Advances in Scattering Imaging and Single-Pixel/Ghost Imaging

A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 April 2025 | Viewed by 996

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Key Laboratory of Advanced Transducers and Intelligent Control System, Ministry of Education, College of Physics and Optoelectronics, Taiyuan University of Technology, No. 79 West Main Street, Taiyuan 030024, China
Interests: imaging through scattering media; imaging or measurements with a scattering lens; single-pixel/ghost imaging; single-pixel interferometry/holography; single-pixel microscopy
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Dear Colleagues,

Recent advances in optoelectronic imaging technology have reported several intriguing and useful novel imaging modalities, such as scattering imaging and single-pixel/ghost imaging. Scattering imaging exploits the scattered light, instead of suppressing it as the traditional OCT does, to reconstruct the image of an object hidden behind scattering media. Single-pixel/ghost imaging only utilizes a single-pixel detector without spatial resolution, instead of a 2D array detector, to reconstruct the image of a target object that is sampled by a series of modulation patterns. The novel imaging modalities are not only free from conventional thinking and thus very interesting but also very useful. Scattering imaging techniques can be used for imaging through turbid liquids, imaging around a corner, deeper or super-resolution imaging inside biological tissues, and so on. Single-pixel/ghost imaging techniques have the unique advantages of performing non-scanning imaging in a wide waveband, where 2D array detectors are not available, as well as imaging with a large dynamic range or under low light conditions.

Currently, the areas involving scattering imaging and single-pixel/ghost imaging are developing rapidly. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to this Special Issue of Photonics entitled ‘Advances in Scattering Imaging and Single-Pixel/Ghost Imaging’ to share your latest research progress in this field.

This Special Issue welcomes original research articles, letters, brief communications, and reviews involving state-of-the-art optoelectronic imaging techniques. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Imaging through scattering media;
  • Super-resolution imaging through scattering media;
  • Noninvasive imaging or tracking through scattering media;
  • Imaging or measurements with a scattering lens;
  • Single-pixel/ghost imaging;
  • Single-pixel interferometry;
  • Single-pixel holographic imaging;
  • Single-pixel quantitative phase imaging;
  • Single-pixel microscopy.

Looking forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Dong Wang
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • imaging through scattering media
  • tracking through scattering media
  • scattering lens
  • single-pixel imaging
  • ghost imaging
  • phase imaging
  • wavefront
  • single-pixel holography

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Multi-Wavelength Computational Ghost Imaging Based on Feature Dimensionality Reduction
by Hong Wang, Xiaoqian Wang, Chao Gao, Yu Wang, Huan Zhao and Zhihai Yao
Photonics 2024, 11(8), 739; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics11080739 - 7 Aug 2024
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Multi-wavelength ghost imaging usually involves extensive data processing and faces challenges such as poor reconstructed image quality. In this paper, we propose a multi-wavelength computational ghost imaging method based on feature dimensionality reduction. This method not only reconstructs high-quality color images with fewer [...] Read more.
Multi-wavelength ghost imaging usually involves extensive data processing and faces challenges such as poor reconstructed image quality. In this paper, we propose a multi-wavelength computational ghost imaging method based on feature dimensionality reduction. This method not only reconstructs high-quality color images with fewer measurements but also achieves low-complexity computation and storage. First, we utilize singular value decomposition to optimize the multi-scale measurement matrices of red, green, and blue components as illumination speckles. Subsequently, each component image of the target object is reconstructed using the second-order correlation function. Next, we apply principal component analysis to perform feature dimensionality reduction on these reconstructed images. Finally, we successfully recover a high-quality color reconstructed image. Simulation and experimental results show that our method not only improves the quality of the reconstructed images but also effectively reduces the computational and storage burden. When extended to multiple wavelengths, our method demonstrates greater advantages, making it more feasible to handle large-scale data. Full article
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