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We propose a general framework for differentiating shapes represented in binary images with respect to their parameters. This framework functions as an automatic differentiation tool for shape parameters, generating both binary density maps…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Zhaocheng Liu , Jim Bonar

There are existing standard solvers for tackling discrete optimization problems. However, in practice, it is uncommon to apply them directly to the large input space typical of this class of problems. Rather, the input is preprocessed to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Bolarinwa Olayemi Saheed

Parametric linear programming is a central operation for polyhedral computations, as well as in certain control applications.Here we propose a task-based scheme for parallelizing it, with quasi-linear speedup over large problems.This type…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Camille Coti , David Monniaux , Hang Yu

We present and review an efficient method to calculate the retarded Green's function in multi-terminal nanostructures; which is needed in order to calculate the conductance through the system and the local particle densities within it. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 G. Thorgilsson , G. Viktorsson , S. I. Erlingsson

Nanophotonics, an interdisciplinary field merging nanotechnology and photonics, has enabled transformative advancements across diverse sectors including green energy, biomedicine, and optical computing. This review comprehensively examines…

We investigate the applicability of the coupled multipole model and its modification in the framework of the zero-order Born approximation for modeling of light focusing by finite-size nanostructures of silicon nanospheres, supporting…

Designing complex physical systems, including photonic structures, is typically a tedious trial-and-error process that requires extensive simulations with iterative sweeps in multi-dimensional parameter space. To circumvent this…

Optics · Physics 2019-02-08 Zhaocheng Liu , Lakshmi Raju , Dayu Zhu , Wenshan Cai

Image processing has become a critical technology in a variety of science and engineering disciplines. While most image processing is performed digitally, optical analog processing has the advantages of being low-power and high-speed though…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-06 You Zhou , Hanyu Zheng , Ivan I. Kravchenko , Jason Valentine

We introduce a class of causal video understanding models that aims to improve efficiency of video processing by maximising throughput, minimising latency, and reducing the number of clock cycles. Leveraging operation pipelining and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Joao Carreira , Viorica Patraucean , Laurent Mazare , Andrew Zisserman , Simon Osindero

Photonic computing is a computing paradigm which have great potential to overcome the energy bottlenecks of electronic von Neumann architecture. Throughput and power consumption are fundamental limitations of…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Saurabh Ranjan , Sonika Thakral , Amit Sehgal

Particle filtering is a numerical Bayesian technique that has great potential for solving sequential estimation problems involving non-linear and non-Gaussian models. Since the estimation accuracy achieved by particle filters improves as…

Computation · Statistics 2017-11-22 Jeyarajan Thiyagalingam , Lykourgos Kekempanos , Simon Maskell

Real world experiments are expensive, and thus it is important to reach a target in minimum number of experiments. Experimental processes often involve control variables that changes over time. Such problems can be formulated as a…

Superpixel segmentation algorithms are to partition an image into perceptually coherence atomic regions by assigning every pixel a superpixel label. Those algorithms have been wildly used as a preprocessing step in computer vision works, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Zhihua Ban , Jianguo Liu , Li Cao

In this paper, we introduce Plug-and-Play (PnP) Flow Matching, an algorithm for solving imaging inverse problems. PnP methods leverage the strength of pre-trained denoisers, often deep neural networks, by integrating them in optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Ségolène Martin , Anne Gagneux , Paul Hagemann , Gabriele Steidl

Pixel binning is a technique, widely used in optical image acquisition and spectroscopy, in which adjacent detector elements of an image sensor are combined into larger pixels. This reduces the amount of data to be processed as well as the…

Image segmentation is a popular area of research in computer vision that has many applications in automated image processing. A recent technique called piecewise flat embeddings (PFE) has been proposed for use in image segmentation; PFE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Renee T. Meinhold , Tyler L. Hayes , Nathan D. Cahill

Motivated by the human way of memorizing images we introduce their functional representation, where an image is represented by a neural network. For this purpose, we construct a hypernetwork which takes an image and returns weights to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Sylwester Klocek , Łukasz Maziarka , Maciej Wołczyk , Jacek Tabor , Jakub Nowak , Marek Śmieja

In contrast to designing nanophotonic devices by tuning a handful of device parameters, we have developed a computational method which utilizes the full parameter space to design linear nanophotonic devices. We show that our method may…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Jesse Lu , Jelena Vuckovic

In example-based super-resolution, the function relating low-resolution images to their high-resolution counterparts is learned from a given dataset. This data-driven approach to solving the inverse problem of increasing image resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-05 Alexander Robey , Vidya Ganapati

The network flow optimization approach is offered for Bayesian segmentation of gray-scale and color images. It is supposed image pixels are characterized by a feature function taking finite number of arbitrary rational values (it can be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-07 B. A. Zalesky