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  1. Drape-Compatible Tool-Tip Localization for Hand-Held Laparoscopic Instruments via UWB Carrier-Phase Ranging and Trocar-Constrained Geometry

    Sep 30, 2026Jinseok Lee, Dongho Yee, Minsung Kim +8Surgical RobotsEnd-Effector Pose

    Department of Transdisciplinary Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital. · Rosota Inc., Seoul, Republic of Korea. · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University. +5

  2. Learning-Based Reconstruction of Optical Properties in Bilayered Media from Single-distance Time-Resolved Reflectance Measurements

    Sep 17, 2026Caterina Amendola, Giulia Maffeis, Lorenzo Buffoni +8ReflectanceOptical

    Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, 20133, Italy

  3. A Programmable Optics Cloud Laboratory

    Sep 14, 2026Sachin Vaidya, Caio Silva, Seou Choi +2OpticalReconfiguration

    Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA · NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions and the Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  4. Cross-modal learning for SAR target recognition using optical vision foundation models

    Sep 7, 2026Lucas Hirsch, James R. Hopgood, Javid Khan +2Synthetic Aperture RadarRecent Vision Foundation Models

    School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom · Leonardo UK, United Kingdom · School of Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom

  5. Two-Stage Deformable-Convolutional Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Absorbers from Optical Spectra

    Aug 12, 2026Waleed Waseer, Muhammad Shahid Jabbar, Muhammad Sohail Ibrahim +1NanophotonicMetamaterials

    School of Physics and State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China · SDAIA-KFUPM Joint Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia · Interdisciplinary Research Center for Intelligent Secure Systems (IRC-ISS), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia +1

  6. A second-order theory of texture for depth from focus

    Aug 11, 2026Sreekar Ranganathan, Ioannis GkioulekasOpticalSpeckle

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA, USA

  7. Adversarial Attacks on Deep OCR Systems

    Aug 7, 2026Wenbo Sun, Hongzong LI, Yanyun Wang +5Black-Box Adversarial AttacksRecent Vision-Language Models

    Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics · Northwestern Polytechnical University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +4

  8. OPERA: Operator-residual feedback for reliable autonomous optical experiments with language-model agents

    Aug 6, 2026Ning Xu, Xiang Zheng, Fuqiang Zhong +4OpticalAutonomous Agents

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · ModelBest Inc., Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha, China +1

  9. Universal Function Approximation via Diffractive Optical Processors: Physical Limits, Error Bounds, and Learnability

    Aug 5, 2026Md Sadman Sakib Rahman, Che-Yung Shen, Aydogan OzcanOpticalFourier

    Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA · Bioengineering Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA · California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI), University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA

  10. RAGOCR: Optical Compression of Retrieval-Augmented Text via Visual Representation

    Aug 1, 2026Jiayang Yu, Jialun Zhong, Lei ZouKnowledge-Based Visual Question AnsweringLingdt-Vl-Ocr

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University Beijing, China

  11. Optical Flow Sensor: A Direction-Selective Bionic Retina Design

    Jul 30, 2026Juchen Zhou, Bonan Yan, Yuchao YangOptical FlowOptical

    Peking University, China

  12. Temporal Modeling of Optically Variable Devices in Identity Documents

    Jul 7, 2026Glen Pouliquen, Joseph Chazalon, Guillaume Chiron +3Training-Free Video Anomaly DetectionHolographic Reduced Representations

    IDnow Research Center, France · EPITA Research Lab · IDnow Research Center, Cesson-Sévigné, France +3

  13. Phase-Preserving Trimodal Transformer for Tropical Forest Biomass Estimation Using Optical and PolInSAR Data

    Jul 4, 2026Luiz Felipe Parente Santiago, Felipe Ferrari, Daniel Rodrigues dos Santos +1BiomassDetection Transformer

    Instituto de Computação, Universidade Federal do Amazonas · Instituto de Pesquisas do Exército na Amazônia · Instituto de Computac¸˜ao, Universidade Federal do Amazonas (IComp/UFAM), Manaus-AM, Brazil +3

  14. Differentiable design of the PIAA-ZWFS: a flexible wavefront sensor that approaches the fundamental limit

    Jun 26, 2026A. K. Taras, S. Y. Haffert, L. DesdoigtsOpticalDifferentiable Physics

    Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

  15. VLM-Aware Meta-Optic Front-End Design for Frozen Vision-Language Models

    Jun 26, 2026Chanik Kang, Raphaël Pestourie, Haejun ChungOpticalFrozen Vision-Language Models

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Korea · School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332, USA · Department of Electronic Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Korea

  16. Enhancing Co-packaging Optics Enabled Silicon Photonics Security Assurance Hardware Fingerprinting

    Jun 26, 2026Liton Kumar Biswas, M Shafkat M Khan, Himanandhan Reddy Kottur +3NanophotonicOptical

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida 5000 Malachowsky Hall, 1889 Museum Road Gainesville, Florida-32611, USA

  17. Topology-Informed Neural Networks for Flood Detection in Optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery

    Jun 24, 2026Sophia Li, Max Zhao, Raghu G. Raj +1Flood DetectionSen1Floods11

    aU.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA · bStanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  18. Hybrid deep learning-based phase diversity method for wavefront reconstruction

    Jun 24, 2026Y. Rodimkov, A. Kotov, K. Burdonov +4OpticalDiversity

    Lobachevskii State University of Nizhni Novgorod, pr. Gagarina 23, Nizhni Novgorod, 603022 Russia · Institute of Applied Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod 603951, Russia

  19. PHOEBI: An Open-World Benchmark for Bacterial Identification in Phase-Contrast Microscopy

    Jun 22, 2026Aaditya Baranwal, Md Jahid Hasan, Shruti VyasBacterial Colony CountingSpecies Identification

    University of Central Florida

  20. OSOG: A Differentiable, Physics-Informed Synthetic Data Engine for Micro-Optical Environments

    Jun 19, 2026Caio SilvaOpticalSynthetic-To-Real Domain Gap

    Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA∗

  21. Deep-Learning-Based Pixelated Microwave Filter Design and Characterization using Electro-Optical Electric-Field Measurements

    Jun 16, 2026Han Zhou, Richard Bannister, Caspar Pierce +9OpticalDeep Learning

    Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden · Advanced Technology Institute, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK · National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, UK.

  22. Design and Fabrication of a Spin Coater with In-Situ Optical Measurement for Soft Thin Films

    Jun 13, 2026Daniel Gliksberg, Jiajie Qiu, Jun Suzuki +1LithographyOptical

    Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, US · The Japan Steel Works, LTD. Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan

  23. Optical Implementation of Equilibrium Propagation Using Spatial Photonic Ising Machines

    Jun 11, 2026Dimitri Vanden Abeele, Daniele Veraldi, Davide Pierangeli +2Spatial Photonic Ising MachinesNeuromorphic Computing

    Laboratoire d’Information Quantique C.P. 224, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium · Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

  24. On-sky demonstration of reinforcement learning for adaptive optics control

    Jun 9, 2026Jalo Nousiainen, Vincent Chambouleyron, Benoit Neichel +7Reinforcement Learning ControlOptical

    European Southern Observatory · Aix Marseille University, CNRS, CNES, LAM, Marseille, France · Wakea Consulting, 4 Rue Joseph Bouchayer, 38100 Grenoble +1

  25. End-to-End Optimization of Incoherent Imaging for Classification Under Detector-Limited Readout

    Jun 8, 2026Archer Wang, Joshua Chen, Sachin Vaidya +1OpticalImage Classification

    Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA · Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

  26. An Opticalmechanics Framework for Dynamic Estimation of Multibody Systems

    Jun 8, 2026Banglei Guan, Xuanyu Bai, Qingquan Chen +5Rigid-Body DynamicsTorque

    National University of Defense Technology

  27. De novo molecular generation with optical property preconditioning at the token level

    Jun 6, 2026Haozhe Huang, Manuel Gonzalez Lastre, Hyun Suk Park +3Molecular GenerationAutoregressive Language Models

    Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, 40 St George St., Toronto, ON M5S 2E4, Canada · 2Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, W1140-108 College St., Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, Toronto, ON M5G 0C6, Canada · 3Departamento de Física Teórica de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 28049, Madrid, Spain. +6

  28. The Need for Neural ISP in the Small-Pixel Era: How Shrinking Pixels Push Optics to the Limit and Neural Restoration Pushes Back

    Jun 4, 2026Jingxi Li, Neerja Aggarwal, Laurent Gudemann +4OpticalSmartphone Photographs

    Glass Imaging Inc.

  29. SagnacAssisted Enhanced OTDR for Distributed Acoustic Sensing: A Standardized Benchmark and Engineering Evaluation Framework

    Jun 4, 2026Weiguang Wang, Fugen Wu, Hailing Wang +4OpticalSynthetic Aperture Radar

    East China Jiaotong University,, Nanchang, 330013, Jiangxi, China · School of Materials and Energy, Guangdong University of Technology,, Guangzhou, 510006,, China · Jiangxi Tonghui Technology Group Co., Ltd.,, Nanchang, 330000, Jiangxi, China

  30. DxPTA: An Architecture Design Space Exploration with Optical Dataflow-guided Strategy for HW/SW Co-Design of Photonic Transformer Accelerators

    Jun 2, 2026Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Solomon Micheal Serunjogi, Mahmoud Rasras +1Photonic Transformer AcceleratorsNeural Architecture Search

    eBRAIN Lab, Division of Engineering, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · Photonic Research Lab (PRL), Division of Engineering, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

  31. A Digital Twin Framework for Virtual Visuo-Haptic Teleoperation of Complex-Shaped Optical Microrobots

    May 27, 2026Zongcai Tan, Lan Wei, Dandan ZhangTeleoperationOptical

    Department of Bioengineering, Imperial-X AI Initiative, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  32. TAR: Text Semantic Assisted Cross-modal Image Registration Framework for Optical and SAR Images

    May 12, 2026Zhuoyu Cai, Dou Quan, Ning Huyan +3Synthetic Aperture RadarImage Registration

    Key Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education of China, School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China

  33. Bin Latent Transformer (BiLT): A shift-invariant autoencoder for calibration-free spectral unmixing of turbid media

    May 12, 2026Martin HohmannAutoencoder ArchitecturesOptical

    Institute of Photonic Technologies (LPT), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Konrad-Zuse-Straße 3/5, 91052 Erlangen, Germany

  34. End-to-end autonomous scientific discovery on a real optical platform

    Apr 29, 2026Shuxing Yang, Fujia Chen, Rui Zhao +10DiscoveryOptical

    State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, The Electromagnetics Academy at Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Key Laboratory of Advanced Micro/Nano Electronic Devices & Smart Systems of Zhejiang, Jinhua Institute of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University, Jinhua 321099, China · Shaoxing Institute of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang University, Shaoxing 312000, China +3

  35. SPLIT: Separating Physical-Contact via Latent Arithmetic in Image-Based Tactile Sensors

    Apr 27, 2026Wadhah Zai El Amri, Nicolás Navarro-GuerreroTactileSim-To-Real Reinforcement Learning

    Leibniz Universität Hannover, L3S Research Center, Appelstraße 4, Hannover, 30167, Lower Saxony, Germany

  36. ROSA: Robust and Energy-Efficient Microring-Based Optical Neural Networks via Optical Shift-and-Add and Layer-Wise Hybrid Mapping

    Apr 24, 2026Huifan Zhang, Yun Hu, Caizhi Sheng +2OpticalNeuromorphic Computing

    ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China

  37. Broadband Wide Field of View Imaging with Computational Mirrors

    Apr 22, 2026Vishwanath Saragadam, Niki Nezakati, Amit Roy-Chowdhury +1OpticalLong-Range Coherence

    University of California Riverside · Rice University

  38. Neural Adjoint Method for Meta-optics: Accelerating Volumetric Inverse Design via Fourier Neural Operators

    Apr 19, 2026Chanik Kang, Hyewon Suk, Haejun ChungGenerative Inverse DesignFourier Neural Operators

    Hanyang University, Department of Artificial Intelligence Semiconductor Engineering Seoul, Korea · Hanyang University, Department of Electronic Engineering Seoul, Korea

  39. Agentic AI for Scalable and Robust Optical Systems Control

    Feb 23, 2026Zehao Wang, Mingzhe Han, Wei Cheng +12OpticalModel Context Protocol

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA · NEC Laboratories America, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA · Duke Quantum Center and Department of Physics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA 27708 +4

  40. InsertAnywhere: Geometrically Grounded and Optics-Aware Video Object Insertion

    Dec 19, 2025Hoiyeong Jin, Hyojin Jang, Junha Hyung +6OpticalObjects

    KAIST AI · SK Telecom

  41. A Study of Commonsense Reasoning over Visual Object Properties

    Aug 14, 2025Abhishek Kolari, Mohammadhossein Khojasteh, Yifan Jiang +2Visual Question Answering BenchmarksVisual Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA, USA

  42. Sanity Checking Causal Representation Learning on a Simple Real-World System

    Feb 27, 2025Juan L. Gamella, Simon Bing, Jakob RungeCausal Representation LearningCausal

    Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zurich · Technische Universität Berlin · Department of Computer Science, University of Potsdam +1

  43. Reinforcement Federated Learning Method Based on Adaptive OPTICS Clustering

    Jun 22, 2023Tianyu Zhao, Junping Du, Yingxia Shao +1Federated LearningClustering

    Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligent Communication Software and Multimedia, School of Computer Science (National Pilot Software Engineering School), Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China