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The process of determining the number and characteristics of sources in astronomical images is so fundamental to a large range of astronomical problems that it is perhaps surprising that no standard procedure has ever been defined that has…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Minh Huynh , Andrew Hopkins , Ray Norris , Paul Hancock , Tara Murphy , Russell Jurek , Matthew Whiting

We present a novel algorithm aimed at identifying peaks within a uniformly sampled time series affected by uncorrelated Gaussian noise. The algorithm, called "MEPSA" (multiple excess peak search algorithm), essentially scans the time series…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-07 C. Guidorzi

Many robotics applications require alignment and fusion of observations obtained at multiple views to form a global model of the environment. Multi-way data association methods provide a mechanism to improve alignment accuracy of pairwise…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Kaveh Fathian , Kasra Khosoussi , Yulun Tian , Parker Lusk , Jonathan P. How

Upcoming radio surveys will probe the sky with unprecedented depth and sky coverage, enabling a broad range of cosmological and astrophysical applications, as well as powerful synergies with experiments at other wavelengths. The preparation…

We continue studies of the uncertainty quantification problem in emission tomographies such as PET or SPECT when additional multimodal data (e.g., anatomical MRI images) are available. To solve the aforementioned problem we adapt the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-03 Fedor Goncharov , Éric Barat , Thomas Dautremer

We present a new Bayesian algorithm making use of Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling that allows us to simultaneously estimate the unknown continuum level of each quasar in an ensemble of high-resolution spectra, as well as their common…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-09 Anna-Christina Eilers , Joseph F. Hennawi , Khee-Gan Lee

The aim of this paper is to describe a novel non-parametric noise reduction technique from the point of view of Bayesian inference that may automatically improve the signal-to-noise ratio of one- and two-dimensional data, such as e.g.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-07 Pablo M Sanchez-Alarcon , Yago Ascasibar Sequeiros

Stereo matching methods based on iterative optimization, like RAFT-Stereo and IGEV-Stereo, have evolved into a cornerstone in the field of stereo matching. However, these methods struggle to simultaneously capture high-frequency information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Xianqi Wang , Gangwei Xu , Hao Jia , Xin Yang

Over-the-air computation (AirComp) is a key enabler for distributed optimization, since it leverages analog waveform superposition to perform aggregation and thereby mitigates the communication bottleneck caused by iterative information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Mingyu Hu , Nan Liu , Wei Kang

Many approaches to program synthesis perform a search within an enormous space of programs to find one that satisfies a given specification. Prior works have used neural models to guide combinatorial search algorithms, but such approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Kensen Shi , Hanjun Dai , Kevin Ellis , Charles Sutton

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a powerful technique employed for non-invasive in vivo visualization of internal structures. Sparsity is often deployed to accelerate the signal acquisition or overcome the presence of motion artifacts,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Gianluca Giacchi , Isidoros Iakovidis , Bastien Milani , Micah Murray , Benedetta Franceschiello

Uncertainty in timing information pertaining to the start time of microphone recordings and sources' emission time pose significant challenges in various applications, such as joint microphones and sources localization. Traditional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Faxian Cao , Yongqiang Cheng , Adil Mehmood Khan , Zhijing Yang , S. M. Ahsan Kazmiand Yingxiu Chang

Calibration of instrumental polarization is critical for measuring polarized radio emissions from astrophysical sources to extract the magnetic field information in astrophysical, heliospheric, and terrestrial plasmas. At meter wavelengths,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Devojyoti Kansabanik , Angelos Vourlidas , Soham Dey , Surajit Mondal , Divya Oberoi

Measurement update rules for Bayes filters often contain hand-crafted heuristics to compute observation probabilities for high-dimensional sensor data, like images. In this work, we propose the novel approach Deep Measurement Update (DMU)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Johannes Pankert , Maria Vittoria Minniti , Lorenz Wellhausen , Marco Hutter

Cross-view geo-localization is the problem of estimating the position and orientation (latitude, longitude and azimuth angle) of a camera at ground level given a large-scale database of geo-tagged aerial (e.g., satellite) images. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Dylan Campbell , Hongdong Li

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) applications have become increasingly prevalent in aerial photography and object recognition. However, there are major challenges to accurately capturing small targets in object detection due to the imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Rongxin Huang , Guangfeng Lin , Wenbo Zhou , Zhirong Li , Wenhuan Wu

Orbital angular momentum (OAM) at radio-frequency provides a novel approach of multiplexing a set of orthogonal modes on the same frequency channel to achieve high spectral efficiencies. However, classical phase gradient-based OAM mode…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Jiabei Fan , Rui Chen , Wen-Xuan Long , Marco Moretti , Jiandong Li

We present the results of a comprehensive study of optimization algorithms for the calibration of quantum devices. As part of our ongoing efforts to automate bring-up, tune-up, and system identification procedures, we investigate a broad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Kevin Pack , Shai Machnes , Frank K. Wilhelm

As Part I of a paper series showcasing a new imaging framework, we consider the recently proposed unconstrained Sparsity Averaging Reweighted Analysis (uSARA) optimisation algorithm for wide-field, high-resolution, high-dynamic range,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-11 Amanda G. Wilber , Arwa Dabbech , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

We describe a method of plotting continuous spectra for radio sources on the basis of entries of various source catalogues in comparatively large error boxes around a given sky position. Sources from the UTR-2 catalogue (Braude et al.,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 O. V. Verkhodanov , H. Andernach , N. V. Verkhodanova