Compressive adaptive ghost imaging via sharing mechanism and fellow relationship

For lower sampling rate and better imaging quality, a compressive adaptive ghost imaging is proposed by adopting the sharing mechanism and fellow relationship in the wavelet tree. The sharing mechanisms, including intrascale and interscale sharing mechanisms, and fellow relationship are excavated from the wavelet tree and utilized for sampling. The shared coefficients, which are part of the approximation subband, are localized according to the parent coefficients and sampled based on the interscale sharing mechanism and fellow relationship. The sampling rate can be reduced owing to the fact that some shared coefficients can be calculated by adopting the parent coefficients and the sampled sum of shared coefficients. According to the shared coefficients and parent coefficients, the proposed method predicts the positions of significant coefficients and samples them based on the intrascale sharing mechanism. The ghost image, reconstructed by the significant coefficients and the coarse image at the given largest scale, achieves better quality because the significant coefficients contain more detailed information. The simulations demonstrate that the proposed method improves the imaging quality at the same sampling rate and also achieves a lower sampling rate for the same imaging quality for different types of target object images in noise-free and noisy environments. (C) 2016 Optical Society of America