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State-of-the-art adaptive optics (AO) systems perform non-linear Fourier-type wavefront sensing for real-time corrections of dynamic wavefront aberrations. This general class of sensors uses a filtering mask in the focal plane that converts…

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A key challenge of high contrast imaging (HCI) is to differentiate a speckle from an exoplanet signal. The sources of speckles are a combination of atmospheric residuals and aberrations in the non-common path. Those non-common path…

Differential wavefront sensing is an essential technique for optimising the performance of many precision interferometric experiments. Perhaps the most extensive application of this is for alignment sensing using radio-frequency beats…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-05-26 Daniel D. Brown , Huy Tuong Cao , Alexei Ciobanu , Peter Veitch , David Ottaway

Context: Ground-based telescopes are susceptible to seeing, an atmospheric phenomenon that reduces the resolving power of large observatories to that of a home telescope. Compensating these effects is therefore critical to realizing the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Jacob Trzaska , Amit Ashok

Rapid and accessible cardiac biomarker testing is essential for the timely diagnosis and risk assessment of myocardial infarction (MI) and heart failure (HF), two interrelated conditions that frequently coexist and drive recurrent…

Predictive maintenance of rotating machinery increasingly relies on vibration signals, yet most learning-based approaches either discard phase during spectral feature extraction or use raw time-waveforms without explicitly leveraging phase…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Hiroyoshi Nagahama , Katsufumi Inoue , Masayoshi Todorokihara , Michifumi Yoshioka

To directly image Earth-like planets, contrast levels of 10^-8 - 10^-10 are required. The next generation of instruments will need wavefront control below the nanometer level to achieve these goals. The Zernike wavefront sensor (ZWFS) is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 M. Darcis , S. Y. Haffert , V. Chambouleyron , D. S. Doelman , P. J. de Visser , M. A. Kenworthy

Fine-grained visual classification (FGVC) aims to classify sub-classes of objects in the same super-class (e.g., species of birds, models of cars). For the FGVC tasks, the essential solution is to find discriminative subtle information of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Chenyu Guo , Jiyang Xie , Kongming Liang , Xian Sun , Zhanyu Ma

Most previous deepfake detection methods bent their efforts to discriminate artifacts by end-to-end training. However, the learned networks often fail to mine the general face forgery information efficiently due to ignoring the data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Wentang Song , Yuzhen Lin , Bin Li

The Habitable Worlds Observatory requires active speckle suppression to directly image Earth-like exoplanets. Focal plane wavefront sensing and control allows us to detect, and subsequently remove, time-varying speckles through measurements…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Joshua Liberman , Sebastiaan Y. Haffert , Jared R. Males , Kevin Derby , Ewan S. Douglas

In this manuscript we demonstrate a method to reconstruct the wavefront of focused beams from a measured diffraction pattern behind a diffracting mask in real-time. The phase problem is solved by means of a neural network, which is trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Jonathon White , Sici Wang , Wilhelm Eschen , Jan Rothhardt

We report the development of deep learning coherent electron diffractive imaging at sub-angstrom resolution using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained with only simulated data. We experimentally demonstrate this method by applying…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-19 Dillan J. Chang , Colum M. O'Leary , Cong Su , Salman Kahn , Alex Zettl , Jim Ciston , Peter Ercius , Jianwei Miao

Wavefront sensors have now become core components in the fields of metrology of optical systems, biomedical optics, and adaptive optics systems for astronomy. However, none of the designs used or proposed so far achieve simultaneously a…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-04 F. Henault , Y. Feng , J. -J. Correia , L. Schreiber , A. Spang

Deep neural networks have emerged as effective tools for computational imaging including quantitative phase microscopy of transparent samples. To reconstruct phase from intensity, current approaches rely on supervised learning with training…

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Synthesizing diverse, uncertainty-aware grasps for multi-fingered hands from partial observations remains a critical challenge in robot learning. Prior generative methods struggle to model the intricate grasp distribution of dexterous hands…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Qian Feng , Jianxiang Feng , Zhaopeng Chen , Rudolph Triebel , Alois Knoll

Coherent beam combination of multiple fibres can be used to overcome limitations such as the power handling capability of single fibre configurations. In such a scheme, the focal intensity profile is critically dependent upon the relative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Ben Mills , James A. Grant-Jacob , Matthew Praeger , Robert. W. Eason , Johan Nilsson , Michalis N. Zervas

Achieving the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) goal of 10^-10 contrast at a separation of 3 $\lambda$/D across a 20% bandwidth requires coronagraph focal plane masks with both broadband high contrast performance and high planet…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-01 Niyati Desai , Garreth Ruane , Susan Redmond , Dimitri Mawet , Eugene Serabyn , Bertrand Mennesson

Medical ultrasound provides images which are the spatial map of the tissue echogenicity. Unfortunately, an ultrasound image is a low-quality version of the expected Tissue Reflectivity Function (TRF) mainly due to the non-ideal Point Spread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-28 Sobhan Goudarzi , Hassan Rivaz

Unbroken and broken spiral waves, in partial-differential-equation (PDE) models for cardiac tissue, are the mathematical analogs of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias, namely, ventricular tachycardia (VT) and ventricular-fibrillation…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Mahesh Kumar Mulimani , Jaya Kumar Alageshan , Rahul Pandit

The aberrations induced by the sample and/or by the sample holder limit the resolution of optical microscopes. Wavefront correction can be achieved using a deformable mirror with wavefront sensorless optimization algorithms but, despite the…