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Light scattered from multiple surfaces can be used to retrieve information of hidden environments. However, full three-dimensional retrieval of an object hidden from view by a wall has only been achieved with scanning systems and requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Piergiorgio Caramazza , Alessandro Boccolini , Daniel Buschek , Matthias Hullin , Catherine Higham , Robert Henderson , Roderick Murray-Smith , Daniele Faccio

Recent research efforts in optical computing have gravitated towards developing optical neural networks that aim to benefit from the processing speed and parallelism of optics/photonics in machine learning applications. Among these…

Optics · Physics 2020-12-25 Deniz Mengu , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Optical processors, built with "optical neurons", can efficiently perform high-dimensional linear operations at the speed of light. Thus they are a promising avenue to accelerate large-scale linear computations. With the current advances in…

Photonic computing promises energy-efficient acceleration for optimization and learning, yet discrete combinatorial search and continuous function approximation have largely required distinct devices and control stacks. Here we unify…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-03 Nikita Stroev , Natalia G. Berloff

The derivation of a function is a fundamental tool for solving problems in calculus. Consequently, the motivations for investigating physical systems capable of performing this task are numerous. Furthermore, the potential to develop an…

Neuromorphic computing describes the use of VLSI systems to mimic neuro-biological architectures and is also looked at as a promising alternative to the traditional von Neumann architecture. Any new computing architecture would need a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Karn Dubey , Urja Kothari , Shrisha Rao

We introduce an electro-optic hardware platform for nonlinear activation functions in optical neural networks. The optical-to-optical nonlinearity operates by converting a small portion of the input optical signal into an analog electric…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Ian A. D. Williamson , Tyler W. Hughes , Momchil Minkov , Ben Bartlett , Sunil Pai , Shanhui Fan

Connecting multiple machine learning models into a pipeline is effective for handling complex problems. By breaking down the problem into steps, each tackled by a specific component model of the pipeline, the overall solution can be made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Tomoe Kishimoto , Masahiko Saito , Junichi Tanaka , Yutaro Iiyama , Ryu Sawada , Koji Terashi

We propose advancing photonic in-memory computing through three-dimensional photonic-electronic integrated circuits using phase-change materials (PCM) and AlGaAs-CMOS technology. These circuits offer high precision (greater than 12 bits),…

We train a model atom to recognize hand-written digits between 0 and 9, employing intense light--matter interaction as a computational resource. For training, individual images of hand-written digits in the range 0-9 are converted into…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Thomas Pfeifer , Matthias Wollenhaupt , Manfred Lein

The inference structures and computational complexity of existing deep neural networks, once trained, are fixed and remain the same for all test images. However, in practice, it is highly desirable to establish a progressive structure for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Zhi Zhang , Guanghan Ning , Yigang Cen , Yang Li , Zhiqun Zhao , Hao Sun , Zhihai He

The iterations of many sparse estimation algorithms are comprised of a fixed linear filter cascaded with a thresholding nonlinearity, which collectively resemble a typical neural network layer. Consequently, a lengthy sequence of algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-11 Bo Xin , Yizhou Wang , Wen Gao , David Wipf

Spatial light modulators (SLMs) are central to numerous applications ranging from high-speed displays to adaptive optics, structured illumination microscopy, and holography. After decades of advances, SLM arrays based on liquid crystals can…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-23 Cheng Peng , Ryan Hamerly , Mohammad Soltani , Dirk Englund

In this paper, we described and developed a framework for Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) to work on low level image processing, where MLP will be used to perform image super-resolution. Meanwhile, MLP are trained with different types of images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-12-24 Kah Keong Chua , Yong Haur Tay

An emerging generative artificial intelligence (AI) based on neural networks starts to grow in popularity with a revolutionizing capability of creating new and original content. As giant generative models with millions to billions of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Shuang Zheng , Jiawei Zhang , Weifeng Zhang

The rapidly increasing size of deep-learning models has caused renewed and growing interest in alternatives to digital computers to dramatically reduce the energy cost of running state-of-the-art neural networks. Optical matrix-vector…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Maxwell G. Anderson , Shi-Yuan Ma , Tianyu Wang , Logan G. Wright , Peter L. McMahon

In photonic neural network a key building block is the perceptron. Here, we describe and demonstrate a complex-valued photonic perceptron that combines time and space multiplexing in a fully passive silicon photonics integrated circuit. An…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Mattia Mancinelli , Davide Bazzanella , Paolo Bettotti , Lorenzo Pavesi

Neuromorphic Computing implemented in photonic hardware is one of the most promising routes towards achieving machine learning processing at the picosecond scale, with minimum power consumption. In this work, we present a new concept for…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-01 K. Sozos , A. Bogris , P. Bienstman , G. Sarantoglou , S. Deligiannidis , C. Mesaritakis

The escalating energy demands and parallel-processing bottlenecks of electronic neural networks underscore the need for alternative computing paradigms. Optical neural networks, capitalizing on the inherent parallelism and speed of light…

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have fundamentally transformed the field of computer vision, providing unprecedented performance. However, these ANNs for image processing demand substantial computational resources, often hindering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Minho Choi , Jinlin Xiang , Anna Wirth-Singh , Seung-Hwan Baek , Eli Shlizerman , Arka Majumdar