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We report the nonlocal imaging of an object by conditional averaging of the random exposure frames of a reference detector, which only sees the freely propagating field from a thermal light source. A bucket detector, synchronized with the…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-25 Kai-Hong Luo , Boqiang Huang , Wei-Mou Zheng , Ling-An Wu

Compressive sensing is considered a huge breakthrough in signal acquisition. It allows recording an image consisting of $N^2$ pixels using much fewer than $N^2$ measurements if it can be transformed to a basis where most pixels take on…

Optics · Physics 2013-04-02 Marc Aßmann , Manfred Bayer

An experiment demonstrating single-pixel single-arm complementary compressive microscopic ghost imaging based on a digital micromirror device (DMD) has been performed. To solve the difficulty of projecting speckles or modulated light…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-14 Wen-Kai Yu , Xu-Ri Yao , Xue-Feng Liu , Long-Zhen Li , Ling-An Wu , Guang-Jie Zhai

Ghost imaging, Fourier transform spectroscopy, and the newly developed Hadamard transform crystallography are all examples of multiplexing measurement strategies. Multiplexed experiments are performed by measuring multiple points in space,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Thomas J. Lane , Daniel Ratner

Imaging and edge detection have been widely applied and played an important role in security checking and medical diagnosis. However, as we know, most edge detection based on ghost imaging system require a large measurement times and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-23 Cheng Zhou , Gangcheng Wang , Heyan Huang , Lijun Song , Kang Xue

Quantum imaging enhances imaging systems performance, potentially surpassing fundamental limits such as noise and resolution. However, these schemes have limitations and are still a long way from replacing classical techniques. Therefore,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Patrick Cameron , Baptiste Courme , Daniele Faccio , Hugo Defienne

Assessing the presence of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats is a crucial task which is usually dealt with by analyzing the presence of spectral features in a measured absorption profile. The use of quantum light allows…

Accurate estimation of observables in quantum systems is a central challenge in quantum information science, yet practical implementations are fundamentally constrained by the limited number of measurement shots. In this work we explore a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Keijo Korhonen , Stefano Mangini , Joonas Malmi , Hetta Vappula , Daniel Cavalcanti

Imaging with hard x-rays is an invaluable tool in medicine, biology, materials science, and cultural heritage. Propagation-based x-ray phase-contrast imaging and tomography have been mostly used to resolve micrometer-scale structures inside…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Margie P. Olbinado , David M. Paganin , Yin Cheng , Alexander Rack

Ghost imaging (GI) is a potential imaging technique that reconstructs the target scene from its correlated measurements with a sequential of patterns. Restricted by the multi-shot principle, GI usually requires long acquisition time and is…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-12 Chao Deng , Yuwang Wang , Jinli Suo , Zhili Zhang , Qionghai Dai

We apply the measurement reduction technique to optimally reconstruct an object image from multiplexed ghost images (GI) while taking into account both GI correlations and object image sparsity. We show that one can reconstruct an image in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 D. A. Balakin , A. V. Belinsky , A. S. Chirkin

A thermal ghost imaging scheme between two distant parties is proposed and experimentally demonstrated over long-distance optical fibers. In the scheme, the weak thermal light is split into two paths. Photons in one path are spatially…

Optics · Physics 2018-03-14 Xin Yao , Wei Zhang , Hao Li , Lixing You , Zhen Wang , Yidong Huang

Ghost imaging reconstructs spatial information from a single-pixel bucket detector by correlating structured illumination patterns with scalar intensity measurements. While deep learning approaches have achieved promising results on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Vittorio Palladino , Ahmet Enis Cetin

A scenario of ghost imaging with hybrid transform approach is proposed by integrating Hadamard, discrete cosine, and Haar matrices. The measurement matrix is formed by the Kronecker product of the two different transform matrices. The image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-08 Yi-Ning Zhao , Lin-Shan Chen , Liu-Ya Chen , Lingxin Kong , Chong Wang , Cheng Ren , Su-Heng Zhang , De-Zhong Cao

Correlated-photon imaging, popularly known as ghost imaging, is a technique whereby an image is formed from light that has never interacted with the object. In ghost imaging experiments two correlated light fields are produced. One of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Reuben S. Aspden , Daniel S. Tasca , Robert W. Boyd , Miles J. Padgett

In the last few years,the field of ghost imaging has seen many new developments. From computational ghost imaging to 3D ghost imaging, this field has shown many interesting applications. But the method of obtaining an image in ghost imaging…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-06 Nandan Jha

We propose a quantum ghost imaging scheme based on biphotons, that, by using a collimated pump beam of the right size for biphoton generation, obviates the need for lenses to achieve imaging. The scheme is found to be analogous to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Andres Vega , Sina Saravi , Thomas Pertsch , Frank Setzpfandt

Computational ghost imaging needs to acquire a large number of correlated measurements between reference patterns and the scene for reconstruction, so extremely high acquisition speed is crucial for fast ghost imaging. With the development…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jinli Suo , Yudong Xiao , Liheng Bian , Lei Zhang , Qionghai Dai

We investigate the effect of turbulence on quantum ghost imaging. We use entangled photons and demonstrate that for a novel experimental configuration the effect of turbulence can be greatly diminished. By decoupling the entangled photon…

We report the reconstruction of a transparency image in Ghost diffraction scheme using a statistical optics approach. This is implemented by using a static diffuser rather than a pseudo thermal light source with a rotating diffuser. The…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-19 Manisha , Vipin Tiwari , Nandan S Bisht , Bhargab Das , Rakesh Kumar Singh