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Underwater environments pose significant challenges due to the selective absorption and scattering of light by water, which affects image clarity, contrast, and color fidelity. To overcome these, we introduce OceanLens, a method that models…

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Subsurface scattering (SSS) gives translucent materials -- such as wax, jade, marble, and skin -- their characteristic soft shadows, color bleeding, and diffuse glow. Modeling these effects in neural rendering remains challenging due to…

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Improvement of label-free far-field resolution of optical imaging is possible with prior knowledge of the object such as its sparsity or accumulated by a posteriori examination of a similar class of object1-4. We show that the sole…

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Supernova cosmology without spectroscopic confirmation is an exciting new frontier which we address here with the Bayesian Estimation Applied to Multiple Species (BEAMS) algorithm and the full three years of data from the Sloan Digital Sky…

Hyperspectral images (HSIs) are frequently noisy and of low resolution due to the constraints of imaging devices. Recently launched satellites can concurrently acquire HSIs and panchromatic (PAN) images, enabling the restoration of HSIs to…

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Deep learning based image Super-Resolution (SR) has shown rapid development due to its ability of big data digestion. Generally, deeper and wider networks can extract richer feature maps and generate SR images with remarkable quality.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-11 Zhi-Song Liu , Li-Wen Wang , Chu-Tak Li , Wan-Chi Siu , Yui-Lam Chan

Light detection and ranging (Lidar) single-photon devices capture range and intensity information from a 3D scene. This modality enables long range 3D reconstruction with high range precision and low laser power. A multispectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Julián Tachella , Yoann Altmann , Miguel Márquez , Henry Arguello-Fuentes , Jean-Yves Tourneret , Stephen McLaughlin

In SPECT image reconstruction, limited-angle (LA) conditions lead to a loss of frequency components, which distort the reconstructed tomographic image along directions corresponding to the non-collected projection angle range. Although…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-07-16 Kensuke Hori , Fumio Hashimoto , Kazuya Koyama , Takeyuki Hashimoto

Lensless imaging is a popular research field for the advantages of small size, wide field-of-view and low aberration in recent years. However, some traditional lensless imaging methods suffer from slow convergence, mechanical errors and…

Optical metasurfaces performing analog image processing - such as spatial differentiation and edge detection - hold the potential to reduce processing times and power consumption, while avoiding bulky 4F lens systems. However, current…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-08 Michele Cotrufo , Akshaj Arora , Sahitya Singh , Andrea Alù

An unbiased method for improving the resolution of astronomical images is presented. The strategy at the core of this method is to establish a linear transformation between the recorded image and an improved image at some desirable…

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We suggest a new method for quantum optical control with nanoscale resolution. Our method allows for coherent far-field manipulation of individual quantum systems with spatial selectivity that is not limited by the wavelength of radiation…

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A lensfree spectral light-field fusion microscopy (LSLFM) system is presented for enabling contrast- and resolution-enhanced imaging of biological specimens. LSLFM consists of a pulsed multispectral lensfree microscope for capturing…

Intra-operative measurements of tissue shape and multi/ hyperspectral information have the potential to provide surgical guidance and decision making support. We report an optical probe based system to combine sparse hyperspectral…

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The acquisition of light field images with high angular resolution is costly. Although many methods have been proposed to improve the angular resolution of a sparsely-sampled light field, they always focus on the light field with a small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Jing Jin , Junhui Hou , Hui Yuan , Sam Kwong

Current hyperspectral image (HSI) reconstruction methods primarily rely on image-level approaches, which are time-consuming to form abundant high-quality HSIs through imagers. In contrast, spectrometers offer a more efficient alternative by…

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Deep learning based single image super-resolution methods use a large number of training datasets and have recently achieved great quality progress both quantitatively and qualitatively. Most deep networks focus on nonlinear mapping from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-21 Zhi-Song Liu , Li-Wen Wang , Chu-Tak Li , Wan-Chi Siu

The problem of phase retrieval, or the algorithmic recovery of lost phase information from measured intensity alone, underlies various imaging methods from astronomy to nanoscale imaging. Traditional methods of phase retrieval are iterative…

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence and widespread use of smartphones have resulted in an exponential growth of image data, both real (camera-captured) and virtual (AI-generated). This surge underscores the critical need for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhiqiang Lao , Heather Yu

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is a popular, fast elemental analysis technique used to determine the chemical composition of target samples, such as in industrial analysis of metals or in space exploration. Recently, there has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-10 Kshitij Bhardwaj , Maya Gokhale