Manufacturing and measurement of freeform optics

FZ Fang, XD Zhang, A Weckenmann, GX Zhang… - Cirp Annals, 2013 - Elsevier
Freeform optics is the next-generation of modern optics, bringing advantages of excellent
optical performance and system integration. It finds wide applications in various fields, such …

Review of state-of-the-art artificial compound eye imaging systems

Y Cheng, J Cao, Y Zhang, Q Hao - Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The natural compound eye has received much attention in recent years due to its
remarkable properties, such as its large field of view (FOV), compact structure, and high …

Development of a 3D artificial compound eye

L Li, AY Yi - Optics express, 2010 - opg.optica.org
In this research paper, in a major departure from conventional 2D micromachining
processes, design and fabrication of a 3D compound eye system consisting of a 3D …

Artificial compound eye: a survey of the state-of-the-art

S Wu, T Jiang, G Zhang, B Schoenemann… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2017 - Springer
An artificial compound eye system is the bionic system of natural compound eyes with much
wider field-of-view, better capacity to detect moving objects and higher sensitivity to light …

Development of a low cost high precision three-layer 3D artificial compound eye

H Zhang, L Li, DL McCray, S Scheiding, NJ Naples… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
Artificial compound eyes are typically designed on planar substrates due to the limits of
current imaging devices and available manufacturing processes. In this study, a high …

Long-working-distance 3D measurement with a bionic curved compound-eye camera

J Liu, Y Zhang, H Xu, D Wu, W Yu - Optics Express, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The bionic curved compound-eye camera is a bionic-inspired multi-aperture camera, which
can be designed to have an overlap on the field of view (FOV) in between adjacent …

Target orientation detection based on a neural network with a bionic bee-like compound eye

M Ma, H Li, XC Gao, WH Si, HX Deng, J Zhang… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
The compound eye of insects has many excellent characteristics. Directional navigation is
one of the important features of compound eye, which is able to quickly and accurately …

Development of an artificial compound eye system for three-dimensional object detection

M Ma, F Guo, Z Cao, K Wang - Applied optics, 2014 - opg.optica.org
A compound eye has the advantages of a large field of view, high sensitivity, and compact
structure, showing that it can be applicable for 3D object detection. In this work, an artificial …

Slow slide servo turning of compound eye lens

X Zhang, F Fang, LH Yu, L Jiang, Y Guo - Optical Engineering, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Compound eye lens (CEL) is expected to be applied in high-speed object tracking and
depth perception. However, it is difficult to fabricate CEL due to the complex shape and …

Super-resolution reconstruction in a computational compound-eye imaging system

WS Chan, EY Lam, MK Ng, GY Mak - Multidimensional Systems and …, 2007 - Springer
From consumer electronics to biomedical applications, device miniaturization has shown to
be highly desirable. This often includes reducing the size of some optical systems. However …