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Ghost imaging is a fascinating process, where light interacting with an object is recorded without resolution, but the shape of the object is nevertheless retrieved, thanks to quantum or classical correlations of this interacting light with…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-11 Fabrice Devaux , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Severine Denis , Eric Lantz

The capture of transient optical waveforms is critical to reveal dynamical phenomena in various fields. However, fast and sensitive mid-infrared (MIR) measurements are typically limited by processing bandwidth and detection sensitivity of…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-26 Wen Zhang , Kun Huang , Xu Wang , Ben Sun , Jianan Fang , Yijing Li , Heping Zeng

In certain applications or wavelength regimes, essential optical components for imaging systems are either unavailable or challenging to fabricate. To address this, we propose an optics-free classical ghost imaging (GI) scheme utilizing…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-09 Yuhan Guo , Xiangyu Yin , Chunguang Meng , Liming Li , Huiqiang Liu

Ghost imaging reconstructs spatial information from a single-pixel bucket detector by correlating structured illumination patterns with scalar intensity measurements. While deep learning approaches have achieved promising results on static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Vittorio Palladino , Ahmet Enis Cetin

We apply the measurement reduction technique to optimally reconstruct an object image from multiplexed ghost images (GI) while taking into account both GI correlations and object image sparsity. We show that one can reconstruct an image in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 D. A. Balakin , A. V. Belinsky , A. S. Chirkin

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

Ghost imaging allows image reconstruction by correlation measurements between a light beam that interacts with the object without spatial resolution and a spatially resolved light beam that never interacts with the object. The two light…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-26 Da-Peng Zhou , Wei Peng , Liang Chen , Xiaoyi Bao

A novel microwave photonic scheme for secure data transmission in optical networks is proposed. The security of the scheme is guaranteed by physical encryption and decryption via the temporal Talbot effect in dispersive mediums. First, the…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-15 Chulun Lin , Taixia Shi , Yiqing Liu , Yang Chen

Computational imaging~(CI) has been attracting a lot of interest in recent years for its superiority over traditional imaging in various applications. In CI systems, information is generally acquired in an encoded form and subsequently…

Illumination patterns of computational ghost imaging (CGI) systems suffer from reduced contrast when passing through a scattering medium, which causes the effective information in the reconstruction result to be drowned out by noise. A…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-18 Li-Xing Lin , Jie Cao , Qun Hao

Ghost tomography using single-pixel detection extends the emerging field of ghost imaging to three dimensions, with the use of penetrating radiation. In this work, a series of spatially random x-ray intensity patterns is used to illuminate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-06-25 Andrew. M. Kingston , Daniele Pelliccia , Alexander Rack , Margie P. Olbinado , Yin Cheng , Glenn R. Myers , David M. Paganin

We report ghost imaging of a single non-reproducible temporal signal in the range of tens kHz by using pseudo-thermal speckle light patterns and a single detector array with a million of pixels working without any temporal resolution. A set…

Ghost imaging needs massive measurements to obtain an image with good visibility and the imaging speed is usually very low. In order to realize real-time high-resolution ghost imaging of a target which is located in a scenario with a large…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-22 Cheng Zhou , Tian Tian , Chao Gao , Wenli Gong , Lijun Song

We present a quantum secure imaging (QSI) scheme based on the phase encoding and weak + vacuum decoy-state BB84 protocol of quantum key distribution (QKD). It allows us to implement a computational ghost imaging (CGI) system with more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Yi-Bo Zhao , Wan-Li Zhang , Dong Wang , Xiao-Tian Song , Liang-Jiang Zhou , Chi-Biao Ding

Quantum Ghost Imaging (QGI) is an intriguing imaging protocol that exploits photon-pair correlations stemming from spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). QGI retrieves images from two-path joint measurements, where single-path…

X-ray imaging is widely employed in clinical medicine, industrial inspection, and various scientific research fields. Unfortunately, most currently used X-ray two-dimensional (2D) detectors suffer from a fundamental trade-off between the…

Intelligent inspection robots are widely used in substation patrol inspection, which can help check potential safety hazards by patrolling the substation and sending back scene images. However, when patrolling some marginal areas with weak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Senran Fan , Haotai Liang , Chen Dong , Xiaodong Xu , Geng Liu

Ghost imaging (GI) lidar, as a novel remote sensing technique,has been receiving increasing interest in recent years. By combining pulse-compression technique and coherent detection with GI, we propose a new lidar system called…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-23 Chenjin Deng , Wenlin Gong , Shensheng Han

High-quality global illumination (GI) in real-time rendering is commonly achieved using precomputed lighting techniques, with lightmap as the standard choice. To support GI for static objects in dynamic lighting environments, multiple…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jianhui Wu , Jian Zhou , Zhi Zhou , Zhangjin Huang , Chao Li

Ghost imaging can capture 2D images with a point detector instead of an array sensor. It therefore offers a solution to the challenge of building area format sensors in wavebands where such sensors are difficult and expensive to produce and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Baolei Liu , Fan Wang , Chaohao Chen , Fei Dong , David McGloin