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Robotics applications in urban environments are subject to obstacles that exhibit specular reflections hampering autonomous navigation. On the other hand, these reflections are highly polarized and this extra information can successfully be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Marc Blanchon , Olivier Morel , Fabrice Meriaudeau , Ralph Seulin , Désiré Sidibé

We demonstrate a motion-free intensity diffraction tomography technique that enables direct inversion of 3D phase and absorption from intensity-only measurements for weakly scattering samples. We derive a novel linear forward model,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ruilong Ling , Waleed Tahir , Hsing-Ying Lin , Hakho Lee , Lei Tian

Polarimetric imaging can provide valuable information about biological samples in a wide range of applications. Detrimental scattering however currently limits the imaging depth of in-vivo imaging to approximately 1 transport mean free…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Kai Ling C. Seow , Peter Török , Matthew R. Foreman

Ground-based astronomical observations at thermal infrared wavelengths face the problem of extracting the weak astronomical signal from the large and rapidly variable background flux. The observing strategy most commonly used, the so-called…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Bertero , P. Boccacci , M. Robberto

We propose a new technique for estimating spatially varying parametric materials from a single image of an object with unknown shape in unknown illumination. Our method uses a low-order parametric reflectance model, and incorporates strong…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Kevin Karsch , David Forsyth

X-ray polarization is a powerful tool for unveiling the anisotropic characteristics of high-energy celestial objects. We present a novel imaging reconstruction method designed for hard X-ray polarimeters employing a Si CMOS sensor and coded…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Taihei Watanabe , Toshiya Iwata , Tomoaki Kasuga , Atsushi Tanimoto , Satoshi Takashima , Masahiro Ichihashi , Hiromasa Suzuki , Aya Bamba

We present a novel three-dimensional (3D) imaging approach that combines two-dimensional spatial Fourier-domain imaging techniques with traditional radar pulse compression to recover both cross-range and down-range scene information. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-11 Jorge R. Colon-Berrios , Jason M. Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

We develop a method of reconstructing the lensing field from lensed CMB temperature and polarization maps in real space as an alternative to the harmonic space estimators currently in use by extending an existing real space lensing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 Heather Prince , Kavilan Moodley , Jethro Ridl , Martin Bucher

In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In several applications the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Afonso S. Bandeira , Dustin G. Mixon

This work proposes novel hyperparameter-free losses for single view 3D reconstruction with morphable models (3DMM). We dispense with the hyperparameters used in other works by exploiting geometry, so that the shape of the object and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Eduard Ramon , Guillermo Ruiz , Thomas Batard , Xavier Giró-i-Nieto

This paper is concerned with the inverse problem of reconstructing a small object from far field measurements. The inverse problem is severally ill-posed because of the diffraction limit and low signal to noise ratio. We propose a novel…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-04-18 Habib Ammari , Matias Ruiz , Sanghyeon Yu , Hai Zhang

Optical interferometers provide multiple wavelength measurements. In order to fully exploit the spectral and spatial resolution of these instruments, new algorithms for image reconstruction have to be developed. Early attempts to deal with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Éric Thiébaut , Ferréol Soulez , Loïc Denis

We present Wave-Former, a novel method capable of high-accuracy 3D shape reconstruction for completely occluded, diverse, everyday objects. This capability can open new applications spanning robotics, augmented reality, and logistics. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Laura Dodds , Maisy Lam , Waleed Akbar , Yibo Cheng , Fadel Adib

We present a modern solution to the multi-view photometric stereo problem (MVPS). Our work suitably exploits the image formation model in a MVPS experimental setup to recover the dense 3D reconstruction of an object from images. We procure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Francesco Sarno , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

We propose a new technique for radio interferometry to obtain super-resolution full polarization images in all four Stokes parameters using sparse modeling. The proposed technique reconstructs the image in each Stokes parameter from the…

Images captured in participating media such as murky water, fog, or smoke are degraded by scattered light. Thus, the use of traditional three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques in such environments is difficult. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Yuki Fujimura , Masaaki Iiyama , Atsushi Hashimoto , Michihiko Minoh

A method for displaying volumetric images, which exploits our binocular vision and does not require eyewear, is discussed. The display can be rendered as a matrix of pivoting micromirrors irradiated by a light beam; each micromirror focuses…

Optics · Physics 2007-07-04 Oleg G. Semyonov

In this work we present a novel method for reconstructing 3D surfaces using a multi-beam imaging sonar. We integrate the intensities measured by the sonar from different viewpoints for fixed cell positions in a 3D grid. For each cell we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Sascha Arnold , Bilal Wehbe

Current mm/submm interferometers, like the Atacama Large mm/submm Array (ALMA), use receivers that register the sky signal in a linear polarization basis. In the case of observations performed in full-polarization mode (where the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 I. Marti-Vidal , W. H. T. Vlemmings , S. Muller

One of the most common methods for reconstructing three-dimensional (3D) images of real objects is digital holography. This technique relies on the use of electro-optical devices that modify the phase or amplitude of light fields in a…