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Towards learning-based denoising of light fields

Touradj Ebrahimi, Michela Testolina

In recent years, new emerging immersive imaging modalities, e.g. light fields, have been receiving growing attention, becoming increasingly widespread over the years. Light fields are often captured through multi-camera arrays or plenoptic cameras, with th ...

2023

Modeling the Shape Evolution of Selective Area Grown Zn3P2 Nanoislands

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Jean-Baptiste Leran, Simon Robert Escobar Steinvall, Mahdi Zamani, Rajrupa Paul, Elias Zsolt Stutz

Selective area growth of zinc phosphide (Zn3P2) on InP provides a pathway to high-quality semiconductor nanostructures and textured thin films made of earth-abundant elements. In the precoalescence stage, Zn3P2 emerges in the form of nanoislands undergoing ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Camera Calibration Models and Methods for Corridor Mapping with UAVs

Jan Skaloud, Davide Antonio Cucci, Emmanuel Pierre Quentin Clédat

Camera calibration refers to the modeling of the relationship between the coordinates of object points and their projections on the image plane. This is usually done by parametric models that describe the physical properties of the lens systems and camera ...

2020

Plano-concave mini-lens array for plenoptic imaging applications

Toralf Scharf, Alessandro Grosso

An array of plano-concave mini-lenses is designed to realize a particular version of Light Field camera known as Plenoptic Camera 1.2. The Delano diagram related to the on-axis optical channel of such a camera is computed to show its retro-focus behavior a ...

IEEE2019

Real-time 360 Body Scanning System for Virtual Reality Research Applications

Olaf Blanke, Bruno Herbelin, Florian Lance, Louis Philippe Albert

We present a low-cost solution to perform the online and realistic representation of users using an array of depth cameras. The system is composed of a cluster of 10 Microsoft Kinect 2 cameras, each one associated to a compact NUC PC to stream live depth & ...

2019

Carbon Nanotube Array Based Binary Gabor Zone Plate Lenses

Sunan Deng

Diffractive zone plates have a wide range of applications from focusing x-ray to extreme UV radiation. The Gabor zone plate, which suppresses the higher-order foci to a pair of conjugate foci, is an attractive alternative to the conventional Fresnel zone p ...

Nature Research2017

A high sensitivity, low noise and high spatial resolution multi-band infrared reflectography camera for the study of paintings and works on paper

Marie Eve Pascale Didier

Background: Infrared reflectography (IRR) remains an important method to visualize underdrawing and compositional changes in paintings. Older IRR camera systems are being replaced with near-infrared cameras consisting of room temperature infrared detector ...

Biomed Central Ltd2017

Tensor low-rank and sparse light field photography

Pierre Vandergheynst, Mahdad Hosseini Kamal

High-quality light field photography has been one of the most difficult challenges in computational photography. Conventional methods either sacrifice resolution, use multiple devices, or require multiple images to be captured. Combining coded image acquis ...

Elsevier2016

Refraction limit of miniaturized optical systems: a ball-lens example

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Wilfried Noell, Myun Sik Kim, Roland Andreas Bitterli

We study experimentally and theoretically the electromagnetic field in amplitude and phase behind ball-lenses across a wide range of diameters, ranging from a millimeter scale down to a micrometer. Based on the observation, we study the transition between ...

Optical Society of America2016

Sampling Models in Light Fields

Zhou Xue

What is the actual information contained in light rays filling the 3-D world? Leonardo da Vinci saw the world as an infinite number of radiant pyramids caused by the objects located in it. Nowadays, the radiant pyramid is usually described as a set of ligh ...

EPFL2016

Real-Time Computational Gigapixel Multi-Camera Systems

Vladan Popovic

The standard cameras are designed to truthfully mimic the human eye and the visual system. In recent years, commercially available cameras are becoming more complex, and offer higher image resolutions than ever before. However, the quality of conventional ...

EPFL2016

A Practical Method for Measuring the Spatial Frequency Response of Light Field Cameras

Sabine Süsstrunk, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz, Damien Firmenich

The spatial frequency response (SFR) is one of the most important and unbiased image quality measures of a digital camera. It evaluates to which extent a lens/sensor combination can resolve scene details. In this paper, we propose a simple and practical me ...

IEEE2014

Detecting Planar Surface Using a Light-Field Camera with Application to Distinguishing Real Scenes From Printed Photos

Martin Vetterli, Alireza Ghasemi

We propose a novel approach for detecting printed photos from natural scenes using a light-field camera. Our approach exploits the extra information captured by a light-field camera and the multiple views of scene in order to infer a compact feature vector ...

Ieee2014

Light ﬁeld panorama by a plenoptic camera

Martin Vetterli, Paolo Prandoni, Loïc Arnaud Baboulaz, Zhou Xue

Consumer-grade plenoptic camera Lytro draws a lot of interest from both academic and industrial world. However its low resolution in both spatial and angular domain prevents it from being used for ﬁne and detailed light ﬁeld acquisition. This paper propose ...

SPIE2013

Angular Resolved low loss EELS for Materials Characterization

Simon Schneider

Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry (EELS) in Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) is a powerful tool for the investigation of the electronic structure of materials. In the low loss regime, one can access the optical properties which are governed by the di ...

EPFL2013

Omnidirectional Light Field Analysis and Reconstruction

Luigi Bagnato

Digital photography exists since 1975, when Steven Sasson attempted to build the first digital camera. Since then the concept of digital camera did not evolve much: an optical lens concentrates light rays onto a focal plane where a planar photosensitive ar ...

EPFL2012

Bits from Photons : Oversampled Binary Image Acquisition

Feng Yang

The trends in the design of image sensors are to build sensors with low noise, high sensitivity, high dynamic range, and small pixel size. How can we benefit from pixels with small size and high sensitivity? In this dissertation, we study a new image senso ...

EPFL2012

Field of view extension using satellite pinhole cameras

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf

An approach to extend the field of view of a miniaturised imaging system is introduced. This innovative approach uses multiple optical systems working in parallel and image post-processing. As an example, a module consisting of a central single micro-lens ...

2010

The Gigavision Camera

Edoardo Charbon, Martin Vetterli, Sabine Süsstrunk, Luciano Sbaiz, Feng Yang

We propose a new image device called gigavision camera. The main differences between a conventional and a gigavision camera are that the pixels of the gigavision camera are binary and orders of magnitude smaller. A gigavision camera can be built using stan ...

2009

Optimal aperture sizes and positions for EMCD experiments

Cécile Hébert

The signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in energy-loss magnetic chiral dichroism (EMCD)-the equivalent of X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) in the electron microscope-is optimized with respect to the detector shape, size and position. We show that an import ...

Elsevier2008