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Machine vision, including object recognition and image reconstruction, is a central technology in many consumer devices and scientific instruments. The design of machine-vision systems has been revolutionized by the adoption of end-to-end…
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Robotic manipulation in complex scenes demands precise perception of task-relevant details, yet fixed or suboptimal viewpoints often impair fine-grained perception and induce occlusions, constraining imitation-learned policies. We present…
Optical and optoelectronic approaches of performing matrix-vector multiplication (MVM) operations have shown the great promise of accelerating machine learning (ML) algorithms with unprecedented performance. The incorporation of…
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Estimating depth from stereo vision cameras, i.e., "depth from stereo", is critical to emerging intelligent applications deployed in energy- and performance-constrained devices, such as augmented reality headsets and mobile autonomous…
The recent progress of artificial intelligence (AI) has boosted the computational possibilities in fields where standard computers are not able to perform. The AI paradigm is to emulate human intelligence and therefore breaks the familiar…
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Light's ability to perform massive linear operations parallelly has recently inspired numerous demonstrations of optics-assisted artificial neural networks (ANN). However, a clear advantage of optics over purely digital ANN in a…
Foundation models, exemplified by GPT technology, are discovering new horizons in artificial intelligence by executing tasks beyond their designers' expectations. While the present generation provides fundamental advances in understanding…
Primary motivation for this work was the need to implement hardware accelerators for a newly proposed ANN structure called Auto Resonance Network (ARN) for robotic motion planning. ARN is an approximating feed-forward hierarchical and…
As artificial neural networks (ANNs) continue to make strides in wide-ranging and diverse fields of technology, the search for more efficient hardware implementations beyond conventional electronics is gaining traction. In particular,…
The efficiency of object detectors depends on factors like detection accuracy, processing time, and computational resources. Processing time is crucial for real-time applications, particularly for autonomous vehicles (AVs), where…
Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) redefine transportation with sophisticated technology, integrating sensors, cameras, and intricate algorithms. Implementing machine learning in AV perception demands robust hardware accelerators to achieve…
The possibility of creating heterostructure of two-dimensional (2D) materials has emerged as a viable route towards realizing novel optoelectronic devices. However, the low light absorption due to their small absorption cross section,…
Computer-science-oriented artificial neural networks (ANNs) have achieved tremendous success in a variety of scenarios via powerful feature extraction and high-precision data operations. It is well known, however, that ANNs usually suffer…