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Designing freeform surfaces to control light based on real-world illumination patterns is challenging, as existing caustic lens designs often assume oversimplified point or parallel light sources. We propose representing surface light…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Sizhuo Zhou , Yuou Sun , Bailin Deng , Juyong Zhang

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable breakthroughs by leveraging multiple layers of data processing to extract hidden representations, albeit at the cost of large electronic computing power. To enhance energy efficiency and speed,…

In constructing the $\mathcal{H}^2$ representation of dense matrices defined by the Laplace kernel, the interpolative decomposition of certain off-diagonal submatrices that dominates the computation can be dramatically accelerated using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Xin Xing , Edmond Chow

Precise modeling of extended sources is a central challenge in modern optical engineering, laser physics, and computational lithography. Unlike ideal point sources or completely incoherent thermal radiation sources, real-world light sources…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-09 Rongqi Shang , Donglin Ma

This paper presents a novel implicit representation of solid models. With this representation, every solid model can be effectively presented by three layered depth-normal images (LDNIs) that are perpendicular to three orthogonal axes…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-09-07 Charlie C. L. Wang , Yong Chen

We introduce PolyDiff, the first diffusion-based approach capable of directly generating realistic and diverse 3D polygonal meshes. In contrast to methods that use alternate 3D shape representations (e.g. implicit representations), our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Antonio Alliegro , Yawar Siddiqui , Tatiana Tommasi , Matthias Nießner

Low energy ion scattering is a technique to detect the energy of ions which are scattered from a surface. For noble gas ions, it is predominantly sensitive to the topmost surface layer due to strong neutralisation processes. Depending on…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-07 H. R. Koslowski , Ch. Linsmeier

A method based on optical interferences for measuring optical nonlinearities is presented. In a proof-of-principle experiment, the technique is applied to the experimental determination of the intensity dependence of the photoionization…

Optics · Physics 2013-08-06 F. Billard , P. Béjot , E. Hertz , B. Lavorel , O. Faucher

Nowadays for measurement of refractive index of nanomaterials usually spectro-photometric and mechanical methods are used which are expensive and indirect. In this paper for measuring these parameters of zinc oxide nanomaterial with two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-02-05 Fatemeh Jamal , Fatemeh Ahmadi , Mohammad Khanzadeh , Saber Malekzadeh

We propose a real-time image fusion method using pre-trained neural networks. Our method generates a single image containing features from multiple sources. We first decompose images into a base layer representing large scale intensity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Fayez Lahoud , Sabine Süsstrunk

A quantitative synthetic Schlieren imaging (SSI) method based on fast Fourier demodulation is presented. Instead of a random dot pattern (as usually employed in SSI), a 2D periodic pattern (such as a checkerboard) is used as a backdrop to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-06-04 Sander Wildeman

Computed tomography is widely used as an imaging tool to visualize three-dimensional structures with expressive bone-soft tissue contrast. However, CT resolution and radiation dose are tightly entangled, highlighting the importance of…

A universal and flexible design method for freeform surface that can modulate the distribution of an zero-\'etendue source to an arbitrary irradiance distribution is a significant challenge in the field of non-imaging optics. Current design…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-31 Haoqiang Wang , Zihan Zang , Yunpeng Xu , Yanjun Han , Hongtao Li , Yi Luo

Intrinsic Image Decomposition is an open problem of generating the constituents of an image. Generating reflectance and shading from a single image is a challenging task specifically when there is no ground truth. There is a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Harshana Weligampola , Gihan Jayatilaka , Suren Sritharan , Parakrama Ekanayake , Roshan Ragel , Vijitha Herath , Roshan Godaliyadda

This paper is concerned with the inverse scattering problem by an unbounded rough surface. A direct imaging method is proposed to reconstruct the rough surface from the scattered near-field Cauchy data generating by point sources and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Xiaoli Liu , Bo Zhang , Haiwen Zhang

Purpose: The set of linear attenuation coefficients that belong to materials in the human body is commonly assumed to be spanned by two basis functions in the range of clinical x-ray energies, even though there is evidence that the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Fredrik Grönberg , Mats Persson , Hans Bornefalk

Digital signal processing is the cornerstone of several modern-day technologies, yet in multiple applications it faces critical bottlenecks related to memory and speed constraints. Thanks to recent advances in metasurface design and…

Zernike polynomials are a basis of orthogonal polynomials on the unit disk that are a natural basis for representing smooth functions. They arise in a number of applications including optics and atmospheric sciences. In this paper, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Philip Greengard , Kirill Serkh

Measurements of microscale surface patterns are essential for process and quality control in industries across semiconductors, micro-machining, and biomedicines. However, the development of miniaturized and intelligent profiling systems…

Signal processing on directed graphs (digraphs) is problematic, since the graph shift, and thus associated filters, are in general not diagonalizable. Furthermore, the Fourier transform in this case is now obtained from the Jordan…

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