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This paper develops a mathematical theory of super-resolution. Broadly speaking, super-resolution is the problem of recovering the fine details of an object---the high end of its spectrum---from coarse scale information only---from samples…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-15 Emmanuel Candes , Carlos Fernandez-Granda

Super-resolution theory aims to estimate the discrete components lying in a continuous space that constitute a sparse signal with optimal precision. This work investigates the potential of recent super-resolution techniques for spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 M. Ferreira Da Costa , W. Dai

In some super-resolution techniques, adjacent points are illuminated at different times. Thereby, their locations and light intensities can be detected even if the images are very blurred due to diffraction. According to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Edward Y. Sheffield

We construct an image formation theory that covers the majority of optical microscopy techniques that use diverse coherent or incoherent light-matter interactions. The theories of individual microscopy methods could not previously be…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-30 Naoki Fukutake , Shuichi Makita , Yoshiaki Yasuno

Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy is an important tool in biomedical research for its ability to discern features smaller than the diffraction limit. However, due to its difficult implementation and high cost, the universal…

The principles of quantum optics have yielded a plethora of ideas to surpass the classical limitations of sensitivity and resolution in optical microscopy. While some ideas have been applied in proof-of-principle experiments, imaging a…

Inverse source localization from Helmholtz boundary data collected over a narrow aperture is highly ill-posed and severely undersampled, undermining classical solvers (e.g., the Direct Sampling Method). We present a modular framework that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Guanyu Pan , Jianing Zhou , Xiaotong Liu , Yunqing Huang , Nianyu Yi

Solid-state quantum emitters coupled to integrated photonic nanostructures are quintessential for exploring fundamental phenomena in cavity quantum electrodynamics and widely employed in photonic quantum technologies such as non-classical…

We present a parameter-decoupled superresolution framework for estimating sub-wavelength separations of passive two-point sources without requiring prior knowledge or control of the source. Our theoretical foundation circumvents the need to…

Super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed inverse problem with a large set of feasible solutions that are consistent with a given low-resolution image. Various deterministic algorithms aim to find a single solution that balances fidelity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Cansu Korkmaz , Ege Cirakman , A. Murat Tekalp , Zafer Dogan

This paper proposes a novel multi-exposure image fusion method based on exposure compensation. Multi-exposure image fusion is a method to produce images without color saturation regions, by using photos with different exposures. However, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Yuma Kinoshita , Taichi Yoshida , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

We develop an imaging algorithm that exploits strong scattering to achieve super-resolution in changing random media. The method processes large and diverse array datasets using sparse dictionary learning, clustering, and multidimensional…

Rayleigh's criterion for resolving two incoherent point sources has been the most influential measure of optical imaging resolution for over a century. In the context of statistical image processing, violation of the criterion is especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Mankei Tsang , Ranjith Nair , Xiao-Ming Lu

This tutorial covers biomedical image reconstruction, from the foundational concepts of system modeling and direct reconstruction to modern sparsity and learning-based approaches. Imaging is a critical tool in biological research and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Michael T. McCann , Michael Unser

We consider simultaneously identifying the membership and locations of point sources that are convolved with different band-limited point spread functions, from the observation of their superpositions. This problem arises in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Yuanxin Li , Yuejie Chi

In this paper we study the high-dimensional super-resolution imaging problem. Here we are given an image of a number of point sources of light whose locations and intensities are unknown. The image is pixelized and is blurred by a known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Bakytzhan Kurmanbek , Elina Robeva

Capturing photographs with wrong exposures remains a major source of errors in camera-based imaging. Exposure problems are categorized as either: (i) overexposed, where the camera exposure was too long, resulting in bright and washed-out…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Mahmoud Afifi , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Björn Ommer , Michael S. Brown

We introduce a new paradigm for solving regularized variational problems. These are typically formulated to address ill-posed inverse problems encountered in signal and image processing. The objective function is traditionally defined by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-22 Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Audrey Repetti , Matthieu Terris , Yves Wiaux

While super-resolution (SR) methods based on diffusion models exhibit promising results, their practical application is hindered by the substantial number of required inference steps. Recent methods utilize degraded images in the initial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yufei Wang , Wenhan Yang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Lanqing Guo , Lap-Pui Chau , Ziwei Liu , Yu Qiao , Alex C. Kot , Bihan Wen

Sparsity constrained single image super-resolution (SR) has been of much recent interest. A typical approach involves sparsely representing patches in a low-resolution (LR) input image via a dictionary of example LR patches, and then using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Hojjat S. Mousavi , Vishal Monga