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Efforts on enhancing the ghost imaging speed and quality are intensified when the debate around the nature of ghost imaging (quantum vs. classical) is suspended for a while. Accordingly, most of the studies these years in the field fall…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Fei Yan , Kehan Chen , Abdullah M. Iliyasu , Jianping Zhao

In this Letter we present experimental results concerning the retrieval of images of absorbing objects immersed in turbid media via differential ghost imaging (DGI) in a backscattering configuration. The method has been applied, for the…

Optics · Physics 2013-03-01 M. Bina , D. Magatti , M. Molteni , A. Gatti , L. A. Lugiato , F. Ferri

In applications such as optical see-through and projector augmented reality, producing images amounts to solving non-negative image generation, where one can only add light to an existing image. Most image generation methods, however, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Katie Luo , Guandao Yang , Wenqi Xian , Harald Haraldsson , Bharath Hariharan , Serge Belongie

Ghost imaging (GI) is an unconventional technique that combines information from two correlated patterned light fields to compute an image of the object of interest. GI can be performed with visible light as well as penetrating radiation…

An optical imaging system forms an object image by recollecting light scattered by the object. However, intact optical information of the object delivered through the imaging system is deteriorated by imperfect optical elements and unwanted…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-28 SangYun Lee , Kyeoreh Lee , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park

Image diffusion has recently shown remarkable performance in image synthesis and implicitly as an image prior. Such a prior has been used with conditioning to solve the inpainting problem, but only supporting binary user-based conditioning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Majed El Helou

A recent thermal ghost imaging experiment by Wu's group constructed positive and negative images using a novel algorithm. This algorithm allows to form the images with use of partial measurements from the reference arm, even which never…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-30 Jianming Wen

3D scene reconstruction under unposed sparse viewpoints is a highly challenging yet practically important problem, especially in outdoor scenes due to complex lighting and scale variation. With extremely limited input views, directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Beizhen Zhao , Sicheng Yu , Guanzhi Ding , Yu Hu , Hao Wang

The ghost imaging (GI) technique, which has attracted attention as a highly sensitive and noise-resistant technique, employs a spatially modulated illuminating light and a single-pixel detector. Generally, the information acquired by GI is…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-23 Shuhei Yoshida

A solution to the inversion problem of scattering would offer aberration-free diffraction-limited 3D images without the resolution and depth-of-field limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. Powerful algorithms are increasingly being…

We present a new technique, iterative fluctuation ghost imaging (IFGI) which dramatically enhances the resolution of ghost imaging (GI). It is shown that, by the fluctuation characteristics of the second-order correlation function, the…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-25 Huan Zhao , Xiao-Qian Wang , Chao Gao , Zhuo Yu , Hong Wang , Yu Wang , Li-Dan Gou , Zhi-Hai Yao

Assessing the presence of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats is a crucial task which is usually dealt with by analyzing the presence of spectral features in a measured absorption profile. The use of quantum light allows…

We analyze multi-bounce propagation of light in an unknown hidden volume and demonstrate that the reflected light contains sufficient information to recover the 3D structure of the hidden scene. We formulate the forward and inverse theory…

A new method for dark field imaging is introduced which uses scanned electron diffraction (or 4DSTEM - 4-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy) datasets as its input. Instead of working on simple summation of intensity, it…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-18 Ian MacLaren , Andrew T. Fraser , Matthew R. Lipsett , Colin Ophus

Light projection is a powerful technique to edit appearances of objects in the real world. Based on pixel-wise modification of light transport, previous techniques have successfully modified static surface properties such as surface color,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Takahiro Kawabe , Taiki Fukiage , Masataka Sawayama , Shin'ya Nishida

Curating datasets for object segmentation is a difficult task. With the advent of large-scale pre-trained generative models, conditional image generation has been given a significant boost in result quality and ease of use. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Mischa Dombrowski , Hadrien Reynaud , Matthew Baugh , Bernhard Kainz

The distortion of light's degrees of freedom when passing through complex random media is of great interest across a diversity of fields, e.g., scattering in biological studies. Emulating such media in a controlled laboratory setting…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-13 Kelsey Everts , Cade Peters , Andrew Forbes

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Darshan Thaker , Abhishek Goyal , René Vidal

We present Diff3F as a simple, robust, and class-agnostic feature descriptor that can be computed for untextured input shapes (meshes or point clouds). Our method distills diffusion features from image foundational models onto input shapes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Niladri Shekhar Dutt , Sanjeev Muralikrishnan , Niloy J. Mitra

An approach to diffraction tomography is investigated for two-dimensional image reconstruction of objects surrounded by an arbitrarily-shaped curve of sources and receivers. Based on the integral theorem of Helmholtz and Kirchhoff, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 G. T. Clement