paper-with-me

Papers

Thin On-Sensor Nanophotonic Array Cameras

2023-08-05 · PRANEETH CHAKRAVARTHULA, Jipeng Sun, Xiao Li, Chenyang Lei, Gene Chou, Mario Bijelic, Johannes Froesch, Arka Majumdar, Felix Heide

Today's commodity camera systems rely on compound optics to map light originating from the scene to positions on the sensor where it gets recorded as an image. To record images without optical aberrations, i.e., deviations from Gauss' linear model of optics, typical lens systems introduce increasingly complex stacks of optical elements which are responsible for the height of existing commodity cameras. In this work, we investigate \emph{flat nanophotonic computational cameras} as an alternative that employs an array of skewed lenslets and a learned reconstruction approach. The optical array is embedded on a metasurface that, at 700~nm height, is flat and sits on the sensor cover glass at 2.5~mm focal distance from the sensor. To tackle the highly chromatic response of a metasurface and design the array over the entire sensor, we propose a differentiable optimization method that continuously samples over the visible spectrum and factorizes the optical modulation for different incident fields into individual lenses. We reconstruct a megapixel image from our flat imager with a \emph{learned probabilistic reconstruction} method that employs a generative diffusion model to sample an implicit prior. To tackle \emph{scene-dependent aberrations in broadband}, we propose a method for acquiring paired captured training data in varying illumination conditions. We assess the proposed flat camera design in simulation and with an experimental prototype, validating that the method is capable of recovering images from diverse scenes in broadband with a single nanophotonic layer.

📄 PDF Abstract BibTeX arXiv:2308.02797

Code (0)

등록된 구현이 없습니다.

Methods 이 논문이 사용한 방법론

Diffusion Diffusion models generate samples by gradually removing noise from a signal, and their training objective can be expressed as a reweighted variational lower-bound…

Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반

Enabling High-Quality In-the-Wild Imaging from Severely Aberrated Metalens Bursts

2025-10-11 · Debabrata Mandal, Zhihan Peng, Yujie Wang, Praneeth Chakravarthula arxiv

We tackle the challenge of robust, in-the-wild imaging using ultra-thin nanophotonic metalens cameras. Meta-lenses, composed of planar arrays of nanoscale scatterers, promise dramatic reductions in size and weight compar…

Image Restoration

Neuromorphic Readout for Hadron Calorimeters

2025-02-18 · Enrico Lupi, abhishek, Max Aehle, Muhammad Awais 외

We simulate hadrons impinging on a homogeneous lead-tungstate (PbWO4) calorimeter to investigate how the resulting light yield and its temporal structure, as detected by an array of light-sensitive sensors, can be proces…

Position

Spatially Varying Nanophotonic Neural Networks

2023-08-07 · Kaixuan Wei, Xiao Li, Johannes Froech, PRANEETH CHAKRAVARTHULA 외

The explosive growth of computation and energy cost of artificial intelligence has spurred strong interests in new computing modalities as potential alternatives to conventional electronic processors. Photonic processors…

2k

A Preliminary Study on Optimal Placement of Cameras

2019-10-26 · Lin Xu

This paper primarily focuses on figuring out the best array of cameras, or visual sensors, so that such a placement enables the maximum utilization of these visual sensors. Maximizing the utilization of these cameras can…

P2M: A Processing-in-Pixel-in-Memory Paradigm for Resource-Constrained TinyML Applications

2022-03-07 · Gourav Datta, Souvik Kundu, Zihan Yin, Ravi Teja Lakkireddy 외

The demand to process vast amounts of data generated from state-of-the-art high resolution cameras has motivated novel energy-efficient on-device AI solutions. Visual data in such cameras are usually captured in the form…

CPU