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Imaging below the diffraction limit is always a public interest because of the restricted resolution of conventional imaging systems. To beat the limit, evanescent harmonics decaying in space must participate in the imaging process. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Ya Shuang , Jiang-Yu Liu , Yunhua Tan , Pu-Kun Liu

We present a fast and accurate method for dense depth reconstruction from sparsely sampled light fields obtained using a synchronized camera array. In our method, the source images are over-segmented into non-overlapping compact superpixels…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-18 Aleksandra Chuchvara , Attila Barsi , Atanas Gotchev

Circular Synthetic aperture sonars (CSAS) capture multiple observations of a scene to reconstruct high-resolution images. We can characterize resolution by modeling CSAS imaging as the convolution between a scene's underlying point…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Albert Reed , Thomas Blanford , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

Spectral computed tomography (CT) is an emerging technology capable of providing high chemical specificity, which is crucial for many applications such as detecting threats in luggage. This type of application requires both fast and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-30 Wail Mustafa , Christian Kehl , Ulrik Lund Olsen , Søren Kimmer Schou Gregersen , David Malmgren-Hansen , Jan Kehres , Anders Bjorholm Dahl

Depth map enhancement using paired high-resolution RGB images offers a cost-effective solution for improving low-resolution depth data from lightweight ToF sensors. Nevertheless, naively adopting a depth estimation pipeline to fuse the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Laiyan Ding , Hualie Jiang , Jiwei Chen , Rui Huang

High-accuracy per-pixel depth is vital for computational photography, so smartphones now have multimodal camera systems with time-of-flight (ToF) depth sensors and multiple color cameras. However, producing accurate high-resolution depth is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-07 Andreas Meuleman , Hakyeong Kim , James Tompkin , Min H. Kim

In many computed tomography (CT) imaging applications, it is important to rapidly collect data from an object that is moving or changing with time. Tomographic acquisition is generally assumed to be step-and-shoot, where the object is…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Soumendu Majee , Selin Aslan , Doga Gursoy , Charles A. Bouman

Photon counting lidar has become an invaluable tool for 3D depth imaging due to the fine-precision it can achieve over long ranges. However, high frame rate, high resolution lidar devices produce an enormous amount of time-of-flight (ToF)…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-01 Michael Patrick Sheehan , Julian Tachella , Mike E. Davies

Multichannel blind deconvolution is the problem of recovering an unknown signal $f$ and multiple unknown channels $x_i$ from their circular convolution $y_i=x_i \circledast f$ ($i=1,2,\dots,N$). We consider the case where the $x_i$'s are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Yanjun Li , Yoram Bresler

Imaging across both the full transverse spatial and temporal dimensions of a scene with high precision in all three coordinates is key to applications ranging from LIDAR to fluorescence lifetime imaging. However, compromises that sacrifice,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-12 C. Callenberg , A. Lyons , D. den Brok , A. Fatima , A. Turpin , V. Zickus , L. Machesky , J. Whitelaw , D. Faccio , M. B. Hullin

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a pivotal computational imaging technique that achieves phase and amplitude reconstruction with high resolution and wide field of view, using low numerical aperture objectives and LED array…

We present a physics-informed deep learning framework to address common limitations in Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM), such as diffraction limited resolution, noise, and undersampling due to low laser power conditions. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-27 Zaheer Ahmad , Junaid Shabeer , Usman Saleem , Tahir Qadeer , Abdul Sami , Zahira El Khalidi , Saad Mehmood

Lightweight direct Time-of-Flight (dToF) sensors are ideal for 3D sensing on mobile devices. However, due to the manufacturing constraints of compact devices and the inherent physical principles of imaging, dToF depth maps are sparse and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xuan Zhu , Jijun Xiang , Xianqi Wang , Longliang Liu , Yu Wang , Hong Zhang , Fei Guo , Xin Yang

The Multipath effect in Time-of-Flight(ToF) cameras still remains to be a challenging problem that hinders further processing of 3D data information. Based on the evidence from previous literature, we explored the possibility of using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-13 Mojmir Mutny , Rahul Nair , Jens-Malte Gottfried

Integrating an RGB camera into a ToF imaging system has become a significant technique for perceiving the real world. The RGB guided ToF imaging system is crucial to several applications, including face anti-spoofing, saliency detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Xin Qiao , Matteo Poggi , Pengchao Deng , Hao Wei , Chenyang Ge , Stefano Mattoccia

Diffraction limit is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information that results from decay of evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics yields no information about an object's subwavelength features. Here…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-24 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

This work is concerned with optical imaging in strongly diffusive environments. We consider a typical setting in optical coherence tomography where a sample is probed by a collection of wavefields produced by a laser and propagating through…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-10 Randy Bartels , Olivier Pinaud , Maxine Varughese

Blind image deblurring is the process of recovering a sharp image from a blurred one without prior knowledge about the blur kernel. It is a small data problem, since the key challenge lies in estimating the unknown degrees of blur from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Abdul Mohaimen Al Radi , Prothito Shovon Majumder , Md. Mosaddek Khan

A method for mathematical treatment is considered for experimental data from pulsed time-of-flight spectrometers, whose response to measurement-initiating pulses is represented by their convolution with the pulse response of the system. The…

General Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Andrey V. Novikov-Borodin

In image deconvolution problems, the diagonalization of the underlying operators by means of the FFT usually yields very large speedups. When there are incomplete observations (e.g., in the case of unknown boundaries), standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Miguel Simões , Luis B. Almeida , José Bioucas-Dias , Jocelyn Chanussot