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We introduce a novel framework that incorporates multiple scattering for large-scale 3D particle-localization using single-shot in-line holography. Traditional holographic techniques rely on single-scattering models which become inaccurate…

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On the basis of general theoretical results developed previously in [JETP 112, 246 (2011)], we analyze the reflection of quasiresonant light from a plane surface of dense and disordered ensemble of motionless point scatters. Angle…

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There are several methods to focus light behind a scattering medium, but very few use fluorescence light as feedback or can be used without access to the distal side of the scatterer. Among all the wave-front shaping techniques, retrieving…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-18 Evolene Premillieu , Rafael Piestun

A random surface scattering in a one-mode waveguide is studied in the case when the surface profile has long-range correlations along the waveguide. Analytical treatment of this problem shows that with a proper choice of the surface, one…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 F. M. Izrailev , N. M. Makarov

We develop three inverse elastic scattering schemes for locating multiple small, extended and multiscale rigid bodies, respectively. There are some salient and promising features of the proposed methods. The cores of those schemes are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Guanghui Hu , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Hongpeng Sun

Transparent surfaces, such as glass, transmit most of the visible light that falls on them, making accurate pose estimation challenging. We propose a method to locate glass objects to millimetre accuracy using a simple Laser Range Finder…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Nicholas Adrian , Quang-Cuong Pham

We present LiDAR-GS, a Gaussian Splatting (GS) method for real-time, high-fidelity re-simulation of LiDAR scans in public urban road scenes. Recent GS methods proposed for cameras have achieved significant advancements in real-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Qifeng Chen , Sheng Yang , Sicong Du , Tao Tang , Rengan Xie , Peng Chen , Yuchi Huo

An antireflective coating presenting a continuous refractive index gradient is theoretically better than its discrete counterpart because it can give rise to a perfect broadband transparency. This kind of surface treatment can be obtained…

This work leverages the continuous sweeping motion of LiDAR scanning to concentrate object detection efforts on specific regions that receive a change in point data from one frame to another. We achieve this by using a sliding time window…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Alexander Dow , Manduhu Manduhu , Matheus Santos , Ben Bartlett , Gerard Dooly , James Riordan

Geometrically decorated two-dimensional (2D) discrete surfaces can be more effective than conventional smooth reflectors in managing wave radiation. Constructive non-specular wave scattering permits the scattering angle to be other than…

Thick biological tissues give rise to not only the scattering of incoming light waves, but also aberrations of the remaining unscattered waves. Due to the inability of existing optical imaging methodologies to overcome both of these…

Single-Photon Light Detection and Ranging (SP-LiDAR is emerging as a leading technology for long-range, high-precision 3D vision tasks. In SP-LiDAR, timestamps encode two complementary pieces of information: pulse travel time (depth) and…

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We propose a novel iterative numerical method to solve the three-dimensional inverse obstacle scattering problem of recovering the shape of the obstacle from far-field measurements. To address the inherent ill-posed nature of the inverse…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Junqing Chen , Bangti Jin , Haibo Liu

Reflective ptychography is a promising lensless imaging technique with a wide field of view, offering significant potential for applications in semiconductor manufacturing and detection. However, many semiconductor materials are coated with…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-03 Yun Gao , Qijun You , Peixiang Lu , Wei Cao

Structured light illumination is an active 3-D scanning technique based on projecting/capturing a set of striped patterns and measuring the warping of the patterns as they reflect off a target object's surface. As designed, each pixel in…

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Three-dimensional phase contrast imaging of multiply-scattering samples in X-ray and electron microscopy is extremely challenging, due to small numerical apertures, the unavailability of wavefront shaping optics, and the highly nonlinear…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Philipp M Pelz , Hamish G Brown , Jim Ciston , Scott D Findlay , Yaqian Zhang , Mary Scott , Colin Ophus

LiDAR sensors can be used to obtain a wide range of measurement signals other than a simple 3D point cloud, and those signals can be leveraged to improve perception tasks like 3D object detection. A single laser pulse can be partially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yunze Man , Xinshuo Weng , Prasanna Kumar Sivakuma , Matthew O'Toole , Kris Kitani

In this paper, we present a Bayesian approach for spectral unmixing of multispectral Lidar (MSL) data associated with surface reflection from targeted surfaces composed of several known materials. The problem addressed is the estimation of…

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Layover separation has been fundamental to many synthetic aperture radar applications, such as building reconstruction and biomass estimation. Retrieving the scattering profile along the mixed dimension (elevation) is typically solved by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-07 Yuanyuan Wang , Xiao Xiang Zhu

This paper presents a new Bayesian spectral unmixing algorithm to analyse remote scenes sensed via sparse multispectral Lidar measurements. To a first approximation, in the presence of a target, each Lidar waveform consists of a main peak,…