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Reconstructing hand-held objects in 3D from monocular images remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches rely on implicit 3D representations, which produce overly smooth reconstructions and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zerui Chen , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid

General 3D foundation models have started to lead the trend of unifying diverse vision tasks, yet most assume RGB-only inputs and ignore readily available geometric cues (e.g., camera intrinsics, poses, and depth maps). To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Haosong Peng , Hao Li , Yalun Dai , Yushi Lan , Yihang Luo , Tianyu Qi , Zhengshen Zhang , Yufeng Zhan , Junfei Zhang , Wenchao Xu , Ziwei Liu

Inverse design problems are common in engineering and materials science. The forward direction, i.e., computing output quantities from design parameters, typically requires running a numerical simulation, such as a FEM, as an intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Jens U. Kreber , Christian Weißenfels , Joerg Stueckler

A transformation optics approach was used to derive a general method for designing electromagnetic devices able to manipulate the wave vectors in the specific manner required by the functionality of the device. While the wave paths inside…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-19 Mircea Giloan

Transformers have been successful for many natural language processing tasks. However, applying transformers to the video domain for tasks such as long-term video generation and scene understanding has remained elusive due to the high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Yi-Fu Wu , Jaesik Yoon , Sungjin Ahn

Recent advances in the design and fabrication of on-chip optical microresonators has greatly expanded their applications in photonics, enabling metrology, communications, and on-chip lasers. Designs for these applications require fine…

The inverse design of microstructures plays a pivotal role in optimizing metamaterials with specific, targeted physical properties. While traditional forward design methods are constrained by their inability to explore the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Tianyang Xue , Haochen Li , Longdu Liu , Paul Henderson , Pengbin Tang , Lin Lu , Jikai Liu , Haisen Zhao , Hao Peng , Bernd Bickel

Image translation is a burgeoning field in computer vision where the goal is to learn the mapping between an input image and an output image. However, most recent methods require multiple generators for modeling different domain mappings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Xiaoming Yu , Xing Cai , Zhenqiang Ying , Thomas Li , Ge Li

The development of metasurfaces has enabled unprecedented portability and functionality in flat optical devices. Spaceplates have recently been introduced as a complementary element to reduce the space between individual metalenses. This…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Jordan T. R. Page , Orad Reshef , Robert W. Boyd , Jeff S. Lundeen

A backward biorthogonalization approach is proposed, which modifies biorthogonal functions so as to generate orthogonal projections onto a reduced subspace. The technique is relevant to problems amenable to be represented by a general…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laura Rebollo-Neira

Achieving quantum-limited motional control of optically trapped particles beyond the sub-micrometer scale is an outstanding problem in levitated optomechanics. A key obstacle is solving the light scattering problem and identifying particle…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Moosung Lee , Benjamin A. Stickler , Thomas Pertsch , Sungkun Hong

In this work, an optimization-based inverse design method is provided for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) metastructured devices. Typically, optimization-based methods use a full-wave solver in conjunction with an optimization routine to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Luke Szymanski , Gurkan Gok , Anthony Grbic

A major difficulty in applying computational design methods to nanophotonic devices is ensuring that the resulting designs are fabricable. Here, we describe a general inverse design algorithm for nanophotonic devices that directly…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-28 Alexander Y. Piggott , Jan Petykiewicz , Logan Su , Jelena Vučković

Photonic neural networks (PNNs) of sufficiently large physical dimensions and high operation accuracies are envisaged as an ideal candidate for breaking the major bottlenecks in the current artificial intelligence architectures in terms of…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-30 Ruixue Liu , Rongbo Wu , Yong Zheng , Yuan Ren , Boyang Nan , Min Wang , Yunpeng Song , Ya Cheng

Building subsurface velocity models is essential to our goals in utilizing seismic data for Earth discovery and exploration, as well as monitoring. With the dawn of machine learning, these velocity models (or, more precisely, their…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-08-20 Randy Harsuko , Shijun Cheng , Tariq Alkhalifah

Image inpainting techniques have shown promising improvement with the assistance of generative adversarial networks (GANs) recently. However, most of them often suffered from completed results with unreasonable structure or blurriness. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Zheng Hui , Jie Li , Xiumei Wang , Xinbo Gao

In this work, we demonstrate a compact toolkit of inverse-designed topologically optimized silicon-photonic devices that are arranged in a plug-and-play fashion to realize many different photonic integrated circuits, both passive and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Richard Soref , Dusan Gostimirovic

We propose an approach to 3D reconstruction via inverse procedural modeling and investigate two variants of this approach. The first option consists in the fitting set of input parameters using a genetic algorithm. We demonstrate the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Albert Garifullin , Nikolay Maiorov , Vladimir Frolov

The synthesis of a metasurface exhibiting a specific set of desired scattering properties is a time-consuming and resource-demanding process, which conventionally relies on many cycles of full-wave simulations. It requires an experienced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-15 Parinaz Naseri , Sean V. Hum

Achieving the desired optical response from a multilayer thin-film structure over a broad range of wavelengths and angles of incidence can be challenging. An advanced thin-film structure can consist of multiple materials with different…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Alexander Luce , Ali Mahdavi , Florian Marquardt , Heribert Wankerl