Cover story: A transmission-matrix of a scattering medium describes the input-output relationship between an input wavefront and the output wavefront. Having the transmission-matrix of a scattering-medium (ex: frosted-glass) will enable one to see through it. In this work we propose a new technique to quickly calibrate the transmission-matrix of a scattering medium.
Publication:
"Coherent Inverse Scattering via Transmission Matrices: Efficient Phase Retrieval Algorithms and a Public Dataset"
Chris Metzler*, Manoj K. Sharma*, Sudarshan Nagesh, Richard Baraniuk, Oliver Cossairt and Ashok Veeraraghavan
Intenational Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP), Stanford University, May 2017
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Experimental setup: This is the experimental setup we used to acquire the transmission-matrix of the scattering-medium.
Comparison of phase-retrieval algorithms: This is a comparison of the phase-retrieval algorithms in the literature with respect to the oversampling factor . prVAMP algorithm requires as few samples as the state-of-the-art algorithms.
Computation-times: The performance of the prVAMP algorithm is similar to the state-of-the art algorithm prSAMP but it requires much less-computational time.
Imaging results using transmission-matrices: Shown in the left-most columns the input speckle pattern (corresponding to the SLM patterns shown in right-most column) captured on the detector. After performing coherent inverse-scattering via the transmission-matrix, the images reconstructed and denoised are shown in columns 2 and 3 respectively.
Dataset: The dataset of the input SLM patterns and the corresponding speckle patterns are given here. Also the transmission-matrices corresponding to these scattering media as computed by the prVAMP algorithm can be downloaded at this site.
1 Comment
Shengfu Cheng
March 7, 2019Hi, great thanks for your brilliant research work and especially for offering a public dataset which might be of great help for my undergraduate research project, but there seems to be a confusion of me that the dataset doesn’t contain the corresponding speckle patterns but only for the input SLM patterns and transmission matrixs which are all stored in .mat format. Could you please explain something for me? Thank you.