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Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) is a single-photon detector designed for extremely low light imaging conditions. Majority of the existing QIS prototypes are monochrome based on single-photon avalanche diodes (SPAD). Passive color imaging has not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Omar Elgendy , Jiaju Ma , and Stanley H. Chan

The one-bit quanta image sensor is a photon-counting device that produces binary measurements where each bit represents the presence or absence of a photon. In the presence of read noise, the sensor quantizes the analog voltage into the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-01 Stanley H. Chan

Quanta Image Sensor (QIS) is a binary imaging device envisioned to be the next generation image sensor after CCD and CMOS. Equipped with a massive number of single photon detectors, the sensor has a threshold $q$ above which the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Omar A. Elgendy , Stanley H. Chan

State-of-the-art image classifiers are trained and tested using well-illuminated images. These images are typically captured by CMOS image sensors with at least tens of photons per pixel. However, in dark environments when the photon flux…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Stanley H. Chan

High dynamic range (HDR) imaging is one of the biggest achievements in modern photography. Traditional solutions to HDR imaging are designed for and applied to CMOS image sensors (CIS). However, the mainstream one-micron CIS cameras today…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Stanley H. Chan

Recently quanta image sensors (QIS) -- ultra-fast, zero-read-noise binary image sensors -- have demonstrated remarkable imaging capabilities in many challenging scenarios. Despite their potential, the adoption of these sensors is severely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Dutson , Vivek Boominathan , Mohit Gupta , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Imaging in low light is difficult because the number of photons arriving at the sensor is low. Imaging dynamic scenes in low-light environments is even more difficult because as the scene moves, pixels in adjacent frames need to be aligned…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-20 Yiheng Chi , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Vladlen Koltun , Stanley H. Chan

The quantum noise of light fundamentally limits optical phase sensors. A semiclassical picture attributes this noise to the random arrival time of photons from a coherent light source such as a laser. An engineered source of squeezed states…

Recovering both amplitude and phase information from a system is a fundamental goal of optical imaging. At the same time, it is crucial to operate at low photon doses to avoid altering the sample, particularly in biological applications.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-15 Alberto Paniate , Giuseppe Ortolano , Sarika Soman , Marco Genovese , Ivano Ruo-Berchera

We present Quanta Diffusion (QuDi), a powerful generative video reconstruction method for single-photon imaging. QuDi is an algorithm supporting the latest Quanta Image Sensors (QIS) and Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) for extremely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-14 Prateek Chennuri , Dongdong Fu , Stanley H. Chan

Quantum information offers the promise of being able to perform certain communication and computation tasks that cannot be done with conventional information technology (IT). Optical Quantum Information Processing (QIP) holds particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 W. J. Munro , Kae Nemoto , T. P. Spiller , S. D. Barrett , Pieter Kok , R. G. Beausoleil

The proliferation of single-photon image sensors has opened the door to a plethora of high-speed and low-light imaging applications. However, data collected by these sensors are often 1-bit or few-bit, and corrupted by noise and strong…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Prateek Chennuri , Yiheng Chi , Enze Jiang , G. M. Dilshan Godaliyadda , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Hamid R. Sheikh , Istvan Gyongy , Stanley H. Chan

For a one-bit image sensor, the number of frames captured determines the quantization step size of the binary rate measurement. The discrete values of the binary rate set a maximum measurable intensity. In this note, we consider how this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-02-03 Lucas J. Koerner

Quanta image sensor (QIS) is envisioned to be the next generation image sensor after CCD and CMOS. In this paper, we discuss how to design color filter arrays for QIS and other small pixels. Designing color filter arrays for small pixels is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Omar A. Elgendy , Stanley H. Chan

Quantum Image Processing (QIP) is a field that aims to utilize the benefits of quantum computing for manipulating and analyzing images. However, QIP faces two challenges: the limitation of qubits and the presence of noise in a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Yifan Zhou , Yan Shing Liang

Abstract-One-bit compressive sensing (CS) is known to be particularly suited for resource-constrained wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we consider 1-bit CS over noisy WSNs subject to channel-induced bit flipping errors, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Ching-Hsien Chen , Jwo-Yuh Wu

Measurement-device-independent quantum secret sharing (MDI-QSS) can eliminate all the security loopholes associated with imperfect measurement devices and greatly enhance QS's security under practical experimental condition. MDI-QSS…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Cheng Zhang , Qi Zhang , Wei Zhong , Ming-Ming Du , Shu-Ting Shen , Xi-Yun Li , An-Lei Zhang , Lan Zhou , Yu-Bo Sheng

Device-independent (DI) quantum secret sharing (QSS) can relax the security assumptions about the devices' internal workings and provide QSS the highest level of security in theory. The original DI QSS protocol proved its correctness and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-11 Qi Zhang , Wei Zhong , Ming-Ming Du , Shu-Ting Shen , Xi-Yun Li , An-Lei Zhang , Lan Zhou , Yu-Bo Sheng

This paper presents a noise-aware quantum-assisted framework for blockage prediction in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-enabled wireless networks. The proposed architecture integrates a Quantum Base Station (QBS), a Quantum RIS…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Shakil Ahmed

Oversampling combined with low quantization resolutions has been shown to be a viable option when aiming for energy efficiency in multigigabit/s communications systems. This work considers the case of 1-bit quantization combined with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Tim Hälsig , Lukas Landau , Gerhard Fettweis
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