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Ray-tracing (RT) has become central to site-specific electromagnetic propagation modeling in dynamic complex environments. Yet its computational burden grows sharply as high-fidelity digital twins of these environments scale to millions of…

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Several matrix approaches were developed to control light propagation through multiple scattering media under illumination of ultrashort pulses of light. These matrices can be recorded either with spectral or temporal resolution. Thanks to…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-08 Mickael Mounaix , Duc Minh Ta , Sylvain Gigan

The field of biomedical imaging has undergone a rapid growth in recent years, mostly due to the implementation of ad-hoc designed experimental setups, theoretical support methods and numerical reconstructions. Especially for biological…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-06-30 Daniele Ancora

Recently, fluorescence-based optical techniques have emerged as a powerful tool to probe information in the mammalian brain. However, tissue heterogeneities prevent clear imaging of deep neuron bodies due to light scattering. While several…

We propose a methodology that exploits large and diverse data sets to accurately estimate the ambient medium's Green's functions in strongly scattering media. Given these estimates, obtained with and without the use of neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Alexander Christie , Matan Leibovich , Miguel Moscoso , Alexei Novikov , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Monte Carlo rendering of translucent objects with heterogeneous scattering properties is often expensive both in terms of memory and computation. If we do path tracing and use a high dynamic range lighting environment, the rendering becomes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Thomson TG , Jeppe Revall Frisvad , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Henrik Wann Jensen

We provide a complete pipeline for the detection of patterns of interest in an image. In our approach, the patterns are assumed to be adequately modeled by a known template, and are located at unknown positions and orientations that we aim…

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We exploit memory effect speckle correlations for the imaging of incoherent linear (single-photon) fluorescent sources behind scattering tissue. While memory effect-based imaging techniques have been heavily studied in the past, for thick…

This paper deals with propagation and channel modeling for physically large arrays. The focus lies on acquiring a spatially consistent model, which is essential, especially for positioning and sensing applications. Ultra-wideband, synthetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-11 Thomas Wilding , Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann , Christian Nelson , Xuhong Li , Fredrik Tufvesson , Klaus Witrisal

We develop a transfer matrix formalism for four-flux radiative transfer models, which is ideally suited for studying transport through multiple scattering layers. The model, derived for spherical particles within the diffusion…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-23 Brian Slovick , Zachary Flom , Lucas Zipp , Srini Krishnamurthy

Traditional ultrasound simulation methods solve wave equations numerically, achieving high accuracy but at substantial computational cost. Faster alternatives based on convolution with precomputed impulse responses remain relatively slow,…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Nassir Navab

Path tracing offers high-fidelity rendering but remains impractical for real-time applications due to slow convergence and noise. We present a dynamic foveated path tracing technique that leverages visual perception by reducing sampling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Bipul Mohanto , Sven Kluge , Martin Weier , Oliver Staadt

The transport of deformable particles through porous media underlies a wealth of applications ranging from filtration to oil recovery to the transport and spreading of biological agents. Using direct numerical simulations, we analyze the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-09 Brato Chakrabarti , Charles Gaillard , David Saintillan

Image inpainting is a fundamental task in computer vision, aiming to restore missing or corrupted regions in images realistically. While recent deep learning approaches have significantly advanced the state-of-the-art, challenges remain in…

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We consider the scattering of light in participating media composed of sparsely and randomly distributed discrete particles. The particle size is expected to range from the scale of the wavelength to the scale several orders of magnitude…

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Optical imaging plays a critical role in advancing our understanding of three dimensional dynamics of biological systems. Coherent imaging (CI) methods exploit spatial phase information, encoded through propagation of coherent signal light…

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Optical imaging deep inside scattering media remains a fundamental problem in bio-imaging. While wavefront shaping has been shown to allow focusing of coherent light at depth, achieving it non-invasively remains a challenge. Various…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-24 Antoine Boniface , Baptiste Blochet , Jonathan Dong , Sylvain Gigan

In this work, we present a method to characterise the transmission matrices of complex scattering media using a physics-informed, multi-plane neural network (MPNN) without the requirement of a known optical reference field. We use this…

Path-Guiding algorithms for sampling scattering directions can drastically decrease the variance of Monte Carlo estimators of Light Transport Equation, but their usage was limited to offline rendering because of memory and computational…

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