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The growing demand for real-time data processing in applications such as neural networks and embedded control systems has spurred the search for faster, more efficient alternatives to traditional electronic systems. In response, we…

Despite the remarkable success of deep learning in pattern recognition, deep network models face the problem of training a large number of parameters. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a novel multi-path wavelet neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 D. D. N. De Silva , H. W. M. K. Vithanage , K. S. D. Fernando , I. T. S. Piyatilake

Driven by the appealing properties of neural fields for storing and communicating 3D data, the problem of directly processing them to address tasks such as classification and part segmentation has emerged and has been investigated in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Adriano Cardace , Pierluigi Zama Ramirez , Francesco Ballerini , Allan Zhou , Samuele Salti , Luigi Di Stefano

Optical computing offers ultrafast, energy-efficient alternatives to conventional digital processors, yet most implementations remain confined to single-channel processing, severely underutilizing light's information capacity. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-13 Fatma Nur Kılınç , Uğur Teğin

Coherent imaging through scatter is a challenging task in computational imaging. Both model-based and data-driven approaches have been explored to solve the inverse scattering problem. In our previous work, we have shown that a deep…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Yuzhe Li , Shiyi Cheng , Yujia Xue , Lei Tian

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

The explosive growth of computation and energy cost of artificial intelligence has spurred strong interests in new computing modalities as potential alternatives to conventional electronic processors. Photonic processors that execute…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Kaixuan Wei , Xiao Li , Johannes Froech , Praneeth Chakravarthula , James Whitehead , Ethan Tseng , Arka Majumdar , Felix Heide

Diffractive deep neural network (DNNet) is a novel machine learning framework on the modulation of optical transmission. Diffractive network would get predictions at the speed of light. It's pure passive architecture, no additional power…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Yingshi Chen , Jinfeng Zhu

3D engineering of matter has opened up new avenues for designing systems that can perform various computational tasks through light-matter interaction. Here, we demonstrate the design of optical networks in the form of multiple diffractive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Jingxi Li , Deniz Mengu , Nezih T. Yardimci , Yi Luo , Xurong Li , Muhammed Veli , Yair Rivenson , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

We introduce a new class of non-linear models for functional data based on neural networks. Deep learning has been very successful in non-linear modeling, but there has been little work done in the functional data setting. We propose two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Aniruddha Rajendra Rao , Matthew Reimherr

Deep neural networks, despite their success in numerous applications, often function without established theoretical foundations. In this paper, we bridge this gap by drawing parallels between deep learning and classical numerical analysis.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Emanuele Zappala , Daniel Levine , Sizhuang He , Syed Rizvi , Sacha Levy , David van Dijk

The field of computational imaging has witnessed a promising paradigm shift with the emergence of untrained neural networks, offering novel solutions to inverse computational imaging problems. While existing techniques have demonstrated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-28 Abeer Banerjee , Sanjay Singh

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

Multiple optical scattering occurs when light propagates in a non-uniform medium. During the multiple scattering, images were distorted and the spatial information they carried became scrambled. However, the image information is not lost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Xinyu Gao , Yi Li , Yanqing Qiu , Bangning Mao , Miaogen Chen , Yanlong Meng , Chunliu Zhao , Juan Kang , Yong Guo , Changyu Shen

Neural networks can very effectively perform multidimensional nonlinear classification. However, electronic networks suffer from significant bandwidth limitations due to carrier lifetimes and capacitive coupling. This project investigates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-18 Ethan K. Gordon

Optical logic gates are fundamental blocks of optical computing to accelerate information processing. While significant progress has been achieved in recent years, existing implementations typically rely on dedicated structures that are…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-30 Zhipeng Yu , Yuchen Song , Tianting Zhong , Huanhao Li , Wei Zheng , Puxiang Lai

Implicit neural representation (INR) models signals as continuous functions using neural networks, offering efficient and differentiable optimization for inverse problems across diverse disciplines. However, the representational capacity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zhicheng Cai , Hao Zhu , Linsen Chen , Qiu Shen , Xun Cao

The recent success of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) has drastically improved the state of the art for many application domains. While achieving high accuracy performance, deploying state-of-the-art DNNs is a challenge since they typically…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-01-24 Hokchhay Tann , Soheil Hashemi , Sherief Reda

The rapidly increasing size of deep-learning models has caused renewed and growing interest in alternatives to digital computers to dramatically reduce the energy cost of running state-of-the-art neural networks. Optical matrix-vector…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Maxwell G. Anderson , Shi-Yuan Ma , Tianyu Wang , Logan G. Wright , Peter L. McMahon

Light scattering and aberrations limit optical microscopy in biological tissue, which motivates the development of adaptive optics techniques. Here, we develop a method for adaptive optics with reflected light and deep neural networks…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-28 Ivan Vishniakou , Johannes D. Seelig