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Assessing the presence of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats is a crucial task which is usually dealt with by analyzing the presence of spectral features in a measured absorption profile. The use of quantum light allows…

Decomposing a scene into its reflectance and shading is a challenge due to the lack of extensive ground-truth data for real-world scenes. We introduce a novel physics-based approach for intrinsic image decomposition using a pair of visible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zeqing Yuan , Mani Ramanagopal , Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan , Srinivasa G. Narasimhan

We investigate the nature of correlations in Gaussian light sources used for ghost imaging. We adopt methods from quantum information theory to distinguish genuinely quantum from classical correlations. Combining a microscopic analysis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 Sammy Ragy , Gerardo Adesso

The image information acquisition ability of a conventional camera is usually much lower than the Shannon Limit since it does not make use of the correlation between pixels of image data. Applying a random phase modulator to code the…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-18 Zhentao Liu , Shiyu Tan , Jianrong Wu , Enrong Li , Xia Shen , Shensheng Han

We outline and experimentally demonstrate a method to image pure phase objects using traditional quantum ghost imaging with single pixel detectors. We provide a theoretical description of the process, showing how phase information is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Bereneice Sephton , Isaac Nape , Chané Moodley , Jason Francis , Andrew Forbes

We achieved three-dimensional (3D) computational ghost imaging with multiple photoresistors serving as single-pixel detectors using semi-calibrated lighting approach. We performed imaging in the spatial frequency domain by having each…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-30 Ritz Ann Aguilar , Nathaniel Hermosa , Maricor Soriano

Reconstructing the geometry and appearance of objects from photographs taken in different environments is difficult as the illumination and therefore the object appearance vary across captured images. This is particularly challenging for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Hadi Alzayer , Philipp Henzler , Jonathan T. Barron , Jia-Bin Huang , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Dor Verbin

We experimentally demonstrate the up-conversion of light carrying an image from the infrared spectrum to the visible spectrum using four-wave mixing via a ladder-type configuration in an atomic vapor. The results we obtained show the high…

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

Ghost imaging (GI) achieves 2D image reconstruction through high-order correlation of 1D bucket signals and 2D light field information, particularly demonstrating enhanced detection sensitivity and high-quality image reconstruction via…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-13 Yifan Chen , Hongjun An , Zhe Sun , Tong Tian , Mingliang Chen , Christian Spielmann , Xuelong Li

Quantum - or classically correlated - light can be employed in various ways to improve resolution and measurement sensitivity. In an "interaction-free" measurement, a single photon can be used to reveal the presence of an object placed…

Ghost imaging (GI) is a novel imaging method, which can reconstruct the object information by the light intensity correlation measurements. However, at present, the field of view (FOV) is limited to the illuminating range of the light…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-24 Huan Cui , Jie Cao , Qun Hao , Dong Zhou , Mingyuan Tang , Kaiyu Zhang , Yingqiang Zhang

The wavefront is scrambled when coherent light propagates through a random scattering medium and which makes direct use of the conventional optical methods ineffective. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a structured light…

By modulating the intensity of laser light before the rotating groundglass, the well-known pseudothermal light source can be modified into superbunching pseudothermal light source, in which the degree of second-order coherence of the…

We report the first experimental demonstration of two-photon correlated imaging with true thermal light from a hollow cathode lamp. The coherence time of the source is much shorter than that of previous experiments using random scattered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Da Zhang , Xi-Hao Chen , Yan-Hua Zhai , Ling-An Wu

Ghost imaging is a developing imaging technique that employs random masks to image a sample. Ghost projection utilizes ghost-imaging concepts to perform the complementary procedure of projection of a desired image. The key idea underpinning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-31 David Ceddia , David M. Paganin

The ghost interference observed for entangled photons is theoretically analyzed using wave-packet dynamics. It is shown that ghost interference is a combined effect of virtual double-slit creation due to entanglement, and quantum erasure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Tabish Qureshi , Pravabati Chingangbam , Sheeba Shafaq

We present a method to estimate lighting from a single image of an indoor scene. Previous work has used an environment map representation that does not account for the localized nature of indoor lighting. Instead, we represent lighting as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Marc-André Gardner , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Christian Gagné , Jean-François Lalonde

The ghost imaging (GI) technique, which has attracted attention as a highly sensitive and noise-resistant technique, employs a spatially modulated illuminating light and a single-pixel detector. Generally, the information acquired by GI is…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-23 Shuhei Yoshida

Ultraviolet (UV) imaging enables a diverse array of applications, such as material composition analysis, biological fluorescence imaging, and detecting defects in semiconductor manufacturing. However, scientific-grade UV cameras with high…