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By circumventing the resolution limitations of optics, coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) and ptychography are making their way into scientific fields ranging from X-ray imaging to astronomy. Yet, the need for time consuming iterative phase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Oliver Hoidn , Aashwin Ananda Mishra , Apurva Mehta

A new algorithmic framework is presented for holographic phase retrieval via maximum likelihood optimization, which allows for practical and robust image reconstruction. This framework is especially well-suited for holographic coherent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-18 David A. Barmherzig , Ju Sun

High resolution reconstruction of complicated objects from incomplete and noisy data can be achieved by solving modulation equations iteratively under physical constraints. This direct demodulation method is a powerful technique for dealing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ti-Pei Li , Mei Wu

We present an advanced quantum super-resolution imaging technique based on photon statistics measurement and its accurate modeling. Our reconstruction algorithm adapts to any kind of non-Poissonian emitters, outperforming the corresponding…

In example-based super-resolution, the function relating low-resolution images to their high-resolution counterparts is learned from a given dataset. This data-driven approach to solving the inverse problem of increasing image resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Alexander Robey , Vidya Ganapati

Fourier ptychography is a new computational microscopy technique that provides gigapixel-scale intensity and phase images with both wide field-of-view and high resolution. By capturing a stack of low-resolution images under different…

Ptychography is a scanning coherent diffractive imaging technique that enables imaging nanometer-scale features in extended samples. One main challenge is that widely used iterative image reconstruction methods often require significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Canberk Ekmekci , Tekin Bicer , Zichao Wendy Di , Junjing Deng , Mujdat Cetin

Image reconstruction including image restoration and denoising is a challenging problem in the field of image computing. We present a new method, called X-GANs, for reconstruction of arbitrary corrupted resource based on a variant of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Longfei Liu , Sheng Li , Yisong Chen , Guoping Wang

The image reconstruction of partially coherent light is interpreted as the quantum state reconstruction. The efficient method based on maximum-likelihood estimation is proposed to acquire information from registered intensity measurements…

Optics · Physics 2011-07-22 M. Jezek , Z. Hradil

A solution to the inversion problem of scattering would offer aberration-free diffraction-limited 3D images without the resolution and depth-of-field limitations of lens-based tomographic systems. Powerful algorithms are increasingly being…

Image composition is an important operation to create visual content. Among image composition tasks, image blending aims to seamlessly blend an object from a source image onto a target image with lightly mask adjustment. A popular approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Lingzhi Zhang , Tarmily Wen , Jianbo Shi

This paper presents a novel method for the reconstruction of images from samples located at non-integer positions, called mesh. This is a common scenario for many image processing applications, such as super-resolution, warping or virtual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Ján Koloda , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Ptychography has risen as a reference X-ray imaging technique: it achieves resolutions of one billionth of a meter, macroscopic field of view, or the capability to retrieve chemical or magnetic contrast, among other features. A…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Huibin Chang , Pable Enfedaque , Stefano Marchesini

We propose easy ways of correcting for the systematic errors caused by the photon noise and the pixelation effect in cosmic shear measurements. Our treatment of noise can reliably remove the noise contamination to the cosmic shear even when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-16 Jun Zhang

The diffusion model has demonstrated superior performance in synthesizing diverse and high-quality images for text-guided image translation. However, there remains room for improvement in both the formulation of text prompts and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Qi Si , Bo Wang , Zhao Zhang

We present a new technique - photon folding - for imaging in non-focusing telescopes. Motivated by the epoch-folding method in timing analysis, the photon folding technique directly provides the statistical significance of signals in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 JaeSub Hong

Image inpainting refers to filling missing places in images using neighboring pixels. It also has many applications in different tasks of image processing. Most of these applications enhance the image quality by significant unwanted changes…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-03 Mojtaba Akbari , Majid Mohrekesh , Nader Karimi , Shadrokh Samavi

In many image processing tasks it occurs that pixels or blocks of pixels are missing or lost in only some channels. For example during defective transmissions of RGB images, it may happen that one or more blocks in one color channel are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-19 Frank Sippel , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

Ptychography is now integrated as a tool in mainstream microscopy allowing quantitative and high-resolution imaging capabilities over a wide field of view. However, its ultimate performance is inevitably limited by the available coherent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Wenhui Xu , Shoucong Ning , Pengju Sheng , Huixiang Lin , Angus I Kirkland , Yong Peng , Fucai Zhang

We present progress toward using scanned OSSE observations for mapping and sky survey work. To this end, we have developed a technique for detecting pointlike sources of unknown number and location, given that they appear in a background…