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Subwavelength dielectric resonators assembled into metasurfaces have become a versatile tool for miniaturising optical components approaching the nanoscale. An important class of metasurface functionalities is associated with asymmetry in…

We introduce a novel technique for designing color filter metasurfaces using a data-driven approach based on deep learning. Our innovative approach employs inverse design principles to identify highly efficient designs that outperform all…

A critical decision process in data acquisition for mineral and energy resource exploration is how to efficiently combine a variety of sensor types and to minimize total cost. We propose a probabilistic framework for multi-objective…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-10-13 Sebastian Haan , Fabio Ramos , Dietmar Müller

Rendering and inverse rendering are pivotal tasks in both computer vision and graphics. The rendering equation is the core of the two tasks, as an ideal conditional distribution transfer function from intrinsic properties to RGB images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Zhifei Chen , Tianshuo Xu , Wenhang Ge , Leyi Wu , Dongyu Yan , Jing He , Luozhou Wang , Lu Zeng , Shunsi Zhang , Yingcong Chen

We present an inverse method for transforming a given parallel light emittance to two light distributions at different parallel target planes using two freeform reflectors. The reflectors control both the spatial and directional target…

The development of active metasurface systems, such as lasing metasurfaces, requires the optimization of multiple modes at the absorption and lasing wavelength bands, including their quality factor, mode profile and angular dispersion.…

Meta-optics have rapidly become a major research field within the optics and photonics community, strongly driven by the seemingly limitless opportunities made possible by controlling optical wavefronts through interaction with arrays of…

We present 3D Surface Splatting (3DSS), the first differentiable surface splatting renderer for physically-based inverse rendering from multi-view images. Our central insight is that the surface separation problem at the heart of surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Mae Younes , Adnane Boukhayma

Recent efforts on solving inverse problems in imaging via deep neural networks use architectures inspired by a fixed number of iterations of an optimization method. The number of iterations is typically quite small due to difficulties in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-04 Davis Gilton , Gregory Ongie , Rebecca Willett

Dielectric metasurfaces provide a unique platform for efficient harmonic generation and optical wavefront manipulation at the nanoscale. Tailoring phase and amplitude of a nonlinearly generated wave with a high emission efficiency using…

Optics · Physics 2022-10-03 David Hähnel , Jens Förstner , Viktor Myroshnychenko

Inverse optimization seeks to recover unknown objective parameters from observed decisions, yet fundamental questions about when recovery is possible have received limited formal treatment. This paper develops a comprehensive theoretical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Farzin Ahmadi , Fardin Ganjkhanloo , Kimia Ghobadi

Complex nanophotonic structures hold the potential to deliver exquisitely tailored optical responses for a range of applications. Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) metasurfaces arranged in supercells, for instance, can be tailored by geometry and…

In this study, we investigate the inverse source problem arising in bioluminescence tomography, the objective of which is to reconstruct both the support and the intensity of an internal light source from boundary measurements governed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-25 Qianqian Wu , Rongfang Gong , Wei Gong , Ziyi Zhang , Shengfeng Zhu

Deep learning, as a highly efficient method for metasurface inverse design, commonly use simulation data to train deep neural networks (DNNs) that can map desired functionalities to proper metasurface designs. However, the assumptions and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Jingxin Zhang , Jiawei Xi , Peixing Li , Ray C. C. Cheung , Alex M. H. Wong , Jensen Li

Electromagnetic metasurfaces offer the capability to realize almost arbitrary power conserving field transformations. These field transformations are governed by the generalized sheet transition conditions, which relate the tangential…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-19 Stewart Pearson , Sean V. Hum

We propose a comprehensive field-based semianalytical method for designing fabrication-ready multifunctional periodic metasurfaces (MSs). Harnessing recent work on multielement metagratings based on capacitively-loaded strips, we have…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Vinay K. Killamsetty , Ariel Epstein

Typical inverse rendering methods focus on learning implicit neural scene representations by modeling the geometry, materials and illumination separately, which entails significant computations for optimization. In this work we design a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shuang Wu , Songlin Tang , Guangming Lu , Jianzhuang Liu , Wenjie Pei

Inverse design of high-resolution and fine-detailed 3D lightweight mechanical structures is notoriously expensive due to the need for vast computational resources and the use of very fine-scaled complex meshes. Furthermore, in designing for…

An accurate method for designing transmissive metasurfaces is presented that provides perfect transmission while transforming the amplitude and phase of the wavefront. The designed metasurfaces consist of three spatially-varying, electric…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Malik Almunif , Jordan Budhu , Anthony Grbic

The inverse design of nonlocal metasurfaces requires the precise optimization of lattice geometry to engineer spatial dispersion and high-Q resonances. However, gradient-based optimization is frequently bottle-necked by the evaluation of…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-05 Mingcan Qin , Yifeng Qin