Stirling Scholes

Stirling joined the group in 2020. His PhD project is on approaches for high speed tracking and identification of objects using 3D time-of-flight technology.

Publications

Experimentally simulating the beam shaping capabilities of deformable mirrors using a liquid crystal spatial light modulator

S Scholes, L Mohapi, J Leach, A Forbes, A Dudley, Applied Physics B 129 (3), 45

Video super-resolution for single-photon LIDAR

G Mora-Martín, S Scholes, A Ruget, R Henderson, J Leach, I Gyongy, Optics Express 31 (5), 7060-7072

Fundamental limits to depth imaging with single-photon detector array sensors

S Scholes, G Mora-Martín, F Zhu, I Gyongy, P Soan, J Leach, Scientific Reports 13 (1), 176

Dronesense: The identification, segmentation, and orientation detection of drones via neural networks

S Scholes, A Ruget, G Mora-Martín, F Zhu, I Gyongy, J Leach, IEEE Access 10, 38154-38164

Thermal aberrations and structured light II: experimental simulation with DMDs

S Scholes, A Forbes, Applied Physics B 127, 1-9

Thermal aberrations and structured light I: analytical model for structured pumps and probes

S Scholes, A Forbes, Applied Physics B 127, 1-17

General design principle for structured light lasers

S Scholes, H Sroor, K Ait-Ameur, Q Zhan, A Forbes, Optics Express 28 (23), 35006-35017

Lossless reshaping of structured light

S Scholes, V Rodríguez-Fajardo, A Forbes,JOSA A 37 (11), C80-C85

Improving the beam quality factor (M2) by phase-only reshaping of structured light

S Scholes, A Forbes,Optics Letters 45 (13), 3753-3756

Structured light with digital micromirror devices: a guide to best practice

S Scholes, R Kara, J Pinnell, V Rodríguez-Fajardo, A Forbes,Optical Engineering 59 (4), 041202-041202

A deterministic detector for vector vortex states

B Ndagano, I Nape, B Perez-Garcia, S Scholes, R Hernandez-Aranda, T Konrad, M Lavery, A Forbes, Scientific reports 7 (1), 13882

Conferences

Efficient generation of photo-realistic SPAD data for 3D imaging and ranging

Stirling Scholes, German Mora-Martin, Alice Ruget, Feng Zhu, Phil Soan, Istvan Gyongy, Jonathan Leach. Emerging Imaging and Sensing Technologies for Security and Defence VII, 2022.

Drone segmentation and orientation detection using a SPAD array camera

Stirling Scholes, Jonathan Leach. SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2022.

Drone orientation detection at a distance of 50 m using a SPAD array camera

Stirling Scholes, Alice Ruget, German M Martin, Feng Zhu, Istvan Gyongy, Robert K Henderson, Jonathan Leach. Imaging Systems and Applications, 2021.