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Cutting edge deep learning techniques allow for image segmentation with great speed and accuracy. However, application to problems in materials science is often difficult since these complex models may have difficultly learning physical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 James P. Horwath , Dmitri N. Zakharov , Remi Megret , Eric A. Stach

Granular materials are complex multi-particle ensembles in which macroscopic properties are largely determined by inter-particle interactions between their numerous constituents. In order to understand and to predict their macroscopic…

Single-molecule tracking is a powerful way to look at the dynamic organization of plasma membranes. However, there are some limitations to its use. For example, it was recently observed, using numerical simulation, that time-averaging…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Nicolas Destainville , Laurence Salome

Photographic emulsion is a particle tracking device which features the best spatial resolution among particle detectors. For certain applications, for example muon radiography, large-scale detectors are required. Therefore, a huge surface…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-03-07 T. Ariga , A. Ariga , K. Kuwabara , K. Morishima , M. Moto , A. Nishio , P. Scampoli , M. Vladymyrov

Bio-image analysis is challenging due to inhomogeneous intensity distributions and high levels of noise in the images. Bayesian inference provides a principled way for regularizing the problem using prior knowledge. A fundamental choice is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Ivo F. Sbalzarini , Sophie Schneider , Janick Cardinale

Advances in intensity-based microscopy techniques have improved our ability to quantify particle motion at microscopic scales, enabling insight into diffusion and collective dynamics. Building on this foundation, we introduce a novel…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-03 Sophie Hermann , Seyed Saman Banarooei , Adam Carter , Carlos A. Silvera Batista , Sophie Marbach

Complex plasmas consist of microparticles embedded in a low-temperature plasma and allow investigating various effects by tracing the motion of these microparticles. Dust density waves appear in complex plasmas as self-excited acoustic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 P. Bajaj , S. Khrapak , V. Yaroshenko , M. Schwabe

The visual observation and tracking of cells and other micrometer-sized objects has many different biomedical applications. The automation of those tasks based on computer methods helps in the evaluation of such measurements. In this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Alexandra Heidsieck

Perfectly-Matched Layers (PML) are widely used in Particle-In-Cell simulations, in order to absorb electromagnetic waves that propagate out of the simulation domain. However, when charged particles cross the interface between the simulation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Remi Lehe , Aurore Blelly , Lorenzo Giacomel , Revathi Jambunathan , Jean-Luc Vay

The detection of out-of-distribution data points is a common task in particle physics. It is used for monitoring complex particle detectors or for identifying rare and unexpected events that may be indicative of new phenomena or physics…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2024-02-07 Vasilis Belis , Patrick Odagiu , Thea Klæboe Årrestad

A scheme for fast, compact, and controllable acceleration of heavy particles in vacuum is proposed, in which two counterpropagating lasers with variable frequencies drive a beat-wave structure with variable phase velocity, thus allowing for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Peano , J. Vieira , L. O. Silva , R. Mulas , G. Coppa

Building on top of our recent work [arXiv:2502.08511], we introduce a new strategy to solve the problem of detecting atoms in high-resolution images of microtrap arrays. By alternating estimation and detection steps, we get rid of the need…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Marc Cheneau , François Goudail

To what extent can particulate random media be characterised using direct wave backscattering from a single receiver/source? Here, in a two dimensional setting, we show using a machine learning approach that both the particle radius and…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Artur L. Gower , Robert M. Gower , Jonathan Deakin , William J. Parnell , I. David Abrahams

In this study, we investigate high-accuracy three-dimensional surface detection in smoothed particle hydrodynamics for free-surface flows. A new geometrical method is first developed to enhance the accuracy of free-surface particle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-14 Wen-Bin Liu , Dong-Jun Ma , Jian-Zhen Qian , Ming-Yu Zhang , An-Min He , Nan-Sheng Liu , Pei Wang

Modern machine learning tools offer exciting possibilities to qualitatively change the paradigm for new particle searches. In particular, new methods can broaden the search program by gaining sensitivity to unforeseen scenarios by learning…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-29 Benjamin Nachman

Superpixel algorithms are a common pre-processing step for computer vision algorithms such as segmentation, object tracking and localization. Many superpixel methods only rely on colors features for segmentation, limiting performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Thomas Verelst , Matthew Blaschko , Maxim Berman

State estimation is crucial for the performance and safety of numerous robotic applications. Among the suite of estimation techniques, particle filters have been identified as a powerful solution due to their non-parametric nature. Yet, in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Akhilan Boopathy , Aneesh Muppidi , Peggy Yang , Abhiram Iyer , William Yue , Ila Fiete

A Bayesian approach is presented for detecting and characterising the signal from discrete objects embedded in a diffuse background. The approach centres around the evaluation of the posterior distribution for the parameters of the discrete…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. P. Hobson , C. McLachlan

We study the transport properties of a system of active particles moving at constant speed in an heterogeneous two-dimensional space. The spatial heterogeneity is modeled by a random distribution of obstacles, which the active particles…

Biological Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 Oleksandr Chepizhko , Fernando Peruani

This paper is devoted to the problem of identification of colloidal assemblies using the example of two-dimensional coatings (monolayer assemblies). Colloidal systems are used in various fields of science and technology, for example, in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-19 L. T. Khusainova , K. S. Kolegov