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It has been recently shown that an interferometric measurement may allow for sub-wavelength resolution of incoherent light. Whereas this holds for noiseless detectors, one could expect that the resolution is in practice limited by…

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The Rayleigh criterion is a widely known limit in the resolution of incoherent sources with classical measurements in the spatial domain. Unsurprisingly the estimation of the time delay between two weak incoherent signals is afflicted by an…

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First discovered by Ernest Abbe in 1873, the resolution limit of a far-field microscope is considered determined by the numerical aperture and wavelength of light, approximately $\lambda$/2NA. With the advent of modern fluorescence…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-02 Yilun Li , Fang Huang

We address the problem of super-resolution line spectrum estimation of an undersampled signal with block prior information. The component frequencies of the signal are assumed to take arbitrary continuous values in known frequency blocks.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Kumar Vijay Mishra , Myung Cho , Anton Kruger , Weiyu Xu

The far-field resolution of optical imaging systems is restricted by the Abbe diffraction limit, a direct result of the wave nature of light. One successful technological approach to circumventing this limit is to reduce the effective size…

Light detection and ranging is a key technology for a number of applications, from relatively simple distance ranging to environmental monitoring. When dealing with low photon numbers an important issue is the improvement of the signal-…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Walter Zedda , Ilaria Gianani , Vincenzo Berardi , Marco Barbieri

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

We propose a new scheme to achieve sub-Rayleigh resolution of interference pattern with independent laser beams. We perform an experimental observation of a double-slit interference with two orthogonally polarized laser beams. The…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jun Xiong , Feng Huang , De-Zhong Cao , Hong-Guo Li , Xu-Juan Sun , Kaige Wang

Tunable and multi-functional nanophotonic devices are used for applications from beam steering to sensing. Yet little is understood about fundamental limits to their functionality. The difficulty lies with the fact that it is a single…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-22 Hyungki Shim , Zeyu Kuang , Zin Lin , Owen D. Miller

We apply machine learning methods to demonstrate range superresolution in remote sensing radar detection. Specifically, we implement a denoising autoencoder to estimate the distance between two equal intensity scatterers in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Robert Czupryniak , Abhishek Chakraborty , Andrew N. Jordan , John C. Howell

The authors recently proposed a MIMO radar system that is implemented by a small wireless network. By applying compressive sensing (CS) at the receive nodes, the MIMO radar super-resolution can be achieved with far fewer observations than…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-12-08 Yao Yu , Athina P. Petropulu , H. Vincent Poor

Popularly used eigendecomposition-based criteria such as BIC type, ratio estimation and principal component-based criterion often underdetermine model dimensionality for regressions or the number of factors for factor models. This…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-17 Xuehu Zhu , Tao Wang , Lixing Zhu

"This work has been submitted to the IEEE for possible publication. Copyright may be transferred without notice, after which this version may no longer be accessible." Driver's interaction with a vehicle via automatic gesture recognition is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Netanel Blumenfeld , Inna Stainvas , Igal Bilik

Quantum metrology has been shown to surpass classical limits of correlation, resolution, and sensitivity. It has been introduced to interferometric Radar schemes, with intriguing preliminary results. Even quantum-inspired detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Leonid Vidro , Liran Shirizly , Naftali Kirsh , Nadav Katz , Hagai S. Eisenberg

We describe the lessons learned from targeting agricultural detection problem-solving, when subject to low resolution input maps, by means of Machine Learning-based super-resolution approaches. The underlying domain is the so-called…

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The principles of difference imaging outlined and the technique of Alard and Lupton (1997) is generalised to generate the best possible difference images to within the limits of measurement error. It is shown how for a large database of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Austin B. Tomaney

Waveform sampling systems are used pervasively in the design of front end electronics for radiation detection. The introduction of new feature extraction algorithms (eg. neural networks) to waveform sampling has the great potential to…

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Radar and camera fusion yields robustness in perception tasks by leveraging the strength of both sensors. The typical extracted radar point cloud is 2D without height information due to insufficient antennas along the elevation axis, which…

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We describe a novel method for blind, single-image spectral super-resolution. While conventional super-resolution aims to increase the spatial resolution of an input image, our goal is to spectrally enhance the input, i.e., generate an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Silvano Galliani , Charis Lanaras , Dimitrios Marmanis , Emmanuel Baltsavias , Konrad Schindler

Fundamental bounds on quadratic electromagnetic metrics are formulated and solved via convex optimization. Both dual formulation and method-of-moments formulation of the electric field integral equation are used as key ingredients. The…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Jakub Liska , Lukas Jelinek , Miloslav Capek