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We have developed a method for the linear reconstruction of an image from undersampled, dithered data. The algorithm, known as Variable-Pixel Linear Reconstruction, or informally as Drizzle, preserves photometry and resolution, can weight…

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A compressive sensing based circular polarization snapshot spectral imaging system is proposed in this paper to acquire two-dimensional spatial, one-dimensional circular polarization (the right and left circular polarization), and…

"Frontalization" is the process of synthesizing frontal facing views of faces appearing in single unconstrained photos. Recent reports have suggested that this process may substantially boost the performance of face recognition systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-01 Tal Hassner , Shai Harel , Eran Paz , Roee Enbar

Polarization is a fundamental property of light that encodes abundant information regarding surface shape, material, illumination and viewing geometry. The computer vision community has witnessed a blossom of polarization-based vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhuoxiao Li , Zhihang Zhong , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino , Yinqiang Zheng

Shape from Polarization (SfP) estimates surface normals using photos captured at different polarizer rotations. Fundamentally, the SfP model assumes that light is reflected either diffusely or specularly. However, this model is not valid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Vage Taamazyan , Achuta Kadambi , Ramesh Raskar

Imaging polarimetry allows more information to be extracted from a scene than conventional intensity or colour imaging. However, a major challenge of imaging polarimetry is image degradation due to noise. This paper investigates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Alexander B. Tibbs , Ilse M. Daly , Nicholas W. Roberts , David R. Bull

A lensless digital holography enables wide-field microscopic imaging without the limitations imposed by optical lens performance. However, conventional holographic imaging often relies on magnifying optical systems to compensate for the low…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-24 Byung Gyu Chae

Lensless imaging is an elegant approach to high-resolution microscopy, which is rapidly gaining popularity in applications where imaging optics are problematic. However, current lensless imaging methods require objects to be placed within a…

Invisible persons are seen in fiction stories only, but in the real world it is proved that invisibility is possible. This paper describes the creation of invisibility with the help of technologies like Optical camouflage; Image based…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Vasireddy Srikanth , Pillem Ramesh

FlatCam is a thin form-factor lensless camera that consists of a coded mask placed on top of a bare, conventional sensor array. Unlike a traditional, lens-based camera where an image of the scene is directly recorded on the sensor pixels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-28 M. Salman Asif , Ali Ayremlou , Aswin Sankaranarayanan , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Richard Baraniuk

Single-shot fluorescence imaging techniques have gained increasing interest in recent years due to their ability to rapidly capture complex biological data without the need for extensive scanning. In this letter, we introduce polarized…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-31 Oumeng Zhang , Changhuei Yang

Lensless imaging can provide visual privacy due to the highly multiplexed characteristic of its measurements. However, this alone is a weak form of security, as various adversarial attacks can be designed to invert the one-to-many scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Eric Bezzam , Martin Vetterli , Matthieu Simeoni

In this paper, we propose a lensless compressive sensing imaging architecture. The architecture consists of two components, an aperture assembly and a sensor. No lens is used. The aperture assembly consists of a two dimensional array of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Gang Huang , Hong Jiang , Kim Matthews , Paul Wilford

Optical neural networks are emerging as a powerful and versatile tool for processing optical signals directly in the optical domain with superior speed, integrability, and functionality. Their application to optical polarization enables…

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Calibrating displays is a basic and regular task that content creators must perform to maintain optimal visual experience, yet it remains a troublesome issue. Measuring display characteristics from different viewpoints often requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Ziyang Chen , Yuta Itoh , Kaan Akşit

Recent advances in surface reconstruction for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have enabled remarkable geometric accuracy. However, their performance degrades in photometrically ambiguous regions such as reflective and textureless surfaces,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Bo Guo , Sijia Wen , Yifan Zhao , Jia Li , Zhiming Zheng

Polarisation Filter Array (PFA) cameras allow the analysis of light polarisation state in a simple and cost-effective manner. Such filter arrays work as the Bayer pattern for colour cameras, sharing similar advantages and drawbacks. Among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Mara Pistellato , Filippo Bergamasco , Tehreem Fatima , Andrea Torsello

We demonstrate a wavefront sensor based on the compressive sensing, single-pixel camera. Using a high-resolution spatial light modulator (SLM) as a variable waveplate, we weakly couple an optical field's transverse-position and polarization…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-30 Gregory A. Howland , Daniel J. Lum , John C. Howell

Lensless cameras are a class of imaging devices that shrink the physical dimensions to the very close vicinity of the image sensor by replacing conventional compound lenses with integrated flat optics and computational algorithms. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Qiang Fu , Dong-Ming Yan , Wolfgang Heidrich

We present an imaging algorithm for polarimetric interferometric data from radio telescopes. It is based on Bayesian statistics and thereby able to provide uncertainties and to incorporate prior information such as positivity of the total…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 Philipp Arras , Jakob Roth , Martin Reinecke , Richard A. Perley , Andrei Frolov , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin