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Guaranteed maximization of financial returns from economic structures is only possible if all of its systems are focused on selecting target operations with maximum efficiency. Is it possible? Any system is created to enhance the value of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Igor Lutsenko

In this article, we report a lens design based on a concentric circular structure with continuous changing of thickness defined in a thin plate structure for focusing a plane wave into three spots (triple focusing) and for splitting elastic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Liuxian Zhao , Chuanxing Bi , Miao Yu

Acoustic flat lensing is achieved here by tuning a phononic array to have indefinite medium behaviour in a narrow frequency spectral region along the acoustic branch. This is confirmed by the occurrence of a flat band along an unusual path…

Glass is very common in the real world. Influenced by the uncertainty about the glass region and the varying complex scenes behind the glass, the existence of glass poses severe challenges to many computer vision tasks, making glass…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Letian Yu , Haiyang Mei , Wen Dong , Ziqi Wei , Li Zhu , Yuxin Wang , Xin Yang

Depth-from-Focus (DFF) enables precise depth estimation by analyzing focus cues across a stack of images captured at varying focal lengths. While recent learning-based approaches have advanced this field, they often struggle in complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sungmin Woo , Sangyoun Lee

The optical matrix formalism is applied to find parameters such as focal distance, back and front focal points, principal planes, and the equation relating object and image distances for a thick spherical lens immerse in air. Then, the…

Optics · Physics 2021-08-20 Fulvio Andres Callegari

We propose a new low-cost machine-learning-based methodology which assists designers in reducing the gap between the problem and the solution in the design process. Our work applies reinforcement learning (RL) to find the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Junyoung Choi , Minsung Hyun , Nojun Kwak

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) requires precise positional and environmental information to produce well-focused output during the image reconstruction step. However, errors in these measurements are commonly present resulting in defocused…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 Isaac Gerg , Vishal Monga

Nowadays is very common to find headlines in the media where it is stated that 3D printing is a technology called to change our lives in the near future. For many authors, we are living in times of a third industrial revolution. Howerver,…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-02-08 L. J. Salazar-Serrano , A. Valencia , J. P. Torres

In the rapidly evolving field of optical engineering, precise alignment of multi-lens imaging systems is critical yet challenging, as even minor misalignments can significantly degrade performance. Traditional alignment methods rely on…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tomer Slor , Dean Oren , Shira Baneth , Tom Coen , Haim Suchowski

Based on the non-Euclidean transformation optics, we design a thin metamaterial lens that can achieve wide-beam radiation by embedding a simple source (a point source in three-dimensional case or a line current source in two-dimensional…

Optics · Physics 2013-12-19 Kan Yao , Xunya Jiang , Huanyang Chen

Adaptive optics systems are essential on all large telescopes where image quality is important. These are complex systems with many design parameters requiring optimisation before good performance can be achieved. The simulation of adaptive…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alastair Basden , Timothy Butterley , Richard Myers , Richard Wilson

The design of optical systems for underwater vehicles is a complex process where the selection of cameras, lenses, housings, and operational parameters greatly influence the performance of the complete system. Determining the correct…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-16 Gideon Billings , Eduardo Iscar , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

The observables in a strong gravitational lens are usually just the image positions and sometimes the flux ratios. We develop a new and simple algorithm which allows a set of models to be fitted exactly to the observations. Taking our cue…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. W. Evans , H. J. Witt

For more than 150 years, scientists have advanced aberration theory to describe, analyse, and eliminate imperfections that disturb the imaging quality of optical components and systems. Simultaneously, they have developed optical design…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-01 Fabian Duerr , Hugo Thienpont

Despite the success of automated machine learning (AutoML), which aims to find the best design, including the architecture of deep networks and hyper-parameters, conventional AutoML methods are computationally expensive and hardly provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Shirley Wu , Jiaxuan You , Jure Leskovec , Rex Ying

Designing fluorescent small molecules with tailored optical and physicochemical properties requires navigating vast, underexplored chemical space while satisfying multiple objectives and constraints. Conventional generate-score-screen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Yanheng Li , Zhichen Pu , Lijiang Yang , Zehao Zhou , Yi Qin Gao

A recent paper showed how to construct a lens that focuses near field radiation and hence produce resolution unlimited by wavelength. The prescription requires lossless materials with negative refractive index: finite loss cuts off the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Anantha Ramakrishna , J. B. Pendry

We present a novel methodology based on geometric approach to simulate magnification lens effects. Our aim is to promote new applications of powerful geometric modeling techniques in visual computing. Conventional image…

Graphics · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Bo Li , Xin Zhao

Humans (and many vertebrates) face the problem of fusing together multiple fixations of a scene in order to obtain a representation of the whole, where each fixation uses a high-resolution fovea and decreasing resolution in the periphery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Christopher K. I. Williams