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Article Dans Une Revue Scientific Reports Année : 2016

Real-time imaging through strongly scattering media: seeing through turbid media, instantly

Swapnesh Panigrahi
Julien Fade
Mehdi Alouini
Hema Ramachandran
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Numerous everyday situations like navigation, medical imaging and rescue operations require viewing through optically inhomogeneous media. This is a challenging task as photons propagate predominantly diffusively (rather than ballistically) due to random multiple scattering off the inhomogenieties. Real-time imaging with ballistic light under continuous-wave illumination is even more challenging due to the extremely weak signal, necessitating voluminous data-processing. Here we report imaging through strongly scattering media in real-time and at rates several times the critical flicker frequency of the eye, so that motion is perceived as continuous. Two factors contributed to the speedup of more than three orders of magnitude over conventional techniques - the use of a simplified algorithm enabling processing of data on the fly, and the utilisation of task and data parallelization capabilities of typical desktop computers. The extreme simplicity of the technique, and its implementation with present day low-cost technology promises its utility in a variety of devices in maritime, aerospace, rail and road transport, in medical imaging and defence. It is of equal interest to the common man and adventure sportsperson like hikers, divers, mountaineers, who frequently encounter situations requiring realtime imaging through obscuring media. As a specific example, navigation under poor visibility is examined.

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hal-01301975 , version 1 (13-04-2016)

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Sriram Sudarsanam, James Mathew, Swapnesh Panigrahi, Julien Fade, Mehdi Alouini, et al.. Real-time imaging through strongly scattering media: seeing through turbid media, instantly. Scientific Reports, 2016, 6 (1), pp.25033. ⟨10.1038/srep25033⟩. ⟨hal-01301975⟩
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