Review on panoramic imaging and its applications in scene understanding

S Gao, K Yang, H Shi, K Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid development of high-speed communication and artificial intelligence
technologies, human perception of real-world scenes is no longer limited to the use of small …

At the intersection of optics and deep learning: statistical inference, computing, and inverse design

D Mengu, MS Sakib Rahman, Y Luo, J Li… - Advances in Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Deep learning has been revolutionizing information processing in many fields of science
and engineering owing to the massively growing amounts of data and the advances in deep …

[PDF][PDF] End-to-end complex lens design with differentiable ray tracing

Q Sun, C Wang, F Qiang, D Xiong, H Wolfgang - ACM Trans. Graph, 2021 - vccimaging.org
Cameras are designed with a complicated tradeoff between image quality (eg sharpness,
contrast, color fidelity), and practical considerations such as cost, form factor, and weight …

Single-shot hyperspectral-depth imaging with learned diffractive optics

SH Baek, H Ikoma, DS Jeon, Y Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Imaging depth and spectrum have been extensively studied in isolation from each other for
decades. Recently, hyperspectral-depth (HS-D) imaging emerges to capture both …

Depth from defocus with learned optics for imaging and occlusion-aware depth estimation

H Ikoma, CM Nguyen, CA Metzler… - 2021 IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Monocular depth estimation remains a challenging problem, despite significant advances in
neural network architectures that leverage pictorial depth cues alone. Inspired by depth from …

Enhanced continuous atmospheric water harvesting with scalable hygroscopic gel driven by natural sunlight and wind

X Yang, Z Chen, C Xiang, H Shan, R Wang - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting (SAWH) has received unprecedented
attention as a future water and energy platform. However, the water productivity of SAWH …

Curriculum learning for ab initio deep learned refractive optics

X Yang, Q Fu, W Heidrich - Nature communications, 2024 - nature.com
Deep optical optimization has recently emerged as a new paradigm for designing
computational imaging systems using only the output image as the objective. However, it …

High-resolution single-photon imaging with physics-informed deep learning

L Bian, H Song, L Peng, X Chang, X Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
High-resolution single-photon imaging remains a big challenge due to the complex
hardware manufacturing craft and noise disturbances. Here, we introduce deep learning into …

Integration of programmable diffraction with digital neural networks

MS Sakib Rahman, A Ozcan - ACS Photonics, 2024 - ACS Publications
Optical imaging and sensing systems based on diffractive elements have seen massive
advances over the last several decades. Earlier generations of diffractive optical processors …

End-to-end learned single lens design using fast differentiable ray tracing

Z Li, Q Hou, Z Wang, F Tan, J Liu, W Zhang - Optics Letters, 2021 - opg.optica.org
In traditional imaging system design, the optical lens is often optimized toward the artificial
optimization target like modulation transfer function and field-of-view (FoV). This usually …