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The signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of three Gaussian-state ghost imaging configurations--distinguished by the nature of their light sources--are derived. Two use classical-state light, specifically a joint signal-reference field state that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Baris I. Erkmen , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

The nature of multiple samples to extract correlation information limits the applications of ghost imaging of moving objects. A novel multi-to-one neural network is proposed and the concept of "batch frame" is introduced to improve the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-02 Da Chen , Shan-Guo Feng , Hua-Hua Wang , Jia-Ning Cao , Zhi-Wei Zhang , Zhi-Xin Yang , Ao Yan , Lu Gao , Ze Zhang

We introduced a new kind of patterns named Special-Hadamard patterns, which could be used as structured illuminations of computational ghost imaging. Special-Hadamard patterns can get a better image quality than Hadamard patterns in a noisy…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-14 Jie Hou , Yuan Sun , Wanqing Yang , Ting Lv , Xiaoqian Wang

In this paper, we propose an advanced framework of ghost edge imaging, named compressed ghost edge imaging (CGEI). In the scheme, a set of structured speckle patterns with pixel shifting are illuminated on an unknown object, and the output…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-24 Hui Guo , Le Wang , Shengmei Zhao

Imaging is an important means by which information is gathered regarding the physical world. Spatial resolution and signal-to-noise ratio are underpinning concepts. There is a paucity of rigorous definitions for these quantities, which are…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-27 David M. Paganin , Alexander Kozlov , Timur E. Gureyev

Ghost imaging LiDAR via sparsity constraints using push-broom scanning is proposed. It can image the stationary target scene continuously along the scanning direction by taking advantage of the relative movement between the platform and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Shuang Ma , Zhentao Liu , Chenglong Wang , Chenyu Hu , Enrong Li , Wenlin Gong , Zhishen Tong , Jianrong Wu , Xia Shen , Shensheng Han

We present an experimental comparison between different iterative ghost imaging algorithms. Our experimental setup utilizes a spatial light modulator for generating known random light fields to illuminate a partially-transmissive object. We…

Ghost imaging leverages a single-pixel detector with no spatial resolution to acquire object echo intensity signals, which are correlated with illumination patterns to reconstruct an image. This architecture inherently mitigates scattering…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 Yue-Gang Li , Ze Zheng , Jun-jie Wang , Ming He , Jianping Fan , Tailong Xiao , Guihua Zeng

We investigate the nature of correlations in Gaussian light sources used for ghost imaging. We adopt methods from quantum information theory to distinguish genuinely quantum from classical correlations. Combining a microscopic analysis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 Sammy Ragy , Gerardo Adesso

By using the ghost imaging technique, we experimentally demonstrate the reconstruction of the diffraction pattern of a {\em pure phase} object by using the classical correlation of incoherent thermal light split on a beam splitter. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bache , D. Magatti , A. Gatti , E. Brambilla , F. Ferri , L. A. Lugiato

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…

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has a wide range of applications from environmental monitoring to biotechnology. Current snapshot HSI techniques all require a trade-off between spatial and spectral resolution and are thus unable to achieve high…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-11 Yingwen Zhang , Duncan England , Benjamin Sussman

Imaging flow cytometry shows significant potential for increasing our understanding of heterogeneous and complex life systems and is useful for biomedical applications. Ghost cytometry is a recently proposed approach for directly analyzing…

We study the influence rules of the speckle size of light source on ghost imaging, and propose a new type of speckle patterns to improve the quality of ghost imaging. The results show that the image quality will first increase and then…

Imaging with quantum states of light promises advantages over classical approaches in terms of resolution, signal-to-noise ratio and sensitivity. However, quantum detectors are particularly sensitive sources of classical noise that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Hugo Defienne , Matthew Reichert , Jason W Fleischer , Daniele Faccio

Recently it has been suggested that an enhancement in the visibility of ghost images obtained with thermal light can be achieved exploiting higher order correlations [3]. This paper reports on the status of an higher order ghost imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-13 G. Brida , I. P. Degiovanni , G. A. Fornaro , M. Genovese , A. Meda

We present a new self-supervised deep-learning-based Ghost Imaging (GI) reconstruction method, which provides unparalleled reconstruction quality for noisy acquisitions among unsupervised methods. We present the supporting mathematical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mathieu Manni , Dmitry Karpov , K. Joost Batenburg , Sharon Shwartz , Nicola Viganò

Fourier analysis of ghost imaging (FAGI) is proposed in this paper to analyze the properties of ghost imaging with thermal light sources. This new theory is compatible with the general correlation theory of intensity fluctuation and could…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Honglin Liu , Jing Cheng , Yanfeng Bai , Shensheng Han

Non-degenerate wavelength computational ghost imaging with thermal light source is studied theoretically and experimentally. The acquired computational ghost images are of high quality when the wavelength of computed light is different from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-15 Deyang Duan , Zhongxiao Man , Yunjie Xia

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