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Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) or metasurface is one of the important enabling technologies in mobile cellular networks that can effectively enhance the signal coverage performance in obstructed regions, and it is generally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Tianqi Xiang , Zhiwei Jiang , Weijun Hong , Xin Zhang , Yuehong Gao

Diffusion transformers (DiTs) achieve high generative quality but lock FLOPs to image resolution, limiting principled latency-quality trade-offs, and allocate computation uniformly across input spatial tokens, wasting resource allocation to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Moayed Haji-Ali , Willi Menapace , Ivan Skorokhodov , Dogyun Park , Anil Kag , Michael Vasilkovsky , Sergey Tulyakov , Vicente Ordonez , Aliaksandr Siarohin

The thin interface limit aims at minimizing the effects arising from a numerical interface thickness, inherent in diffuse interface models of solidification and microstructure evolution such as the phase field model. While the original…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-18 Amol Subhedar , Peter K. Galenko , Fathollah Varnik

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is commonly made of low-cost passive and reflective meta-materials with excellent beam steering capabilities. It is applied to enhance wireless communication systems as a customizable signal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Kun Chen-Hu , Petar Popovski

Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification (VI-ReID) is a challenging retrieval task due to the substantial modality gap between visible and infrared images. While existing methods attempt to bridge this gap by learning modality-invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Haoxuan Xu , Guanglin Niu

The angular response of thin diffractive optical elements is highly correlated. For example, the angles of incidence and diffraction of a grating are locked through the grating momentum determined by the grating period. Other diffractive…

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) has emerged as a powerful label-free three-dimensional (3D) bioimaging techniques for observing living cells and thin tissue layers. We report a new reflection-mode ODT (rODT) method for imaging thick…

The evolution of RHEED reflexes intensity during reconstructed transitions characterizes (often implicitly) reconstructed surface state peculiarities. The approaches of a correct RHEED data interpretation, aimed at obtaining information…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-18 A. V. Vasev , M. A. Putyato , V. V. Preobrazhenskii

Metasurfaces represent a powerful paradigm of optical engineering that enables one to control the flow of light across material interfaces. We report on a discovery that metallic metasurfaces of a certain type respond differently to…

Optics · Physics 2019-11-12 T. Frank , O. Buchnev , T. Cookson , M. Kaczmarek , P. Lagoudakis , V. A. Fedotov

Subwavelength planar structured interfaces, also known as metasurfaces, are ultra-thin optical elements modulating the amplitude, phase, and polarization of incident light using nanostructures called meta-atoms. The optical properties of…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-01 Saeed Hemayat , Liyi Hsu , Jeongho Ha , Abdoulaye Ndao

The traditional wisdom for achieving transparency is to minimize disordered scattering within and on the surface of materials, so as to avoid translucency. However, the lack of disordered scattering also deprives the possibility of…

Finding correspondences between images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. In this paper, we show that correspondence emerges in image diffusion models without any explicit supervision. We propose a simple strategy to extract this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Luming Tang , Menglin Jia , Qianqian Wang , Cheng Perng Phoo , Bharath Hariharan

During the past few years, metasurfaces have been used to demonstrate optical elements and systems with capabilities that surpass those of conventional diffractive optics. Here we review some of these recent developments with a focus on…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-27 Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Ehsan Arbabi , Amir Arbabi , Andrei Faraon

Refraction represents one of the most fundamental operations that may be performed by a metasurface. However, simple phasegradient metasurface designs suffer from restricted angular deflection due to spurious diffraction orders. It has been…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Guillaume Lavigne , Karim Achouri , Viktar Asadchy , Sergei Tretyakov , Christophe Caloz

Optical Diffraction Tomography (ODT) is a powerful non-invasive imaging technique widely used in biological and medical applications. While significant progress has been made in transmission configuration, reflection ODT remains challenging…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-14 Thomas Wasik , Victor Barolle , Alexandre Aubry , Josselin Garnier

Nonreciprocal optics enables asymmetric transmission of light when its sources and detectors are exchanged. A canonical example -- optical isolator -- enables light propagation in only one direction, similar to how electrical diodes enable…

Diffraction gratings disperse light in a rainbow of colors with the opposite order than refractive prisms, a phenomenon known as negative dispersion. While refractive dispersion can be controlled via material refractive index, diffractive…

Optics · Physics 2017-06-21 Ehsan Arbabi , Amir Arbabi , Seyedeh Mahsa Kamali , Yu Horie , Andrei Faraon

A Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) redirects and possibly modifies the properties of incident waves, with the aim to restore non-line-of-sight communication links. Composed of elementary scatterers, the RIS has been so far treated…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-08-04 Sotiris Droulias , Angeliki Alexiou

Subwavelength structured surfaces, known as metasurfaces, hold promise for future compact and optically thin devices with versatile functionalities. Here, by revisiting the concept of detour phase at the basis of the first computer…

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is an emerging technique employing metasurface to reflect the signal from the source node to the destination node. By smartly reconfiguring the electromagnetic (EM) properties of the metasurface and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Qi Gu , Dan Wu , Xin Su , Hanning Wang , Jingyuan Cui , Yifei Yuan