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Bridging generative foundation models with non-equilibrium thin-film synthesis remains a central challenge, limiting the practical impact of AI-driven materials discovery on semiconductor dielectrics. Here, we introduce IDEAL (Inverse…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-11 Bonwook Gu , Trinh Ngoc Le , Wonjoong Kim , Zunair Masroor , Han-Bo-Ram Lee

Lithography is fundamental to integrated circuit fabrication, necessitating large computation overhead. The advancement of machine learning (ML)-based lithography models alleviates the trade-offs between manufacturing process expense and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Guojin Chen , Zehua Pei , Haoyu Yang , Yuzhe Ma , Bei Yu , Martin D. F. Wong

Wide-angle cameras, despite their popularity for content creation, suffer from distortion-induced facial stretching-especially at the edge of the lens-which degrades visual appeal. To address this issue, we propose a structure-to-detail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Wenbo Nie , Lang Nie , Chunyu Lin , Jingwen Chen , Ke Xing , Jiyuan Wang , Kang Liao

Wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) devices are key elements of Photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Conventional WDM devices based on silicon waveguides and photonic crystals have limited transmittance due to high loss introduced by the…

A bottleneck for computational lithography and optical metrology are long computational times for near field simulations. For design, optimization, and inverse scatterometry usually the same basic layout has to be simulated multiple times…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-12 J. Pomplun , L. Zschiedrich , S. Burger , F. Schmidt

Edge intelligence is constrained by the energy and latency costs of shuttling data through electronic memory hierarchies. Optical systems offer a fundamentally different computational regime: once an input wavefront is launched into a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Prakul Sunil Hiremath

Optical metasurfaces have been recently explored as ultrathin analog image differentiators. By tailoring the momentum transfer function, they can perform efficient Fourier-filtering - and thus potentially any linear mathematical operation -…

Anisotropic diffusion is a well recognized tool in digital image processing, including edge detection and denoising. We present here a particular nonlinear time-dependent operator together with an appropriate high-order discretization for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-29 Lorella Fatone , Daniele Funaro

Optical approaches have made great strides towards the goal of high-speed, energy-efficient computing necessary for modern deep learning and AI applications. Read-in and read-out of data, however, limit the overall performance of existing…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Alexander Song , Sai Nikhilesh Murty Kottapalli , Rahul Goyal , Bernhard Schölkopf , Peer Fischer

End-to-end optimization, which simultaneously optimizes optics and algorithms, has emerged as a powerful data-driven method for computational imaging system design. This method achieves joint optimization through backpropagation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Chi-Jui Ho , Yash Belhe , Steve Rotenberg , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Tzu-Mao Li , Nicholas Antipa

Visible light communication (VLC) backscatter has been proposed as a wireless access option for Internet of Things (IoT). However, the throughput of the state-of-the-art VLC backscatter is limited by simple single-carrier pulsed modulation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Sihua Shao , Abdallah Khreishah , Hany Elgala

The large amount of data collected by LiDAR sensors brings the issue of LiDAR point cloud compression (PCC). Previous works on LiDAR PCC have used range image representations and followed the predictive coding paradigm to create a basic…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Chia-Sheng Liu , Jia-Fong Yeh , Hao Hsu , Hung-Ting Su , Ming-Sui Lee , Winston H. Hsu

Robust local feature representations are essential for spatial intelligence tasks such as robot navigation and augmented reality. Establishing reliable correspondences requires descriptors that provide both high discriminative power and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Haodi Yao , Fenghua He , Ning Hao , Yao Su

Optical Coherence Tomography(OCT) is a non-invasive technique capturing cross-sectional area of the retina in micro-meter resolutions. It has been widely used as a auxiliary imaging reference to detect eye-related pathology and predict…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Shuo Chen , Da Ma , Sieun Lee , Timothy T. L. Yu , Gavin Xu , Donghuan Lu , Karteek Popuri , Myeong Jin Ju , Marinko V. Sarunic , Mirza Faisal Beg

We present a machine learning approach for efficiently computing order independent transparency (OIT). Our method is fast, requires a small constant amount of memory (depends only on the screen resolution and not on the number of triangles…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Grigoris Tsopouridis , Andreas-Alexandros Vasilakis , Ioannis Fudos

In this article, we present a novel scheme for segmenting the image boundary (with the background) in optoacoustic small animal in vivo imaging systems. The method utilizes a multiscale edge detection algorithm to generate a binary edge…

Diffusion models face a fundamental trade-off between generation quality and computational efficiency. Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs) offer an efficient solution but suffer from potential information loss and non-end-to-end training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhennan Chen , Junwei Zhu , Xu Chen , Jiangning Zhang , Xiaobin Hu , Hanzhen Zhao , Chengjie Wang , Jian Yang , Ying Tai

This paper presents a fast inverse design framework for complex multilayered, multiport pixelated surfaces - a class of structures largely unexplored in current research. Leveraging a method-of-moments (MoM) electromagnetic (EM) solver, the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Woojun Lee , Jungmin Lee , Jeffrey S. Walling

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) is an emerging 3D imaging technique that is used for the 3D reconstruction of the refractive index (RI) for semi-transparent samples. Various inverse models have been proposed to reconstruct the 3D RI…

Optics · Physics 2022-06-13 Ahmed B. Ayoub , Amirhossein Saba , Carlo Gigli , Demetri Psaltis

Since the introduction of optical coherence tomography (OCT), it has been possible to study the complex 3D morphological changes of the optic nerve head (ONH) tissues that occur along with the progression of glaucoma. Although several deep…