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Simulating high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images in complex scenes has consistently presented a significant research challenge. The development of a microwave-domain surface scattering model and its reversibility are poised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiangtao Wei , Yixiang Luomei , Xu Zhang , Feng Xu

Accurately modeling millimeter-wave (mmWave) propagation is essential for real-time AR and autonomous systems. Differentiable ray tracing offers a physics-grounded solution but still facing deployment challenges due to its over-reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhenlin An , Longfei Shangguan , John Kaewell , Philip Pietraski , Jelena Senic , Camillo Gentile , Nada Golmie , Kyle Jamieson

Reconstructing object geometry and material from multiple views typically requires optimization. Differentiable path tracing is an appealing framework as it can reproduce complex appearance effects. However, it is difficult to use due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Purvi Goel , Loudon Cohen , James Guesman , Vikas Thamizharasan , James Tompkin , Daniel Ritchie

Millimeter-wave radar enables robust environment perception in autonomous systems under adverse conditions yet suffers from sparse, noisy point clouds with low angular resolution. Existing diffusion-based radar enhancement methods either…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Hao Li , Xinqi Liu , Yaoqing Jin

Ray tracing is a widely used deterministic method for radio propagation simulations, capable of producing physically accurate multipath components. The accuracy depends on the quality of the environment model and its electromagnetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Niklas Vaara , Pekka Sangi , Miguel Bordallo López , Janne Heikkilä

Increasing attention is being paid to millimeter-wave (mmWave), 30 GHz to 300 GHz, and terahertz (THz), 300 GHz to 10 THz, sensing applications including security sensing, industrial packaging, medical imaging, and non-destructive testing.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Josiah Smith

This paper presents a framework for semantic segmentation on sparse sequential point clouds of millimeter-wave radar. Compared with cameras and lidars, millimeter-wave radars have the advantage of not revealing privacy, having a strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Pengfei Song , Luoyu Mei , Han Cheng

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) is a key enabler for next-generation transportation systems. However, in an urban city scenario, mmWave is highly susceptible to blockages and shadowing. Therefore, base station (BS) placement is a crucial task in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-24 Ahmed Al-Tahmeesschi , Jukka Talvitie , Miguel López-Benítez , Hamed Ahmadi , Laura Ruotsalainen

Capturing the 3D geometry of transparent objects is a challenging task, ill-suited for general-purpose scanning and reconstruction techniques, since these cannot handle specular light transport phenomena. Existing state-of-the-art methods,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Jiahui Lyu , Bojian Wu , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radars are indispensable for perception tasks of autonomous vehicles, thanks to their resilience in challenging weather conditions. Yet, their deployment is often limited by insufficient spatial resolution for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ruxin Zheng , Shunqiao Sun , Holger Caesar , Honglei Chen , Jian Li

Differentiable rendering is a technique used in an important emerging class of visual computing applications that involves representing a 3D scene as a model that is trained from 2D images using gradient descent. Recent works (e.g. 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Sankeerth Durvasula , Adrian Zhao , Fan Chen , Ruofan Liang , Pawan Kumar Sanjaya , Nandita Vijaykumar

Recently, Differentiable Ray Tracing has been successfully applied in the field of wireless communications for learning radio materials or optimizing the transmitter orientation. However, in the frame of gradient based optimization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Jerome Eertmans , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges

The 4D Millimeter wave (mmWave) radar is a promising technology for vehicle sensing due to its cost-effectiveness and operability in adverse weather conditions. However, the adoption of this technology has been hindered by sparsity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jianan Liu , Qiuchi Zhao , Weiyi Xiong , Tao Huang , Qing-Long Han , Bing Zhu

Weather radar data synthesis can fill in data for areas where ground observations are missing. Existing methods often employ reconstruction-based approaches with MSE loss to reconstruct radar data from satellite observation. However, such…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-12 Xuming He , Zhiwang Zhou , Wenlong Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao , Hao Chen , Shiqi Chen , Lei Bai

Ultrasound imaging tasks such as calibration, inverse parameter estimation, and acquisition design require models that are physically grounded, efficient, and differentiable with respect to meaningful material and system parameters. While…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-17 L. River Spencer , Reagan A. Cardoza , Vijay K. Dubey , Collin E. Haese , Felix Kreidel , Issam Moussa , Manuel K. Rausch , Jan N. Fuhg

We propose ReMiDi, a novel method for inferring neuronal microstructure as arbitrary 3D meshes using a differentiable diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging (dMRI) simulator. We first implemented in PyTorch a differentiable dMRI simulator…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-03 Prathamesh Pradeep Khole , Zahra Kais Petiwala , Shri Prathaa Magesh , Ehsan Mirafzali , Utkarsh Gupta , Jing-Rebecca Li , Andrada Ianus , Razvan Marinescu

Millimeter Wave Radar is being adopted as a viable alternative to lidar and radar in adverse visually degraded conditions, such as the presence of fog and dust. However, this sensor modality suffers from severe sparsity and noise under…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Ajay Narasimha Mopidevi , Kyle Harlow , Christoffer Heckman

Determining the shape of 3D objects from high-frequency radar signals is analytically complex but critical for commercial and aerospace applications. Previous deep learning methods have been applied to radar modeling; however, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Neel Sortur , Justin Goodwin , Purvik Patel , Luis Enrique Martinez , Tzofi Klinghoffer , Rajmonda S. Caceres , Robin Walters

Multi-sensor fusion has significant potential in perception tasks for both indoor and outdoor environments. Especially under challenging conditions such as adverse weather and low-light environments, the combined use of millimeter-wave…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-23 Tieshuai Song , Jiandong Ye , Ao Guo , Guidong He , Bin Yang

We present a novel learning-based method to build a differentiable computational model of a real fluorescence microscope. Our model can be used to calibrate a real optical setup directly from data samples and to engineer point spread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-12 Josue Page , Paolo Favaro