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Next-generation intensity-modulation (IM) and direct-detection (DD) systems used in data centers are expected to operate at 400 Gb/s/lane and beyond. Such rates can be achieved by increasing the system bandwidth or the modulation format,…

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One of the main limitations for the resolution of optical instruments is the size of the sensor's pixels. In this paper we introduce a new sub pixel resolution algorithm to enhance the resolution of images. This method is based on the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-12 Siamak Khademi , Ahmad Darudi , Zahra Abbasi

Since space-domain information can be utilized, microphone array beamforming is often used to enhance the quality of the speech by suppressing directional disturbance. However, with the increasing number of microphone, the complexity would…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Lu Ma , Xin Zhao , Pei Zhao , Tengrong Su

In this paper we reexamine the process through which a Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) can be trained to produce novel LiDAR views of a scene. Unlike image applications where camera pixels integrate light over time, LiDAR pulses arrive at…

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Detectors inherently capable of resolving photon numbers have undergone a significant development recently, and this is expected to affect multiplexed periodic single-photon sources where such detectors can find their applications. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-29 Ferenc Bodog , Matyas Mechler , Matyas Koniorczyk , Peter Adam

The complementary fusion of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data and image data is a promising but challenging task for generating high-precision and high-density point clouds. This study proposes an innovative LiDAR-guided stereo…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-25 Yongjun Zhang , Siyuan Zou , Xinyi Liu , Xu Huang , Yi Wan , Yongxiang Yao

Synthesizing a densely sampled light field from a single image is highly beneficial for many applications. Moreover, jointly solving both angular and spatial super-resolution problem also introduces new possibilities in light field imaging.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Andre Ivan , Williem , In Kyu Park

We study the noise of the intensity variance and of the intensity correlation and structure functions measured in light scattering from a random medium in the case when these quantities are obtained by averaging over a finite number N of…

The homogeneous transformation between a LiDAR and monocular camera is required for sensor fusion tasks, such as SLAM. While determining such a transformation is not considered glamorous in any sense of the word, it is nonetheless crucial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Jiunn-Kai Huang , Jessy W. Grizzle

Signal dimension, defined here as the number of copies with different delays or angular shifts, is a prerequisite for many high-resolution delay estimation and direction-finding algorithms in sensing and communication systems. Thus,…

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Photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors are a key enabling technology in photonic quantum information processing. Here, we demonstrate the PNR capacity of conventional superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors by performing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Gregor Sauer , Mirco Kolarczik , Rodrigo Gomez , Johanna Conrad , Fabian Steinlechner

Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) is critical in nanotechnology, materials science, and biological imaging due to its high spatial resolution and depth of focus. Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is an essential parameter in SEM because it…

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One of the challenges of quantum technologies is realising the quantum advantage, predicted for ideal systems, in real applications, which have to cope with decoherence and inefficiencies. In quantum metrology, sub-shot-noise imaging (SSNI)…

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Single-photon avalanche diode (SPAD) based transient imaging suffers from an aberration called pile-up. When multiple photons arrive within a single repetition period of the illuminating laser, the SPAD records only the arrival of the first…

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Interference of light fields plays an important role in various high-precision measurement schemes. It has been shown that super resolving phase measurements beyond the standard coherent state limit can be obtained either by using maximally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-08 Emanuele Distante , Miroslav Jezek , Ulrik L. Andersen

Three-dimensional imaging plays an important role in imaging applications where it is necessary to record depth. The number of applications that use depth imaging is increasing rapidly, and examples include self-driving autonomous vehicles…

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A real-time ranging lidar with 0.1 Mega Hertz update rate and few-micrometer resolution incorporating dispersive Fourier transformation and instantaneous microwave frequency measurement is proposed and demonstrated. As time-stretched…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Lijie Zhao , Haiyun Xia , Yihua Hu , Tengfei Wu , Zhen Zhang , Jibo Han , Yunbin Wu , Tiancheng Luo

A novel method to estimate the pixels simultaneous detection probability and the spatial resolution of pixelized detectors is proposed, which is based on the determination of the statistical correlations between detector neighbor pixels.…

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Accurate 3D imaging is essential for machines to map and interact with the physical world. While numerous 3D imaging technologies exist, each addressing niche applications with varying degrees of success, none have achieved the breadth of…

Hand-held light field cameras suffer from low spatial resolution due to the inherent spatio-angular tradeoff. In this paper, we propose a method to improve the spatial resolution of light field images with the aid of the Texture Transformer…

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