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The circumcentered-reflection method (CRM) has been applied for solving convex feasibility problems. CRM iterates by computing a circumcenter upon a composition of reflections with respect to convex sets. Since reflections are based on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Guilherme Araújo , Reza Arefidamghani , Roger Behling , Yunier Bello-Cruz , Alfredo Iusem , Luiz-Rafael Santos

A propagation method for the scattering of a quantum wave packet from a potential surface is presented. It is used to model the quantum reflection of single atoms from a corrugated (metallic) surface. Our numerical procedure works well in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-27 E. Galiffi , C. Sünderhauf , M. DeKieviet , S. Wimberger

Non-uniform metasurfaces (electrically thin composite layers) can be used for shaping refracted and reflected electromagnetic waves. However, known design approaches based on the generalized refraction and reflection laws do not allow…

The invisibility cloak has been a long-standing dream for many researchers over the decades. By transforming space and light propagation, a three-dimensional (3D) object can be perceived as having reduced number of dimensions, in the form…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-18 Fan Zhou , Yongjun Bao , Wei Cao , Jianqiang Gu , Weili Zhang , Cheng Sun

Computer vision applications have heavily relied on the linear combination of Lambertian diffuse and microfacet specular reflection models for representing reflected radiance, which turns out to be physically incompatible and limited in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Tomoki Ichikawa , Yoshiki Fukao , Shohei Nobuhara , Ko Nishino

We present a convolutional approach to reflection symmetry detection in 2D. Our model, built on the products of complex-valued wavelet convolutions, simplifies previous edge-based pairwise methods. Being parameter-centered, as opposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Marcelo Cicconet , Vighnesh Birodkar , Mads Lund , Michael Werman , Davi Geiger

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) communication enables multi-gigabit-per-second data rates but is highly susceptible to path loss and blockage, especially indoors. Many indoor settings, however, include naturally occurring specular surfaces such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Raj Sai Sohel Bandari , Amod Ashtekar , Omar Ibrahim , Mohammed E. Eltayeb

This work presents new methods and algorithms for tracking the shape and trajectory of moving reflecting obstacles with broken rays, or rays reflecting at an obstacle. While in tomography the focus of the reconstruction method is to recover…

Graphics · Computer Science 2011-11-29 Kamen Lozev

Transmission imaging, as an important imaging technique widely used in astronomy, medical diagnosis, and biology science, has been shown in [49] quite different from reflection imaging used in our everyday life. Understanding the structures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-01-09 Zhitao Fan , Feng Guan , Chunlin Wu , Ming Yan

The coaxial wire method is a common and appreciated technique to assess the beam coupling impedance of an accelerator element from scattering parameters. Nevertheless, the results obtained from wire measurements could be inaccurate due to…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-06-17 Antuono Chiara , Zannini Carlo , Mostacci Andrea , Migliorati Mauro

In the past decade, several neutron reflectometry methods for determining the modulus and phase of the complex reflection coefficient of an unknown multilayer thin film have been worked out among which the method of variation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-06 Seyed Farhad Masoudi , Saeed S. Jahromi

When imaging through a semi-reflective medium such as glass, the reflection of another scene can often be found in the captured images. It degrades the quality of the images and affects their subsequent analyses. In this paper, a novel deep…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-11 Tingtian Li , Yuk-Hee Chan , Daniel P. K. Lun

In the advent of next-generation wireless communication, millimeter-wave (mmWave) and terahertz (THz) technologies are pivotal for their high data rate capabilities. However, their reliance on large antenna arrays and narrow directive beams…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Gouranga Charan , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Ptychographic reconstructions in reflection geometries are commonly interpreted with the same two-dimensional thin-sample model used in transmission, yet the validity of this approximation has not been established. We develop a…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-08 Sander Senhorst , Stefan Witte , Wim Coene

We present a deblurring method for scenes with occluding objects using a carefully designed layered blur model. Layered blur model is frequently used in the motion deblurring problem to handle locally varying blurs, which is caused by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-30 Byeongjoo Ahn , Tae Hyun Kim , Wonsik Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in reconstructing complex scenes with high fidelity. However, NeRF's view dependency can only handle low-frequency reflections. It falls short when handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Chen Gao , Yipeng Wang , Changil Kim , Jia-Bin Huang , Johannes Kopf

Preservation of the angle of reflection when an internal gravity wave hits a sloping boundary generates a focusing mechanism if the angle between the direction of propagation of the incident wave and the horizontal is close to the slope…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-30 Roberta Bianchini , Thierry Paul

We analyse the optical (or microwave) tunnelling properties of electromagnetic waves passing through thin films presenting a specific index profile providing a cut-off frequency, when they are used below this frequency. We show that…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexander Shvartsburg , Guillaume Petite

Absorbing boundaries are frequently employed in real-time propagation of the Schr\"odinger equation to remove spurious reflections and efficiently emulate outgoing boundary conditions. These conditions are a fundamental ingredient for an…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-02-09 Umberto De Giovannini , Ask Hjorth Larsen , Angel Rubio

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) networks offer the potential for high-speed data transfer and precise localization, leveraging large antenna arrays and extensive bandwidths. However, these networks are challenged by significant path loss and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Wan-Ting Shih , Chao-Kai Wen , Shang-Ho Tsai , Shi Jin , Chau Yuen