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Reconstructing the structural geology and mineral composition of the first few kilometers of the Earth's subsurface from sparse or indirect surface observations remains a long-standing challenge with critical applications in mineral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Simon Ghyselincks , Valeriia Okhmak , Stefano Zampini , George Turkiyyah , David Keyes , Eldad Haber

Despite the notable accomplishments of deep object detection models, a major challenge that persists is the requirement for extensive amounts of training data. The process of procuring such real-world data is a laborious undertaking, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Roy Voetman , Maya Aghaei , Klaas Dijkstra

We present a novel method to generate a synthetic distribution of objects (mock) on a spherical surface (i.e. a sky), by using a real distribution. The resulting surrogate map mimics the clustering features of the real data, including the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-09 M. De Domenico , H. Lyberis

Extracting additional information from old or incomplete fireball datasets remains a challenge. To address missing point-by-point observations, we introduce a method for estimating atmospheric flight parameters of meteoroids using…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-27 Eloy Peña-Asensio , Maria Gritsevich

Meteoroids pose one of the largest risks to spacecraft outside of low Earth orbit. In order to correctly predict the rate at which meteoroids impact and damage spacecraft, environment models must describe the mass, directionality, velocity,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-30 Althea V. Moorhead , Aaron Kingery , Steven Ehlert

We present a new method to detect meteor showers using the Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise algorithm (DBSCAN; Ester et al. 1996). DBSCAN is a modern cluster detection algorithm that is well suited to the problem…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 Glenn Sugar , Althea Moorhead , Peter Brown , Bill Cooke

In recent years hypergraphs have emerged as a powerful tool to study systems with multi-body interactions which cannot be trivially reduced to pairs. While highly structured methods to generate synthetic data have proved fundamental for the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Nicolò Ruggeri , Federico Battiston , Caterina De Bacco

This paper addresses the challenges of data scarcity and high acquisition costs in training robust object detection models for complex industrial environments, such as offshore oil platforms. Data collection in these hazardous settings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Pedro Antonio Rabelo Saraiva , Enzo Ferreira de Souza , Joao Manoel Herrera Pinheiro , Thiago H. Segreto , Ricardo V. Godoy , Marcelo Becker

Many remarkably robust, rapid and spontaneous self-assembly phenomena in nature can be modeled geometrically starting from a collection of rigid bunches of spheres. This paper highlights the role of symmetry in sphere-based assembly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-15 Meera Sitharam , Andrew Vince , Menghan Wang , Miklos Bona

Deep metric learning aims to learn embeddings that contain semantic similarity information among data points. To learn better embeddings, methods to generate synthetic hard samples have been proposed. Existing methods of synthetic hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Geonmo Gu , Byungsoo Ko

Aims. The knowledge of the orbits and origins derived from meteors is important for the study of meteoroids and of the early solar system. With an increase in nano-satellite projects dedicated to Earth observations or directly to meteor…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-15 Hongru Chen , Nicolas Rambaux , Jérémie Vaubaillon

Meteoroids entering the Earth's atmosphere can be observed as meteors, thereby providing useful information on their formation and hence on their parent bodies. We developed a data reduction software package for double station meteor data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-24 A. Margonis , A. Christou , J. Oberst

Machine learning applications are becoming increasingly pervasive in our society. Since these decision-making systems rely on data-driven learning, risk is that they will systematically spread the bias embedded in data. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-09 Alessandro Castelnovo , Riccardo Crupi , Nicole Inverardi , Daniele Regoli , Andrea Cosentini

Problem of meteor orbit determination for a given parent body is discussed. Some of the published methods for obtaining meteoroid's orbital elements at the moment of intersecting Earth's orbit on the basis of geometrical variation of parent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jozef Klacka

In this paper we discuss a method for the generation of mock tidal streams. Using an ensemble of simulations in an isochrone potential where the actions and frequencies are known, we derive an empirical recipe for the evolving satellite…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-15 Mark A. Fardal , Shuiyao Huang , Martin D. Weinberg

Observers submit both new and known meteor shower parameters to the database of the IAU Meteor Data Center (MDC). It may happen that a new observation of an already known meteor shower is submitted as a discovery of a new shower. Then, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 T. J. Jopek , L. Neslušan , R. Rudawska , M. Hajduková

Tabular data is common yet typically incomplete, small in volume, and access-restricted due to privacy concerns. Synthetic data generation offers potential solutions. Many metrics exist for evaluating the quality of synthetic tabular data;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang , Baxter Eaves , Michael Schmidt , Ken Swanson , Patrick Shafto

The paper presents the implementation of algorithms for automatic search for signals scattered at meteor tracks based on the ISTP SB RAS EKB radar data. The algorithm is divided into two phases - the detection of a meteoric echo and the…

Geophysics · Physics 2017-10-23 Oleg I. Berngardt , Roman R. Fedorov

A new meteor shower $\lambda$-Sculptorids produced by the comet 46P/Wirtanen was forecast for December 12, 2023. The predicted activity was highly uncertain, but generally considered to be low. Observations in Australia, New Zealand, and…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 D. Vida , J. M. Scott , A. Egal , J. Vaubaillon , Q. -Z. Ye , D. Rollinson , M. Sato , D. E. Moser

Most of the methods that produce space weather forecasts are based on deterministic models. In order to generate a probabilistic forecast, a model needs to be run several times sampling the input parameter space, in order to generate an…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Enrico Camporeale , Xiangning Chu , Oleksiy Agapitov , Jacob Bortnik