Single-pixel imaging for edge images using deep neural networks.

Edge images are often used in computer vision, cellular morphology, and surveillance cameras, and are sufficient to identify the type of object. Single-pixel imaging (SPI) is a promising technique for wide-wavelength, low-light-level measurements. Conventional SPI-based edge-enhanced techniques have used shifting illumination patterns; however, this increases the number of the illumination patterns. We propose two deep neural networks to obtain SPI-based edge images without shifting illumination patterns. The first network is an end-to-end mapping between the measured intensities and entire edge image. The latter comprises two path convolutional layers for restoring horizontal and vertical edges individually; subsequently, both edges are combined to obtain full edge reconstructions, such as in the Sobel filter.