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A new class of high-contrast image analysis algorithms that empirically fit and subtract systematic noise has lead to recent discoveries of faint exoplanet /substellar companions and scattered light images of circumstellar disks. These…

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The shape of circle is one of fundamental geometric primitives of man-made engineering objects. Thus, extraction of circles from scanned point clouds is a quite important task in 3D geometry data processing. However, existing circle…

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Large sky surveys are increasingly relying on image subtraction pipelines for real-time (and archival) transient detection. In this process one has to contend with varying PSF, small brightness variations in many sources, as well as…

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Recent advances in diffusion-based generative models have shown incredible promise for zero shot image-to-image translation and editing. Most of these approaches work by combining or replacing network-specific features used in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zeqi Gu , Ethan Yang , Abe Davis

With the rise of simulation-based inference (SBI) methods, simulations need to be fast as well as realistic. $\texttt{UFig v1}$ is a public Python package that simulates astronomical images with exceptional speed, taking approximately the…

Context. An automatic tool to derive structural parameters of semi-resolved star clusters located in crowded stellar fields in nearby galaxies is needed for homogeneous processing of archival frames. Aims. We have developed a program that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-31 D. Narbutis , D. Semionov , R. Stonkutė , P. de Meulenaer , T. Mineikis , A. Bridžius , V. Vansevičius

We present BLOBCAT, new source extraction software that utilises the flood fill algorithm to detect and catalogue blobs, or islands of pixels representing sources, in two-dimensional astronomical images. The software is designed to process…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Christopher A. Hales , Tara Murphy , James R. Curran , Enno Middelberg , Bryan M. Gaensler , Ray P. Norris

Diffusion models have achieved significant progress in both image and video generation while still suffering from huge computation costs. As an effective solution, flow matching aims to reflow the diffusion process of diffusion models into…

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With the growth of the scale, depth, and resolution of astronomical imaging surveys, there is an increased need for highly accurate automated detection and extraction of astronomical sources from images. This also means there is a need for…

Accurate completion and denoising of roof height maps are crucial to reconstructing high-quality 3D buildings. Repairing sparse points can enhance low-cost sensor use and reduce UAV flight overlap. RoofDiffusion is a new end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Kyle Shih-Huang Lo , Jörg Peters , Eric Spellman

We introduce ProPanDL, a family of networks capable of uncertainty-aware panoptic segmentation. Unlike existing segmentation methods, ProPanDL is capable of estimating full probability distributions for both the semantic and spatial aspects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Jacob Deery , Chang Won Lee , Steven Waslander

Curating datasets for object segmentation is a difficult task. With the advent of large-scale pre-trained generative models, conditional image generation has been given a significant boost in result quality and ease of use. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Mischa Dombrowski , Hadrien Reynaud , Matthew Baugh , Bernhard Kainz

We present photometry of images from the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE; Wright et al. 2010) of over 400 million sources detected by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS; York et al. 2000). We use a "forced photometry" technique,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-24 Dustin Lang , David W. Hogg , David J. Schlegel

A noise-based non-parametric technique for detecting nebulous objects, for example, irregular or clumpy galaxies, and their structure in noise is introduced. "Noise-based" and "non-parametric" imply that this technique imposes negligible…

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Image retrieval is the process of searching and retrieving images from a database based on their visual content and features. Recently, much attention has been directed towards the retrieval of irregular patterns within industrial or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Jiajun Zhang , Georgina Cosma , Sarah Bugby , Jason Watkins

A new technique for reliably identifying point sources in millimeter/sub-millimeter wavelength maps is presented. This method accounts for the frequency dependence of noise in the Fourier domain as well as non-uniformities in the coverage…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 T. A. Perera , G. W. Wilson , K. S. Scott , J. E. Austermann , J. R. Schaar , A. Mancera

We present a new technique for monitoring microlensing activity even in highly crowded fields, and use this technique to place limits on low-mass MACHOs in the haloes of M31 and the Galaxy. Unlike present Galactic microlensing surveys, we…

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Recent advancements in deep learning for medical image segmentation are often limited by the scarcity of high-quality training data.While diffusion models provide a potential solution by generating synthetic images, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jianhao Xie , Ziang Zhang , Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

We introduce a novel framework for upsampled Point Spread Function (PSF) modeling using pixel-level Bayesian inference. Accurate PSF characterization is critical for precision measurements in many fields including: weak lensing, astrometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Connor Stone , Ronan Legin , Alexandre Adam , Nikolay Malkin , Gabriel Missael Barco , Laurence Perreaul-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh

Few-shot object detection (FSOD) aims at extending a generic detector for novel object detection with only a few training examples. It attracts great concerns recently due to the practical meanings. Meta-learning has been demonstrated to be…

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