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Dongliang Tang

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Physen-Noise2Noise: Physics-Guided Self-Supervised Defocus Deblurring with Bias Correction under Low-Light Conditions

Low-light, long-exposure defocus deblurring remains a challenging problem due to the simultaneous presence of severe blur and complex biased noise. Existing methods typically rely on simplified noise assumptions, which limits their effectiveness under realistic imaging conditions. In this work, we propose Physen-Noise2Noise, a self-supervised deblurring framework guided by the physical model of defocus imaging, which leverages noisy multi-frame observations without requiring clean reference images. Unlike conventional Noise2Noise-based approaches that assume zero-mean noise, we derive a frequency-domain constraint inherent to the defocus imaging process and incorporate it into the learning framework via a learnable noise bias parameter. In addition, a multi-frame noisy initialization strategy is introduced to suppress complex biased noise prior to deblurring, providing a more stable starting point for reconstruction. This formulation explicitly models biased noise and enables joint bias correction and high-frequency detail recovery during training. Furthermore, we develop a pretrain-finetune variant to enhance robustness and generalization under challenging noise conditions. Extensive experiments on both simulation and real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art self-supervised approaches for defocus deblurring in the presence of complex biased noise.

cs.CV

Single shot large field of view imaging with scattering media by spatial demultiplexing

Optically focusing and imaging through strongly scattering media are challenging tasks but have widespread applications from scientific research to biomedical applications and daily life. Benefiting from the memory effect (ME) for speckle intensity correlations, only one single-shot speckle pattern can be used for the high quality recovery of the objects and avoiding some complicated procedures to reduce scattering effects. In spite of all the spatial information from a large object being embedded in a single speckle image, ME gives a strict limitation to the field of view (FOV) for imaging through scattering media. Objects beyond the ME region cannot be recovered and only produce unwanted speckle patterns, causing reduction in the speckle contrast and recovery quality. Here, we extract the spatial information by utilizing these unavoidable speckle patterns, and enlarge the FOV of the optical imaging system. Regional point spreading functions (PSFs), which are fixed and only need to be recorded once for all time use, are employed to recover corresponding spatial regions of an object by deconvolution algorithm. Then an automatic weighted averaging in an iterative process is performed to obtain the object with significantly enlarged FOV. Our results present an important step toward an advanced imaging technique with strongly scattering media.

physics.optics

Single-shot multispectral imaging with a monochromatic camera

Multispectral imaging plays an important role in many applications from astronomical imaging, earth observation to biomedical imaging. However, the current technologies are complex with multiple alignment-sensitive components, predetermined spatial and spectral parameters by manufactures. Here, we demonstrate a single-shot multispectral imaging technique that gives flexibility to end-users with a very simple optical setup, thank to spatial correlation and spectral decorrelation of speckle patterns. These seemingly random speckle patterns are point spreading functions (PSFs) generated by light from point sources propagating through a strongly scattering medium. The spatial correlation of PSFs allows image recovery with deconvolution techniques, while the spectral decorrelation allows them to play the role of tune-able spectral filters in the deconvolution process. Our demonstrations utilizing optical physics of strongly scattering media and computational imaging present the most cost-effective approach for multispectral imaging with great advantages.

physics.optics

Enhancing security of optical cryptosystem with position-multiplexing and ultra-broadband illumination

A position-multiplexing based cryptosystem is proposed to enhance the information security with an ultra-broadband illumination. The simplified optical encryption system only contains one diffuser acting as the random phase mask (RPM). Light coming from a plaintext passes through this RPM and generates the corresponding ciphertext on a camera. The proposed system effectively reduces problems of misalignment and coherent noise that are found in the coherent illumination. Here, the use of ultra-broadband illumination has the advantage of making a strong scattering and complex ciphertext by reducing the speckle contrast. Reduction of the ciphertext size further increases the strength of the ciphering. The unique spatial keys are utilized for the individual decryption as the plaintext locates at different spatial positions, and a complete decrypted image could be concatenated with high fidelity. Benefiting from the ultra-broadband illumination and position-multiplexing, the information of interest is scrambled together in a small ciphertext. Only the authorized user can decrypt this information with the correct keys. Therefore, a high performance security for a cryptosystem could be achieved.

physics.optics