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Biological tissues are complex structures composed of many elements which make light-based tissue diagnostics challenging. Over the past decades, Monte Carlo technique has been used as a fundamental and versatile approach toward modeling…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-17 Maryam Ghahremani

In this paper we provide an overview of a new framework for robot perception, real-world modelling, and navigation that uses a stochastic tesselated representation of spatial information called the Occupancy Grid. The Occupancy Grid is a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-04-05 A. Elfes

In this paper, we revisit the problem of indexing multi-dimensional data in memory for the efficient support of multi-dimensional range queries and nearest neighbor queries. This is a classic problem in main-memory databases, where there is…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Achilleas Michalopoulos , Dimitrios Tsitsigkos , Nikos Mamoulis

Radiative transfer calculations are essential for modeling planetary atmospheres. However, standard methods are computationally demanding and impose accuracy-speed trade-offs. High computational costs force numerical simplifications in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Isaac Malsky , Tiffany Kataria , Natasha E. Batalha , Matthew Graham

We compare the existent methods including the minimum spanning tree based method and the local stellar density based method, in measuring mass segregation of star clusters. We find that the minimum spanning tree method reflects more the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-14 Jincheng Yu , Thomas H. Puzia , Congping Lin , Yiwei Zhang

Contraction Hierarchies is a successful speedup-technique to Dijkstra's seminal shortest path algorithm that has a convenient trade-off between preprocessing and query times. We investigate a shared-memory parallel implementation that uses…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Dennis Luxen , Dennis Schieferdecker

We present a ray-tracing technique for radiative transfer modeling of complex three-dimensional (3D) structures which include dense regions of high optical depth like in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar disks, envelopes of evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Steinacker , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

Background: Designing amino acid sequences that are stable in a given target structure amounts to maximizing a conditional probability. A straightforward approach to accomplish this is a nested Monte Carlo where the conformation space is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Anders Irbäck , Carsten Peterson , Frank Potthast , Erik Sandelin

The radiative transfer equation models various physical processes ranging from plasma simulations to radiation therapy. In practice, these phenomena are often subject to uncertainties. Modeling and propagating these uncertainties requires…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Chinmay Patwardhan , Pia Stammer , Emil Løvbak , Jonas Kusch , Sebastian Krumscheid

We perform a comparison between two radiative transfer algorithms commonly employed in hydrodynamical calculations of star formation: grey flux limited diffusion and the hybrid scheme, in addition we compare these algorithms to results from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 James E. Owen , Barbara Ercolano , Cathie J. Clarke

We present SKIRT (Stellar Kinematics Including Radiative Transfer), a new Monte Carlo radiative transfer code that allows the calculation of the observed stellar kinematics of a dusty galaxy. The code incorporates the effects of both…

Monte Carlo dropout may effectively capture model uncertainty in deep learning, where a measure of uncertainty is obtained by using multiple instances of dropout at test time. However, Monte Carlo dropout is applied across the whole network…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-03 Liangping Ma , John Kaewell

Cancer is a primary cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. The radiotherapy plays a more and more important role in cancer treatment. In the radiotherapy, the dose distribution maps in patient need to be calculated and evaluated for…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Zhao Peng , Hongming Shan , Tianyu Liu , Xi Pei , Jieping Zhou , Ge Wang , X. George Xu

Oriented bounding box (OBB) bounding volume hierarchies offer a more precise fit than axis-aligned bounding box hierarchies in scenarios with thin elongated and arbitrarily rotated geometry, enhancing intersection test performance in ray…

Several studies rely on the de facto standard Adaptive Monte Carlo Localization (AMCL) method to localize a robot in an Occupancy Grid Map (OGM) extracted from a building information model (BIM model). However, most of these studies assume…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Miguel Arturo Vega Torres , Alexander Braun , André Borrmann

A novel hybrid Monte Carlo transport scheme is demonstrated in a scene with solar illumination, scattering and absorbing 2D atmosphere, a textured reflecting mountain, and a small detector located in the sky (mounted on a satellite or a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Guillaume Bal , Anthony Davis , Ian Langmore

TURTLE is a C library providing utilities allowing to navigate through a topography described by a Digital Elevation Model (DEM). The library has been primarily designed for the Monte Carlo transport of particles scattering over medium to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Valentin Niess , Anne Barnoud , Cristina Cârloganu , Olivier Martineau-Huynh

We developed an implicit Particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo model in two-dimensional and axisymmetric geometry for the simulations of the radio-frequency discharges, by introducing several numerical schemes which include variable weights,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Hong-yu Wang , Wei Jiang , You-nian Wang

Distribution grid is the medium and low voltage part of a large power system. Structurally, the majority of distribution networks operate radially, such that energized lines form a collection of trees, i.e. forest, with a substation being…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Deepjyoti Deka , Michael Chertkov , Scott Backhaus

Over-the-air computation (OAC) harnesses the natural superposition of wireless signals to compute aggregate functions during transmission, thereby collapsing communication and computation into a single step and significantly reducing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Saeed Razavikia , Carlo Fischione