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Distributed massive MIMO (D-mMIMO) has been considered for future networks as it holds the potential to offer superior capacity while enabling energy savings in the network. A D-mMIMO system has multiple arrays. Optimizing the locations of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-17 Yi-Hang Zhu , Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre , François Rottenberg

Iso-surface extraction from an implicit field is a fundamental process in various applications of computer vision and graphics. When dealing with geometric shapes with complicated geometric details, many existing algorithms suffer from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Daxuan Ren , Hezi Shi , Jianmin Zheng , Jianfei Cai

We have developed a 3-D Monte Carlo radiative transfer model which computes line and continuum polarization variability for a binary system with an optically thick non-axisymmetric envelope. This allows us to investigate the complex…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Kurosawa , D. J. Hillier

Monte Carlo techniques based on indivisible energy packets are described for computing light curves and spectra for 3-D supernovae. The radiative transfer is time-dependent and includes all effects of O(v/c). Monte Carlo quantization is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. B. Lucy

We present a new continuum 3D radiative transfer code, MCFOST, based on a Monte-Carlo method. MCFOST can be used to calculate (i) monochromatic images in scattered light and/or thermal emission, (ii) polarisation maps, (iii) interferometric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christophe Pinte , Francois Menard , Gaspard Duchene , Pierre Bastien

In recent years, spectral clustering has become one of the most popular clustering algorithms for image segmentation. However, it has restricted applicability to large-scale images due to its high computational complexity. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-13 Chongyang Zhang , Guofeng Zhu , Minxin Chen , Hong Chen , Chenjian Wu

3D non-LTE radiative transfer problems are computationally demanding, and this sets limits on the size of the problems that can be solved. So far Multilevel Accelerated Lambda Iteration (MALI) has been to the method of choice to perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-15 Johan P. Bjørgen , Jorrit Leenaarts

The computational cost of transfer matrix methods for the Potts model is directly related to the problem of \textit{into how many ways can two adjacent blocks of a lattice be connected}. Answering this question leads to the generation of a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Cristobal A. Navarro , Fabrizio Canfora , Nancy Hitschfeld Kahler , Gonzalo Navarro

Aims. Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer (MCRT) simulations are a powerful tool for understanding the role of dust in astrophysical systems and its influence on observations. However, due to the strong coupling of the radiation field and medium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Majda Smole , João Rino-Silvestre , Santiago González-Gaitán , Marko Stalevski

We present FitSKIRT, a method to efficiently fit radiative transfer models to UV/optical images of dusty galaxies. These images have the advantage that they have better spatial resolution compared to FIR/submm data. FitSKIRT uses the GAlib…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Gert De Geyter , Maarten Baes , Jacopo Fritz , Peter Camps

A modern radar may be designed to perform multiple functions, such as surveillance, tracking, and fire control. Each function requires the radar to execute a number of transmit-receive tasks. A radar resource management (RRM) module makes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Mahdi Shaghaghi , Raviraj S. Adve , Zhen Ding

We implement a Monte Carlo radiative transfer method, that uses a large number of monochromatic luminosity packets to represent the radiation transported through a system. These packets are injected into the system and interact…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Stamatellos , A. P. Whitworth

Oxyhydrides have drawn attention because of their fast ion conductivity and strong reducing properties. Recently, hydride ion migration in SrTiO$_{3-x}$H$_{x}$ oxyhydride crystals has been investigated, showing that hydride ion migration is…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-15 Hiroya Nakata

We describe an efficient Monte Carlo algorithm for a restricted class of scattering problems in radiation transfer. This class includes many astrophysically interesting problems, including the scattering of ultraviolet and visible light by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan M. Watson , William J. Henney

Establishing the correspondences between newly acquired points and historically accumulated data (i.e., map) through nearest neighbors search is crucial in numerous robotic applications. However, static tree data structures are inadequate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jun Zhu , Hongyi Li , Zhepeng Wang , Shengjie Wang , Tao Zhang

The Monte Carlo method is a powerful tool for performing radiative equilibrium calculations, even in complex geometries. The main drawback of the standard Monte Carlo radiative equilibrium methods is that they require iteration, which makes…

We developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer code for an ultra-relativistic background flow-field by using the Monte Carlo (MC) method in the context of gamma-ray burst (GRB) emission. For obtaining reliable simulation results in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 Ayako Ishii , Naofumi Ohnishi , Hiroki Nagakura , Hirotaka Ito , Shoichi Yamada

This paper describes Sunrise, a parallel, free Monte-Carlo code for the calculation of radiation transfer through astronomical dust. Sunrise uses an adaptive-mesh refinement grid to describe arbitrary geometries of emitting and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-05 Patrik Jonsson

Radar and lidar, provided by two different range sensors, each has pros and cons of various perception tasks on mobile robots or autonomous driving. In this paper, a Monte Carlo system is used to localize the robot with a rotating radar…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Huan Yin , Yue Wang , Li Tang , Rong Xiong

The massive hot stars play crucial role in the dynamics of galaxies. These stars influence their surroundings through strong winds which are highly structured processes. The theoretical study of the non-symmetric phenomena of the stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jakub Fišák , Jiří Kubát , Nicolas Moens , Brankica Kubátová