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Atmospheric lidar observations provide a unique capability to directly observe the vertical column of cloud and aerosol scattering properties. Detector and solar background noise, however, hinder the ability of lidar systems to provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Willem J. Marais , Robert E. Holz , Yu Hen Hu , Ralph E. Kuehn , Edwin E. Eloranta , Rebecca M. Willett

This paper presents a new Bayesian model and algorithm used for depth and intensity profiling using full waveforms from the time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC) measurement in the limit of very low photon counts. The model…

Applications · Statistics 2016-04-20 Yoann Altmann , Ximing Ren , Aongus McCarthy , Gerald S. Buller , Steve McLaughlin

In many applications such as medical imaging, the measurement data represent counts of photons hitting a detector. Such counts in low-photon settings are often modeled using a Poisson distribution. However, this model assumes that the mean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Yu Lu , Kevin Bui , Roummel F. Marcia

We are motivated by problems that arise in a number of applications such as Online Marketing and Explosives detection, where the observations are usually modeled using Poisson statistics. We model each observation as a Poisson random…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-29 Mohammad H. Rohban , Delaram Motamedvaziri , Venkatesh Saligrama

This work derives and validates a noise model that encapsulates deadtime of non-paralyzable detectors with random photon arrivals to enable advanced processing, like maximum-likelihood estimation, of high resolution atmospheric lidar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Grant J. Kirchhoff , Matthew Hayman , Willem J. Marais , Jeffrey P. Thayer , Rory A. Barton-Grimley

In this paper, we consider the problem of sparse signal detection based on partial support set estimation with compressive measurements in a distributed network. Multiple nodes in the network are assumed to observe sparse signals which…

Applications · Statistics 2016-08-10 Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

We analyze the full counting statistics of photons emitted by a double quantum dot (DQD) coupled to a high-quality microwave resonator by electric dipole interaction. We show that at the resonant condition between the energy splitting of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-25 Canran Xu , Maxim G. Vavilov

It is proved, that for a certain kind of input distribution, the strongly binomially attenuated photon number distribution can well be approximated by a Poisson distribution. This explains why we can adopt poissonian distribution as the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yucheng Hu , Xiang Peng , Tiejun Li , Hong Guo

Poisson noise commonly occurs in images captured by photon-limited imaging systems such as in astronomy and medicine. As the distribution of Poisson noise depends on the pixel intensity value, noise levels vary from pixels to pixels. Hence,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Kevin Bui , Yifei Lou , Fredrick Park , Jack Xin

This paper discusses new methods for processing images in the photon-limited regime where the number of photons per pixel is binary. We present a new Bayesian denoising method for binary, single-photon images. Each pixel measurement is…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-19 Yoann Altmann , Reuben Aspden , Miles Padgett , Steve McLaughlin

This paper proposes a deep learning architecture that attains statistically significant improvements over traditional algorithms in Poisson image denoising espically when the noise is strong. Poisson noise commonly occurs in low-light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Po-Yu Liu , Edmund Y. Lam

We propose an image deconvolution algorithm when the data is contaminated by Poisson noise. The image to restore is assumed to be sparsely represented in a dictionary of waveforms such as the wavelet or curvelet transform. Our key…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-03-25 François-Xavier Dupé , Jalal Fadili , Jean Luc Starck

The degradation of the acquired signal by Poisson noise is a common problem for various imaging applications, such as medical imaging, night vision and microscopy. Up to now, many state-of-the-art Poisson denoising techniques mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-13 Wensen Feng , Yunjin Chen

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

X-ray spectral imaging provides quantitative imaging of trace elements in biological sample with high sensitivity. We propose a novel algorithm to promote the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of X-ray spectral images that have low photon counts.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Feng Zhu , Binjie Qin , Weiyue Feng , Huajian Wang , Shaosen Huang , Yisong Lv , Yong Chen

The problem of distributed estimation of a parametric physical field is stated as a maximum likelihood estimation problem. Sensor observations are distorted by additive white Gaussian noise. Prior to data transmission, each sensor quantizes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-09-21 Natalia A. Schmid , Marwan Alkhweldi , Matthew C. Valenti

In diverse microscopy modalities, sensors measure only real-valued intensities. Additionally, the sensor readouts are affected by Poissonian-distributed photon noise. Traditional restoration algorithms typically aim to minimize the mean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Nadav Torem , Roi Ronen , Yoav Y. Schechner , Michael Elad

Straightforward methods for adapting the familiar chi^2 statistic to histograms of discrete events and other Poisson distributed data generally yield biased estimates of the parameters of a model. The bias can be important even when the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-03-12 Joseph W. Fowler

We present a rigorous description of the general problem of aperture photometry in high energy astrophysics photon-count images, in which the statistical noise model is Poisson, not Gaussian. We compute the full posterior probability…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 F. A. Primini , V. L. Kashyap

Compressed Sensing suggests that the required number of samples for reconstructing a signal can be greatly reduced if it is sparse in a known discrete basis, yet many real-world signals are sparse in a continuous dictionary. One example is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Yuanxin Li , Yuejie Chi