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A lensfree spectral light-field fusion microscopy (LSLFM) system is presented for enabling contrast- and resolution-enhanced imaging of biological specimens. LSLFM consists of a pulsed multispectral lensfree microscope for capturing…

Light field cameras enable new capabilities, such as post-capture refocusing and aperture control, through capturing directional and spatial distribution of light rays in space. Micro-lens array based light field camera design is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 M. Umair Mukati , Bahadir K. Gunturk

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

Lightsheet microscopy is a powerful 3-D imaging technique that addresses limitations of traditional optical and confocal microscopy but suffers from a low penetration depth and reduced image quality at greater depths. Multiview lightsheet…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Marek Wodzinski , Henning Müller

On 3D imaging, light field cameras typically are of single shot, and however, they heavily suffer from low spatial resolution and depth accuracy. In this paper, by employing an optical projector to project a group of single high-frequency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Geyou Zhang , Ce Zhu , Kai Liu , Yipeng Liu

Fourier light-field microscopy (FLFM) uses a micro-lens array (MLA) to segment the Fourier Plane of the microscopic objective lens to generate multiple two-dimensional perspective views, thereby reconstructing the three-dimensional(3D)…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-29 Haixin Huang , Haoyuan Qiu , Hanzhe Wu , Yihong Ji , Heng Li , Bin Yu , Danni Chen , Junle Qu

In this paper, we delve into the realm of 4-D light fields (LFs) to enhance underwater imaging plagued by light absorption, scattering, and other challenges. Contrasting with conventional 2-D RGB imaging, 4-D LF imaging excels in capturing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yuji Lin , Junhui Hou , Xianqiang Lyu , Qian Zhao , Deyu Meng

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based generative models, Stable Diffusion (SD) has emerged as a state-of-the-art framework for high-fidelity im-age synthesis. However, existing SD models suffer from suboptimal feature aggregation,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Zhen-Qi Chen , Yuan-Fu Yang

Volumetric biological imaging often involves compromising high temporal resolution at the expense of high spatial resolution when popular scanning methods are used to capture 3D information. We introduce an integrated experimental and image…

The solid immersion lens is a powerful optical tool that allows light entering material from air or vacuum to focus to a spot much smaller than the free-space wavelength. Conventionally, however, they rely on semispherical topographies and…

We present a novel photolithography based technique to efficiently fabricate microlens-fibre based Integral Field Units (IFUs). These IFUs are being developed for Devasthal Optical Telescope Integral Field Spectrograph (DOTIFS) which offer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay , Vishal Joshi , A. N. Ramaprakash , Deepa Modi , Abhay Kohak , Haeun Chung

Through capturing spatial and angular radiance distribution, light field cameras introduce new capabilities that are not possible with conventional cameras. So far in the light field imaging literature, the focus has been on the theory and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-16 M. Umair Mukati , Bahadir K. Gunturk

Frozen Large Video Language Models (LVLMs) are increasingly employed in micro-video recommendation due to their strong multimodal understanding. However, their integration lacks systematic empirical evaluation: practitioners typically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Huatuan Sun , Yunshan Ma , Changguang Wu , Yanxin Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Xiaoyu Du

We report a light-field based method that allows the optical encryption of three-dimensional (3D) volumetric information at the microscopic scale in a single 2D light-field image. The system consists of a microlens array and an array of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-10-28 Haoyu Li , Changliang Guo , Inbarasan Muniraj , Bryce C. Schroeder , John T. Sheridan , Shu Jia

We demonstrate a high-NA (0.88), ultra-low-f-number (f/0.2714), multi-wavelength (480nm, 550nm and 650nm) multilevel diffractive MicroLens Array (MLA) using inverse design. Each microlens in the array is close-packed with diameter of 70…

Optics · Physics 2024-04-18 Tina M. Hayward , Robert Stewart , Rajesh Menon , Apratim Majumder

We propose a fluid-based registration framework of medical images based on implicit neural representation. By integrating implicit neural representation and Large Deformable Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping (LDDMM), we employ a Multilayer…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Chulong Zhang , Xiaokun Liang

A lens performs an approximately one-to-one mapping from the object to the image planes. This mapping in the image plane is maintained within a depth of field (or referred to as depth of focus, if the object is at infinity). This…

The thin and flexible nature of optical fibres often makes them the ideal technology to view biological processes in-vivo, but current microendoscopic approaches are limited in spatial resolution. Here, we demonstrate a new route to high…

We present a novel single-shot interferometric ToF camera targeted for precise 3D measurements of dynamic objects. The camera concept is based on Synthetic Wavelength Interferometry, a technique that allows retrieval of depth maps of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Manuel Ballester , Heming Wang , Jiren Li , Oliver Cossairt , Florian Willomitzer

Real-time 3D fluorescence microscopy is crucial for the spatiotemporal analysis of live organisms, such as neural activity monitoring. The eXtended field-of-view light field microscope (XLFM), also known as Fourier light field microscope,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Josué Page Vizcaíno , Panagiotis Symvoulidis , Zeguan Wang , Jonas Jelten , Paolo Favaro , Edward S. Boyden , Tobias Lasser