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Extensive air showers created by high-energy particles interacting with the Earth atmosphere can be detected using imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs). The IACT images can be analyzed to distinguish between the events caused by…

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The Atmospheric Cherenkov Imaging Technique has opened up the gamma-ray spectrum from 100 GeV to 50 TeV to astrophysical exploration. The development of the technique (with emphasis on the early days) is described as are the basic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Trevor C. Weekes

We alleviate the circularity problem, whereby gamma-ray bursts are not perfect distance indicators, by means of a new model-independent technique based on B\'ezier polynomials. To do so, we use the well consolidate \textit{Amati} and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino

The CTAO (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory) is an international observatory currently under construction. With more than sixty telescopes, it will eventually be the largest and most sensitive ground-based gamma-ray observatory. CTAO…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-12 Hana Ali Messaoud , Thomas Vuillaume , Tom François

Region-based methods have proven necessary for improving segmentation accuracy of neuronal structures in electron microscopy (EM) images. Most region-based segmentation methods use a scoring function to determine region merging. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Ting Liu , Miaomiao Zhang , Mehran Javanmardi , Nisha Ramesh , Tolga Tasdizen

Machine learning is now used in many areas of astrophysics, from detecting exoplanets in Kepler transit signals to removing telescope systematics. Recent work demonstrated the potential of using machine learning algorithms for atmospheric…

Canonical distances such as Euclidean distance often fail to capture the appropriate relationships between items, subsequently leading to subpar inference and prediction. Many algorithms have been proposed for automated learning of suitable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-24 Tyler M. Tomita , Joshua T. Vogelstein

Large water Cherenkov detectors have shaped our current knowledge of neutrino physics and nucleon decay, and will continue to do so in the foreseeable future. These highly capable detectors allow for directional and topological, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-02-04 Mo Jia , Karan Kumar , Liam S. Mackey , Alexander Putra , Cristovao Vilela , Michael J. Wilking , Junjie Xia , Chiaki Yanagisawa , Karan Yang

Random feature approximation is arguably one of the most widely used techniques for kernel methods in large-scale learning algorithms. In this work, we analyze the generalization properties of random feature methods, extending previous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-23 Mike Nguyen , Nicole Mücke

Ground segmentation is an important preprocessing task for autonomous vehicles (AVs) with 3D LiDARs. To solve the problem of existing ground segmentation methods being very difficult to balance accuracy and computational complexity, a fast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Weixin Huang , Huawei Liang , Linglong Lin , Zhiling Wang , Shaobo Wang , Biao Yu , Runxin Niu

Random Forests (RF) are among the most powerful and widely used predictive models for centralized tabular data, yet few methods exist to adapt them to the federated learning setting. Unlike most federated learning approaches, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Rémi Khellaf , Erwan Scornet , Aurélien Bellet , Julie Josse

The High-Altitude Water Cherenkov experiment (HAWC) observatory is located 4100 meters above sea level. HAWC is able to detect secondary particles from extensive air showers (EAS) initiated in the interaction of a primary particle (either a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 E. Bourbeau , T. Capistrán , I. Torres , E. Moreno

Targets search and detection encompasses a variety of decision problems such as coverage, surveillance, search, observing and pursuit-evasion along with others. In this paper we develop a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Roi Yehoshua , Juan Heredia-Juesas , Yushu Wu , Christopher Amato , Jose Martinez-Lorenzo

The sensitivity of ground-based imaging atmospheric Cherenkov gamma-ray observatories depends critically on the primary particle identification methods which are used to retain photon-initiated events and suppress the spurious background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 V. V. Bugaev , A. V. Plyasheshnikov , V. V. Vassiliev , T. C. Weekes

We investigate possible sky survey modes with the Middle Sized Telescopes (MST, aimed at covering the energy range from $\sim$100 GeV to 10 TeV) subsystem of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). We use the standard CTA tools, CORSIKA and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-20 M. Szanecki , D. Sobczyńska , A. Niedźwiecki , J. Sitarek , W. Bednarek

We propose a non-parametric regression methodology, Random Forests on Distance Matrices (RFDM), for detecting genetic variants associated to quantitative phenotypes representing the human brain's structure or function, and obtained using…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-09-25 Aaron Sim , Dimosthenis Tsagkrasoulis , Giovanni Montana

Detecting out of distribution (OOD) samples is of paramount importance in all Machine Learning applications. Deep generative modeling has emerged as a dominant paradigm to model complex data distributions without labels. However, prior work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Gowthami Somepalli , Yexin Wu , Yogesh Balaji , Bhanukiran Vinzamuri , Soheil Feizi

In recent years, ground-based very-high-energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray astronomy has experienced a major breakthrough with the impressive astrophysical results obtained mainly by the current generation experiments like H.E.S.S., MAGIC,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 R. M. Wagner , E. J. Lindfors , A. Sillanpää , S. Wagner

Thanks to the advances in robotic telescopes, the time domain astronomy leads to a large number of transient events detected in images every night. Data mining and machine learning tools used for object classification are presented. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-17 Martin Topinka

High energy gamma-ray astronomy is a newly emerging and very successful branch of astronomy and astrophysics. Exciting results have been obtained by the current generation Cherenkov telescope systems such as H.E.S.S., MAGIC, VERITAS and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Hermann , W. Hofmann , T. Schweizer , M. Teshima