cover a 360{\deg} image is much larger than the human's field of view, therefore important information in…

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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the best medical imaging modalities as it offers excellent spatial resolution and soft-tissue contrast. But, the usage of MRI is limited by its slow acquisition time, which makes it expensive and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Balamurali Murugesan , Vijaya Raghavan S , Kaushik Sarveswaran , Keerthi Ram , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

We investigate Hermite Gaussian Imaging (HGI) -- a novel passive super-resolution technique -- for complex 2D incoherent objects in the sub-Rayleigh regime. The method consists of measuring the field's spatial mode components in the image…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-20 Jernej Frank , Alexander Duplinskiy , Kaden Bearne , A. I. Lvovsky

Temporal ghost imaging (TGI) enables ultrafast temporal signal recovery using slow detectors, offering a promising route for high-speed mid-infrared (MIR) detection. However, conventional schemes remain limited in temporal resolution by the…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Wen Zhang , Kun Huang , Zhibin Zhao , Huijie Ma , Ziyu He , Jianan Fang , Heping Zeng

Image inpainting is the task of filling in missing or masked region of an image with semantically meaningful contents. Recent methods have shown significant improvement in dealing with large-scale missing regions. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Wanglong Lu , Xianta Jiang , Xiaogang Jin , Yong-Liang Yang , Minglun Gong , Tao Wang , Kaijie Shi , Hanli Zhao

Ghost imaging is demonstrated using a poly-energetic reactor source of thermal neutrons. The method presented enables position resolution to be incorporated, into a variety of neutron instruments that are not position resolving. In an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-27 Andrew M. Kingston , Glenn R. Myers , Daniele Pelliccia , Filomena Salvemini , Joseph J. Bevitt , Ulf Garbe , David M. Paganin

X-ray imaging is widely employed in clinical medicine, industrial inspection, and various scientific research fields. Unfortunately, most currently used X-ray two-dimensional (2D) detectors suffer from a fundamental trade-off between the…

A new algorithmic framework is presented for holographic phase retrieval via maximum likelihood optimization, which allows for practical and robust image reconstruction. This framework is especially well-suited for holographic coherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 David A. Barmherzig , Ju Sun

Artificial intelligence has recently been widely used in computational imaging. The deep neural network (DNN) improves the signal-to-noise ratio of the retrieved images, whose quality is otherwise corrupted due to the low sampling ratio or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Wenhan Ren , Xiaoyu Nie , Tao Peng , Marlan O. Scully

The emerging generation of radio interferometric (RI) telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will acquire massive volumes of data and transition radio astronomy to a big-data era. The ill-posed inverse problem of imaging the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-04 Xiaohao Cai , Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

This paper presents a novel approach for enabling robust robotic perception in dark environments using infrared (IR) stream. IR stream is less susceptible to noise than RGB in low-light conditions. However, it is dominated by active emitter…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Nathan Shankar , Pawel Ladosz , Hujun Yin

The evaluation and monitoring of cells health in the human retina is crucial and follow time course of retinal diseases, detect lesions before irreversible visual loss and to evaluate treatment effects. Towards this goal, a major challenge…

Implicit neural representations (INRs) provide a parameter-efficient and fully differentiable image model for CT reconstruction. However, optimizing INRs for CT reconstruction using standard auto-differentiation techniques can be…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Mahrokh Najaf , Gregory Ongie

We describe an advanced image reconstruction algorithm for pseudothermal ghost imaging, reducing the number of measurements required for image recovery by an order of magnitude. The algorithm is based on compressed sensing, a technique that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ori Katz , Yaron Bromberg , Yaron Silberberg

This study explores the use of photometric techniques (shape-from-shading and uncalibrated photometric stereo) for upsampling the low-resolution depth map from an RGB-D sensor to the higher resolution of the companion RGB image. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Bjoern Haefner , Songyou Peng , Alok Verma , Yvain Quéau , Daniel Cremers

Conventional imaging at low light level requires hundreds of detected photons per pixel to suppress the Poisson noise for accurate reflectivity inference. In this letter, we propose a high-efficiency photon-limited imaging technique, called…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-22 Xialin Liu , Jianhong Shi , Huichao Chen , Guihua Zeng

Computational ghost imaging is a robust and compact system that has drawn wide attentions over the last two decades. Multispectral imaging possesses spatial and spectral resolving abilities, is very useful for surveying scenes and…

Optics · Physics 2017-08-02 Jian Huang , Dongfeng Shi

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is one of the most dynamic and safe imaging techniques available for clinical applications. However, the rather slow speed of MRI acquisitions limits the patient throughput and potential indi cations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Risheng Liu , Yuxi Zhang , Shichao Cheng , Xin Fan , Zhongxuan Luo

We present a novel approach for super-resolution that utilizes implicit neural representation (INR) to effectively reconstruct and enhance low-resolution videos and images. By leveraging the capacity of neural networks to implicitly encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Mary Aiyetigbo , Wanqi Yuan , Feng Luo , Nianyi Li