Machine Learning in Photonics: Progress, Challenges, and Future Prospects
A special issue of Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732). This special issue belongs to the section "Optical Interaction Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2025) | Viewed by 1232
Special Issue Editors
Interests: machine learning; polarimetry; Mueller matrix; biophotonics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, machine learning has brought transformative advances across various scientific domains, and especially to Photonics and Optics. In these disciplines, where light acts as an information carrier, the introduction of machine learning methodologies has emerged as a cornerstone that fundamentally enhances our capabilities for feature detection and characterization, elevating the resolution, speed, and quality of optical systems and even facilitating the generation of data across various modalities.
This Special Issue aims to present insights and breakthroughs from leading experts working in the multidisciplinary field of machine learning and Photonics, from improving health diagnostics in biomedical engineering and enhancing our understanding of biological processes in biophotonics to advancing our capabilities in remote sensing, refining techniques in ellipsometry, and exploring the depths of marine science.
Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Machine learning for optical imaging systems.
- Deep learning.
- Super resolution.
- Cross-modality image generation.
- Biomedical engineering.
- Optical diagnostics.
- Remote sensing.
- Biomedical imaging.
- Marine particle sensing.
All manuscripts will be considered pending peer review. Research articles, reviews, and perspectives are welcome.
Dr. Jiachen Wan
Dr. Yue Yao
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- photonics
- optics
- biophotonics, biomedical imaging, machine learning
- deep learning
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