Large-field-of-view lensless imaging with miniaturized sensors
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Lensless cameras replace bulky optics with thin modulation masks, enabling compact imaging systems. However, existing methods rely on an idealized model that assumes a globally shift-invariant point spread function (PSF) and sufficiently large sensors. In reality, the PSF varies spatially across the field of view (FOV), and finite sensor boundaries truncate modulated light--effects that intensify as sensors shrink, degrading peripheral reconstruction quality and limiting the effective FOV. We address these limitations through a local-to-global hierarchical framework grounded in a locally shift-invariant convolution model that explicitly accounts for PSF variation and sensor truncation. Patch-wise learned deconvolution first adaptively estimates local PSFs and reconstructs regions independently. A hierarchical enhancement network then progressively expands its receptive field--from small patches through intermediate blocks to the full image--integrating fine local details with global contextual information. Experiments on public datasets show that our method achieves superior reconstruction quality over a larger effective FOV with significantly reduced sensor sizes. Under extreme miniaturization--sensors reduced to 8% of the original area--we achieve improvements of 2 dB (PSNR) and 5% (SSIM), with particularly notable gains in structural fidelity. Code is available at https://github.com/KB504-public/l2g_lensless_imaging .