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For the last 50 years, superconducting detectors have offered exceptional sensitivity and speed for detecting faint electromagnetic signals in a wide range of applications. These detectors operate at very low temperatures and generate a…

High-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging is crucial for many computer graphics and vision applications. Yet, acquiring HDR images with a single shot remains a challenging problem. Whereas modern deep learning approaches are successful at…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Christopher A. Metzler , Hayato Ikoma , Yifan Peng , Gordon Wetzstein

We present a novel approach to implement compressive sensing in laser scanning microscopes (LSM), specifically in image scanning microscopy (ISM), using a single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) array detector. Our method addresses two…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Ajay Gunalan , Marco Castello , Simonluca Piazza , Shunlei Li , Alberto Diaspro , Leonardo S. Mattos , Paolo Bianchini

Machine learning based Single Image Intrinsic Decomposition (SIID) methods decompose a captured scene into its albedo and shading images by using the knowledge of a large set of known and realistic ground truth decompositions. Collecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Louis Lettry , Kenneth Vanhoey , Luc van Gool

In the last years several proof of principle experiments have demonstrated the advantages of quantum technologies respect to classical schemes. The present challenge is to overpass the limits of proof of principle demonstrations to approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-31 Nigam Samantaray , Ivano Ruo-Berchera , Alice Meda , Marco Genovese

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) perform single-photon counting with exceptional sensitivity and time resolution at near-infrared wavelengths. State-of-the-art SNSPDs, based on 100 nm-wide, 4 to 5 nm thick NbN…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Marsili , F. Najafi , E. Dauler , F. Bellei , X. Hu , M. C. Csete , R. Molnar , K. K. Berggren

Single-photon detectors based on avalanche photodiodes (SPAD) are key elements of many modern highly sensitive optical systems. One of the bottlenecks of such detectors is a afterpulsing effect which limits a detection rate and requires an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 M. A. Smirnov , N. S. Perminov , R. R. Nigmatullin , A. A. Talipov , S. A. Moiseev

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for fast, online 3D reconstruction of dynamic scenes using times of arrival of photons recorded by single-photon detector arrays. One of the main challenges in 3D imaging using single-photon lidar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Quentin Legros , Julian Tachella , Rachael Tobin , Aongus McCarthy , Sylvain Meignen , Gerald S. Buller , Yoann Altmann , Stephen McLaughlin , Michael E. Davies

Spectroscopic photoacoustic (sPA) imaging uses multiple wavelengths to differentiate chromophores based on their unique optical absorption spectra. This technique has been widely applied in areas such as vascular mapping, tumor detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Fangzhou Lin , Shang Gao , Yichuan Tang , Xihan Ma , Ryo Murakami , Ziming Zhang , John D. Obayemi , Winston W. Soboyejo , Haichong K. Zhang

Hyperspectral imaging provides precise classification for land use and cover due to its exceptional spectral resolution. However, the challenges of high dimensionality and limited spatial resolution hinder its effectiveness. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shivam Pande

In the last several years deep learning based approaches have come to dominate many areas of computer vision, and image denoising is no exception. Neural networks can learn by example to map noisy images to clean images. However, access to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Jason Lequyer , Reuben Philip , Amit Sharma , Laurence Pelletier

One primary technical challenge in photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is the necessary compromise between spatial resolution and imaging speed. In this study, we propose a novel application of deep learning principles to reconstruct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-02 Anthony DiSpirito , Daiwei Li , Tri Vu , Maomao Chen , Dong Zhang , Jianwen Luo , Roarke Horstmeyer , Junjie Yao

We demonstrated a laser depth imaging system based on the time-correlated single-photon counting technique, which was incorporated with a low-jitter superconducting nanowire single-photon detector (SNSPD), operated at the wavelength of 1550…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-19 H. Zhou , Y. He , L. You , S. Chen , W. Zhang , J. Wu , Z. Wang , X. Xie

Efficiently distinguishing photon numbers is a crucial yet challenging technology for various quantum information and quantum metrology applications. While superconducting transition edge sensors offer good photon-number-resolving (PNR)…

Synthesizing a densely sampled light field from a single image is highly beneficial for many applications. The conventional method reconstructs a depth map and relies on physical-based rendering and a secondary network to improve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Andre Ivan , Williem , In Kyu Park

We present a fast and accurate method for dense depth reconstruction from sparsely sampled light fields obtained using a synchronized camera array. In our method, the source images are over-segmented into non-overlapping compact superpixels…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-18 Aleksandra Chuchvara , Attila Barsi , Atanas Gotchev

In this work, we address the challenging task of 3D object recognition without the reliance on real-world 3D labeled data. Our goal is to predict the 3D shape, size, and 6D pose of objects within a single RGB-D image, operating at the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mayank Lunayach , Sergey Zakharov , Dian Chen , Rares Ambrus , Zsolt Kira , Muhammad Zubair Irshad

In this paper, we introduce a novel deep neural network suitable for multi-scale analysis and propose efficient model-agnostic methods that help the network extract information from high-frequency domains to reconstruct clearer images. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Hyungmin Roh , Myungjoo Kang

Spatial resolution of most imaging devices is fundamentally restricted by diffraction. This limitation is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information contained in evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-16 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

In this work, we propose a novel unsupervised deep learning model to address multi-focus image fusion problem. First, we train an encoder-decoder network in unsupervised manner to acquire deep feature of input images. And then we utilize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Boyuan Ma , Xiaojuan Ban , Haiyou Huang , Yu Zhu