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  1. All-Optical Selective Target Highlighting for Augmented Reality Microscopy

    Article • Optics Continuum, July 2026, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  2. Making 3D Holograms That Work from Novel Viewing Angle Without Recalculation.

    Article • ACM Transactions on Graphics, March 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Yicheng Zhan, Dong-Ha Shin, Kaan Akşit

  3. Learned Display Radiance Fields with Lensless Cameras

    Article • December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  4. Foveation Improves Payload Capacity in Steganography

    Article • December 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  5. Learned Single-Pass Multitasking Perceptual Graphics for Immersive Displays

    Article • October 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  6. Assessing Learned Models for Phase-only Hologram Compression

    Article • August 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  7. Efficient Proxy Raytracer for Optical Systems using Implicit Neural Representations

    Article • August 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  8. P‐129: Superluminescence: Pioneering the Future of Visual Excellence in AR/VR Displays

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, June 2025, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  9. Content-adaptive targeting scheme for holographic displays

    Article • March 2025, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  10. Diffractive processors enable all-optical image denoising

    Article • March 2025, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  11. Advancements in GaN-based horizontal-cavity and surface-emitting superluminescent diodes for next-generation holographic displays

    Article • March 2025, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  12. Learning plane-to-multiplane light propagation improves hologram optimization

    Article • March 2025, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  13. Role of perceptually guided image quality metrics in computer-generated holography

    Article • March 2025, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  14. Slim Diffractive Waveguide Glasses for Beaming Displays with Enhanced Head Orientation Tolerance

    Article • March 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  15. SpecTrack: Learned Multi-Rotation Tracking via Speckle Imaging

    Article • December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  16. Focal Surface Holographic Light Transport using Learned Spatially Adaptive Convolutions

    Article • November 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  17. Beaming Display Using Thin Holographic Waveguides for Wider Head Orientation Angle Range

    Article • October 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  18. Diffractive processors enable all-optical image denoising

    Article • October 2024, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  19. Socially Acceptable AR Glasses: Are We There Yet?

    Article • Optics and Photonics News, July 2024, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  20. 59‐1: Enhancing Brightness with Multi‐Color Holography

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, June 2024, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  21. AutoColor: learned light power control for multi-color holograms

    Article • March 2024, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  22. All-optical image denoising using a diffractive visual processor

    Article • Light Science & Applications, February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaan Akşit

  23. Perceptually-guided Multi-color Holograms unlock Brighter Images in Holographic Displays

    Article • January 2024, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  24. Image denoising using diffractive optical processors

    Article • January 2024, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  25. Multi-color Holograms Improve Brightness in Holographic Displays

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  26. Metameric Inpainting for Image Warping

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, December 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  27. 52‐2: Invited Paper: ChromaCorrect: Prescription Correction in Virtual Reality Headsets through Perceptual Guidance

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, June 2023, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  28. 19‐4: Improving Defocus Blur in Holographic Displays

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, June 2023, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  29. ChromaCorrect: prescription correction in virtual reality headsets through perceptual guidance

    Article • Biomedical Optics Express, April 2023, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  30. Mitigating edge fringe effects in multiplane holography

    Article • March 2023, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  31. Flexible modeling of next-generation displays using a differentiable toolkit

    Article • March 2023, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  32. HoloBeam: Paper-Thin Near-Eye Displays

    Article • March 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  33. Realistic Defocus Blur for Multiplane Computer-Generated Holography

    Article • March 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  34. Headsetless Holographic Virtual Reality Displays

    Article • January 2023, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  35. Unrolled primal-dual networks for lensless cameras

    Article • Optics Express, December 2022, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  36. Optimizing vision and visuals

    Article • August 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  37. Perceptually Guided Computer-generated Holography

    Article • London Imaging Meeting, July 2022, Society for Imaging Science & Technology

    Kaan Akşit

  38. Telelife: A Vision of Remote Living in 2035

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit, Nataliya Kosmyna, Jeeeun Kim

  39. Perceptually guided computer-generated holography

    Article • March 2022, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  40. Beaming displays: towards displayless augmented reality near-eye displays

    Article • March 2022, SPIE

    Kaan Akşit

  41. Metameric Varifocal Holograms

    Article • March 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  42. Introduction to Odak: a Differentiable Toolkit for Optical Sciences, Vision Sciences and Computer Graphics

    Article • January 2022, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  43. Realistic Image Reconstruction with Multiplane Computer-Generated Holography

    Article • January 2022, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  44. Telelife: The Future of Remote Living

    Article • Frontiers in Virtual Reality, November 2021, Frontiers

    Kaan Akşit

  45. Learned holographic light transport: invited

    Article • Applied Optics, November 2021, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  46. SensiCut: Material-Aware Laser Cutting Using Speckle Sensing and Deep Learning

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  47. Beyond blur

    Article • ACM Transactions on Graphics, July 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  48. Beaming Displays

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, May 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  49. Towards Remote Pixelless Displays

    Article • January 2021, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  50. Optical Gaze Tracking with Spatially-Sparse Single-Pixel Detectors

    Article • November 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  51. Toward Standardized Classification of Foveated Displays

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, May 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  52. Patch scanning displays: spatiotemporal enhancement for displays

    Article • Optics Express, January 2020, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  53. Foveated AR

    Article • ACM Transactions on Graphics, August 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  54. Matching prescription & visual acuity

    Article • July 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  55. Manufacturing Application-Driven Foveated Near-Eye Displays

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, May 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  56. Near‐Eye Display and Tracking Technologies for Virtual and Augmented Reality

    Article • Computer Graphics Forum, May 2019, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  57. RetroTracker: Upgrading Existing Virtual Reality Tracking Systems

    Article • March 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  58. Cutting-edge VR/AR display technologies (gaze-, accommodation-, motion-aware and HDR-enabled)

    Article • December 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  59. FocusAR: Auto-focus Augmented Reality Eyeglasses for both Real World and Virtual Imagery

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, November 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  60. Steerable application-adaptive near eye displays

    Article • August 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  61. 10‐1: Towards Varifocal Augmented Reality Displays using Deformable Beamsplitter Membranes

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, May 2018, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  62. Image Registration to Compensate for EPI Distortion in Patients with Brain Tumors: An Evaluation of Tract-Specific Effects

    Article • Journal of Neuroimaging, January 2018, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  63. Near-eye varifocal augmented reality display using see-through screens

    Article • ACM Transactions on Graphics, November 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  64. Membrane AR

    Article • July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  65. Varifocal virtuality

    Article • July 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  66. Wide Field Of View Varifocal Near-Eye Display Using See-Through Deformable Membrane Mirrors

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, April 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  67. Automated white matter fiber tract identification in patients with brain tumors

    Article • NeuroImage Clinical, January 2017, Elsevier

    Kaan Akşit

  68. Computational Displays for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Applications

    Article • January 2017, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  69. Characterization of gradient echo signal decays in healthy and cancerous prostate at 3T improves with a Gaussian augmentation of the mono-exponential (GAME) model

    Article • NMR in Biomedicine, May 2016, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  70. Characterizing gradient echo signal decays in gynecologic cancers at 3T using a Gaussian augmentation of the monoexponential (GAME) model

    Article • Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, March 2016, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  71. Dual-Pathway sequences for MR thermometry: When and where to use them

    Article • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, March 2016, Wiley

    Dr. CS Mei, Kaan Akşit

  72. Head-mounted mixed reality projection display for games production and entertainment

    Article • Personal Technologies, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Kaan Akşit

  73. Slim near-eye display using pinhole aperture arrays

    Article • Applied Optics, April 2015, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  74. Head tracked retroreflecting 3D display

    Article • Journal of the Society for Information Display, February 2015, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  75. Super stereoscopy technique for comfortable and realistic 3D displays

    Article • Optics Letters, December 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  76. From sound to sight: Using audio processing to enable visible light communication

    Article • December 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  77. Super stereoscopy 3D glasses for more realistic 3D vision

    Article • July 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  78. Connecting networks of toys and smartphones with visible light communication

    Article • IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  79. P-187L:Late-News Poster: Improved 3D with Super Stereoscopy Technique

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, June 2014, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  80. 56.6L:Late-News Paper: Modular Multi-Projection Multi-View Autostereoscopic Display using MEMS Laser Projectors

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, June 2014, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  81. Head-worn mixed reality projection display application

    Article • January 2014, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Kaan Akşit

  82. Next Generation 3D Display Applications using Laser Scanning Pico Projectors

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    Kaan Akşit

  83. Multi-view autostereoscopic projection display using rotating screen

    Article • Optics Express, November 2013, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  84. Noninvasive MRI measurement of the absolute cerebral blood volume–cerebral blood flow relationship during visual stimulation in healthy humans

    Article • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, October 2013, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  85. Single and multi-user head tracked glasses-free 3D displays

    Article • October 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  86. Navigated DENSE strain imaging for post-radiofrequency ablation lesion assessment in the swine left atria

    Article • EP Europace, September 2013, European Society of Cardiology

    Kaan Akşit

  87. Paper No 15.1: Augmented Reality and 3D Displays Using Pico-Projectors

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, September 2013, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  88. Paper No 15.2: Head-Tracked Retroreflecting 3D Display

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, September 2013, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  89. Paper No 17.4: Auto-Stereoscopic Projection Display Using Rotating Screen

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, September 2013, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  90. Dynamic exit pupil trackers for autostereoscopic displays

    Article • Optics Express, June 2013, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  91. MEMS scanners and emerging 3D and interactive Augmented Reality display applications

    Article • June 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  92. Non-invasive quantification of absolute cerebral blood volume during functional activation applicable to the whole human brain

    Article • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, March 2013, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  93. Portable 3D Laser Projector Using Mixed Polarization Technique

    Article • Journal of Display Technology, October 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  94. Novel 3D displays using micro-optics and MEMS

    Article • January 2012, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  95. 48.4: Beam Forming for a Laser Based Auto‐stereoscopic Multi‐Viewer Display

    Article • SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers, June 2011, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit

  96. Light engine and optics for HELIUM3D auto-stereoscopic laser scanning display

    Article • May 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Kaan Akşit

  97. Heart rate monitoring via remote photoplethysmography with motion artifacts reduction

    Article • Optics Express, February 2010, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Kaan Akşit

  98. O-space imaging: Highly efficient parallel imaging using second-order nonlinear fields as encoding gradients with no phase encoding

    Article • Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, January 2010, Wiley

    Kaan Akşit