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This paper proposes a new method called Multimodal RNNs for RGB-D scene semantic segmentation. It is optimized to classify image pixels given two input sources: RGB color channels and Depth maps. It simultaneously performs training of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Abrar H. Abdulnabi , Bing Shuai , Zhen Zuo , Lap-Pui Chau , Gang Wang

Optical Skyrmions are topological forms of structured light with the potential of an infinite encoding alphabet that is immune to disturbance. This attractive prospect is hindered by the lack of any topological detector, a challenging…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-15 Hadrian Bezuidenhout , Cade Peters , Ram Kumar , Andrew Forbes , Isaac Nape

Digital contents have grown dramatically in recent years, leading to increased attention to copyright. Image watermarking has been considered one of the most popular methods for copyright protection. With the recent advancements in applying…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Maedeh Jamali , Nader Karim , Pejman Khadivi , Shahram Shirani , Shadrokh Samavi

Precise engineering of materials and surfaces has been at the heart of some of the recent advances in optics and photonics. These advances around the engineering of materials with new functionalities have also opened up exciting avenues for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-25 Onur Kulce , Deniz Mengu , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Efficient switching and routing of photons of different wavelengths is a requirement for realizing a quantum internet. Multimode optomechanical systems can solve this technological challenge and enable studies of fundamental science…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-02 David P. Lake , Matthew Mitchell , Barry C. Sanders , Paul E. Barclay

A large field of view of an optical system is needed for many applications, and optical systems with high magnification often suffer from a limited field of view due to the limited size of the camera sensor. This study proposes a novel…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Sai Deepika Sure , Jawahar Prabhakar Desai , Joseph Rosen

Conventional spectrometer and polarimeter systems rely on bulky optics, fundamentally limiting compact integration and hindering multi-dimensional optical sensing capabilities. Here, we propose a spectropolarimeter enabled by…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-13 Jumin Qiu , Tingting Liu , Chenxuan Xiang , Tianbao Yu , Qiegen Liu , Shuyuan Xiao

After introducing a bit-plane quantum representation for a multi-image, we present a novel way to encrypt/decrypt multiple images using a quantum computer. Our encryption scheme is based on a two-stage scrambling of the images and of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Claire I. Levaillant

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are reshaping the field of information processing. With their exponential growth challenging existing electronic hardware, optical neural networks (ONNs) are emerging to process DNN tasks in the optical domain…

Ensuring both feasibility and efficiency in optimal power flow (OPF) operations has become increasingly important in modern power systems with high penetrations of renewable energy and energy storage. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Yeomoon Kim , Minsoo Kim , Jip Kim

Image watermarking is a technique for hiding information into images that can withstand distortions while requiring the encoded image to be perceptually identical to the original image. Recent work based on deep neural networks (DNN) has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Guanhui Ye , Jiashi Gao , Wei Xie , Bo Yin , Xuetao Wei

We present a broadband and polarization-insensitive unidirectional imager that operates at the visible part of the spectrum, where image formation occurs in one direction while in the opposite direction, it is blocked. This approach is…

We propose an optical encryption framework that can encrypt and decrypt large-sized images beyond the size of the encrypted image using our two methods: random phase-free method and scaled diffraction. In order to record the entire image…

Optical computing has gained significant attention as a potential solution to the growing computational demands of machine learning, particularly for tasks requiring large-scale data processing and high energy efficiency. Optical systems…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-04 Bahadır Utku Kesgin , Uğur Teğin

All-optical neural networks (AONNs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for ultrafast and energy-efficient computation. These networks typically consist of multiple serially connected layers between input and output layers--a configuration…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 Jianwei Qin , Yanbing Liu , Yan Liu , Xun Liu , Wei Li , Fangwei Ye

Diffractive deep neural networks have been introduced earlier as an optical machine learning framework that uses task-specific diffractive surfaces designed by deep learning to all-optically perform inference, achieving promising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Jingxi Li , Deniz Mengu , Yi Luo , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Nonlinear computation is essential for various information processing tasks. Optical implementations are attractive because passive light propagation can manipulate high-dimensional signals with extreme throughput and parallelism; yet…

Metasurfaces facilitate high-capacity optical information integration by simultaneously supporting near-field nanoprinting and far-field holography on a single platform. However, conventional multi-channel designs face critical security…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-06 Yifan Li , Yuhan Yang , Qiegen Liu , Shuyuan Xiao , Tingting Liu

Recovering the image of an object from its phaseless speckle pattern is difficult. Let alone the transmission matrix is unknown in multiple scattering media imaging. Double phase retrieval is a recently proposed efficient method which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-27 Ziyang Yuan , Hongxia Wang

The interpretability of neural networks has recently received extensive attention. Previous prototype-based explainable networks involved prototype activation in both reasoning and interpretation processes, requiring specific explainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Yitao Peng , Yihang Liu , Longzhen Yang , Lianghua He