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ArticleNature communications2025

Spectral convolutional neural network chip for in-sensor edge computing of incoherent natural light.

Kaiyu Cui, Shijie Rao, Sheng Xu, Yidong Huang, Xusheng Cai, Zhilei Huang, Yu Wang, Xue Feng, Fang Liu, Wei Zhang and 2 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors.

Kaiyu Cui *Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. kaiyucui@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3119-6072
Shijie Rao *Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1351-6615
Sheng XuDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Yidong HuangDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. yidonghuang@tsinghua.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4570-9449
Xusheng CaiBeijing Seetrum Technology Co., Beijing, China.
Zhilei HuangBeijing Seetrum Technology Co., Beijing, China.
Yu WangBeijing Seetrum Technology Co., Beijing, China.
Xue FengDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9057-1549
Fang LiuDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6781-8371
Wei ZhangDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6848-6807
Yali LiDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Shengjin WangDepartment of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Optical neural networks are considered next-generation physical implementations of artificial neural networks, but their capabilities are limited by on-chip integration scale and requirement for coherent light sources. This study proposes a spectral convolutional neural network (SCNN) with matter meta-imaging. The optical convolutional layer is implemented by integrating very large-scale and pixel-aligned spectral filters on CMOS image sensor. It facilitates highly parallel spectral vector-inner products of incident incoherent natural light i.e., the direct information carrier, which empowers in-sensor optical analog computing at extremely high energy efficiency. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first integrated optical computing utilizing natural light. We employ the same SCNN chip for completely different real-world complex tasks and achieve accuracies of over 96% for pathological diagnosis and almost 100% for face anti-spoofing at video rates. These results indicate a feasible and scalable in-sensor edge computing chip of natural light for various portable terminals.

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