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Real-world low-light images captured by imaging devices suffer from poor visibility and require a domain-specific enhancement to produce artifact-free outputs that reveal details. In this paper, we propose an unpaired low-light image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Aupendu Kar , Sobhan K. Dhara , Debashis Sen , Prabir K. Biswas

Event camera is a new type of sensor that is different from traditional cameras. Each pixel is triggered asynchronously by an event. The trigger event is the change of the brightness irradiated on the pixel. If the increment or decrement is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Kun Xiao , Pengju Li , Guohui Wang , Zhi Li , Yi Chen , Yongfeng Xie , Yuqiang Fang

This article experimentally examines different configurations of a novel multi-camera array microscope (MCAM) imaging technology. The MCAM is based upon a densely packed array of "micro-cameras" to jointly image across a large field-of-view…

Image sensors hold a pivotal role in society due to their ability to capture vast amounts of information. Traditionally, image sensors are opaque due to light absorption in both the pixels and the read-out electronics that are stacked on…

Quantum imaging, one of the pillars of quantum technologies, is well-suited to study sensitive samples which require low-light conditions, like biological tissues. In this context, interaction-free measurements (IFM) allow us infer the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Alexandra Maria Palici , Tudor-Alexandru Isdraila , Stefan Ataman , Radu Ionicioiu

In low-light conditions, a conventional camera imaging pipeline produces sub-optimal images that are usually dark and noisy due to a low photon count and low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). We present a data-driven approach that learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Syed Waqas Zamir , Aditya Arora , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ling Shao

Millimeter-scale embedded sensing systems have unique advantages over larger devices as they are able to capture, analyze, store, and transmit data at the source while being unobtrusive and covert. However, area-constrained systems pose…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-28 Andrea Bejarano-Carbo , Hyochan An , Kyojin Choo , Shiyu Liu , Qirui Zhang , Dennis Sylvester , David Blaauw , Hun-Seok Kim

High resolution image sensors require electrical access to each individual pixel for signal readout. Such access is especially challenging for ultra-miniaturized pixels, for heterogeneously integrated sensing and readout layers in…

Imaging and perception in photon-limited scenarios is necessary for various applications, e.g., night surveillance or photography, high-speed photography, and autonomous driving. In these cases, cameras suffer from low signal-to-noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Bo Zhang , Yuchen Guo , Runzhao Yang , Zhihong Zhang , Jiayi Xie , Jinli Suo , Qionghai Dai

Visual-Inertial Odometry(VIO), which is critical to mobile robot navigation, uses cameras with a large number of pixels. Capturing and processing camera images requires significant resources. This work presents a minimalist approach to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Francesco Pasti , Jeremy Klotz , Nicola Bellotto , Shree K. Nayar

Image processing has become a critical technology in a variety of science and engineering disciplines. While most image processing is performed digitally, optical analog processing has the advantages of being low-power and high-speed though…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-06 You Zhou , Hanyu Zheng , Ivan I. Kravchenko , Jason Valentine

Event-based imaging is a neurmorphic detection technique whereby an array of pixels detects a positive or negative change in light intensity at each pixel, and is hence particularly well suited to detecting motion. As compared to standard…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-16 Yugang Ren , Enrique Benedetto , Harry Borrill , Yelizaveta Savchuk , Molly Message , Katie O'Flynn , Muddassar Rashid , James Millen

Light field cameras enable new capabilities, such as post-capture refocusing and aperture control, through capturing directional and spatial distribution of light rays in space. Micro-lens array based light field camera design is often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 M. Umair Mukati , Bahadir K. Gunturk

Cameras are the defacto sensor. The growing demand for real-time and low-power computer vision, coupled with trends towards high-efficiency heterogeneous systems, has given rise to a wide range of image processing acceleration techniques at…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Amrita Mazumdar , Thierry Moreau , Sung Kim , Meghan Cowan , Armin Alaghi , Luis Ceze , Mark Oskin , Visvesh Sathe

The human eye appears to be using a low number of sensors for image capturing. Furthermore, regarding the physical dimensions of cones-photoreceptors responsible for the sharp central vision-, we may realize that these sensors are of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Adur Lagunas , Oier Dominguez , Susana Martinez-Conde , Stephen L. Macknik , Carlos del-Rio

In Masked Image Modeling (MIM), two primary methods exist: Pixel MIM and Latent MIM, each utilizing different reconstruction targets, raw pixels and latent representations, respectively. Pixel MIM tends to capture low-level visual details…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Junmyeong Lee , Eui Jun Hwang , Sukmin Cho , Jong C. Park

Computer vision has achieved impressive progress in recent years. Meanwhile, mobile phones have become the primary computing platforms for millions of people. In addition to mobile phones, many autonomous systems rely on visual data for…

The design of a plenoptic camera requires the combination of two dissimilar optical systems, namely a main lens and an array of microlenses. And while the construction process of a conventional camera is mainly concerned with focusing the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Tim Michels , Reinhard Koch

Images are formed by counting how many photons traveling from a given set of directions hit an image sensor during a given time interval. When photons are few and far in between, the concept of `image' breaks down and it is best to consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Bo Chen , Pietro Perona

Conventional LIDAR systems require hundreds or thousands of photon detections to form accurate depth and reflectivity images. Recent photon-efficient computational imaging methods are remarkably effective with only 1.0 to 3.0 detected…

Applications · Statistics 2019-11-13 Joshua Rapp , Vivek K Goyal