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Distributed quantum metrology can enhance the sensitivity for sensing spatially distributed parameters beyond the classical limits. Here we demonstrate distributed quantum phase estimation with discrete variables to achieve Heisenberg limit…

We demonstrate experimentally and theoretically that a coherent image of a pure phase object may be obtained by use of a spatially incoherent illumination beam. This is accomplished by employing a two-beam source of entangled photons…

Active-stereo-based 3D shape measurement is crucial for various purposes, such as industrial inspection, reverse engineering, and medical systems, due to its strong ability to accurately acquire the shape of textureless objects. Active…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ryo Furukawa , Kota Nishihara , Hiroshi Kawasaki

We introduce a framework that automates the transformation of static anime illustrations into manipulatable 2.5D models. Current professional workflows require tedious manual segmentation and the artistic ``hallucination'' of occluded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Jian Lin , Chengze Li , Haoyun Qin , Kwun Wang Chan , Yanghua Jin , Hanyuan Liu , Stephen Chun Wang Choy , Xueting Liu

Spontaneous downconversion is a versatile source for correlated biphotons that has been employed in many quantum sensing and imaging experiments. Spatially-resolved photon-counting detectors allow to access a large number of modes, posing…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-11-26 Ermes Toninelli , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Thomas Gregory , Miles J. Padgett

We improve a phase retrieval approach that uses correlation-based measurements with compactly supported measurement masks [27]. The improved algorithm admits deterministic measurement constructions together with a robust, fast recovery…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Mark A. Iwen , Brian Preskitt , Rayan Saab , Aditya Viswanathan

Digital holography (DH) is a promising method for non-contact surface topography because the reconstructed phase image can visualize the nanometer unevenness in a sample. However, the axial range of this method is limited to the range of…

Phase estimation plays a central role in communications, sensing, and information processing. Quantum correlated states, such as squeezed states, enable phase estimation beyond the shot-noise limit, and in principle approach the ultimate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 M. A. Rodríguez-García , F. E. Becerra

Phase-retrieval from coded diffraction patterns (CDP) is important to X-ray crystallography, diffraction tomography and astronomical imaging, yet remains a hard, non-convex inverse problem. We show that CDP recovery can be reformulated…

We consider the two-dimensional multi-target detection problem of recovering a target image from a noisy measurement that contains multiple copies of the image, each randomly rotated and translated. Motivated by the structure reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Shay Kreymer , Tamir Bendory

We propose a flexible convex relaxation for the phase retrieval problem that operates in the natural domain of the signal. Therefore, we avoid the prohibitive computational cost associated with "lifting" and semidefinite programming (SDP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-17 Sohail Bahmani , Justin Romberg

Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) is the primary tool for exploring nanoscale functionality, yet standard single-frequency operation is fundamentally limited, because the dynamic tip-sample interaction is mathematically underdetermined. While…

Using a time-gated dual quadrature spectral interferometry technique, for the first time we demonstrate single-shot characterization of both spectral amplitude and phase of ~1THz bandwidth optical arbitrary waveforms generated from a 10 GHz…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-27 V. R. Supradeepa , Daniel E. Leaird , Andrew M. Weiner

We report on the absolute calibration of a CCD camera by exploiting quantum correlation. This novel method exploits a certain number of spatial pairwise quantum correlated modes produced by spontaneous parametric-down-conversion. We develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 I. Ruo-Berchera , A. Meda , I. P. Degiovanni , G. Brida , M. L. Rastello , M. Genovese

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is an emerging label-free technique that produces images containing morphological and dynamical information without contrast agents. Unfortunately, the phase is wrapped in most imaging system. Phase…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Fangshu Yang , Thanh-an Pham , Nathalie Brandenberg , Matthias P. Lutolf , Jianwei Ma , Michael Unser

In this paper, we derive a new class of methods for the classic 2D phase unwrapping problem of recovering a phase function from its wrapped form. For this, we consider the wrapped phase as a wavefront aberration in an optical system, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-14 Simon Hubmer , Victoria Laidlaw , Ronny Ramlau , Ekaterina Sherina , Bernadett Stadler

We introduce a method and a 3D-camera for single-shot 3D shape measurement, with unprecedented features: The 3D-camera does not rely on pattern codification and acquires object surfaces at the theoretical limit of the information…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-11 Florian Willomitzer , Gerd Häusler

Quantum correlation, such as entanglement and squeezing have shown to improve phase estimation in interferometric setups on one side, and non-interferometric imaging scheme of amplitude object on the other. In the last case, quantum…

Diagnostics capable of interrogating dynamics in harsh environments such as plasma have remained essentially unchanged in recent decades. Developments in advanced microscopy techniques will improve our understanding of the physics involved…

Here we demonstrate how the standard, temporal-only, dynamical-decoupling-based noise spectroscopy method can be extended to also encompass the spatial degree of freedom. This spatiotemporal spectroscopy utilizes a system of multiple qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Jan Krzywda , Piotr Szańkowski , Łukasz Cywiński