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When adopting a model-based formulation, solving inverse problems encountered in multiband imaging requires to define spatial and spectral regularizations. In most of the works of the literature, spectral information is extracted from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Min Zhao , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jie Chen

We present an inverse method to compute freeform optical surfaces that transform a light distribution, parameterized by two source planes, into two separate target distributions. The surfaces can be reflectors or lenses, and control both…

In electromagnetic inverse scattering, the goal is to reconstruct object permittivity using scattered waves. While deep learning has shown promise as an alternative to iterative solvers, it is primarily used in supervised frameworks which…

Today, most methods for image understanding tasks rely on feed-forward neural networks. While this approach has allowed for empirical accuracy, efficiency, and task adaptation via fine-tuning, it also comes with fundamental disadvantages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Julian Ost , Tanushree Banerjee , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

Metasurfaces, sub-wavelength artificial structures, can control light's amplitude, phase, and polar ization, enabling applications in efficient imaging, holograms, and sensing. Recent years, AI has witnessed remarkable progress and spurred…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Jiahao Yan , Jilong Yi , Churong Ma , Yanjun Bao , Qin Chen , Baojun Li

Metasurfaces have enabled precise electromagnetic wave manipulation with strong potential to obtain unprecedented functionalities and multifunctional behavior in flat optical devices. These advantages in precision and functionality come at…

Optical metasurfaces are planar arrangements of subwavelength meta-atoms that implement a wide range of transformations on incident light. The design of efficient metasurfaces requires that the responses of and interactions among meta-atoms…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-19 Mahdad Mansouree , Andrew McClung , Sarath Samudrala , Amir Arbabi

Metasurfaces are promising two-dimensional metamaterials that are engineered to provide unique properties or functionalities absent in naturally occurring homogeneous surfaces. Here, we report a type of metasurface for tailored…

Optics · Physics 2014-05-21 Jiao Lin , Qian Wang , Guanghui Yuan , Luping Du , Shan Shan Kou , Xiao-Cong Yuan

Nonlinear metasurfaces offer a new paradigm to realize optical nonlinear devices with new and unparalleled behavior compared to nonlinear crystals, due to the interplay between photonic resonances and materials properties. The complicated…

This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

The past decade has witnessed the advances of artificial intelligence with various applications in engineering. Recently, artificial neural network empowered inverse design for metasurfaces has been developed that can design on-demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Changhao Liu , Fan Yang , Maokun Li , Shenheng Xu

Modeling metasurfaces with high accuracy and efficiency is challenging because they have features smaller than the wavelength but sizes much larger than the wavelength. Full wave simulation is accurate but very slow. Popular design…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-04 Zhicheng Wu , Xiaoyan Huang , Nanfang Yu , Zongfu Yu

Multi-view inverse rendering aims to recover geometry, materials, and illumination consistently across multiple viewpoints. When applied to multi-view images, existing single-view approaches often ignore cross-view relationships, leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xiangzuo Wu , Chengwei Ren , Jun Zhou , Xiu Li , Yuan Liu

Consider the problem of finding an optimal value of some objective functional subject to constraints over numerical domain. This type of problem arises frequently in practical engineering tasks. Nowdays almost all general methods for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Sergey Karpukhin

We introduce a novel framework for solving inverse problems using NeRF-style generative models. We are interested in the problem of 3-D scene reconstruction given a single 2-D image and known camera parameters. We show that naively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Giannis Daras , Wen-Sheng Chu , Abhishek Kumar , Dmitry Lagun , Alexandros G. Dimakis

One of the main applications of electromagnetic metasurfaces (MSs) is to tailor spatial field distributions. The radiation pattern of a given source can be desirably modified upon reflection on an MS having proper spatial modulation of its…

The ability to readily design novel materials with chosen functional properties on-demand represents a next frontier in materials discovery. However, thoroughly and efficiently sampling the entire design space in a computationally tractable…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-08 Victor Fung , Jiaxin Zhang , Guoxiang Hu , P. Ganesh , Bobby G. Sumpter

We propose a diffusion-based inverse rendering framework that decomposes a single RGB image into geometry, material, and lighting. Inverse rendering is inherently ill-posed, making it difficult to predict a single accurate solution. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 JunYong Choi , Min-Cheol Sagong , SeokYeong Lee , Seung-Won Jung , Ig-Jae Kim , Junghyun Cho

Gaze redirection is the task of changing the gaze to a desired direction for a given monocular eye patch image. Many applications such as videoconferencing, films, games, and generation of training data for gaze estimation require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Zhe He , Adrian Spurr , Xucong Zhang , Otmar Hilliges

Metasurfaces is an emerging field that enables the manipulation of light by an ultra-thin structure composed of sub-wavelength antennae and fulfills an important requirement for miniaturized optical elements. Finding a new design for a…