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Modern cameras are not designed with computer vision or machine learning as the target application. There is a need for a new class of vision sensors that are privacy preserving by design, that do not leak private information and collect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Jeffrey Byrne , Brian DeCann , Scott Bloom

Diffractive deep neural networks (D2NNs), which perform computation using light instead of electrons, offer a promising pathway toward accelerating artificial intelligence by leveraging the inherent advantages of optics in speed,…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-24 Haoyu Wang , Yanmin Zhu , Tong Fu

Free-space optical information transfer through diffusive media is critical in many applications, such as biomedical devices and optical communication, but remains challenging due to random, unknown perturbations in the optical path. In…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-29 Yuhang Li , Tianyi Gan , Bijie Bai , Cagatay Isil , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Diffractive optical information processors have demonstrated significant promise in delivering high-speed, parallel, and energy efficient inference for scaling machine learning tasks. Training, however, remains a major computational…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-27 Manon P. Bart , Nick Sparks , Ryan T. Glasser

Classification of an object behind a random and unknown scattering medium sets a challenging task for computational imaging and machine vision fields. Recent deep learning-based approaches demonstrated the classification of objects using…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-10 Yi Luo , Bijie Bai , Yuhang Li , Ege Cetintas , Aydogan Ozcan

We introduce an all-optical Diffractive Deep Neural Network (D2NN) architecture that can learn to implement various functions after deep learning-based design of passive diffractive layers that work collectively. We experimentally…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Xing Lin , Yair Rivenson , Nezih T. Yardimci , Muhammed Veli , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Complex field imaging, which captures both the amplitude and phase information of input optical fields or objects, can offer rich structural insights into samples, such as their absorption and refractive index distributions. However,…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-30 Jingxi Li , Yuhang Li , Tianyi Gan , Che-Yung Shen , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

Diffractive neural networks have recently emerged as a promising framework for all-optical computing. However, these networks are typically trained for a single task, limiting their potential adoption in systems requiring multiple…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-09 Matan Kleiner , Lior Michaeli , Tomer Michaeli

Application-specific optical processors have been considered disruptive technologies for modern computing that can fundamentally accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI) by offering substantially improved computing…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Tiankuang Zhou , Xing Lin , Jiamin Wu , Yitong Chen , Hao Xie , Yipeng Li , Jintao Fan , Huaqiang Wu , Lu Fang , Qionghai Dai

Image denoising, one of the essential inverse problems, targets to remove noise/artifacts from input images. In general, digital image denoising algorithms, executed on computers, present latency due to several iterations implemented in,…

Phase imaging is widely used in biomedical imaging, sensing, and material characterization, among other fields. However, direct imaging of phase objects with subwavelength resolution remains a challenge. Here, we demonstrate subwavelength…

We report deep learning-based design of a massively parallel broadband diffractive neural network for all-optically performing a large group of arbitrarily-selected, complex-valued linear transformations between an input and output…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jingxi Li , Bijie Bai , Yi Luo , Aydogan Ozcan

We introduce a wavelength-multiplexed massively parallel diffractive information storage platform composed of dielectric surfaces that are structurally optimized at the wavelength scale using deep learning to store and project thousands of…

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly prevalent, the demand for faster and more energy-efficient computing approaches grows. While optical computing offers intrinsic advantages in bandwidth and power consumption, existing…

A unidirectional imager would only permit image formation along one direction, from an input field-of-view (FOV) A to an output FOV B, and in the reverse path, the image formation would be blocked. Here, we report the first demonstration of…

Reconstruction of in-line holograms of unknown objects in general suffers from twin-image artifacts due to the appearance of an out-of-focus image overlapping with the desired image to be reconstructed. Computer-based iterative phase…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-28 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Aydogan Ozcan

Diffractive deep neural network (D2NN), known for its high speed and strong parallelism, has been widely applied across various fields, including pattern recognition, image processing, and image transmission. However, existing network…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Peijie Feng , Yong Tan , Mingzhe Chong , Lintao Li , Zongkun Zhang , Fubei Liu , Yunhua Tan , Yongzheng Wen

Optical Skyrmions are topological forms of structured light with the potential of an infinite encoding alphabet that is immune to disturbance. This attractive prospect is hindered by the lack of any topological detector, a challenging…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-15 Hadrian Bezuidenhout , Cade Peters , Ram Kumar , Andrew Forbes , Isaac Nape

Optical machine learning offers advantages in terms of power efficiency, scalability and computation speed. Recently, an optical machine learning method based on Diffractive Deep Neural Networks (D2NNs) has been introduced to execute a…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Deniz Mengu , Yi Luo , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

We propose an electro-optic approach for transparent optical networking, in which frequency channels are actively transformed into any desired mapping in a wavelength-multiplexed environment. Based on electro-optic phase modulators and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-24 Joseph M. Lukens , Hsuan-Hao Lu , Bing Qi , Pavel Lougovski , Andrew M. Weiner , Brian P. Williams