Hybrid Deep Reconstruction for Vignetting-Free Upconversion Imaging through Scattering in ENZ Materials
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| author | Zhang, Hao Xu, Yang Zhang, Wenwen Choudhary, Saumya Alam, M. Zahirul Nguyen, Long D. Klein, Matthew Vangala, Shivashankar Miller, J. Keith Johnson, Eric G. Hendrickson, Joshua R. Boyd, Robert W. Carbajo, Sergio |
| author_facet | Zhang, Hao Xu, Yang Zhang, Wenwen Choudhary, Saumya Alam, M. Zahirul Nguyen, Long D. Klein, Matthew Vangala, Shivashankar Miller, J. Keith Johnson, Eric G. Hendrickson, Joshua R. Boyd, Robert W. Carbajo, Sergio |
| contents | Optical imaging through turbid or heterogeneous environments (collectively referred to as complex media) is fundamentally challenged by scattering, which scrambles structured spatial and phase information. To address this, we propose a hybrid-supervised deep learning framework to reconstruct high-fidelity images from nonlinear scattering measurements acquired with a time-gated epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) imaging system. The system leverages four-wave mixing (FWM) in subwavelength indium tin oxide (ITO) films to temporally isolate ballistic photons, thus rejecting multiply scattered light and enhancing contrast. To recover structured features from these signals, we introduce DeepTimeGate, a U-Net-based supervised model that performs initial reconstruction, followed by a Deep Image Prior (DIP) refinement stage using self-supervised learning. Our approach demonstrates strong performance across different imaging scenarios, including binary resolution patterns and complex vortex-phase masks, under varied scattering conditions. Compared to raw scattering inputs, it boosts average PSNR by 124%, SSIM by 231%, and achieves a 10 times improvement in intersection-over-union (IoU). Beyond enhancing fidelity, our method removes the vignetting effect and expands the effective field-of-view compared to the ENZ-based optical time gate output. These results suggest broad applicability in biomedical imaging, in-solution diagnostics, and other scenarios where conventional optical imaging fails due to scattering. |
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| spellingShingle | Hybrid Deep Reconstruction for Vignetting-Free Upconversion Imaging through Scattering in ENZ Materials Zhang, Hao Xu, Yang Zhang, Wenwen Choudhary, Saumya Alam, M. Zahirul Nguyen, Long D. Klein, Matthew Vangala, Shivashankar Miller, J. Keith Johnson, Eric G. Hendrickson, Joshua R. Boyd, Robert W. Carbajo, Sergio Optics Image and Video Processing Optical imaging through turbid or heterogeneous environments (collectively referred to as complex media) is fundamentally challenged by scattering, which scrambles structured spatial and phase information. To address this, we propose a hybrid-supervised deep learning framework to reconstruct high-fidelity images from nonlinear scattering measurements acquired with a time-gated epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) imaging system. The system leverages four-wave mixing (FWM) in subwavelength indium tin oxide (ITO) films to temporally isolate ballistic photons, thus rejecting multiply scattered light and enhancing contrast. To recover structured features from these signals, we introduce DeepTimeGate, a U-Net-based supervised model that performs initial reconstruction, followed by a Deep Image Prior (DIP) refinement stage using self-supervised learning. Our approach demonstrates strong performance across different imaging scenarios, including binary resolution patterns and complex vortex-phase masks, under varied scattering conditions. Compared to raw scattering inputs, it boosts average PSNR by 124%, SSIM by 231%, and achieves a 10 times improvement in intersection-over-union (IoU). Beyond enhancing fidelity, our method removes the vignetting effect and expands the effective field-of-view compared to the ENZ-based optical time gate output. These results suggest broad applicability in biomedical imaging, in-solution diagnostics, and other scenarios where conventional optical imaging fails due to scattering. |
| title | Hybrid Deep Reconstruction for Vignetting-Free Upconversion Imaging through Scattering in ENZ Materials |
| topic | Optics Image and Video Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13096 |