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Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) are efficient measurement devices used for counting single photons. The field of their applications covers experimental quantum-optical studies, optical quantum computing, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 V. A. Uzunova , A. A. Semenov

We report a time-resolved single photon counting (TCSPC) imaging system based on a line-scanning architecture. The system benefits from the high fill-factor, active area, and large dimension of an advanced CMOS single photon avalanche diode…

We demonstrate a compressed sensing, photon counting lidar system based on the single-pixel camera. Our technique recovers both depth and intensity maps from a single under-sampled set of incoherent, linear projections of a scene of…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-17 Gregory A. Howland , Daniel J. Lum , Matthew R. Ware , John C. Howell

Quantum photonic devices operating in the single photon regime require the detection and characterization of quantum states of light. Chip-scale, waveguide-based devices are a key enabling technology for increasing the scale and complexity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Aveek Chandra , Shuin Jian Wu , Angelina Frank , James A. Grieve

The process of tracking human anatomy in computer vision is referred to pose estimation, and it is used in fields ranging from gaming to surveillance. Three-dimensional pose estimation traditionally requires advanced equipment, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Alice Ruget , Max Tyler , Germán Mora Martín , Stirling Scholes , Feng Zhu , Istvan Gyongy , Brent Hearn , Steve McLaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi , Jonathan Leach

Imaging through a strongly diffusive medium remains an outstanding challenge in particular in association with applications in biological and medical imaging. Here we propose a method based on a single-photon time-of-flight camera that…

Active 3D imaging systems have broad applications across disciplines, including biological imaging, remote sensing and robotics. Applications in these domains require fast acquisition times, high timing resolution, and high detection…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Felix Heide , Steven Diamond , David B. Lindell , Gordon Wetzstein

Image sensors are the backbone of many imaging technologies of great importance to modern sciences, being particularly relevant in biomedicine. An ideal image sensor should be usable through all the electromagnetic spectrum (large…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Juan Aguirre

The ability to measure and record high-resolution depth images at long stand-off distances is important for a wide range of applications, including connected and automotive vehicles, defense and security, and agriculture and mining. In…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-13 Susan Chan , Abderrahim Halimi , Feng Zhu , Istvan Gyongy , Robert K. Henderson , Richard Bowman , Steve McLaughlin , Gerald S. Buller , Jonathan Leach

Long-range active imaging has a variety of applications in remote sensing and target recognition. Single-photon LiDAR (light detection and ranging) offers single-photon sensitivity and picosecond timing resolution, which is desirable for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Zheng-Ping Li , Xin Huang , Yuan Cao , Bin Wang , Yu-Huai Li , Weijie Jin , Chao Yu , Jun Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Cheng-Zhi Peng , Feihu Xu , Jian-Wei Pan

Single-pixel imaging can collect images at the wavelengths outside the reach of conventional focal plane array detectors. However, the limited image quality and lengthy computational times for iterative reconstruction still impede the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-20 Kai Song , Yaoxing Bian , Ku Wu , Hongrui Liu , Shuangping Han , Jiaming Li , Jiazhao Tian , Chengbin Qin , Jianyong Hu , Liantuan Xiao

Capturing depth and reflectivity images at low light levels from active illumination of a scene has wide-ranging applications. Conventionally, even with single-photon detectors, hundreds of photon detections are needed at each pixel to…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-12 Dongeek Shin , Ahmed Kirmani , Vivek K Goyal , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

The existing segmentation techniques require high-fidelity images as input to perform semantic segmentation. Since the segmentation results contain most of edge information that is much less than the acquired images, the throughput gap…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-25 Haiyan Liu , Liheng Bian , Jun Zhang

Recently three-dimensional (3D) imaging achieves tremendous success in consumer and industrial manufacturing. However, current 3D imaging methods rarely observe dynamical events happening in a short time interval due to the imaging speed…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-15 Jiajie Teng , Qiang Guo , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Hongwei Chen

We demonstrate photon-counting single-pixel imaging in the ultraviolet region. Toward this target, we develop a high-performance compact single-photon detector based on a 4H-SiC single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD), where a tailored readout…

The recent pandemic emergency raised many challenges regarding the countermeasures aimed at containing the virus spread, and constraining the minimum distance between people resulted in one of the most effective strategies. Thus, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Alessio Mingozzi , Andrea Conti , Filippo Aleotti , Matteo Poggi , Stefano Mattoccia

We present a statistics-aware compression strategy that processes photon timestamps directly from time-correlated single-photon counting (TCSPC) modules for time-domain fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM). Rather than storing or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Zhenya Zang , Istvan Gyongy , Mike Davies

The paper presents a system for measuring photon statistics and photon timing in the few-photon regime down to the single-photon level. The measurement system is based on superconducting nanowire single photon detectors and a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-04 N. Lusardi , J. W. N. Los , R. B. M. Gourgues , G. Bulgarini , A. Geraci

3D depth sensors using single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) are becoming increasingly common in applications such as autonomous navigation and object detection. Recent designs implement on-chip histogramming time-to-digital converters…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Jack MacLean , Brian Stewart , Istvan Gyongy

Scene reconstruction in the presence of high-speed motion and low illumination is important in many applications such as augmented and virtual reality, drone navigation, and autonomous robotics. Traditional motion estimation techniques fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Sacha Jungerman , Atul Ingle , Mohit Gupta