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Obstacle detection is one of the basic tasks of a robot movement in an unknown environment. The use of a LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) sensor allows one to obtain a point cloud in the vicinity of the sensor. After processing this…
KMOS is a multi-object near-infrared integral field spectrometer with 24 deployable pick-off arms. Data processing is inevitably complex. We discuss specific issues and requirements that must be addressed in the data reduction pipeline, the…
The DIRC, a novel type of Cherenkov ring imaging device, is the primary hadronic particle identification system for the BABAR detector at the asymmetric B-factory, PEP-II at SLAC. BABAR began taking data with colliding beams mode in late…
Users of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) are provided with calibration and imaging products in addition to raw data. In Cycle 0 and Cycle 1, these products are produced by a team of data reduction experts spread…
One of the science drivers of the new Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is large-area surveys of the low-frequency radio sky. Realizing this goal requires automated processing of the interferometric data, such that fully calibrated images are…
Processing of raw data from modern astronomical instruments is nowadays often carried out using dedicated software, so-called "pipelines" which are largely run in automated operation. In this paper we describe the data reduction pipeline of…
This paper aims to evaluate mid-infrared (MIR) Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems as a tool to penetrate different materials and detect sub-surface irregularities. This is useful for monitoring production processes, allowing…
We present the end-to-end data reduction pipeline for SCALES (Slicer Combined with Array of Lenslets for Exoplanet Spectroscopy), the upcoming thermal-infrared, diffraction-limited imager, and low and medium-resolution integral field…
Depth estimation is a fundamental component of spatial perception for autonomous driving and other unmanned systems operating in open urban environments. Existing depth datasets such as KITTI, nuScenes, and DDAD have advanced the field but…
SOFIA presents a number of interesting challenges for the development of a data reduction environment which, at its initial phase, will have to incorporate pipelines from seven different instruments. Therefore, the SOFIA data reduction…
A huge amount of data has been acquired with the GREGOR Fabry-P\'erot Interferometer (GFPI), large-format facility cameras, and since 2016 with the High-resolution Fast Imager (HiFI). These data are processed in standardized procedures with…
This paper describes the software DRAGraces (Data Reduction and Analysis for GRACES), which is a pipeline reducing spectra from GRACES (Gemini Remote Access to the CFHT ESPaDOnS Spectrograph) at the Gemini North Telescope. The code is…
We describe the software requirement and design specifications for all-sky panoramic astronomical pipelines. The described software aims to meet the specific needs of super-wide angle optics, and includes cosmic-ray hit rejection, image…
The increasing adoption of low-cost environmental sensors and AI-enabled applications has accelerated the demand for scalable and resilient data infrastructures, particularly in data-scarce and resource-constrained regions. This paper…
The new Data Acquisition system for the gravitational wave detector AURIGA has been designed from the ground up in order to take advantage of hardware and software platforms that became available in recent years; namely, i386 computers…
We describe the new spectroscopic data reduction pipeline for the multi-object MMT/Magellan Infrared Spectrograph. The pipeline is implemented in idl as a stand-alone package and is publicly available in both stable and development…
Bauplan is a FaaS-based lakehouse specifically built for data pipelines: its execution engine uses Apache Arrow for data passing between the nodes in the DAG. While Arrow is known as the "zero copy format", in practice, limited Linux kernel…
By 2025, there are zettabytes of data generated every year. The size and complexity of modern large-scale computing infrastructures like High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems continue to evolve and become complex, leaving us wondering…
We present SIPGI, a spectroscopic pipeline to reduce optical/near-infrared data from slit-based spectrographs. SIPGI is a complete spectroscopic data reduction environment which retains the high level of flexibility and accuracy typical of…
An object detection pipeline comprises a camera that captures the scene and an object detector that processes these images. The quality of the images directly affects the performance of the object detector. Many works nowadays focus either…