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Ray tracing is a widely used technique for modeling optical systems, involving sequential surface-by-surface computations, which can be computationally intensive. We propose Ray2Ray, a novel method that leverages implicit neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shiva Sinaei , Chuanjun Zheng , Kaan Akşit , Daisuke Iwai

Modeling radio propagation is essential for wireless network design and performance optimization. Traditional methods rely on physics models of radio propagation, which can be inaccurate or inflexible. In this work, we propose using graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Adrien Bufort , Laurent Lebocq , Stefan Cathabard

Ray tracing algorithm simulates the physical movements of a huge amount of rays to render a high quality image, in which the tracing procedure for each ray can be implemented in parallel. By leveraging the inherent parallelism of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Xi Lu , Hongwei Lin

Accurate channel modeling in real-time faces remarkable challenge due to the complexities of traditional methods such as ray tracing and field measurements. AI-based techniques have emerged to address these limitations, offering rapid,…

Mobile autonomy relies on the precise perception of dynamic environments. Robustly tracking moving objects in 3D world thus plays a pivotal role for applications like trajectory prediction, obstacle avoidance, and path planning. While most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Zhijun Pan , Fangqiang Ding , Hantao Zhong , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Ray tracing algorithms, that can simulate multipath radio propagation in presence of geometric obstacles such as buildings, objects or vehicles, are becoming quite popular, due to the increasing availability of digital environment databases…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Denis Bilibashi , Enrico M. Vitucci , Vittorio Degli-Esposti

This paper introduces in detail the effective method of comprehensive target judgment by using radar RA map and point cloud map. Different output of radar can effectively judge the road boundary of target and the relative coordinates of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Qingmian Wan , Hongli Peng , Xing Liao , Kuayue Liu

Raw point cloud processing using capsule networks is widely adopted in classification, reconstruction, and segmentation due to its ability to preserve spatial agreement of the input data. However, most of the existing capsule based network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Dishanika Denipitiyage , Vinoj Jayasundara , Ranga Rodrigo , Chamira U. S. Edussooriya

Ray tracing has become a standard for accurate radio propagation modeling, but suffers from exponential computational complexity, as the number of candidate paths scales with the number of objects raised to the interaction order. This…

Positioning problem can be solved with several approaches in 5G. This paper introduces RT (Ray Tracing) technique for small-cell Outdoor positioning and tracking for systems with distributed architecture with multipath processing gain.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-19 Vladislav Ryzhov

Industrial environments are considered to be severe from the point of view of electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation. When dealing with a wide range of industrial environments and deployment setups, ray-tracing channel emulation can capture…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-05 Gurjot Singh Bhatia , Yoann Corre , M. Di Renzo

Algorithmic differentiable ray tracing is a new paradigm that allows one to solve the forward problem of how light propagates through an optical system while obtaining gradients of the simulation results with respect to parameters…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-26 Bart de Koning , Alexander Heemels , Aurèle Adam , Matthias Möller

This paper presents the development and evaluation of WiThRay, a new wireless three-dimensional ray-tracing (RT) simulator. RT-based simulators are widely used for generating realistic channel data by combining RT methodology to get signal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Hyuckjin Choi , Jaehoon Chung , Jaeky Oh , George C. Alexandropoulos , Junil Choi

Propagation modeling is a crucial tool for successful wireless deployments and spectrum planning with the demand for high modeling accuracy continuing to grow. Recognizing that detailed knowledge of the physical environment (terrain and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Jonathan Ethier , Mathieu Chateauvert

This paper presents an innovative method that can be used to produce deterministic channel models for 5G industrial internet-of-things (IIoT) scenarios. Ray-tracing (RT) channel emulation can capture many of the specific properties of a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Gurjot Singh Bhatia , Yoann Corre , Marco Di Renzo

Over the last years, several works have explored the application of deep learning algorithms to determine the large-scale signal fading (also referred to as ``path loss'') between transmitter and receiver pairs in urban communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Fabian Jaensch , Giuseppe Caire , Begüm Demir

We propose a novel method that renders point clouds as if they are surfaces. The proposed method is differentiable and requires no scene-specific optimization. This unique capability enables, out-of-the-box, surface normal estimation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Wei-Yu Chen , Anurag Ranjan , Kwang Moo Yi , Oncel Tuzel

Recently, ray tracing has gained renewed interest with the advent of Reflective Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) technology, a key enabler of 6G wireless communications due to its capability of intelligent manipulation of electromagnetic waves.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Huiying Yang , Zihan Jin , Chenhao Wu , Rujing Xiong , Robert Caiming Qiu , Zenan Ling

Traditional ultrasound simulators solve the wave equation to model pressure distribution fields, achieving high accuracy but requiring significant computational time and resources. To address this, ray tracing approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Felix Duelmer , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Nassir Navab

The path tracing method generates incoherent rays by randomly sampling directions. This randomness makes it unsuitable for modern processor architectures that rely on coherence to achieve optimal performance. Many efforts have been made to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Fengqi Liu , Zaonan Tan , Weilai Xiang , Chenhao Lu , Dan Li , Xu Gong , Yulong Shi , Songnan Shi , Qilong Kou , Bo Hu