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Coded Aperture Imaging (CAI) has been proposed as an alternative collimation technique in nuclear imaging. To maximize spatial resolution small pinholes in the coded aperture mask are required. However, a high-resolution detector is needed…

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The Perception-Distortion tradeoff (PD-tradeoff) theory suggests that face restoration algorithms must balance perceptual quality and fidelity. To achieve minimal distortion while maintaining perfect perceptual quality, Posterior-Mean…

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We demonstrate a compact, cost-effective snapshot spectral imaging system named Aperture Diffraction Imaging Spectrometer (ADIS), which consists only of an imaging lens with an ultra-thin orthogonal aperture mask and a mosaic filter sensor,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Tao Lv , Hao Ye , Quan Yuan , Zhan Shi , Yibo Wang , Shuming Wang , Xun Cao

Point spread function (PSF) engineering is vital for precisely controlling the focus of light in computational imaging, with applications in neural imaging, fluorescence microscopy, and biophotonics. The PSF is derived from the magnitude of…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Aleksey Valouev

360$^\circ$ panoramas are extensively utilized as environmental light sources in computer graphics. However, capturing a 360$^\circ$ $\times$ 180$^\circ$ panorama poses challenges due to the necessity of specialized and costly equipment,…

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The advancement of artificial intelligence demands flexible multimodal data processing with high throughput and energy efficiency. Photonic integrated circuits (PIC) has demonstrated promising potentials in terms of low latency and low…

Panoramic imagery offers a full 360{\deg} field of view and is increasingly common in consumer devices. However, it introduces non-pinhole distortions that challenge joint pose estimation and 3D reconstruction. Existing feed-forward models,…

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Accurate blur estimation is essential for high-performance imaging across various applications. Blur is typically represented by the point spread function (PSF). In this paper, we propose a physics-informed PSF learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Liqun Chen , Yuxuan Li , Jun Dai , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

Due to limited size and imperfect of the optical components in a spectrometer, aberration has inevitably been brought into two-dimensional multi-fiber spectrum image in LAMOST, which leads to obvious spacial variation of the point spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jiali Xu , Qian Yin , Ping Guo , Xin Zheng

Fourier ptychography microscopy(FP) is a recently developed computational imaging approach for microscopic super-resolution imaging. By turning on each light-emitting-diode (LED) located on different position on the LED array sequentially…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-22 Delong Yang , Shaohui Zhang , Chuanjian Zheng , Guocheng Zhou , Lei Cao , Yao Hu , Qun Hao

Single-pixel cameras based on the concepts of compressed sensing (CS) leverage the inherent structure of images to retrieve them with far fewer measurements and operate efficiently over a significantly broader spectral range than…

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Label-free observation of nanoparticles by far-field optical microscopy is challenging because their ability to scatter or absorb light dramatically diminishes with decreasing size. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and localized surface…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-02 Nareg Ohannesian , Ibrahim Misbah , Steven H Lin , Wei-Chuan Shih

Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) offers optical contrast, whereas magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) excels in imaging soft tissue and organ anatomy. The fusion of PAT with MRI holds promising application prospects due to their complementary…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Yutian Zhong , Jinchuan He , Zhichao Liang , Shuangyang Zhang , Qianjin Feng , Lijun Lu , Li Qi

Under-display cameras have been proposed in recent years as a way to reduce the form factor of mobile devices while maximizing the screen area. Unfortunately, placing the camera behind the screen results in significant image distortions,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Miao Qi , Yuqi Li , Wolfgang Heidrich

In this paper, we propose a physics-inspired contrastive learning paradigm for low-light enhancement, called PIE. PIE primarily addresses three issues: (i) To resolve the problem of existing learning-based methods often training a LLE model…

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We demonstrate a new computational illumination technique that achieves large space-bandwidth-time product, for quantitative phase imaging of unstained live samples in vitro. Microscope lenses can have either large field of view (FOV) or…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-16 Lei Tian , Ziji Liu , Li-Hao Yeh , Michael Chen , Jingshan Zhong , Laura Waller

Image projection systems must be efficient in data storage, computation and transmission while maintaining a large space-bandwidth-product (SBP) at their output. Here, we introduce a hybrid image projection system that achieves extended…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Hanlong Chen , Cagatay Isil , Tianyi Gan , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Low-photon phase imaging is essential in applications where the signal is limited by short exposure times, faint targets, or the need to protect delicate samples. We address this challenge with Poisson Wavefront Imaging (PWI), an…

For nonlinear multispectral computed tomography (CT), accurate and fast image reconstruction is challenging when the scanning geometries under different X-ray energy spectra are inconsistent or mismatched. Motivated by this, we propose an…

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