Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI)

Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging (COSI)

​Popular Topics (in alphabetical order)

• Computational Adaptive Optics
• Computational Microscopy (including Ptychography), Digital Holographic Microscopy 
• Compressed Sensing 
• Computational Spectroscopy and Spectral Imaging 
• Computational Imaging for Point-of-Care Applications 
• Fundamental Limits of Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging 
• Imaging through Scattering and Turbid Media 
• Inverse Problems in Imaging 
• Lensless Imaging, Coherent Diffraction Imaging 
• Machine Learning for Computational Imaging 
• Novel Applications of Holography 
• Phase Retrieval and its Applications 
• SAR, InSAR, Terahertz- and mm-Wave Imaging 
• Super-Resolution 
• Topics in 3D Imaging (Structured Illumination, ToF Sensing, LiDAR, Light Fields) 
• Tomographic Imaging 
• Unconventional Imaging Modalities (Intensity Interferometry, Ghost Imaging and Mutual Intensity Imaging)

Topics of Special Interest (in alphabetical order)

• Computer Generated Holography and Computational Displays for AR/VR 
• Computational Imaging using Metasurfaces and Metamaterials 
• Event-Driven Computational Imaging using Neuromorphic Sensors 
• Non-Line-of-Sight Imaging 
• Physics Aware Deep Learning 
• Quantum Imaging, Quantum Sensing
• Single-Photon Imaging

Invited Speakers

• Bahram Javidi, University of Connecticut, 
  Sensing, Visualization, and Recognition in Degraded Environment using Passive Multidimensional Integral Imaging   Keynote
• Brian Pogue, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
  Optical - X-Ray Imaging: Dose, Molecules & Opportunities   Keynote
• Laura Waller, University of California Berkeley, UNITED STATES
  Computational 3D Microscopy   Keynote
• Lei Xing, Stanford University, UNITED STATES
  Imaging in the Age of Artificial Intelligence   Keynote
• Trisha Andrew, University of Massachusetts Amherst, UNITED STATES
  Garment-Integrated, Fabric-Based Sensors Systems for Imaging Human Body Motion in Natural Environments  
• Amir Arbabi, University of Massachusetts Amherst, UNITED STATES
  Metasurface-enabled Optical Imaging and Scanning Systems  
• Harry Atwater, California Institute of Technology, UNITED STATES
  Active Metasurfaces Modulated in Space and Time  
• Remy Avila, Univ Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico
  Methods for Optical Turbulence Profiling  
• George Barbastathis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UNITED STATES
  On the Use of Machine Learning for Image-based Identification and Control of Complex Processes  
• Jeffrey Barchers, Nutronics Inc, UNITED STATES
  Special Session on Fried  
• Randy Bartels, Colorado State University, UNITED STATES
  Super-Resolution Imaging by Computationally Fusing Quantum and Classical Optical Information  
• Ileana-Cristina Benea-Chelmus, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, 
  Hybrid Platforms for Free-space Active Photonics  
• David Blinder, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  Holographic Signal Processing in Plenoptic Phase Space  
• Vivek Boominathan, Rice University, UNITED STATES
  Lensless Imaging: A Miniaturizing Perspective  
• Konstantin Borozdin , Decision Sciences International Corp, UNITED STATES
  Muon Imaging Methods and Applications  
• Caroline Boudoux, Polytechnique Montréal, Canada
  Few-mode Optical Coherence Tomography with a Modally-Specific Photonic  
• Charles Bouman, Purdue University, UNITED STATES
  Past, Present, and Future Methods for Sparse View CT  
• David Brady, University of Arizona, 
  Snapshot Tomography on Array Cameras  
• Joshua Brake, Harvey Mudd College, UNITED STATES
  Interferometric Speckle Visibility Spectroscopy (iSVS): Leveraging Commercially-available Cameras to Sensitively Measure Flow Dynamics Inside Scattering Media  
• David Burghoff, University of Notre Dame, UNITED STATES
  Title to be Announced  
• Federico Capasso, Harvard University, UNITED STATES
  Recent advances in flat optics from the near IR to the Extreme UV  
• Chao Ping Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  Near-Eye Displays with Reflective Liquid Crystal Gratings for Metaverse  
• Mu Ku Chen, City University of Hong Kong, 
  Optical Meta-devices for Imaging, Depth Sensing, and Edge Detection  
• Ji-Xin Cheng, Boston University, UNITED STATES
  Most Recent Advances of Mid-infrared Photothermal Microscopy  
• Mathew Cherukara, Argonne National Laboratory, 
  HPC+AI@Edge Enabled Real-Time X-ray Imaging  
• Bill Choi, Nanolambda, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
  Digital Nano Flat Optics for Spectrometer-on-a-chip  
• Justin Crepp, University of Notre Dame, UNITED STATES
  Developing a Wavefront Sensor that Operates in Strong Scintillation  
• Mini Das, University of Houston, 
  Opportunities and Challenges in X-ray Phase Imaging and Phase Retrieval  
• Luis F. Delgado-Aparicio, Johns Hopkins University, UNITED STATES
  Physics and Engineer Challenges for Multi-energy Soft and Hard X-ray Diagnostics for Short and Long-pulse Profile Measurements  
• Victor Dyomin, Tomsk State University, RUSSIA
  Underwater Digital Holography of Plankton with Advanced Monitoring Capabilities for Bioindication In Situ  
• Tina Ebert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UNITED STATES
  Monochromatic, High Resolution X-ray Imaging Using Laser Driven Backlighters at NIF  
• Regina Eckert, University of California Berkeley, 
  Earth in Full Color: Imaging Spectroscopy Challenges for Earth Science  
• Pietro Ferraro, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Italy
  New Frontiers of Imaging Flow-cytometry by Stain-free Microscopy  
• Andrew Forbes, University of Witwatersrand, SOUTH AFRICA
  Digital Tools for Quantum Structured Light  
• Ryan Forelli, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, UNITED STATES
  Real-Time Instability Tracking with Deep Learning on FPGAs in Magnetic Confinement Fusion Devices  
• Liang Gao, University of California Los Angeles, UNITED STATES
  Ultrafast Light Field Tomography and Microscopy  
• Peng Gao, Xindian University, China
  Two-Beam Phase Correlation Spectroscopy: A label-free method to quantify particle flow in (bio)fluids  
• Patrice Genevet, CNRS, France
  Complex Frequency Singularities and Metasurfaces for LiDAR  
• Federico Gomez, Ansys, 
  Efficient Simulation of Metasurfaces: From Meta-atoms to Millimeter-scale Structures and Beyond  
• Taisia Gorkhover, University of Hamburg, 
  Imaging the Nanoscale With Intense Sub-Femtosecond X-Ray Pulses  
• Vivek Goyal, Boston University, UNITED STATES
  Absorption-Based, Passive Range Imaging from Hyperspectral Thermal Measurements  
• Elizabeth Grace, Georgia Institute of Technology, UNITED STATES
  Single-Shot, Multi-Timestep Chirped Probe Method for High Temporal Resolution Reconstruction of Plasma Evolution  
• Jesse Griff-McMahon, Princeton University, UNITED STATES
  Proton Radiography of Magnetic Reconnection and Biermann-battery Magnetic Fields with X-ray Fiducials  
• Markus Henriksson, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Sweden
  Measuring the Near-ground Vertical Gradient of Turbulence by Differential Angle-of-arrival Analysis of LED Array Images  
• Roarke Horstmeyer, Duke University, UNITED STATES
  Multi-aperture Methods for 3D Tomographic Optical Imaging  
• Roarke Horstmeyer, Duke University, UNITED STATES
  Computational 3D Video Microscopy with Micro-camera Arrays  
• Chia Wei Hsu, University of Southern California, UNITED STATES
  Multi-channel Flat Optics: Fast Solver, Inverse Design, and Fundamental Bounds  
• Juejun Hu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UNITED STATES
  LWIR Metalenses for Broadband, Wide-angle Imaging  
• Lingling Huang, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
  Wavefront Modulation and Holographic-related Technique Based on Metasurfaces  
• Tali Ilovitsh, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  Acoustical Beam Shaping as a Platform for Enhanced Ultrasound Imaging  
• Chulmin Joo, Yonsei University, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
  Computational Polarization-sensitive Microscopy for Tomographic Birefrience Imaging of Transparent Ojects  
• Matthew Kalensky, NAVSEA NSWC Dahlgren Division, UNITED STATES
  Aero Optics  
• Matthew Kemnetz, AFRL/RD, UNITED STATES
  Aero Optics  
• Björn Kemper, Westfaelische Wilhelms Univ Munster, Germany
  Interlaboratory Evaluation of In Vitro Nanotoxicity Testing With Digital Holographic Microscopy  
• Björn Kemper, Westfaelische Wilhelms Univ Munster, Germany
  Approaches for High-throughput Live Cell Imaging in Digital Holographic Microscopy  
• Chulhong Kim, Pohang Univ of Science & Technology, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
  Biomedical Photoacoustic and Ultrasound Imaging: from Advanced Hardware to Computational Software Development  
• Kyoohyun Kim, Max-Planck-Inst Physik des Lichts, Germany
  Optical Diffraction Tomography for Quantifying Cell Physics  
• Olga Korotkova, University of Miami, UNITED STATES
  Novel Beams  
• Victor Kulikov, University of Dayton, UNITED STATES
  Impact of Turbulence Profile, and Inner and Outer Scales on Accuracy in Cn2 Prediction Using Deep Neural Network-based Signal Processing  
• Matthew Kupinski, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, UNITED STATES
  The Use of 3D Modeling and Augmented Reality in System Design and Image Reconstruction  
• Meredith Kupinski, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, UNITED STATES
  Analytic Shape from Polarization for Depolarization Dominant Objects  
• Arseniy Kuznetsov, Agency for Science Technology & Research, Singapore
  Small-pixel Size Spatial Light Modulators Based on Tunable Dielectric Metasurfaces  
• Pawel Latawiec, Metalenz Inc, UNITED STATES
  Metasurfaces for 3D Sensing and Beyond  
• Shuai Leng, Mayo Clinic, 
  Photon Counting CT  
• Andrew Leong, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 
  Quantitative X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging (XPCI) of Increasingly Complex Porous Materials  
• Anat Levin, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
  Wide Étendue Holographic Displays with Piecewise-Linear Phase Masks  
• Xiang Li, Massachusetts General Hospital, UNITED STATES
  Recent Advances in Sparse and Ultra-Sparse Reconstruction and Generative Modeling for Medical Imaging  
• Juan Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
  Real-time Holographic Display Based on Dynamic Scene Reconstruction and Rendering  
• Juan Liu, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
  Applications of Holographic Optical Elements for 3D Display  
• Wei Liu, Mayo Clinic, UNITED STATES
  Patient-specific 3D CT Images Reconstruction from 2D KV images via Vision Transformer-based Deep-Learning  
• Yongmin Liu, Northeastern University, UNITED STATES
  Pushing the Limit of Multiplexing Capability in Optical Metasurfaces  
• Arka Majumdar, University of Washington, UNITED STATES
  Full color Imaging with Large-Aperture Meta-Optics  
• Sophia Malko, PPPL, UNITED STATES
  Proton Radiography of the Bounded Magnetized Systems Relevant to MagLIF Preheat Phase  
• Kevin Mann, Bruker Nano Surfaces & Metrology, UNITED STATES
  Ultrafast Z Focusing and Variable Optical Mixing with Bruker's NeuraLeap  
• Pasquale Memmolo, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy
  Tomographic Phase Microscopy by 3D Zernike Polynomials  
• Lisa Miccio, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, Italy
  Soft-matter Based Micro-lenses: from Liquids to Living Cells  
• Maiken H. Mikkelsen, Duke University, UNITED STATES
  Ultrafast Pyroelectric Detectors with on-chip Polarization and Spectral Filters  
• Kelsey Miller, Leiden Observatory, 
  Laboratory Simulation of Turbulence  
• Owen Miller, Yale University, UNITED STATES
  Convex Nanophotonics: Hidden Structure in Maxwell's Equations  
• Darran Milne, VividQ, UNITED KINGDOM
  Breakthroughs in Holographic Display Technology for AR and VR Gaming  
• Haruo Miyadera, Toshiba Corp, Japan
  Cosmic-ray Muon Scattering for Nuclear Material Measurement  
• Yasuhiro Miyake, High Energy Accelerator Research Org, Japan
  Development of Muon Imaging By Accelerator Muons  
• Masashi Miyata, NTT Device Technology Labs, Japan
  Optical Metasurfaces for High-sensitivity Color Imaging  
• Kristina Monakhova, University of California Berkeley, UNITED STATES
  Video Denoising in Starlight Using a Learned, Physics-informed Noise Model  
• Francesco Monticone, Cornell University, UNITED STATES
  Nonlocal Flat Optics  
• Christopher Morris, Los Alamos National Laboratory, UNITED STATES
  800 MeV Proton Radiography at LANSCE  
• Nirosha Murugan, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
  You Are Brighter Than You Think: Brain-based Ultraweak Photon Emissions and Electric Fields As Novel Functional Neuroimaging Tools  
• Ram Narayanswamy, Teaq Group LLC, UNITED STATES
  Meta Optical Elements by Nanoimprint Lithography  
• Aditya Nayak, Florida Atlantic University, UNITED STATES
  Digital Holographic Advances in the Aquatic Sciences  
• Dragomir Neshev, Australian National University, Australia
  Nonlinear Metasurfaces for Up-conversion Imaging and Ultrafast Switching  
• Xingjie Ni, Pennsylvania State University, UNITED STATES
  Advancing Towards Large-Scale Fabrication and Integration of Meta-Optic Devices  
• Guangda Niu, HUST, 
  Ultrafast Perovskite Single Crystals for Positron Emission Tomography  
• Takanori Nomura, Wakayama University, Japan
  Reduction of Computer Memory Usage in Lensless Photography with a Random Amplitude Coded Aperture  
• Nisan Ozana, MGH. Harvard Medical School, UNITED STATES
  Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy and Speckle-based Neuroimaging  
• Prasad Padmanabha Iyer, Sandia National Labs, UNITED STATES
  Ultrafast Steering of Incoherent Emission from Semiconductor Metasurfaces  
• Kunjal Parikh, Intel Corporation, 
  Display Edge Intelligence with Novel AI-based Visual Sensing Technology  
• Jae-Hyeung Park, Inha University, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
  Optical-see-through Near-eye-display with 3D Occlusion  
• Kyung Hyun Park, Electronics and Telecom Research Inst, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
  CW-based Terahertz Imaging System for Industrial Applications Using Semiconductor Devices  
• Dario Perez, Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Chile
  Efficient and Accurate Complex Phase Retrieval of a Gaussian Beam Propagating Through Controlled Turbulence: Comprehensive Spatiotemporal Statistics Analysis  
• Brian Pogue, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 
  Optical Imaging of Radiation Dose in Humans  
• Mingbo Pu, Institute of Optics and Electronics, CAS, 
  Multifunctional Flat Optical Devices Based on Catenary-shaped Subwavelength Structures  
• Daniel Razansky, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  Diffuse Optical Localization Techniques for Large-scale Transcranial Mapping of Cortical Microcirculation  
• Haoran Ren, Monash University, Australia
  Twisted Light Holography with Metasurfaces  
• Junsuk Rho, Pohang Univ of Science & Technology, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
  Low-Cost and Scalable Manufacturing of Optical Metasurfaces in the Visible Using Engineered Optical Materials (PER, Low-Loss a-Si:H, and Hybrid ALD Structural Resin)  
• Ann Roberts, University of Melbourne, Australia
  Shedding New Light on Phase Contrast Imaging with Nanophotonics  
• Daniel Robertson, Mayo Clinic, UNITED STATES
  Integrating-mode Particle Radiography with Monolithic Scintillator Detectors  
• Lu Rong, Beijing University of Technology, China
  Terahertz Super-Oscillatory Lens and Super-Resolution Imaging  
• Emilio Sanchez-Ortiga, Universitat de Valencia, Spain
  Digital Holographic Microscopy in Low-transmittance Conditions  
• Richard Sandberg, Brigham Young University, UNITED STATES
  Challenges and Opporunties for Mesoscale Ultrafast Imaging at FELs  
• Aswin Sankaranarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University, UNITED STATES
  Computational Spectroscopy --- Imaging Systems and Fundamental Limits for Programmable Spectrometry  
• Yuji Sano, , Japan
  Laser-Plasma Acceleration (LPA) Project in Japan and Potential Applications for Imaging, Synthesis, and Diagnostics  
• Peter Schelkens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
  Compression Challenges for Digital Holography  
• Natan Shaked, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  Label-free Sperm Analysis - New Horizons for In-vitro Fertilization  
• Natan Shaked, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  Six-pack Holography: Techniques and Applications  
• Joshua Shank, Sandia National Laboratories, UNITED STATES
  Event-based Sensing for Nuclear Proliferation Detection  
• ZHUJUN SHI, Meta Platforms Inc, UNITED STATES
  Maximizing Polarization Control Using Non-separable Metasurfaces  
• Paulo Silveira, Occipital Inc, UNITED STATES
  3D Sensing for Personalized Medicine  
• Raspberry Simpson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, UNITED STATES
  Proton Radiography Using NIF-ARC  
• Vasanthi Sivaprakasam, US Naval Research Laboratory, UNITED STATES
  Scattering Media Interactions with Orbital Angular Momentum Laser Beams  
• Laura Smilowitz, Los Alamos National Laboratory, UNITED STATES
  Lab-scale Asynchronous Radiographic System  
• Peter So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, UNITED STATES
  Patterning Light for High Throughput, High Content, Deep Tissue Imaging  
• Giacomo Sorelli, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany
  Transmission Matrix Approach to Turbulence Profiling  
• Yakov Soskind, Meta Platforms Inc, UNITED STATES
  From Metasurface Elements to Metasurface Systems: Opportunities and Challenges  
• Detlev Sprung, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany
  Turbulence Measurement  
• Vivek Srinivasan, New York University, 
  Coherence Engineering of a Human Brain Interferometer to Quantitatively and Specifically Measure Cerebral Blood Flow  
• Florian Stroehl, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway
  Multifocus Microscopy with Optical Sectioning  
• Tatsuki Tahara, National Inst of Information & Comm Tech, Japan
  Multidimensional Incoherent Digital Holography  
• Enrique Tajahuerce, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
  Computational Imaging with Structured Light and Single-pixel Detection  
• Yasuhiro Takaki, Tokyo Univ of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
  Holographic Implementation of Contact Lens Display  
• Xiaodi Tan, Fujian Normal University, China
  Augmented Holographic Data Storage System using Deep Learning  
• Simon Thibault, Université Laval, Canada
  Simulation and Design of Hybrid Refractive and Meta-Optics Lens  
• Lei Tian, Boston University, UNITED STATES
  Computational Miniature Mesoscope: Augmenting Miniature Optics with Algorithms for Large-scale 3D Fluorescence Imaging  
• Lei Tian, Boston University, UNITED STATES
  Computational 3D Phase Imaging by Intensity Diffraction Tomography  
• Anton Tremsin, University of California at Berkeley, UNITED STATES
  Energy-resolved Neutron Imaging  
• Benjamin Vakoc, Harvard Medical School, UNITED STATES
  Frequency-comb (Circular-ranging) Optical Coherence Tomography for Ophthalmology  
• Vicente Valenzuela-Villaseca , Princeton University, UNITED STATES
  Proton Isotropy at OMEGA  
• Singanallur Venkatakrishnan, Oak Ridge National Lab, UNITED STATES
  Towards Autonomous Neutron Diffraction and Imaging Instruments  
• Nicolas Verrier, Ecole Sup Physique Chimie Industrielles, France
  Toward Multimodal Functionalized Markerless Imaging: Extensions of Tomographic Diffraction Microscopy  
• Christos Vlachos, Université de Bordeaux, France
  Characterization of Optically Generated Transient Magnetic and Electromagnetic Fields of High Energy Density  
• Laura Waller, University of California Berkeley, UNITED STATES
  Space-time Learned Reconstructions for Computational imaging  
• Yuhong Wan, Beijing University of Technology, China
  Fluorescence Self-interference Digital Holography with the Capability of Adaptive Three Dimensional Microscopic Imaging  
• Congli Wang, University of California Berkeley, UNITED STATES
  Differentiable Ray Tracing for Optical Design and Modeling  
• Di Wang, Beihang University, China
  Large Viewing Angle Holographic 3D Display System  
• Hao Wang, SUTD, Singapore
  Metasurface-Enabled Polarization Modulation for Multidimensional Information Encryption and Decryption  
• Ken Kang-Hsin Wang, UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 
  Optical Tomography-guided System for Pre-clinical Radiotherapy Research  
• Florian Willomitzer, Univ of Arizona, Coll of Opt Sciences, UNITED STATES
  Utilizing Deflectometric Information for Single-shot Eye-tracking with High Accuracy  
• Liangzhong Xiang, University of California Irvine, UNITED STATES
  X-ray Induced Acoustic Computed Tomography (XACT)  
• Hirotsugu Yamamoto, Utsunomiya University, 
  Glass-Free Non-Contact Augmented Reality Interface With Aerial Imaging by Retro-Reflection (AIRR)  
• Ji Yi, Johns Hopkins University, UNITED STATES
  Mesoscopic Single-object Lightsheet Microscopy  
• Tom Zangle, University of Utah, UNITED STATES
  Using Quantitative Phase Imaging to Resolve Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Cancer Cell Response to Therapy  
• Guoan Zheng, University of Connecticut, UNITED STATES
  High-resolution, High-throughput Coded Ptychography for Biomedical Imaging  
• Chao Zhou, Washington University in St Louis, UNITED STATES
  Advanced OCT- 3D Imaging and Optogenetic Pacing of in Vitro and in Vivo Model Systems  
• Natan Shaked, Tel Aviv University, Israel
  Label-free Sperm Analysis - New Horizons for In-vitro Fertilization  
• Simon Thibault, Université Laval, Canada
  Simulation and Design of Hybrid Refractive and Meta-Optics Lens