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Two transformation-optics inspired flat lenses are used to build up an optical system capable to transpose an area surrounding the object focal point in a magnified area surrounding the image focal point. The object and image focal points…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-10 Mircea Giloan , Robert Gutt

Nonlinear metasurfaces incorporate many of the functionalities of their linear counterparts such as wavefront shaping but simultaneously they perform nonlinear optical transformations. This dual functionality leads to a rather unintuitive…

We propose a device with a positive isotropic refractive index that creates an approximate magnified perfect real image of an optically homogeneous three-dimensional region of space within geometrical optics. Its key ingredient is a new…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-13 Tomas Tyc , Martin Sarbort

Image superresolution involves the processing of an image sequence to generate a still image with higher resolution. Classical approaches, such as bayesian MAP methods, require iterative minimization procedures, with high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Carlos Miravet , Francisco B. Rodriguez

Recently single image super resolution is very important research area to generate high resolution image from given low resolution image. Algorithms of single image resolution are mainly based on wavelet domain and spatial domain. Filters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-10 Sapan Naik , Nikunj Patel

Optical metasurfaces are planar arrangements of subwavelength meta-atoms that implement a wide range of transformations on incident light. The design of efficient metasurfaces requires that the responses of and interactions among meta-atoms…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-19 Mahdad Mansouree , Andrew McClung , Sarath Samudrala , Amir Arbabi

In this letter, we show how transformation optics makes it possible to design what we call conjugate metamaterials. We show that these materials can also serve as substrates for making a subwavelength-resolution lens. The so-called "perfect…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-30 Yadong Xu , Yangyang Fu , Lin Xu , Huanyang Chen

Image enhancement is a technique that frequently utilized in digital image processing. In recent years, the popularity of learning-based techniques for enhancing the aesthetic performance of photographs has increased. However, the majority…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Zinuo Li , Xuhang Chen , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

Recent experiments [Guan et al. Science 381, 766 (2023)] have demonstrated that the resolution of superlensing slabs can be significantly enhanced with complex frequency illuminations. In this study, we introduce a novel theoretical…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-29 Philippe Lalanne , Tong Wu

In this paper we propose a global convex approach for image hallucination. Altering the idea of classical multi image super resolution (SU) systems to single image SU, we incorporate aligned images to hallucinate the output. Our work is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Peter Innerhofer , Thomas Pock

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…

High-dynamic range imaging from space in the visible, aiming in particular at the detection of terrestrial exoplanets, necessitates not only the use of a coronagraph, but also of adaptive optics to correct optical defects in real time.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pascal J. Bordé , Wesley A. Traub

In recent years, gravitational lensing has been used as a means to detect substructure in galaxy-sized halos, via anomalous flux ratios in quadruply-imaged lenses. In addition to causing anomalous flux ratios, substructure may also perturb…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Jacqueline Chen , Eduardo Rozo , Neal Dalal , James E. Taylor

Over the years, the use of superpixel segmentation has become very popular in various applications, serving as a preprocessing step to reduce data size by adapting to the content of the image, regardless of its semantic content. While the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Rémi Giraud , Michaël Clément

Imaging with a layered superlens is a spatial filtering operation characterized by the point spread function (PSF). We show that in the same optical system the image of a narrow sub-wavelength Gaussian incident field may be surprisingly…

Optics · Physics 2010-04-08 Rafal Kotynski , Tomasz Stefaniuk

Our ability to structure materials at the nanoscale has, and continues to, enable key advances in optical control. In pursuit of optimal photonic designs, substantial progress has been made on two complementary fronts: bottom-up structural…

We propose a numerically efficient `adjoint' inverse design method to optimize a planar structure of dipole scatterers, to manipulate the radiation from an electric dipole emitter. Several examples are presented: modification of the…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-21 J. R. Capers , S. J. Boyes , A. P. Hibbins , S. A. R. Horsley

Spectral imaging is a fundamental diagnostic technique with widespread application. Conventional spectral imaging approaches have intrinsic limitations on spatial and spectral resolutions due to the physical components they rely on. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Figen S. Oktem , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Can Deniz Bezek , Farzad Kamalabadi

We present an improved model for MRF-based depth upsampling, guided by image- as well as 3D surface normal features. By exploiting the underlying camera model we define a novel regularization term that implicitly evaluates the planarity of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Sascha Wirges , Björn Roxin , Eike Rehder , Tilman Kühner , Martin Lauer

In the strong lensing regime non-parametric lens models struggle to achieve sufficient angular resolution for a meaningful derivation of the central cluster mass distribution. The problem lies mainly with cluster members which perturb…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Irene Sendra , Jose M. Diego , Tom Broadhurst , Ruth Lazkoz