Shock waves should not be shocking — engineers across scientific fields need to be able to precisely predict how the instant and strong pressure changes initiate and dissipate to prevent damage. Now, thanks to a team from YOKOHAMA National University, those predictions are even better understood.

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).