Enabling High-Quality In-the-Wild Imaging from Severely Aberrated Metalens Bursts
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| author | Mandal, Debabrata Peng, Zhihan Wang, Yujie Chakravarthula, Praneeth |
| author_facet | Mandal, Debabrata Peng, Zhihan Wang, Yujie Chakravarthula, Praneeth |
| contents | 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 compared to conventional refractive optics. However, severe chromatic aberration, pronounced light scattering, narrow spectral bandwidth, and low light efficiency continue to limit their practical adoption. In this work, we present an end-to-end solution for in-the-wild imaging that pairs a metalens several times thinner than conventional optics with a bespoke multi-image restoration framework optimized for practical metalens cameras. Our method centers on a lightweight convolutional network paired with a memory-efficient burst fusion algorithm that adaptively corrects noise, saturation clipping, and lens-induced distortions across rapid sequences of extremely degraded metalens captures. Extensive experiments on diverse, real-world handheld captures demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms existing burst-mode and single-image restoration techniques.These results point toward a practical route for deploying metalens-based cameras in everyday imaging applications. |
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| spellingShingle | Enabling High-Quality In-the-Wild Imaging from Severely Aberrated Metalens Bursts Mandal, Debabrata Peng, Zhihan Wang, Yujie Chakravarthula, Praneeth Optics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 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 compared to conventional refractive optics. However, severe chromatic aberration, pronounced light scattering, narrow spectral bandwidth, and low light efficiency continue to limit their practical adoption. In this work, we present an end-to-end solution for in-the-wild imaging that pairs a metalens several times thinner than conventional optics with a bespoke multi-image restoration framework optimized for practical metalens cameras. Our method centers on a lightweight convolutional network paired with a memory-efficient burst fusion algorithm that adaptively corrects noise, saturation clipping, and lens-induced distortions across rapid sequences of extremely degraded metalens captures. Extensive experiments on diverse, real-world handheld captures demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms existing burst-mode and single-image restoration techniques.These results point toward a practical route for deploying metalens-based cameras in everyday imaging applications. |
| title | Enabling High-Quality In-the-Wild Imaging from Severely Aberrated Metalens Bursts |
| topic | Optics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10083 |