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It has been demonstrated that modifying the rim scattering of a paraboloidal reflector antenna through the use of reconfigurable elements along the rim facilitates sidelobe modification including cancelling sidelobes. In this work we…

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In optical devices like diffraction gratings and Fresnel lenses, light wavefront is engineered through the structuring of device surface morphology, within thicknesses comparable to the light wavelength. Fabrication of such diffractive…

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Recovering the radiometric properties of a scene (i.e., the reflectance, illumination, and geometry) is a long-sought ability of computer vision that can provide invaluable information for a wide range of applications. Deciphering the…

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Numerous techniques have been proposed for reconstructing 3D models for opaque objects in past decades. However, none of them can be directly applied to transparent objects. This paper presents a fully automatic approach for reconstructing…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Bojian Wu , Yang Zhou , Yiming Qian , Minglun Gong , Hui Huang

We present a parametric deformable model which recovers image components with a complexity independent from the resolution of input images. The proposed model also automatically changes its topology and remains fully compatible with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-18 Jacques-Olivier Lachaud , Benjamin Taton

Realizing active metasurfaces with substantial tunability is important for many applications but remains challenging due to difficulties in dynamically tuning light-matter interactions at subwavelength scales. Here, we introduce reversible…

A method to reconstruct weakly anisotropic inhomogeneous dielectric tensors inside a transparent medium is proposed. The mathematical theory of Integral Geometry is cast into a workable framework which allows the full determination of…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Hanno Hammer , William R. B. Lionheart

We propose a new paradigm for modelling and calibrating laser scanners with rotation symmetry, as is the case for Lidars or for galvanometric laser systems with one or two rotating mirrors. Instead of bothering about the intrinsic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-16 Rudi Penne , Ivan De Boi , Steve Vanlanduit

Adaptive optics (AO) offers an opportunity to stabilize an image and maximize the spatial resolution achievable by ground based telescopes by removing the distortions due to the atmosphere. Typically, the deformable mirror in an AO system…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 J. Fowler , Rachel Bowens-Rubin , Philip M. Hinz

A quasi-Newton method with cubic regularization is designed for solving Riemannian unconstrained nonconvex optimization problems. The proposed algorithm is fully adaptive with at most ${\cal O} (\epsilon_g^{-3/2})$ iterations to achieve a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Mauricio S. Louzeiro , Gilson N. Silva , Jinyun Yuan , Daoping Zhang

In this work, we propose an inverse rendering model that estimates 3D shape, spatially-varying reflectance, homogeneous subsurface scattering parameters, and an environment illumination jointly from only a pair of captured images of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chenhao Li , Trung Thanh Ngo , Hajime Nagahara

Aberration compensation with emphasis on the generalized spherical aberration components is discussed for plane-symmetric and anamorphic optical systems. A narrow field-of-view double-plane symmetric telescope objective containing…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-14 Dmitry Zhuridov

In view of extremely challenging requirements on design and optimization of future mobile communication systems, researchers are considering possibilities of creation intelligent radio environments by using reconfigurable and smart…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 A. Diaz-Rubio , S. A. Tretyakov

The performance of modern object detectors drops when the test distribution differs from the training one. Most of the methods that address this focus on object appearance changes caused by, e.g., different illumination conditions, or gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Vidit Vidit , Martin Engilberge , Mathieu Salzmann

Image reconstruction in X ray tomography consists in determining an object from its projections. In many applications such as non destructive testing, we look for an image who has a constant value inside a region (default) and another…

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Atomic-resolution imaging with scanning transmission electron microscopy is a powerful tool for characterizing the nanoscale structure of materials, in particular features such as defects, local strains, and symmetry-breaking distortions.…

Designing flat sheets that can be made to deform into 3D shapes is an area of intense research with applications in micromachines, soft robotics, and medical implants. Thus far, such sheets were designed to adopt a single target shape.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-10-14 Itay Griniasty , Cyrus Mostajeran , Itai Cohen

The question of interest in the present study is: ``Given a body subject to mechanical loads, how to define the initial geometry so that the deformed one matches precisely a prescribed shape?'' This question is particularly relevant in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 M. Sellier

In the past decade, several neutron reflectometry methods for determining the modulus and phase of the complex reflection coefficient of an unknown multilayer thin film have been worked out among which the method of variation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-06 Seyed Farhad Masoudi , Saeed S. Jahromi

Symmetry detection and discrimination are of fundamental meaning in science, technology, and engineering. This paper introduces reflection invariants and defines the directional moment to detect symmetry for shape analysis and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Erbo Li , Hua Li