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We present an updated version of SKIRT, a 3D Monte Carlo radiative transfer code developed to simulate dusty galaxies. The main novel characteristics of the SKIRT code are the use of a stellar foam to generate random positions, an efficient…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Maarten Baes , Joris Verstappen , Ilse De Looze , Jacopo Fritz , Waad Saftly , Edgardo Vidal Pérez , Marko Stalevski , Sander Valcke

A novel design procedure for practical hierarchical distribution matchers (HiDMs) in probabilistically shaped constellation systems is presented. The proposed approach enables the determination of optimal parameters for any target…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Pantea Nadimi Goki , Luca Potì

We present a new computation method for simulating reflection high-energy electron diffraction and the total-reflection high-energy positron diffraction experiments. The two experiments are used commonly for the structural analysis of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-02 Shuhei Kudo , Yusaku Yamamoto , Takeo Hoshi

We present a new algorithm for identifying dark matter halos, substructure, and tidal features. The approach is based on adaptive hierarchical refinement of friends-of-friends groups in six phase-space dimensions and one time dimension,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-15 Peter S. Behroozi , Risa H. Wechsler , Hao-Yi Wu

Photon transport through a diffusing slab can be described by the radiative transfer equation (RTE). When the slab is highly scattering and weakly absorbing, the RTE simplifies to the diffusion equation. In this paper, an inverse diffusion…

Aims. We present an implementation of an algorithm for 3D time-dependent Monte Carlo radiative transfer. It allows one to simulate temperature distributions as well as images and spectral energy distributions of the scattered light and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 A. Bensberg , S. Wolf

Interstellar dust absorbs stellar light very efficiently and thus shapes the energetic output of galaxies. Studying the impact of different stellar populations on the dust heating remains hard because it requires decoupling the relative…

Modern datasets span billions of samples, making training on all available data infeasible. Selecting a high quality subset helps in reducing training costs and enhancing model quality. Submodularity, a discrete analogue of convexity, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Maximilian Böther , Abraham Sebastian , Pranjal Awasthi , Ana Klimovic , Srikumar Ramalingam

The proposed RMS-FlowNet++ is a novel end-to-end learning-based architecture for accurate and efficient scene flow estimation that can operate on high-density point clouds. For hierarchical scene f low estimation, existing methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ramy Battrawy , René Schuster , Didier Stricker

Time series forecasting presents significant challenges due to the complex temporal dependencies at multiple time scales. This paper introduces ScatterFusion, a novel framework that synergistically integrates scattering transforms with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Wei Li

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in high-fidelity image, video, and audio generation, yet inference remains computationally expensive. Nevertheless, current diffusion acceleration methods based on distributed parallelism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Euisoo Jung , Byunghyun Kim , Hyunjin Kim , Seonghye Cho , Jae-Gil Lee

Learning implicit representations has been a widely used solution for surface reconstruction from 3D point clouds. The latest methods infer a distance or occupancy field by overfitting a neural network on a single point cloud. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Chao Chen , Yu-Shen Liu , Zhizhong Han

A novel method for monochromatic scalar 3D radiative transfer, designed primarily for modeling remote sensing imaging, is presented. For simulating an observation of an imaging satellite instrument, the method uses a heuristic scattering…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Antti Mikkonen , Anssi Koskinen , Johanna Tamminen , Hannakaisa Lindqvist

The direct comparison between hydrodynamical simulations and observations is needed to improve the physics included in the former and test biases in the latter. Post-processing radiative transfer and synthetic observations are now the…

LiDAR point clouds are fundamental to various applications, yet high-precision scans incur substantial storage and transmission overhead. Existing methods typically convert unordered points into hierarchical octree or voxel structures for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Pengpeng Yu , Haoran Li , Runqing Jiang , Jing Wang , Liang Lin , Yulan Guo

Radiative transfer models in a spherical, turbulent interstellar medium (ISM) in which the photon source is situated at the center are calculated to investigate the correlation between the scattered light and the dust column density. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Kwang-Il Seon , Adolf N. Witt

We present two types of numerical prescriptions that accelerate the radiative transfer calculation around point sources within a three-dimensional Cartesian grid by using the oct-tree structure for the distribution of radiation sources. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-19 Takashi Okamoto , Kohji Yoshikawa , Masayuki Umemura

Diffusion-based classifiers such as those relying on the Personalized PageRank and the Heat kernel, enjoy remarkable classification accuracy at modest computational requirements. Their performance however is affected by the extent to which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-20 Dimitris Berberidis , Athanasios N. Nikolakopoulos , Georgios B. Giannakis

In this paper we demonstrate a computational method to solve the inverse scattering problem for a star-shaped, smooth, penetrable obstacle in 2D. Our method is based on classical ideas from computational geometry. First, we approximate the…

We present the first radiative transfer (RT) model of a non-edge-on disk galaxy in which the large-scale geometry of stars and dust is self-consistently derived through fitting of multiwavelength imaging observations from the UV to the…