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The sensitivity of classical and quantum sensing is impaired in a noisy environment. Thus, one of the main challenges facing sensing protocols is to reduce the noise while preserving the signal. State of the art quantum sensing protocols…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-18 L. Cohen , Y. Pilnyak , D. Istrati , A. Retzker , H. S. Eisenberg

Single-pixel imaging (SPI) is a novel optical imaging technique by replacing the pixelated sensor array in a conventional camera with a single-pixel detector. In previous works, SPI is usually used for capturing object images or performing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Wei Huang , Jiaxiang Li , Shuming Jiao , Zibang Zhang

Recent advancements in Single-Image Super-Resolution (SISR) using deep learning have significantly improved image restoration quality. However, the high computational cost of processing high-resolution images due to the large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Siddhant Dutta , Nouhaila Innan , Khadijeh Najafi , Sadok Ben Yahia , Muhammad Shafique

Quantum imaging is an advanced method for microscopy or investigating the optical properties of materials or bio-medical inspections with high accuracy, low noise, and extremely low photo-damage. In previous work, we proposed a quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

In practical quantum key distribution systems, imperfect physical devices open security loopholes that challenge the core promise of this technology. Apart from various side channels, a vulnerability of single-photon detectors to blinding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Lijiong Shen , Christian Kurtsiefer

Quantum tomography is currently ubiquitous for testing any implementation of a quantum information processing device. Various sophisticated procedures for state and process reconstruction from measured data are well developed and benefit…

Single photon sources (SPS) are a fundamental building block for optical implementations of quantum information protocols. Among SPSs, multiple crystal heralded single photon sources seem to give the best compromise between high pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 M. Schiavon , G. Vallone , F. Ticozzi , P. Villoresi

Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM) can estimate the underlying tissue magnetic susceptibility and reveal pathology. Current deep-learning-based approaches to solve the QSM inverse problem are restricted on fixed image resolution.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-08-02 Juan Liu , Kevin M. Koch

Pixelation occurs in many imaging systems and limits the spatial resolution of the acquired images. This effect is notably present in quantum imaging experiments with correlated photons in which the number of pixels used to detect…

This paper aims to evaluate the safety of a pixel-based image encryption method, which has been proposed to apply images with no visual information to deep neural networks (DNN), in terms of robustness against ciphertext-only attacks (COA).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Warit Sirichotedumrong , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

We present a workbench for the study of real-time quantum imaging by measuring the frame-by-frame quantum noise reduction of multi-spatial-mode twin beams generated by four wave mixing in Rb vapor. Exploiting the multiple spatial modes of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 B. J. Lawrie , R. C. Pooser

Over the past three decades, quantum mechanics has allowed the development of technologies that provide unconditionally secure communication. In parallel, the quantum nature of the transverse electromagnetic field has spawned the field of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-09 Mehul Malik , Robert W. Boyd

In this paper, we present a quantum-key-distribution (QKD)-based quantum private query (QPQ) protocol utilizing single-photon signal of multiple optical pulses. It maintains the advantages of the QKD-based QPQ, i.e., easy to implement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Bin Liu , Fei Gao , Wei Huang , Qiao-yan Wen

The usually reported pixel resolution of single pixel imaging (SPI) varies between $32 \times 32$ and $256 \times 256$ pixels falling far below imaging standards with classical methods. Low resolution results from the trade-off between the…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-22 Rafał Stojek , Anna Pastuszczak , Piotr Wróbel , Rafał Kotyński

Face recognition systems are robust against environmental changes and noise, and thus may be vulnerable to illegal authentication attempts using user face photos, such as spoofing attacks. To prevent such spoofing attacks, it is crucial to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Shota Iwamatsu , Koichi Ito , Takafumi Aoki

Image security for information has become increasingly critical as internet become more prevalent due to hacking and unauthorized access. To ensure the security of confidential image data, image encryption using visual cryptography plays a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Dipak K. Rabari , Yogesh K. Meghrajani , Laxmi S. Desai

Quantum processors are often affected by biased noise and noisy readout, which reduce reliability and reproducibility. This work combines two complementary strategies to address these challenges. The first is bias tailoring, which aligns…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Devon Campbell

In recent years, the introduction of deep learning into the field of single-pixel imaging has garnered significant attention. However, traditional networks often operate within the pixel space. To address this, we innovatively migrate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Chenyu Yuan

Entangled quantum states are essential ingredients for many quantum technologies, but they must be validated before they are used. As a full characterization is prohibitively resource-intensive, recent work has focused on developing methods…

We widen the range of applications for quantum computing by introducing digital quantum simulation methods for coherent light-matter interactions: We simulate an experiment where the emitted light from a single ion was interfering with its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Luc Bouten , Gé Vissers , Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler