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. Designing Any Imaging System from Natural Language: Agent-Constrained Composition over a Finite Primitive Basis

    Mar 26, 2026Chengshuai YangComputational Imaging

    NextGen PlatformAI C Corp, USA

  2. Synergistic Event-SVE Imaging for Quantitative Propellant Combustion Diagnostics

    Mar 26, 2026Jing Tao, Taihang Lei, Banglei Guan +5Computational ImagingHDR Imaging

    College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China · Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Image Measurement and Vision Navigation, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China · Hypersonic Technology Laboratory, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China

  3. Dynamic Exposure Burst Image Restoration

    Mar 23, 2026Woohyeok Kim, Jaesung Rim, Daeyeon Kim +1Image RestorationComputational Imaging

    POSTECH

  4. Compressive single-pixel imaging via a wavelength-multiplexed spatially incoherent diffractive optical processor

    Mar 23, 2026Xiao Wang, Yiyang Wu, Yuntian Wang +8Computational ImagingPhotonic Computing

    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA · Bioengineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA · California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

  5. SpiderCam: Low-Power Snapshot Depth from Differential Defocus

    Mar 18, 2026Marcos A. Ferreira, Tianao Li, John Mamish +4Depth EstimationComputational Imaging

    Northwestern University · Georgia Institute of Technology · Purdue University

  6. A Lensless Polarization Camera

    Mar 17, 2026Noa Kraicer, Shay Elmalem, Erez Yosef +2Polarimetric ImagingComputational Imaging

    School of Electrical Engineering, The Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel · Current affiliation: Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Faculty of Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. · Triangle Regional Research and Development Center, Kfar Qara’ 3007500, Israel

  7. Oscillating Dispersion for Maximal Light-throughput Spectral Imaging

    Mar 16, 2026Jiuyun Zhang, Zhan Shi, Linsen Chen +1Computational ImagingHyperspectral Imaging

    Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems with Extreme Performances of MOE, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

  8. High-speed Imaging through Turbulence with Event-based Light Fields

    Mar 14, 2026Yu-Hsiang Huang, Levi Burner, Sachin Shah +3Atmospheric Turbulence MitigationComputational Imaging

    University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742, USA · Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 03755, USA

  9. Eleven Primitives and Three Gates: The Universal Structure of Computational Imaging

    Mar 13, 2026Chengshuai Yang, Xin YuanComputational ImagingImage Reconstruction

    NextGen PlatformAI C Corp, USA. · School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.

  10. Towards Universal Computational Aberration Correction in Photographic Cameras: A Comprehensive Benchmark Analysis

    Mar 12, 2026Xiaolong Qian, Qi Jiang, Yao Gao +5Computational ImagingImage Restoration

    Zhejiang University · INSAIT, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” · Hunan University

  11. Single Pixel Image Classification using an Ultrafast Digital Light Projector

    Mar 12, 2026Aisha Kanwal, Graeme E. Johnstone, Fahimeh Dehkhoda +5Image ClassificationComputational Imaging

    Institute of Photonics, University of Strathclyde, 99 George Street, Glasgow, G1 1RD, UK · School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Sanderson Building, Robert Stevenson Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FB, UK

  12. Shadowless Projection Mapping for Tabletop Workspaces with Synthetic Aperture Projector

    Mar 12, 2026Takahiro Okamoto, Masaki Takeuchi, Masataka Sawayama +1Computational Imaging

    Graduate School of Engineering Science, The University of Osaka. · Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University and Prometech CG Research.

  13. Well Log-Guided Synthesis of Subsurface Images from Sparse Petrography Data Using cGANs

    Mar 10, 2026Ali Sadeghkhani, A. Assadi, B. Bennett +1Image GenerationComputational Imaging

    School of Computer Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK · TEC

  14. A comprehensive study of time-of-flight non-line-of-sight imaging

    Mar 10, 2026Julio Marco, Adrian Jarabo, Ji Hyun Nam +3Image ReconstructionComputational Imaging

    Universidad de Zaragoza–I3A, Spain · University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA · Department of Data Science, Inha University, South Korea +1

  15. Autonomous Algorithm Discovery for Ptychography via Evolutionary LLM Reasoning

    Mar 5, 2026Xiangyu Yin, Ming Du, Junjing Deng +3Image ReconstructionAutomated Algorithm Discovery

    Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA · Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

  16. Physics-consistent deep learning for blind aberration recovery in mobile optics

    Mar 5, 2026Kartik Jhawar, Tamo Sancho Miguel Tandoc, Khoo Jun Xuan +1Physics-Guided Image RestorationComputational Imaging

    Institute for Digital Molecular Analytics and Science (IDMxS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 636921 · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798

  17. InverseNet: Benchmarking Operator Mismatch and Calibration Across Compressive Imaging Modalities

    Mar 4, 2026Chengshuai Yang, Xin YuanComputational ImagingCompressed Sensing

    NextGen PlatformAI C Corp, USA · School of Engineering, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China

  18. Perspective-Equivariant Fine-tuning for Multispectral Demosaicing without Ground Truth

    Mar 2, 2026Andrew Wang, Mike DaviesDemosaicingComputational Imaging

    School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh

  19. Efficient Flow Matching for Sparse-View CT Reconstruction

    Feb 27, 2026Jiayang Shi, Lincen Yang, Zhong Li +3Flow MatchingSparse-View CT Reconstruction

    Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica · LIACS, Leiden University · Great Bay University +1

  20. Coded-E2LF: Coded Aperture Light Field Imaging from Events

    Feb 26, 2026Tomoya Tsuchida, Keita Takahashi, Chihiro Tsutake +2Computational ImagingImage Reconstruction

    Nagoya University, Japan · Osaka University, Japan

  21. Lumosaic: Hyperspectral Video via Active Illumination and Coded-Exposure Pixels

    Feb 25, 2026Dhruv Verma, Andrew Qiu, Roberto Rangel +8Hyperspectral Image ReconstructionHyperspectral Imaging

    Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada · Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

  22. The Finite Primitive Basis Theorem for Computational Imaging: Formal Foundations of the OperatorGraph Representation

    Feb 24, 2026Chengshuai YangComputational ImagingWorld Models

    NextGen PlatformAI C Corp, USA

  23. gQIR: Generative Quanta Image Reconstruction

    Feb 23, 2026Aryan Garg, Sizhuo Ma, Mohit GuptaImage ReconstructionComputational Imaging

    University of Wisconsin-Madison · Snap Inc.

  24. Application and Evaluation of the Common Circles Method

    Feb 19, 2026Michael Quellmalz, Mia Kvåle Løvmo, Simon Moser +2Computational ImagingMicroscopy Image Analysis

    TU Berlin · Medical University of Innsbruck

  25. ComptonUNet: A Deep Learning Model for GRB Localization with Compton Cameras under Noisy and Low-Statistic Conditions

    Feb 19, 2026Shogo Sato, Kazuo Tanaka, Shojun Ogasawara +4Computational Imaging

    Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University · NTT Corporation

  26. Depth from Defocus via Direct Optimization

    Feb 18, 2026Holly Jackson, Caleb Adams, Ignacio Lopez-Francos +1Depth EstimationComputational Imaging

    ⋆University of California, Berkeley, California, USA · † NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA · ‡ KBR, Houston, Texas, USA

  27. Learned iterative networks: An operator learning perspective

    Dec 9, 2025Andreas Hauptmann, Ozan ÖktemImage ReconstructionComputational Imaging

    Research Unit of Mathematical Sciences, University of Oulu, Finland · Department of Computer Science, University College London, United Kingdom · Department of Mathematics, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

  28. R3\mathbf{R}^3: Reconstruction, Raw, and Rain: Deraining Directly in the Bayer Domain

    Sep 28, 2025Nate Rothschild, Moshe Kimhi, Avi Mendelson +1Image DerainingImage Restoration

    Department of ECE, Technion, Israel · Department of CS, Technion, Israel · School of ECE, Ben-Gurion University

  29. SlowFast-SCI: Slow-Fast Deep Unfolding Learning for Spectral Compressive Imaging

    Sep 20, 2025Haijin Zeng, Xuan Lu, Jiezhang Cao +8Image ReconstructionComputational Imaging

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Shanghai Jiaotong University +3

  30. Fast Equivariant Imaging: Accelerating Unsupervised Learning and Model Adaptation via Inexact Splitting

    Jul 9, 2025Guixian Xu, Jinglai Li, Junqi TangImage ReconstructionComputational Imaging

    School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom