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To generate the standard microlensing light curve one assumes that the relative motion of the source, the lens, and the observer is linear. In reality, the relative motion is likely to be more complicated due to accelerations of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. C. Smith , S. Mao , B. Paczynski

Dual-panel displays require local dimming algorithms in order to reproduce content with high fidelity and high dynamic range. In this work, a novel deep learning based local dimming method is proposed for rendering HDR images on dual-panel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Lvyin Duan , Demetris Marnerides , Alan Chalmers , Zhichun Lei , Kurt Debattista

Longtime monitoring of gravitational lens systems is often done using telescopes and recording equipment with modest resolution. Still, it would be interesting to get as much information as possible from the measured lightcurves. From high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Hirv , T. Eenmäe , T. Liimets , L. J. Liivamägi , J. Pelt

Stellar limb darkening affects a wide range of astronomical measurements and is frequently modelled with a parametric model using polynomials in the cosine of the angle between the line of sight and the emergent intensity. Two-parameter…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 David M. Kipping

Previous methods decompose blind super resolution (SR) problem into two sequential steps: \textit{i}) estimating blur kernel from given low-resolution (LR) image and \textit{ii}) restoring SR image based on estimated kernel. This two-step…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Zhengxiong Luo , Yan Huang , Shang Li , Liang Wang , Tieniu Tan

We prove a gravitational lensing theorem: the magnification of a source of uniform brightness by a foreground spherical lens is mu =1+pi(2R_E^2-R_L^2)/A, where A is the area of the source and R_E and R_L are the Einstein radius and size of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Eric Agol

We propose the first general framework to automatically correct different types of geometric distortion in a single input image. Our proposed method employs convolutional neural networks (CNNs) trained by using a large synthetic distortion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Xiaoyu Li , Bo Zhang , Pedro V. Sander , Jing Liao

The Green's function Monte Carlo (GFMC) method provides accurate solutions to the nuclear many-body problem and predicts properties of light nuclei starting from realistic two- and three-body interactions. Controlling the GFMC fermion-sign…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-04-07 Gurtej Kanwar , Alessandro Lovato , Noemi Rocco , Michael Wagman

Redshift measurement has always been a constant need in modern astronomy and cosmology. And as new surveys have been providing an immense amount of data on astronomical objects, the need to process such data automatically proves to be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-22 Felipe M F de Oliveira , Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Ribamar R R Reis

For light curve generation, a pre-planned photometry survey is needed nowadays, where all of the exposure coordinates have to be given and don't change during the survey. This thesis shows it is not required and we can data-mine these light…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Ing. Jiří Nádvorník

Ill-posed linear inverse problems (ILIP), such as restoration and reconstruction, are a core topic of signal/image processing. A standard approach to deal with ILIP uses a constrained optimization problem, where a regularization function is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Manya V. Afonso , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias , Mario A. T. Figueiredo

This research explores the enhancement of lunar landing precision through an advanced structured light system, integrating machine learning, Iterative Learning Control (ILC) and Structured Illumination Microscopy (SIM) techniques. By…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Tarek A. Elsharhawy , P. James Schuck , Shuo Liu , Luc Saikali

We propose a new algorithm to the problem of polygonal curve approximation based on a multiresolution approach. This algorithm is suboptimal but still maintains some optimality between successive levels of resolution using dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pierre-François Marteau , Gilbas Ménier

A linear algebraic method named the shifted conjugate-orthogonal-conjugate-gradient method is introduced for large-scale electronic structure calculation. The method gives an iterative solver algorithm of the Green's function and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Takayama , T. Hoshi , T. Sogabe , S. -L. Zhang , T. Fujiwara

We compare various approaches to find the most efficient method for the practical computation of the lightcurves (integrated brightnesses) of irregularly shaped bodies such as asteroids at arbitrary viewing and illumination geometries. For…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-05 Mikko Kaasalainen , Xiaoping Lu , Anssi-Ville Vänttinen

We present a method for early detection of lymphatic fluid accumulation in lymphedema patients based on microwave imaging of the limb volume across an air gap. The proposed algorithm uses contour information of the imaged limb surface to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Yuyi Chang , Nithin Sugavanam , Emre Ertin

Computational color constancy is a preprocessing step used in many camera systems. The main aim is to discount the effect of the illumination on the colors in the scene and restore the original colors of the objects. Recently, several deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Firas Laakom , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Jarno Nikkanen , Moncef Gabbouj

We revisit the volume Green's function integral equation for modelling light scattering with discretization strategies as well as numerical integration recipes borrowed from finite element method. The merits of introducing finite element…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Wen Li , Dong Tan , Jing Xu , Shubo Wang , Yuntian Chen

Eyeframe lens tracing is an important process in the optical industry that requires sub-millimeter precision to ensure proper lens fitting and optimal vision correction. Traditional frame tracers rely on mechanical tools that need precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Manel Guzmán , Antonio Agudo

Detecting colour changes of a gravitational microlensing event induced by the limb-darkened extended source effect is important to obtain useful information both about the lens and source star. However, precise measurements of the colour…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Cheongho Han , Seong-Hong Park