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This paper addresses the challenge of active perception within autonomous navigation in complex, unknown environments. Revisiting the foundational principles of active perception, we introduce an end-to-end reinforcement learning framework…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Grzegorz Malczyk , Mihir Kulkarni , Kostas Alexis

Optical beams and starlight distorted by atmospheric turbulence can be corrected with adaptive optics systems to enable efficient coupling into single-mode fibers. Deformable mirrors, used to flatten the wavefront in astronomical…

Microscope objectives achieve near diffraction-limited performance only when used under the conditions they are designed for. In non-standard geometries, such as thick cover slips or curved surfaces, severe aberrations arise, inevitably…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-24 D. W. S. Cox , T. Knop , I. M. Vellekoop

We present a learning-based approach for removing unwanted obstructions, such as window reflections, fence occlusions, or adherent raindrops, from a short sequence of images captured by a moving camera. Our method leverages motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yu-Lun Liu , Wei-Sheng Lai , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Yung-Yu Chuang , Jia-Bin Huang

Accurate blur estimation is essential for high-performance imaging across various applications. Blur is typically represented by the point spread function (PSF). In this paper, we propose a physics-informed PSF learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Liqun Chen , Yuxuan Li , Jun Dai , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

We propose a novel control approach that combines offline supervised learning to address the challenges posed by non-linear phase reconstruction using unmodulated pyramid wavefront sensors (P-WFS) and online reinforcement learning for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Bartomeu Pou , Jeffrey Smith , Eduardo Quinones , Mario Martin , Damien Gratadour

Due to turbulence in the atmosphere images taken from ground-based telescopes become distorted. With adaptive optics (AO) images can be given greater clarity allowing for better observations with existing telescopes and are essential for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-30 Javier Perez Soto , Cesar Laguna , Benjamin L. Gerard , Anne Dattilo , Vincent Chambouleyron , Rebecca Jensen-Clem

Imaging techniques such as functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and diffuse optical tomography (DOT) achieve deep, non-invasive sensing in turbid media, but they are constrained by the photon budget. Wavefront shaping (WFS) can…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-21 Pablo Jara , Arthur Goetschy , Hui Cao , Alexey Yamilov

We propose a paradigm shift in the data-driven modeling of the instrumental response field of telescopes. By adding a differentiable optical forward model into the modeling framework, we change the data-driven modeling space from the pixels…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-16 Tobias Liaudat , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger , Pierre-Antoine Frugier

In this paper, we propose a model-free adaptive learning solution for a model-following control problem. This approach employs policy iteration, to find an optimal adaptive control solution. It utilizes a moving finite-horizon of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-07 Mohammed I. Abouheaf , Hashim A. Hashim , Mohammad A. Mayyas , Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis

Many adaptive optics systems operate by measuring the distortion of the wavefront in one wavelength range and performing the scientific observations in a second, different wavelength range. One common technique is to measure wavefront…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Henry G. Roe

Space-based coronagraphs for future earth-like planet detection will require focal plane wavefront control techniques to achieve the necessary contrast levels. These correction algorithms are iterative and the control methods require an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Tyler D. Groff , N. Jeremy Kasdin

Wavefront shaping systems aim to image deep into scattering tissue by reshaping incoming and outgoing light to correct aberrations caused by tissue inhomogeneity However, the desired modulation depends on the unknown tissue structure and…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-14 Sagi Monin , Marina Alterman , Anat Levin

We present a data-driven approach to compensate for optical aberration in calibration-free quantitative phase imaging (QPI). Unlike existing methods that require additional measurements or a background region to correct aberrations, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Taean Chang , Youngju Jo , Gunho Choi , Donghun Ryu , Hyun-Seok Min , Yongkeun Park

In coherent optical communication across turbulent atmospheric channels, reference beacons can be multiplexed with information-encoded signals during transmission. In this case, it is commonly assumed that the wavefront distortion of the…

In ground-based astronomy, Adaptive Optics (AO) is a pivotal technique, engineered to correct wavefront phase distortions and thereby enhance the quality of the observed images. Integral to an AO system is the wavefront sensor (WFS), which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Yutong Wu , Roland Wagner , Ronny Ramlau , Raymond H. Chan

Adaptive optics (AO) are reconfigurable devices that compensate for wavefront distortions or aberrations in optical systems such as microscopes, telescopes and ophthalmoscopes. Aberrations have detrimental effects that can reduce imaging…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-10 Biwei Zhang , Martin J. Booth , Qi Hu

Most existing object detectors suffer from class imbalance problems that hinder balanced performance. In particular, anchor free object detectors have to solve the background imbalance problem due to detection in a per-pixel prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Hopyong Gil , Sangwoo Park , Yusang Park , Wongoo Han , Juyean Hong , Juneyoung Jung

Training an agent to solve control tasks directly from high-dimensional images with model-free reinforcement learning (RL) has proven difficult. A promising approach is to learn a latent representation together with the control policy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Denis Yarats , Amy Zhang , Ilya Kostrikov , Brandon Amos , Joelle Pineau , Rob Fergus

In this manuscript we demonstrate a method to reconstruct the wavefront of focused beams from a measured diffraction pattern behind a diffracting mask in real-time. The phase problem is solved by means of a neural network, which is trained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Jonathon White , Sici Wang , Wilhelm Eschen , Jan Rothhardt