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We introduce a superresolution technique that combines spatial mode demultiplexing (SPADE) with emitter blinking. We show that temporal fluctuations not only enhance the precision of SPADE imaging, but also drastically simplify the…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-27 Stanislaw Kurdzialek

We study quantum imaging by applying the resolvable expressive capacity (REC) formalism developed for physical neural networks (PNNs). In this paradigm of quantum learning, the imaging system functions as a physical learning device that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Yunkai Wang , Changhun Oh , Junyu Liu , Liang Jiang , Sisi Zhou

For more than a century, the diffraction limit has defined the resolution achievable by passive optical imaging systems. Although some resolution improvement can be gained through classical data processing of the image, it is limited by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 A. I. Lvovsky , Michael R. Grace , Saikat Guha , Mankei Tsang , Gerardo Adesso , Nicolas Treps

We experimentally demonstrate a universal, parameter-independent test for asymmetric source discrimination. The test allows us to discriminate faint sources well beyond the diffraction limit by exploiting spatial mode demultiplexing (SPADE)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Luigi Santamaria Amato , Danilo Triggiani , Cosmo Lupo

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) image resolution is constrained by waveform bandwidth and array geometry. Specifically, the waveform bandwidth determines a point spread function (PSF) that blurs the locations of point scatterers in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Albert Reed , Thomas Blanford , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

Multiple optical scattering occurs when light propagates in a non-uniform medium. During the multiple scattering, images were distorted and the spatial information they carried became scrambled. However, the image information is not lost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Xinyu Gao , Yi Li , Yanqing Qiu , Bangning Mao , Miaogen Chen , Yanlong Meng , Chunliu Zhao , Juan Kang , Yong Guo , Changyu Shen

The manifestation of the wave nature of light through diffraction imposes limits on the resolution of optical imaging. For over a century, the Abbe-Rayleigh criterion has been utilized to assess the spatial resolution limits of optical…

One of the main characteristics of optical imaging systems is the spatial resolution, which is restricted by the diffraction limit to approximately half the wavelength of the incident light. Along with the recently developed classical…

This study introduces a novel unsupervised medical image feature extraction method that employs spatial stratification techniques. An objective function based on weight is proposed to achieve the purpose of fast image recognition. The…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Qishi Zhan , Dan Sun , Erdi Gao , Yuhan Ma , Yaxin Liang , Haowei Yang

Defocus blur is a physical consequence of the optical sensors used in most cameras. Although it can be used as a photographic style, it is commonly viewed as an image degradation modeled as the convolution of a sharp image with a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Ali Karaali , Claudio Rosito Jung

A recently identified class of receivers which demultiplex an optical field into a set of orthogonal spatial modes prior to detection can surpass canonical diffraction limits on spatial resolution for simple incoherent imaging tasks.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-05 Michael R Grace , Zachary Dutton , Amit Ashok , Saikat Guha

Image classification is a challenging problem for computer in reality. Large numbers of methods can achieve satisfying performances with sufficient labeled images. However, labeled images are still highly limited for certain image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Hongfeng Li

We propose a solution to the image deconvolution problem where the convolution kernel or point spread function (PSF) is assumed to be only partially known. Small perturbations generated from the model are exploited to produce a few…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-04 Se Un Park , Nicolas Dobigeon , Alfred O. Hero

We propose and demonstrate a photon-efficient optical classifier to overcome the Rayleigh limit in spatial resolution. It utilizes mode-selective sum frequency generation and single-pixel photon detection to resolve closely spaced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 He Zhang , Santosh Kumar , Yu-Ping Huang

We demonstrate spectroscopy of incoherent light with sub-diffraction resolution. In a proof-of-principle experiment we analyze the spectrum of a pair of incoherent point-like sources whose separation is below the diffraction limit. The two…

We propose a novel study of generating unseen arbitrary viewpoints for infrared imagery in the non-linear feature subspace . Current methods use synthetic images and often result in blurry and distorted outputs. Our approach on the contrary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Maliha Arif , Abhijit Mahalanobis

A point-spread function describes the optics of an imaging system and can be used to correct collected images for instrumental effects. The state of the art for deconvolving images with the point-spread function is the Richardson-Lucy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Stefan Johann Hofmeister

Classification of partially occluded images is a highly challenging computer vision problem even for the cutting edge deep learning technologies. To achieve a robust image classification for occluded images, this paper proposes a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Feng Cen , Guanghui Wang

The data-driven sparse methods such as synthesis dictionary learning (e.g., K-SVD) and sparsifying transform learning have been proven effective in image denoising. However, they are intrinsically single-scale which can lead to suboptimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Ashkan Abbasi , Amirhassan Monadjemi , Leyuan Fang , Hossein Rabbani , Neda Noormohammadi , Yi Zhang

Image Phase Alignment Super-Sampling (ImPASS) is a computational imaging algorithm for converting a sequence of displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The method consists of a unique combination of Phase…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-01 James N. Caron