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The increase of cell efficiency resulting from using a diffraction grating as a back reflector is investigated. An enhancement coefficient is introduced as a figure of merit that accounts for the ability of the rear grating to increase the…

Optics · Physics 2008-11-20 Mario M. Jakas , Francisco Llopis

Understanding reflection remains a long-standing challenge in 3D reconstruction due to the entanglement of appearance and geometry under view-dependent reflections. In this work, we present the Pygmalion Effect in Vision, a novel framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Gayoung Lee , Junho Kim , Jin-Hwa Kim , Junmo Kim

We study the Cooperative Guarding problem for polygons with holes in a mobile multi-agents setting. Given a set of agents, initially deployed at a point in a polygon with $n$ vertices and $h$ holes, we require the agents to collaboratively…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-01 John Augustine , Srikkanth Ramachandran

Removing undesirable reflections from a single image captured through a glass window is of practical importance to visual computing systems. Although state-of-the-art methods can obtain decent results in certain situations, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Kaixuan Wei , Jiaolong Yang , Ying Fu , David Wipf , Hua Huang

Take a multidimensional normally or obliquely reflected diffusion in a smooth domain. Approximate it by solutions of stochastic differential equations without reflection using the penalty method. That is, we approximate the reflection term…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Andrey Sarantsev

Reflections often degrade the quality of the image by obstructing the background scene. This is not desirable for everyday users, and it negatively impacts the performance of multimedia applications that process images with reflections.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Suhong Kim , Hamed RahmaniKhezri , Seyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh , Mohamed Hefeeda

The $PT$-symmetric optical grating with index profile $e^{i\beta z}$ has been shown to have the interesting property of being essentially invisible for light incident from one side, while possessing greatly enhanced reflection at a…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-09 H. F. Jones , M. Kulishov

This paper proposes a non-computational method of counteracting the effect of image degradation introduced by the diffraction phenomenon in lensless microscopy. All the optical images (whether focused by lenses or not) are diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-08 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab Kumar Dutta

Reflections in videos are obstructions that often occur when videos are taken behind reflective surfaces like glass. These reflections reduce the quality of such videos, lead to information loss and degrade the accuracy of many computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Amgad Ahmed , Suhong Kim , Mohamed Elgharib , Mohamed Hefeeda

In the original Art Gallery Problem (AGP), one seeks the minimum number of guards required to cover a polygon $P$. We consider the Chromatic AGP (CAGP), where the guards are colored. As long as $P$ is completely covered, the number of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-13 Sándor P. Fekete , Stephan Friedrichs , Michael Hemmer

With the advent of autonomous robots with two- and three-dimensional scanning capabilities, classical visibility-based exploration methods from computational geometry have gained in practical importance. However, real-life laser scanning of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Sandor P. Fekete , Christiane Schmidt

Frustrated total internal reflection is analyzed from an unusual point of view Unlike most similar works, incident angles are used here as the scanning variable, instead of the tunneled film thickness. The theoretical framework is presented…

Wireless communication using fully passive metal reflectors is a promising technique for coverage expansion, signal enhancement, rank improvement and blind-zone compensation, thanks to its appealing features including zero energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Zhi Yu , Chao Feng , Yong Zeng , Teng Li , Shi Jin

Curving beams are a promising new method for bypassing obstacles in future millimeter-wave to sub-terahertz (sub-THz) networks but lack a general predictive model for their reflections from arbitrary surfaces. We show that, unfortunately,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-12 Caroline Jane Spindel , Edward Knightly

Eye-tracking plays a crucial role in the development of virtual reality devices, neuroscience research, and psychology. Despite its significance in numerous applications, achieving an accurate, robust, and fast eye-tracking solution remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Jiazhang Wang , Tianfu Wang , Bingjie Xu , Oliver Cossairt , Florian Willomitzer

We consider the problem of imaging extended reflectors in terminating waveguides. We form the image by back-propagating the array response matrix projected on the waveguide's non-evanescent modes. The projection is adequately defined for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-30 Chrysoula Tsogka , Dimitrios A. Mitsoudis , Symeon Papadimitropoulos

A hidden guard set $ G $ is a set of point guards in polygon $ P $ that all points of the polygon are visible from some guards in $ G $ under the constraint that no two guards may see each other. In this paper, we consider the problem for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Hamid Hoorfar , Alireza Bagheri

Weak gravitational lensing has proven to be a powerful tool to map directly the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The technique, currently used, relies on the accurate measurement of the gravitational shear that corresponds to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Pires , A. Amara

We consider guarding classes of simple polygons using mobile guards (polygon edges and diagonals) under the constraint that no two guards may see each other. In contrast to most other art gallery problems, existence is the primary question:…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-06-11 Sarah Cannon , Diane L. Souvaine , Andrew Winslow

Glass surfaces are ubiquitous in daily life, typically appearing colorless, transparent, and lacking distinctive features. These characteristics make glass surface detection a challenging computer vision task. Existing glass surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Tao Yan , Hao Huang , Yiwei Lu , Zeyu Wang , Ke Xu , Yinghui Wang , Xiaojun Chang , Rynson W. H. Lau