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This article presents a new optical measurement method employing a HSI (Hue, Saturation and Intensity) colour model to form trapezoidal structured patterns for morphology reconstruction of a measured object at a high speed. Profilometry on…
The viewing-angle enlargement of a holographic image is a crucial factor for realizing the holographic display. The numerical aperture (NA) of digital hologram other than a pixel specification has been known to determine the angular field…
To date, high-resolution (< 1 nm) imaging of extended objects in three-dimensions (3D) has not been possible. A restriction known as the Crowther criterion forces a tradeoff between object size and resolution for 3D reconstructions by…
While characterization of coherent wavefields is essential to laser, x-ray and electron imaging, sensors measure the squared magnitude of the field, rather than the field itself. Holography or phase retrieval must be used to characterize…
We show that a bounded temporal increment prior on the sample dynamics is sufficient to reconstruct a time-varying phase object from a near-field diffraction movie, under the thin-film approximation. The time evolution of the field is…
We propose a new technique for estimating spatially varying parametric materials from a single image of an object with unknown shape in unknown illumination. Our method uses a low-order parametric reflectance model, and incorporates strong…
Reconstructing transparent objects using affordable RGB-D cameras is a persistent challenge in robotic perception due to inconsistent appearances across views in the RGB domain and inaccurate depth readings in each single-view. We introduce…
Recent advances in deep learning, such as neural radiance fields and implicit neural representations, have significantly advanced 3D reconstruction. However, accurately reconstructing objects with complex optical properties, such as metals,…
We present the experimental reconstruction of sub-wavelength features from the far-field intensity of sparse optical objects: sparsity-based sub-wavelength imaging combined with phase-retrieval. As examples, we demonstrate the recovery of…
Flat optics have been proposed as an attractive approach for the implementation of new imaging and sensing modalities to replace and augment refractive optics. However, chromatic aberrations impose fundamental limitations on diffractive…
Shape reconstruction techniques using structured light have been widely researched and developed due to their robustness, high precision, and density. Because the techniques are based on decoding a pattern to find correspondences, it…
In this work, we propose an inverse rendering model that estimates 3D shape, spatially-varying reflectance, homogeneous subsurface scattering parameters, and an environment illumination jointly from only a pair of captured images of a…
Inverse scattering is the process of estimating the spatial distribution of the scattering potential of an object by measuring the scattered wavefields around it. In this paper, we consider reflection tomography of high contrast objects…
Reconstructing hand-held objects in 3D from monocular images remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches rely on implicit 3D representations, which produce overly smooth reconstructions and are…
In this paper, we study the mathematical imaging problem of optical diffraction tomography (ODT) for the scenario of a microscopic rigid particle rotating in a trap created, for instance, by acoustic or optical forces. Under the influence…
Many optical systems use acousto-optics for fast steering of light. However, acousto-optic (AO) light diffraction permits manipulation and shaping of light fields in a much broader sense including holography. While acousto-optic devices…
By a proper arrangement of a digital holography setup, that combines off-axis geometry with phase-shifting recording conditions, it is possible to reach the theoretical shot noise limit, in real-time experiments.We studied this limit, and…
The retrieval of the phase with single-photon states is a fundamental and technical challenging endeavor. Here we report the first experimental realization of hologram recordings with heralded single-photon illumination and continuous…
This paper develops uniqueness theory for 3D phase retrieval with finite, discrete measurement data for strong phase objects and weak phase objects, including: (i) {\em Unique determination of (phase) projections from diffraction patterns}…
Sound reconstruction via arbitrary objects has been a popular method in recent years, based on the recording of scattered light from the target object with a high-speed detector. In this work, we demonstrate the use of multi-mode fiber as a…