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Hyperspectral imaging provides detailed information about the scanned objects, as it captures their spectral characteristics within a large number of wavelength bands. Classification of such data has become an active research topic due to…

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Over the past six decades, the computing systems field has experienced significant transformations, profoundly impacting society with transformational developments, such as the Internet and the commodification of computing. Underpinned by…

Optical neural networks present distinct advantages over traditional electrical counterparts, such as accelerated data processing and reduced energy consumption. While coherent light is conventionally employed in optical neural networks,…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Jianwei Qin , Yanbing Liu , Yan Liu , Xun Liu , Wei Li , Fangwei Ye

Decades after being replaced with digital platforms, analogue computing has experienced a surging interest following developments in metamaterials and intricate fabrication techniques. Specifically, wave-based analogue computers which…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-12-24 Mohamed Mousa , Mostafa Nouh

In the recent years, we observe a dramatic boost of research in photonics empowered by the concepts of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The corresponding photonic systems, to which this new methodology is applied, can range…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-04 Sergey Krasikov , Aaron Tranter , Andrey Bogdanov , Yuri Kivshar

High resolution and high throughput imaging are typically mutually exclusive. The meta-instrument pairs high resolution optical concepts such as nano-antennas, superoscillatory lenses and hyperlenses with a miniaturized opto-mechatronic…

Spectro-polarimetric imaging in the long-wave infrared (LWIR) region plays a crucial role in applications from night vision and machine perception to trace gas sensing and thermography. However, the current generation of…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-17 Xueji Wang , Ziyi Yang , Fanglin Bao , Tyler Sentz , Zubin Jacob

Optical computing systems provide an alternate hardware model which appears to be aligned with the demands of neural network workloads. However, the challenge of implementing energy efficient nonlinearities in optics -- a key requirement…

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Spatial omics has transformed our understanding of tissue architecture by preserving spatial context of gene expression patterns. Simultaneously, advances in imaging AI have enabled extraction of morphological features describing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Eduard Chelebian , Christophe Avenel , Carolina Wählby

Analog photonic solutions offer unique opportunities to address complex computational tasks with unprecedented performance in terms of energy dissipation and speeds, overcoming current limitations of modern computing architectures based on…

Optical metasurfaces have been recently explored as ultrathin analog image differentiators. By tailoring the momentum transfer function, they can perform efficient Fourier-filtering - and thus potentially any linear mathematical operation -…

Inspired by the renaissance of optical computing recently, this poster presents a disruptive outlook on the possibility of seamless integration between optical communications and optical computing infrastructures, paving the way for…

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Nanoscale design of surfaces and interfaces is essential for modern technologies like organic LEDs, batteries, fuel cells, superlubricating surfaces, and heterogeneous catalysis. However, these systems often exhibit complex surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-08 Lukas Hörmann , Wojciech G. Stark , Reinhard J. Maurer

Neuromorphic Computing promises orders of magnitude improvement in energy efficiency compared to traditional von Neumann computing paradigm. The goal is to develop an adaptive, fault-tolerant, low-footprint, fast, low-energy intelligent…

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Fourier synthesis is one of the foundations of physical optics. Spatial Fourier optics is a basis for understanding optical imaging, microscopy, and holography. In conventional Fourier optics, the complex spatial field distribution in the…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-29 Murat Yessenov , Ayman F. Abouraddy

This paper theoretically proposes a multichannel functional metasurface computer characterized by Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions (GSTCs) and surface susceptibility tensors. The study explores a polarization- and angle-multiplexed…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ali Momeni , Hamid Rajabalipanah , Ali Abdolali , Karim Achouri

Modern optical spectrographs and optical interferometers push the limits in the spectral and spatial regime, providing important new tools for the exploration of the universe. In this contribution I outline the complementary nature of…

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The fully covariant formulation of transformation optics is used to find the configuration of a cloaking device operating in an expanding universe modelled by a Friedmann-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker spacetime. This spacetime cloak is used…

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During recent years, the renaissance of neural networks as the major machine learning paradigm and more specifically, the confirmation that deep learning techniques provide state-of-the-art results for most of computer vision tasks has been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Jesus Angulo

The explosive demand for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads has led to a significant increase in silicon area dedicated to lower-precision computations on recent high-performance computing hardware designs. However, mixed-precision…

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