Computational Imaging

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Computational imaging studies how to acquire and reconstruct images when optics or sensors encode scenes indirectly, as in CT and MRI, lensless and single-pixel cameras, hyperspectral systems, event cameras, and photon-limited imaging. Methods range from physics-based inverse optimization and compressed sensing to deep unfolding, self-supervised learning, and diffusion or flow-based generative priors; many also co-design illumination, masks, exposure, or sensor layouts with reconstruction. Researchers assess fidelity, uncertainty, speed, and robustness in settings such as sparse-view tomography, demosaicing, depth estimation, and non-line-of-sight imaging, using both simulations and real hardware. A central tension is that learned priors can fill gaps in measurements but may hallucinate when the forward model or calibration is wrong, while accurate physics, reliable uncertainty estimates, and efficient inference remain challenging.

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  1. Computational imaging through turbid, bubbly and flowing water near the telescope

    Oct 23, 2026Alexander Ingold, Sabina D. Menon, Aadhi Umamageswaran +4Computational ImagingUnderwater Imaging

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA · U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Remote Sensing Division, Washington DC 20375, USA. · Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA.

  2. Self-Supervised Multibeam Sonar Restoration via Coherent Forward Modeling

    Oct 22, 2026Zixin Wang, James Hopgood, Mike DaviesImage RestorationPhysics-Guided Image Restoration

    School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FG, U.K.

  3. Broadband Mid-Wave Infrared Imaging Enabled by All-Silicon Hyperboloid Metalens

    Oct 21, 2026Rose Johnson, Debabrata Mandal, Zihao Zou +6Computational ImagingImage Reconstruction

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. · Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27517, USA. · Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.

  4. Conditional Imaging for Privacy-Preserving Visual Sensing

    Oct 20, 2026Hengyu Lian, Debabrata Mandal, Anzhou Wen +3Computational ImagingImage Reconstruction

    Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27599, NC, USA. · Department of Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, 27599, NC, USA.

  5. Differentiable Task-Driven Coded Aperture Camera Design with 3D Gaussian Scene Representations

    Oct 20, 2026Chengyang Yan, Donald G. DansereauComputational Imaging

    Australian Centre for Robotics, School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, The University of Sydney

  6. Interpretable Face Contrast Modeling for Smartphone Portrait Rendering

    Oct 19, 2026Yujin Cho, Benoît Pochon, Jean-Michel Morel +1Image Quality AssessmentComputational Imaging

    Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, ENS Paris-Saclay, Centre Borelli, France · DXOMARK, France · Lingnan University, Hong Kong SAR, China

  7. Spatons: Spatiotonally Localized Building Blocks for Efficient XR Predistortion

    Oct 17, 2026Mohammadjavad Maheronnaghsh, Sushant Kondguli, Steve Mann +1Neural OperatorsComputational Imaging

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto · Meta Reality Labs · Vector Institute

  8. A Unified Theory of Image Scaling: Point Spread Functions, Discrete Kernels, and Scale-Spaces

    Oct 15, 2026Assaf ShocherComputational Imaging

    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

  9. Event Cameras versus Frame Cameras for Synthetic-Aperture Imaging: A Simulation Study

    Oct 14, 2026Jakob Hinterholzer, Mohamed Youssef, Oliver BimberComputational ImagingEvent-Based Vision

    Johannes Kepler University Linz Institute of Computer Graphics Linz, Austria

  10. Computational compressive imaging reconstruction with a simulated-annealing-based Ising solver

    Oct 14, 2026Ze Zheng, Xiaoyan Wu, Hang Xu +3Image ReconstructionComputational Imaging

    Institute for Quantum Sensing and Information Processing, State Key Laboratory of Photonics and Communications, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China · Shanghai Research Center for Quantum Sciences, Shanghai 201315, China

  11. Neural Block-wise Auto-exposure for Single-Shot High Dynamic Range Imaging

    Oct 9, 2026Zhengguo Li, Chaobing Zheng, Wei WangHDR ImagingComputational Imaging

    Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing (IAIC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, 138632 · the school of Information Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China · Advanced Remanufacturing and Technology Centre (ARTC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

  12. A General Pipeline for Dense Illuminant Estimation via Physically Based Synthetic Data

    Oct 5, 2026Luca Cogo, Gianmarco Corti, Simone Bianco +1Synthetic Data PretrainingComputational Imaging

    Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano – Bicocca, Milan 20126, Italy

  13. Latent Score-Based Bayesian Cramér-Rao Bound Estimation for High-Dimensional Imaging Systems

    Oct 2, 2026Evan Scope Crafts, Thomas Wynn, Seonyeong Park +2Photoacoustic TomographyBayesian Inverse Problems

    Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712 · Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UT Southwestern Medical Center · Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at Washington University in St. Louis +1

  14. One Photon, Many Worlds: Posteriors and Predictions with Single-Photon Cameras

    Oct 2, 2026Haejoon Lee, Mohit Gupta, Vijayakumar Bhagavatula +1Computational ImagingInverse Problems

    Carnegie Mellon University · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · University of Wisconsin-Madison +1

  15. BAM! Bayesian Anything Model: a foundation model for generative computational imaging

    Sep 30, 2026Alessio Spagnoletti, Charlesquin Kemajou Mbakam, Jonathan Spence +2Physics-Informed Generative ModelingPhysics-Guided Image Restoration

    Laboratoire MAP5, UMR 8145, Université Paris Cité, CNRS · Heriot-Watt University, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences & Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences

  16. Modelling dynamic systems transfer functions from events in computational neuromorphic imaging

    Sep 24, 2026Nimrod Kruger, Gregory CohenEvent-Based VisionComputational Imaging

    International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems Western Sydney University Sydney, Australia

  17. HaRP: High Dynamic Range Photosequencing through Dual Reversed Shutter Scanning

    Sep 23, 2026Xiang Ji, Guixu Lin, Jiancheng Zhao +2HDR ImagingHDR Video Reconstruction

    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  18. Real-Time Atomic-Resolution Electron Phase Imaging without Probe Calibration via Ptychography-Supervised Learning

    Sep 22, 2026H. Yue, C. -C. Chen, C. -N. Hsiao +4Supervised LearningElectron Microscopy

    College of Intelligent Robotics and Advanced Manufacturing, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China. · Department of Engineering and System Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300044, Taiwan · National Center for Instrumentation Research, National Institutes of Applied Research, Hsinchu 300092, Taiwan +3

  19. Compact Low-Cost Hyperspectral Imaging via Angular-to-Spectral Diversity Conversion

    Sep 20, 2026Kazuma Fujiwara, Takuya Funatomi, Kazuya Kitano +2Hyperspectral ImagingComputational Imaging

    Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan · Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

  20. An Eternal Irradiance Camera

    Sep 19, 2026Jeremy Klotz, Shree K. NayarComputational Imaging

    Computer Science Department, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

  21. STAR: Structure-aware Test-time Adaptation for diffusion-based light field Reconstruction

    Sep 17, 2026Wontae Choi, Ki Ryum Moon, Jae Young Lee +2Diffusion Model AdaptationImage Reconstruction

    Department of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, South Korea · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SKKU, Suwon, South Korea

  22. LAION-Mobile: Evaluating Deepfake Detectors On One Million Smartphone Photos

    Sep 10, 2026Achim von Stryk, Janis KeuperComputational ImagingDeepfake Detection

    Stralsund University, Germany · IMLA, Offenburg University, Germany

  23. CRISP: Corneal Confocal Microscopy Real-Time Image Stitching Pipeline

    Sep 7, 2026Qincheng Qiao, Puli Zhang, Jian Zhou +1Medical Image RegistrationComputational Imaging

    Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China · Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism Qilu Hospital, Shandong University Jinan 250012, China · Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China +1

  24. Recovering topological information of light by topological learning

    Sep 6, 2026Benquan Wang, Trishita Das, Yuhan Peng +8Topological Representation LearningComputational Imaging

    Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Republic of Singapore · Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637371, Republic of Singapore · School of Physics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa +2

  25. LensStyle: Learning the Optical Aesthetics for Controllable Stylized Lens Effect Rendering

    Sep 4, 2026Yachuan Huang, Liwen Xiao, Liao Shen +4Computational ImagingControllable Image Generation

    School of AIA, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  26. Cascaded Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging

    Sep 3, 2026Diego Royo, María Peña, Forrest B. Peterson +3Computational ImagingImage Reconstruction

    Universidad de Zaragoza–I3A, Spain · University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States of America

  27. An Open Panoramic Aerial Robot: Airframe-Integrated Multi-Fisheye Sensing, Onboard ERP Formation, and Field Evaluation

    Sep 2, 2026Dun Dai, Ze Lu, Cheng He +2Aerial RoboticsComputational Imaging

    School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Tianmushan Laboratory, Hangzhou 311115, China

  28. Compact Snapshot Spectral Imaging with Calibration-Free Aperture Diffraction

    Aug 29, 2026Tao Lv, Quan Yuan, Shiqiao Li +5Hyperspectral ImagingComputational Imaging

    Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China

  29. Memory-efficient GPU pipelines for real-time non-line-of-sight reconstruction

    Aug 28, 2026Alfonso López-Ruiz, Diego RoyoImage ReconstructionComputational Imaging

    Universidad de Zaragoza–I3A, Zaragoza, Spain

  30. Quanta Perception as Probabilistic Events

    Aug 27, 2026Varun Sundar, Pavan Thodima, Sacha Jungerman +1Robotic PerceptionEvent-Based Vision

    Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Wisconsin, United States.