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One of the well-known problems of producing instruments for Extremely Large Telescopes is that their size (and hence cost) scales rapidly with telescope aperture. To try to break this relation alternative new technologies have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 R. J. Harris , J. R. Allington-Smith

Interferometry is a powerful technique for making sensitive, high-fidelity images of the sky, but is limited in its ability to measure extended or diffuse emission. Better images of extended astronomical objects can be obtained by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-12 Brian S. Mason

We summarise the science cases for an ELT that were presented in the parallel session on the intergalactic medium, and the open discussion that followed the formal presentations. Observations of the IGM with an ELT provides tremendous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tom Theuns , Raghunathan Srianand

In the last few years, new Adaptive Optics [AO] techniques have emerged to answer new astronomical challenges: Ground-Layer AO [GLAO] and Multi-Conjugate AO [MCAO] to access a wider Field of View [FoV], Multi-Object AO [MOAO] for the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Neichel , J-M. Conan , T. Fusco , E. Gendron , M. Puech , G. Rousset , F. Hammer

The ISS (Integral-field Spectrograph System) has been designed as part of the EAGLE Phase A Instrument Study for the E-ELT. It consists of two input channels of 1.65x1.65 arcsec field-of-view, each reconfigured spatially by an image-slicing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 P. R. Hastings , B. Stobie , S. Vives , P. Vola , M. Wells , C. J. Evans

Based on electromagnetic and acoustic transformation theory, a new strategy has been presented in this article to implement double invisibility cloaking, which has not been done yet. By applying a combination of four conventional cloaking…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-12-02 Hasanpour Tadi Saeed , Shokri Babak

In Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (ESEM) experiments, the acquisition parameters are generally kept constant throughout the collection of a data set. This limits data collection to one data set at a time, and frequent human…

Imaging spectroscopy is intended to be coupled with adaptive optics (AO) on large telescopes, such as EST, in order to produce high spatial and temporal resolution measurements of velocities and magnetic fields upon a 2D FOV. We propose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Jean-Marie Malherbe , Frédéric Sayède , Pierre Mein

A bidirectional integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system is proposed, in which a pair of transceivers carry out two-way communication and mutual sensing. Both full-duplex and half-duplex operations in narrowband and wideband…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Zhaolin Wang , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) presents a naturally compatible and scalable framework for multimodal learning, demonstrating strong adaptability across diverse modalities and tasks. Despite its growing success, a comprehensive and systematic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Liangwei Nathan Zheng , Wei Emma Zhang , Olaf Maennel , Lin Yue , Weitong Chen

In this paper, we present the design and the expected performance of the classical Lyot coronagraph for the high contrast imaging modes of the wide-field imager MICADO. MICADO is a near-IR camera for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-05 Clément Perrot , Pierre Baudoz , Anthony Boccaletti , Gérard Rousset , Elsa Huby , Yann Clénet , Sébastien Durand , Richard Davies

Multi-object tracking (MOT) aims to associate target objects across video frames in order to obtain entire moving trajectories. With the advancement of deep neural networks and the increasing demand for intelligent video analysis, MOT has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Gaoang Wang , Mingli Song , Jenq-Neng Hwang

This paper describes theoretical modelling of electrostatic lenses based on 3, 4 and 5 closely spaced cylindrical electrodes, respectively. In each case, modelling is carried out numerically using commercial packages SIMION and LENSYS, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-11 Omer Sise , Melike Ulu , Mevlut Dogan

In the present paper, we consider the optical design of a zoom system for the active refocusing in laser guide star wavefront sensors. The system is designed according to the specifications coming from the Extremely Large Telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Eduard Muslimov , Kjetil Dohlen , Benoit Neichel , Emmanuel Hugot

This paper presents a novel multi-modal Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) algorithm for self-driving cars that combines camera and LiDAR data. Camera frames are processed with a state-of-the-art 3D object detector, whereas classical clustering…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Riccardo Pieroni , Simone Specchia , Matteo Corno , Sergio Matteo Savaresi

Electroencephalography (EEG) interpretation using multimodal large language models (MLLMs) offers a novel approach for analyzing brain signals. However, the complex nature of brain activity introduces critical challenges: EEG signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Ziyi Zeng , Zhenyang Cai , Yixi Cai , Xidong Wang , Junying Chen , Rongsheng Wang , Yipeng Liu , Siqi Cai , Benyou Wang , Zhiguo Zhang , Haizhou Li

The multi-object spectrograph (MOS) has been the benchmark for the current generation of astronomical spectrographs, valued for its ability to acquire the spectra of hundreds of objects simultaneously. In the last two decades, the digital…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 Shaojie Chen , Matthew C. H. Leung , Xuefeng Yao , Suresh Sivanandam , Isabelle Sanders , Rosalind Liang

As two-dimensional metamaterials, metasurfaces open up new avenues for designing static planar optics. However, the dynamic modulation of metasurfaces in the optical band is required for practical applications. The existing dynamic devices…

In this report, we present a cross-view multi-modal object segmentation approach for the object correspondence task in the Ego-Exo4D Correspondence Challenges 2025. Given object queries from one perspective (e.g., ego view), the goal is to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yuqian Fu , Runze Wang , Yanwei Fu , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Fibre Multi-Object Spectrograph (FMOS) is the first near-infrared instrument with a wide field of view capable of acquiring spectra simultaneously from up to 400 objects. It has been developed as a common-use instrument for the F/2…