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Optica ImageSense Congress

11 - 15 July 2027


The Westin Ottawa
Ottawa, ON CANADA

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The Optica ImageSense Congress brings together the broad optical imaging and sensing communities to advance the science, technologies and applications that enable us to acquire, measure, process and interpret information about the world.

ImageSense builds on the strong scientific communities established through Optica’s longstanding Imaging and Sensing topical meetings. As these fields increasingly converge—through advances in computation and AI, novel sources and detectors, integrated and flat optics, quantum technologies, new imaging modalities and increasingly complex measurement systems—ImageSense provides a unified forum that strengthens connections across traditional topical boundaries while preserving the breadth and expertise of its established communities.

ImageSense Technical Topics

The ImageSense technical program is organized around eight broad areas:

  1. Advanced Imaging Systems and Technologies
  2. Computational Imaging Techniques
  3. Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Measurement
  4. Environmental and Atmospheric Characterization
  5. Spectroscopy and Chemical Analysis
  6. Quantum Sensing and Metrology
  7. Components and Architectures for Sensing and Imaging
  8. Photonic and Biological/Biomedical Sensing and Imaging

These areas are intentionally broad and interconnected. Research may span multiple technical topics, and the new structure is not intended to assign each historical topical community to a single category.

Where Does My Research Fit?

Authors should select the technical topic that best represents the primary science, technology or methodology of their work. Because many areas of imaging and sensing are inherently interdisciplinary, authors may also identify relevant secondary technical topics.

For applied research, authors can additionally select an application area. This allows research using different technologies to be connected through a shared application and allows technical communities whose work spans many applications to remain visible across the Congress.

For example, a researcher developing laser-based measurements for combustion could select Spectroscopy and Chemical Analysis as a technical topic and Combustion, Propulsion & Hypersonics as an application area. A researcher using hyperspectral imaging for crop monitoring might select Advanced Imaging Systems and Technologies together with Agriphotonics, Food & Agriculture. Research in stand-off chemical detection could connect Spectroscopy and Chemical Analysis with Defense, Security & Threat Detection or Environmental Monitoring, Earth Observation & Climate, depending on the application.

This flexible structure is designed to help authors find the most relevant audience for their work while creating opportunities for interaction across technologies, applications and established research communities.

Coming from One of Our Established Topical Communities?

Find your community below to see where familiar areas of research are represented across the new ImageSense technical topics.

3D imaging and acquisition, displays, AR/VR, light-field and volumetric imaging, depth sensing, perception and related computational methods.

Connects to: Advanced Imaging Systems and Technologies; Computational Imaging Techniques.

Adaptive optical systems, wavefront sensing and control, turbulence compensation, wavefront shaping, and applications from astronomy and communications to microscopy and vision.

Connects to: Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Measurement; Advanced Imaging Systems and Technologies; Environmental and Atmospheric Characterization.

Optical and spectroscopic technologies addressing industrial challenges, including process monitoring, agriculture and food, energy, environmental sensing, and emerging analytical methods.

Connects to: Spectroscopy and Chemical Analysis; Components and Architectures for Sensing and Imaging.

Computational approaches that combine optics, sensing and algorithms, including inverse problems, AI/ML, phase retrieval, compressive and lensless imaging, computational microscopy and unconventional imaging modalities.

Connects to: Computational Imaging Techniques; Advanced Imaging Systems and Technologies.

Digital holography, quantitative phase imaging, holographic microscopy and tomography, computational holography, phase retrieval, wavefront methods, displays and emerging holographic technologies.

DH retains its established identity as an Optica topical meeting and is held as a standalone meeting in alternating years. In the appropriate cycle, DH joins the ImageSense Congress.

Connects to: Advanced Imaging Systems and Technologies; Computational Imaging Techniques; Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Measurement.

Optical sensing of the environment from point measurements to global observations, spanning new photonic technologies, field-deployed sensors, monitoring networks and remote sensing.

Connects to: Environmental and Atmospheric Characterization; Spectroscopy and Chemical Analysis; Components and Architectures for Sensing and Imaging.

Fourier transform and frequency-comb spectroscopy, instrumentation and applications spanning atmospheric science, astronomy, analytical chemistry, biomedicine, quantum science and industry.

Connects to: Spectroscopy and Chemical Analysis; Components and Architectures for Sensing and Imaging.

Hyperspectral and multispectral imaging, instrumentation, data analysis and remote sensing for atmospheric, aquatic, terrestrial and other environmental applications.

Connects to: Advanced Imaging Systems and Technologies; Environmental and Atmospheric Characterization.

Optical imaging systems and technologies spanning microscopy, biomedical imaging, emerging imaging modalities, computational methods, autonomous systems, industry and other applications.

Connects to: Advanced Imaging Systems and Technologies; Computational Imaging Techniques; Components and Architectures for Sensing and Imaging.

Laser and optical measurement technologies for chemical, security and environmental analysis, including spectroscopy and imaging, remote sensing, reacting flows, industrial processes, energy and emerging sensing technologies.

Connects to: Spectroscopy and Chemical Analysis; Environmental and Atmospheric Characterization; Components and Architectures for Sensing and Imaging; and other relevant ImageSense topics.

Optical fiber, laser-based, biological, chemical and other sensors, spanning source and detector technologies, sensor architectures and processing, integration, and diverse sensing applications.

Connects to: Photonic and Biological/Biomedical Sensing and Imaging; Components and Architectures for Sensing and Imaging; and other relevant ImageSense topics.

Optical propagation through atmospheric and oceanic environments, including turbulence and environmental characterization, propagation modeling, free-space and underwater communications, and compensation techniques.

Connects to: Environmental and Atmospheric Characterization; Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Measurement.

Quantum-enabled sensing, imaging and precision measurement, including quantum sources and detectors, atomic and solid-state sensors, quantum-enhanced measurement and emerging applications.

Connects to: Quantum Sensing and Metrology; Components and Architectures for Sensing and Imaging.

Imaging and tomography using X-rays and other energetic particles, including sources, detectors, physical models, reconstruction methods and applications.

Connects to: Advanced Imaging Systems and Technologies; Computational Imaging Techniques; Components and Architectures for Sensing and Imaging.

 
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