Lukas Wesemann’s Post

Wrapping up an inspiring week at the IEEE Nano conference 2024 in beautiful Gijón, Spain. A big thanks to the organisers IEEE NANO Conferences for the invitation to present our work on nanostructured surfaces for real-time image processing. My highlights from the conference: ▶ Deep insights into Nanobiomedicine: nanorobots for drug delivery ▶ Neuromorphic computing with nanostructures ▶ The potential of 2D materials in electronics and photonics

Excited about our new paper, fresh off the press, in Nature Communications. Our results indicate that nanostructured silicon filters can speed up infrared image processing with applications in low-energy, real-time machine vision and remote sensing. If you're interested, check out the full paper here: https://lnkd.in/gRfZFy57 We show that nanostructured filters allow us to process images in real-time simply by optically transmitting them through the filter - no digital computation involved. The transmitted, pre-processed images can then be recorded by a conventional camera and fed into a digital algorithm for further computation. We specifically looked at a process called 'edge detection' which is highly relevant to machine vision applications. By adding a thin layer of a phase-change material called Vanadium Dioxide, the device becomes tunable. This allows us to alter the type of real-time processing that the device performs simply by heating or cooling the filter over a small range of about 10 degrees Celsius. Thanks to all of my colleagues, fantastic collaboration! Michele Cotrufo , Shaban Sulejman, Md. Ataur Rahman, Professor Madhu Bhaskaran FTSE, Ann Roberts, Andrea Alù, ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) , Advanced Science Research Center, GC/CUNY

I guess it must be Palo Alto if the AirBnB's house rules start off with 'this is not a place to negotiate deals'. I had a great week visiting the research group of Prof. Brongersma at Stanford. I learned about exciting new opportunities at the intersection of 2D materials and tuneable optical components, and had inspiring discussions on nanotech in future augmented- and virtual reality equipment. Thanks for the awesome time!

Inspiring insights on the way nanotechnology and AI help us in developing future imaging systems for precision agriculture, defense, satellites, medical imaging and more at SPIE Defense & Commercial Sensing 2024 in Washington DC. Thanks for all the great conversations and the invitation to present our work from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS) .

I'm excited to participate in the upcoming Conversation at the Crossroads panel discussion “Artificial Intelligence - prospects, entrepreneurs and ethics”. Together with prominent panelists Scott Wilson, GAICD, Ruth Lewis and Jacinthe Flore we will discuss AI’s impact on our workplaces, ethical considerations and and some of the most important advantages we think AI could enable for society in the near future. Join us at the event on the 17th of April at Drill Hall, 26 Therry Street in Melbourne. For those not in Melbourne, there will be a live stream set up. Special thanks to co-organiser Elaine Young for the invitation to join the discussion! more info: https://lnkd.in/ggsEdJtP #Melbourne #AI #Ethics