publications

Kaan Akşit's scholarly publications are listed in this webpage.

2024

  1. Optica CLEO
    Image denoising using diffractive optical processors
    In CLEO: Fundamental Science, May 2024
  2. SIGGRAPH ASIA
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    Focal Surface Holographic Light Transport using Learned Spatially Adaptive Convolutions
    In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Technical Communications (SA Technical Communications ’24), Tokyo, Japan, Dec 2024
  3. SPIE
    Diffractive processors enable all-optical image denoising
    In Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence (ETAI) 2024, Aug 2024
  4. SIGGRAPH ASIA
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    SpecTrack: Learned Multi-Rotation Tracking via Speckle Imaging
    Ziyang ChenMustafa DoganJosef Spjut, and Kaan Akşit
    In SIGGRAPH Asia 2024 Posters (SA Posters ’24), Tokyo, Japan, Dec 2024
  5. Light: Science and Appllications
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    All-optical image denoising using a diffractive visual processor
    Light: Science & Applications, Feb 2024
  6. SPIE AR/VR/MR
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    AutoColor: Learned Light Power Control for Multi-Color Holograms
    Yicheng ZhanKoray KavaklıHakan UreyQi Sun, and Kaan Akşit
    SPIE, Jan 2024
  7. Optics and Photonics News
    Socially Acceptable AR Glasses: Are We There Yet?
    Kai-Han Chang, Ali Yöntem, and Kaan Akşit
    Optics and Photonics News, Jan 2024
  8. SID
    59-1: Enhancing Brightness with Multi-Color Holography
    In SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, Jan 2024

2023

  1. SIGGRAPH ASIA
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    Multi-color Holograms Improve Brightness in Holographic Displays
    In SIGGRAPH ASIA 2023 Conference Papers, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Dec 2023
    :medal_sports: Graphics Replicability Stamp Initiative’s Replicability Stamp
  2. Optica
    Headsetless Holographic Virtual Reality Displays
    Kaan Akşit
    In Laser Science, Oct 2023
  3. SID
    52-2: Invited Paper: ChromaCorrect: Prescription Correction in Virtual Reality Headsets through Perceptual Guidance
    In SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, May 2023
  4. SID
    19-4: Improving Defocus Blur in Holographic Displays
    Koray KavaklıYuta ItohHakan Urey, and Kaan Akşit
    In SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, May 2023
  5. US Patent
    Method and apparatus for spatiotemporal enhancement of patch scanning displays
    Kaan Akşit
    May 2023
    US Patent 11,663,945
  6. Biomedical Optics Express
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    ChromaCorrect: Prescription Correction in Virtual Reality Headsets through Perceptual Guidance
    Biomedical Optics Express, Apr 2023
  7. IEEE VR
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    HoloBeam: Paper-Thin Near-Eye Displays
    Kaan Akşit, and Yuta Itoh
    In 2023 IEEE Conference Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), Mar 2023
  8. IEEE VR
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    Realistic Defocus Blur for Multiplane Computer-Generated Holography
    Koray KavaklıYuta ItohHakan Urey, and Kaan Akşit
    IEEE VR 2023, Mar 2023
  9. SPIE PW
    Mitigating edge fringe effects in multiplane holography
    Koray KavaklıKaan AkşitYuta Itoh, and Hakan Urey
    In Optical Architectures for Displays and Sensing in Augmented, Virtual, and Mixed Reality (AR, VR, MR) IV, Feb 2023
  10. SPIE PW
    Flexible modeling of next-generation displays using a differentiable toolkit
    Kaan Akşit, and Koray Kavaklı
    In Practical Holography XXXVII: Displays, Materials, and Applications, Feb 2023

2022

  1. Optics Express
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    Unrolled Primal-Dual Networks for Lensless Cameras
    Oliver KingshottNick AntipaEmrah Bostan, and Kaan Akşit
    Optics Express, Dec 2022
  2. IEEE TVCG
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    Metameric inpainting for image warping
    IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph., Oct 2022
  3. Optica
    Introduction to Odak: a Differentiable Toolkit for Optical Sciences, Vision Sciences and Computer Graphics
    Koray Kavaklı, and Kaan Akşit
    In Frontiers in Optics, Oct 2022
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    Optimizing vision and visuals: lectures on cameras, displays and perception
    ACM SIGGRAPH 2022, Aug 2022
  5. LIM
    Perceptually guided Computer-Generated Holography
    Kaan Akşit
    In London Imaging Meeting 2022, Aug 2022
  6. SIGCHI
    Telelife: A vision of remote living in 2035
    In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI, Apr 2022
  7. IEEE VR
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    Metameric Varifocal Holograms
    In 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), Mar 2022
  8. Applied Optics
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    Learned holographic light transport
    Koray KavaklıHakan Urey, and Kaan Akşit
    Applied Optics, Feb 2022
    :medal_sports: Invited
  9. SPIE PW
    Beaming displays: towards displayless augmented reality near-eye displays
    Kaan AkşitYuta Itoh, and Takumi Kaminokado
    In AI and Optical Data Sciences III, Jan 2022
  10. SPIE PW
    Perceptually guided computer-generated holography
    In Advances in Display Technologies XII, Jan 2022

2021

  1. SIGGRAPH
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    Beyond blur: Real-time ventral metamers for foveated rendering
    ACM Transactions on Graphics, Aug 2021
  2. ACM UIST
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    Sensicut: Material-aware laser cutting using speckle sensing and deep learning
    In The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Aug 2021
  3. IEEE VR
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    Beaming displays
    Yuta ItohTakumi Kaminokado, and Kaan Akşit
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Mar 2021
    :medal_sports: Best paper nominee
  4. US Patent
    Driver gaze tracking system for use in vehicles
    Mar 2021
    US Patent App. 16/578,077
  5. Frontiers in Virtual Reality
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    Telelife: The Future of Remote Living
    Frontiers in Virtual Reality, Mar 2021
  6. Optica
    Towards Remote Pixelless Displays
    Kaan Akşit
    In Digital Holography and Three-Dimensional Imaging, Mar 2021
  7. US Patent
    Method and apparatus for spatiotemporal enhancement of patch scanning displays
    Kaan Akşit
    Aug 2021
    US Patent 11,100,830

2020

  1. Optics Express
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    Patch scanning displays: spatiotemporal enhancement for displays
    Kaan Akşit
    Optics express, Aug 2020
  2. IEEE VR
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    Toward standardized classification of foveated displays
    IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, Aug 2020
  3. arxiv
    Gaze-sensing leds for head mounted displays
    Kaan AkşitJan Kautz, and David Luebke
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.08499, Aug 2020
  4. US Patent
    Computational blur for varifocal displays
    Morgan McGuire, Kaan Akşit , Pete Shirley, and David Luebke
    Jun 2020
    US Patent 10,699,383
  5. IEEE ISMAR
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    Optical gaze tracking with spatially-sparse single-pixel detectors
    In 2020 IEEE international symposium on mixed and augmented reality (ISMAR), Jun 2020
  6. US Patent
    Gaze tracking system for use in head mounted displays
    Nov 2020
    US Patent 10,838,492

2019

  1. IEEE VR
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    Manufacturing application-driven foveated near-eye displays
    IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, Nov 2019
    :medal_sports: Best paper nominee
  2. IEEE VR
    RetroTracker: Upgrading Existing Virtual Reality Tracking Systems
    In 2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR), Nov 2019
  3. Eurographics
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    Near-eye display and tracking technologies for virtual and augmented reality
    In Computer Graphics Forum, Nov 2019
  4. US Patent
    Catadioptric on-axis virtual/augmented reality glasses system and method
    Kaan Akşit, and David Patrick Luebke
    Jun 2019
    US Patent 10,317,678
  5. SIGGRAPH
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    Foveated AR: dynamically-foveated augmented reality display.
    ACM Trans. Graph., Jun 2019
  6. SIGGRAPH
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    Matching prescription & visual acuity: Towards ar for humans
    In ACM SIGGRAPH 2019 Emerging Technologies, Jun 2019
    :medal_sports: Emerging technologies best in show award
  7. US patent
    Holographic reflective slim virtual/augmented reality display system and method
    Sep 2019
    US Patent 10,401,623
  8. US patent
    System and method for foveated image generation using an optical combiner
    Ward Lopes, and Kaan Akşit
    Nov 2019
    US Patent 10,481,684

2018

  1. IEEE VR
    Cutting-edge VR/AR display technologies (gaze-, accommodation-, motion-aware and HDR-enabled)
    In IEEE VR 2018-25th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces, Nov 2018
  2. Cutting-edge VR/AR display technologies (gaze-, accommodation-, motion-aware and HDR-enabled)
    In SIGGRAPH Asia 2018 Courses, Nov 2018
  3. SID
    10-1: Towards Varifocal Augmented Reality Displays using Deformable Beamsplitter Membranes
    David DunnPraneeth Chakravarthula, Qian Dong, Kaan Akşit, and Henry Fuchs
    In SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, Nov 2018
  4. US Patent
    Electro-stimulation Device
    Dec 2018
    US Patent 9855426B2
  5. SIGGRAPH
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    Steerable application-adaptive near eye displays
    In ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies, Dec 2018
    :medal_sports: Emerging Technology Best in Show Award
  6. IEEE ISMAR
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    Focusar: Auto-focus augmented reality eyeglasses for both real world and virtual imagery
    IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, Dec 2018
    :medal_sports: Best paper award
  7. US Patent
    Holographic reflective slim virtual/augmented reality display system and method
    Dec 2018
    US Patent 10,151,924

2017

  1. IEEE VR
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    Wide field of view varifocal near-eye display using see-through deformable membrane mirrors
    IEEE transactions on visualization and computer graphics, Dec 2017
    :medal_sports: Best Paper Award
  2. Optica 3DIAD
    Computational Displays for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Applications
    Kaan Akşit
    In 3D Image Acquisition and Display: Technology, Perception and Applications, Dec 2017
  3. SIGGRAPH
    Varifocal virtuality: a novel optical layout for near-eye display
    Kaan AkşitWard LopesJonghyun KimJosef SpjutAnjul PatneyPeter ShirleyDavid LuebkeSteven A Cholewiak, Pratul Srinivasan, Ren Ng, and  others
    In ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Emerging Technologies, Dec 2017
  4. SIGGRAPH
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    Membrane AR: varifocal, wide field of view augmented reality display from deformable membranes
    In ACM SIGGRAPH 2017 Emerging Technologies, Dec 2017
    :medal_sports: Emerging Technologies DCEXPO Special Prize
  5. SIGGRAPH
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    Near-eye varifocal augmented reality display using see-through screens
    ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), Dec 2017

2015

  1. SID
    Head tracked retroreflecting 3D display
    Phil SurmanSally Day, Xianzi Liu, Joshua Benjamin, Hakan Urey, and Kaan Akşit
    Journal of the Society for Information Display, Dec 2015
  2. Applied Optics
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    Slim near-eye display using pinhole aperture arrays
    Kaan AkşitJan Kautz, and David Luebke
    Applied optics, Dec 2015
  3. Head-mounted mixed reality projection display for games production and entertainment
    Daniel KadeKaan AkşitHakan Urey, and Oğuzhan Özcan
    Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Dec 2015

2014

  1. IEEE Globecom
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    From sound to sight: Using audio processing to enable visible light communication
    In 2014 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), Dec 2014
  2. SID
    56.6 L: Late-News Paper: Modular Multi-Projection Multi-View Autostereoscopic Display using MEMS Laser Projectors
    Kaan AkşitSelim Ölçer, and Hakan Urey
    In SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, Dec 2014
  3. SID
    P-187L: Late-News Poster: Improved 3D with Super Stereoscopy Technique
    In SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, Dec 2014
  4. PhD thesis
    Next Generation 3D Display Applications using Laser Scanning Pico Projectors
    Kaan Akşit
    Available at SSRN 3698405, Dec 2014
  5. IEEE 3DTV
    Super stereoscopy 3D glasses for more realistic 3D vision
    In 2014 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision-Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), Dec 2014
  6. IEEE Comm
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    Connecting networks of toys and smartphones with visible light communication
    IEEE communications magazine, Jul 2014
  7. ACM CACET
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    Head-worn mixed reality projection display application
    Kaan AkşitDaniel KadeOğuzhan Özcan, and Hakan Urey
    In Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Nov 2014
  8. Optics Letters
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    Super stereoscopy technique for comfortable and realistic 3D displays
    Optics letters, Nov 2014

2013

  1. IEEE MEMS
    MEMS scanners and emerging 3D and interactive augmented reality display applications
    H UreyS HolmstromU BaranKaan AkşitMK Hedili, and O Eldes
    In 2013 Transducers & Eurosensors XXVII: The 17th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (TRANSDUCERS & EUROSENSORS XXVII), Nov 2013
  2. Optics Express
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    Dynamic exit pupil trackers for autostereoscopic displays
    Optics express, Jun 2013
  3. SID
    Paper No 15.1: Augmented Reality and 3D Displays Using Pico-Projectors
    Kaan AkşitOsman EldesM Kivanc Hedili, and Hakan Urey
    In SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, Jun 2013
  4. SID
    Paper No 15.2: Head-Tracked Retroreflecting 3D Display
    Phil SurmanSally Day, Bonny Boby , Hao Chen, Hakan Urey, and Kaan Akşit
    In SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, Jun 2013
  5. SID
    Paper No 17.4: Auto-Stereoscopic Projection Display Using Rotating Screen
    Osman EldesKaan Akşit, and Hakan Urey
    In SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, Jun 2013
  6. IEEE 3DTV
    Single and multi-user head tracked glasses-free 3D displays
    Phil SurmanSally DayKaan AkşitHakan Urey, Joshua Benjamin, Kuber Jain , and Hao Chen
    In 2013 3DTV Vision Beyond Depth (3DTV-CON), Jun 2013
  7. Optics Express
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    Multi-view autostereoscopic projection display using rotating screen
    Osman EldesKaan Akşit, and Hakan Urey
    Optics Express, Nov 2013
    :medal_sports: Spotlight on Optics at Optica

2012

  1. Optica Con.
    Novel 3D displays using micro-optics and MEMS
    H. UreyKaan Akşit, and O. Eldes
    In International Conference on Fibre Optics and Photonics, Nov 2012
  2. JoDT
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    Portable 3D Laser Projector using Mixed Polarization Technique
    Kaan AkşitO. EldesS. ViswanathenM. Freeman, and H. Urey
    Journal of Display Technology, Sep 2012
    :medal_sports: Best 3D product award of International 3D Society (4th year)
  3. IMID
    Multiple body tracking for interactive mobile projectors
    Kaan AkşitO Eldes, and Hakan Urey
    In IMID2012 conference, 2012, SID/KIDS, Sep 2012

2011

  1. SID
    48.4: Beam Forming for a Laser Based Auto-stereoscopic Multi-Viewer Display
    H. BaghsiahiD.R. SelviahE. WillmanA. FernándezS.E. DayKaan AkşitS. ÖlçerA. MostafazadehE. Erden, V.C. Kishore, and  others
    In , Sep 2011
  2. IEEE 3DTV
    Light engine and optics for HELIUM3D auto-stereoscopic laser scanning display
    Kaan AkşitS. ÖlçerE. Erden, VC Kishore, H. UreyE. WillmanH. BaghsiahiS.E. DayD.R. SelviahAnı́bal Fernández, and  others
    In 3DTV Conference: The True Vision-Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), Turkey, 2011, Sep 2011

2010

  1. Optics Express
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    Heart rate monitoring via remote photoplethysmography with motion artifacts reduction
    Giovanni CenniniJeremie ArguelKaan Akşit, and Arno Leest
    Optics Express, Mar 2010