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Transformation optics, a recent geometrical design strategy of controlling light by combining Maxwell's principles of electromagnetism with Einstein's general relativity, promises without precedent an invisibility cloaking device that can…

Invisibility cloaks have become one of the most outstanding developments among the wide range of applications in the field of metamaterials. So far, most efforts in invisibility science have been devoted to achieving practically realizable…

Recent research has uncovered a remarkable ability to manipulate and control electromagnetic fields to produce effects such as perfect imaging and spatial cloaking. To achieve spatial cloaking, the index of refraction is manipulated to flow…

Hitherto acoustic cloaking devices, which conceal objects externally, have depended on the objects' characteristics. Despite previous works, we design cloaking device placed neighbor an arbitrary object and makes it invisible without the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Zahra Basiri , Mohammad Hosein Fakheri , Ali Abdolali

An approach to hiding objects levitating or flying above a conducting sheet is suggested in this letter. The proposed device makes use of isotropic negative-refractive-index materials without extreme material parameters, and creates an…

Optics · Physics 2010-09-29 Jingjing Zhang , Yu Luo , Niels Asger Mortensen

Open-world object detection (OWOD) is a challenging problem that combines object detection with incremental learning and open-set learning. Compared to standard object detection, the OWOD setting is task to: 1) detect objects seen during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Jinan Yu , Liyan Ma , Zhenglin Li , Yan Peng , Shaorong Xie

A new recipe for concealing objects from detection is suggested. Different with traditional cloak which deflects light around the core of the cloak to make the object inside invisible, our cloak guides the light to penetrate the core of the…

Optics · Physics 2008-08-05 Yu Luo , Jingjing Zhang , Hongsheng Chen , Bae-Ian Wu , Jin Au Kong

Recently, it was demonstrated that active sources can be used to cloak any objects that lie outside the cloaking devices [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{103}, 073901 (2009)]. Here, we propose that active sources can create illusion effects, so…

Optics · Physics 2013-07-04 H. H. Zheng , J. J. Xiao , Y. Lai , C. T. Chan

By introducing a concept of "minifying layer", we propose a universal device to hide the position of an object by shifting its scattering without scaling effect for a distance, independent of the direction of incident wave and observation.…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-13 Wei Li , Jianguo Guan , Wei Wang , Zhigang Sun , Zhengyi Fu

Object Detection, a fundamental computer vision problem, has paramount importance in smart camera systems. However, a truly reliable camera system could be achieved if and only if the underlying object detection component is robust enough…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Ujjal Kr Dutta

Electromagnetic cloaks are devices that can be used to reduce the total scattering cross section of various objects. An ideal cloak removes all scattering from an object and thus makes this object "invisible" to the electromagnetic fields…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-14 Pekka Alitalo , Henrik Kettunen , Sergei Tretyakov

In this paper, a generalization of cloaking is presented: instead of an empty region of space, an inhomogeneous structure is transformed via Pendry's map in order to give, to any object hidden in the central hole of the cloak, a completely…

Optics · Physics 2009-09-07 A. Nicolet , F. Zolla , C. Geuzaine

It is generally believed that transformation optics based cloaking, besides rendering the cloaked region invisible to detection by scattering of incident waves, also shields the region from those same waves. We demonstrate a coupling…

Optics · Physics 2016-05-13 Allan Greenleaf , Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

In this manuscript, we demonstrate the design and experimental proof of an optical cloaking structure which multi-directionally conceals a perfectly electric conductor (PEC) object from an incident plane wave. The dielectric modulation…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Muratcan Ayik , Hamza Kurt , Oleg V. Minin , Igor V. Minin , Mirbek Turduev

We develop and apply an optimization method to design invisibility cloaks. Our method is based on minimizing the forward scattering amplitude of the cloaked object, which by the optical theorem, is equivalent to the total cross section. The…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-09 Brian Slovick , Josh Hellhake

We introduce an all-optical system, termed the "lying mirror", to hide input information by transforming it into misleading, ordinary-looking patterns that effectively camouflage the underlying image data and deceive the observers. This…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-22 Yuhang Li , Shiqi Chen , Bijie Bai , Aydogan Ozcan

Recent object detectors have achieved impressive accuracy in identifying objects seen during training. However, real-world deployment often introduces novel and unexpected objects, referred to as out-of-distribution (OOD) objects, posing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Quang-Huy Nguyen , Jin Peng Zhou , Zhenzhen Liu , Khanh-Huyen Bui , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Wei-Lun Chao , Dung D. Le

Transformation optics is a design tool that connects geometry of space and propagation of light. Invisibility cloaking is a corresponding benchmark example. Recent experiments at optical frequencies have demonstrated cloaking for the light…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-28 Tolga Ergin , Joachim Fischer , Martin Wegener

In this paper, transformation optics is presented together with a generalization of invisibility cloaking: instead of an empty region of space, an inhomogeneous structure is transformed via Pendry's map in order to give, to any object…

Optics · Physics 2010-02-09 Andre Nicolet , Frederic Zolla , Christophe Geuzaine

Adjusting transparency is a common method of mitigating occlusion but is often detrimental for understanding the relative depth relationships between objects as well as removes potentially important information from the occluding object. We…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-01 George Bell , Alma Cantu