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Led by Professor Junya Wang at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the team has pushed the envelope by introducing a method inspired by human visual “gaze” behavior. Instead of hardware upgrades, their solution dynamically adjusts the MEMS scanning trajectory so that, within a fixed sampling budget, more attention is directed toward regions of interest (ROIs).