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Performing trajectory design for humanoid robots with high degrees of freedom is computationally challenging. The trajectory design process also often involves carefully selecting various hyperparameters and requires a good initial guess…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Bohao Zhang , Ram Vasudevan

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems have greatly improved the interpretation of medical images by radiologists and surgeons. However, current CAD systems for fracture detection in X-ray images primarily rely on large, resource-intensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Abdesselam Ferdi

We develop a new three-dimensional time-dependent radiative transfer code, TRINITY (Time-dependent Radiative transfer In Near-Infrared TomographY), for in-vivo diffuse optical tomography (DOT). The simulation code is based on the design of…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Hidenobu Yajima , Makito Abe , Masayuki Umemura , Yuichi Takamizu , Yoko Hoshi

High redshift sources suffer from magnification or demagnification due to weak gravitational lensing by large scale structure. One consequence of this is that the distance-redshift relation, in wide use for cosmological tests, suffers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Madhura Killedar , Paul D. Lasky , Geraint F. Lewis , Chris J. Fluke

We present CARTO, a novel approach for reconstructing multiple articulated objects from a single stereo RGB observation. We use implicit object-centric representations and learn a single geometry and articulation decoder for multiple object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Nick Heppert , Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Sergey Zakharov , Katherine Liu , Rares Andrei Ambrus , Jeannette Bohg , Abhinav Valada , Thomas Kollar

Numerical simulations are becoming a more effective tool for conducting detailed investigations into the evolution of our universe. In this article, we show how the framework of numerical relativity can be used for studying cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-13 David Garrison

This paper introduces Function-space Adaptive Constrained Trajectory Optimization (FACTO), a new trajectory optimization algorithm for both single- and multi-arm manipulators. Trajectory representations are parameterized as linear…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Yichang Feng , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

This paper presents the initial stages in the development of a deep learning classifier for generalised Resident Space Object (RSO) characterisation that combines high-fidelity simulated light curves with transfer learning to improve the…

We introduce a new, open-source computational general relativity framework for the Wolfram Language called Gravitas, which boasts a number of novel and distinctive features as compared to the many pre-existing computational and numerical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 Jonathan Gorard

The concept of geo-localization refers to the process of determining where on earth some `entity' is located, typically using Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. The entity of interest may be an image, sequence of images, a video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Daniel Wilson , Xiaohan Zhang , Waqas Sultani , Safwan Wshah

Future weak lensing surveys will map the evolution of matter perturbations and gravitational potentials, yielding a new test of general relativity on cosmic scales. They will probe the relations between matter overdensities, local…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 Gong-Bo Zhao , Levon Pogosian , Alessandra Silvestri , Joel Zylberberg

We present COSMOCR, a numerical code for the investigation of cosmic ray related studies in computational cosmology. The code follows the diffusive shock acceleration, the mechanical and radiative energy losses and the spatial transport of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Francesco Miniati

We present the latest version of the ray-tracing simulation code Skylens, which can be used to develop image simulations that reproduce strong lensing observations by any mass distribution with a high level of realism. Improvements of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-23 A. A. Plazas , M. Meneghetti , M. Maturi , J. Rhodes

We envision that in the near future, humanoid robots would share home space and assist us in our daily and routine activities through object manipulations. One of the fundamental technologies that need to be developed for robots is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Sayantan Chatterjee , Faheem H. Zunjani , Souvik Sen , Gora C. Nandi

Understanding and manipulating articulated objects, such as doors and drawers, is crucial for robots operating in human environments. We wish to develop a system that can learn to articulate novel objects with no prior interaction, after…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Harry Zhang , Ben Eisner , David Held

Creating and maintaining computer readable geometries for use in Monte Carlo Radiation Transport (MCRT) simulations is an error-prone and time-consuming task. Simulating a system often requires geometry from different sources and modelling…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-27 Stewart Boogert , Andrey Abramov , Laurence Nevay , William Shields , Stuart Walker

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a wide-field telescope project focused on detecting optical counterparts to gravitational-wave sources. Each GOTO robotic mount holds eight 40 cm telescopes, giving an overall…

This paper explores features of an idealized mathematical machine (algorithm) that would be capable of reconstructing the gravitational nature (the multipolar structure or spacetime metric) of a compact object, by observing gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jeandrew Brink

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), specifically drones equipped with remote sensing object detection technology, have rapidly gained a broad spectrum of applications and emerged as one of the primary research focuses in the field of computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Li Zhu , Jiahui Xiong , Feng Xiong , Hanzheng Hu , Zhengnan Jiang

As drone-based object detection technology continues to evolve, the demand is shifting from merely detecting objects to enabling users to accurately identify specific targets. For example, users can input particular targets as prompts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hyun-Ki Jung