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General graphs are difficult for learning due to their irregular structures. Existing works employ message passing along graph edges to extract local patterns using customized graph kernels, but few of them are effective for the integration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Yecheng Lyu , Ming Li , Xinming Huang , Ulkuhan Guler , Patrick Schaumont , Ziming Zhang

We present TreeCol, a new and efficient tree-based scheme to calculate column densities in numerical simulations. Knowing the column density in any direction at any location in space is a prerequisite for modelling the propagation of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Paul C. Clark , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf S. Klessen

The Discrete Periodic Radon Transform (DPRT) has been extensively used in applications that involve image reconstructions from projections. This manuscript introduces a fast and scalable approach for computing the forward and inverse DPRT…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Cesar Carranza , Daniel Llamocca , Marios Pattichis

We propose TensoIR, a novel inverse rendering approach based on tensor factorization and neural fields. Unlike previous works that use purely MLP-based neural fields, thus suffering from low capacity and high computation costs, we extend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Haian Jin , Isabella Liu , Peijia Xu , Xiaoshuai Zhang , Songfang Han , Sai Bi , Xiaowei Zhou , Zexiang Xu , Hao Su

Numerical methods for radiative transfer play a key role in modern-day astrophysics and cosmology, including study of the inhomogeneous reionization process. In this context, ray tracing methods are well-regarded for accuracy but notorious…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Nathan X. Marshak , Kathlynn Simotas , Zarija Lukić , Hyunbae Park , James Ahrens , Chris R. Johnson

We propose a Transformer-based NeRF (TransNeRF) to learn a generic neural radiance field conditioned on observed-view images for the novel view synthesis task. By contrast, existing MLP-based NeRFs are not able to directly receive observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Dan Wang , Xinrui Cui , Septimiu Salcudean , Z. Jane Wang

We describe an OctTree algorithm for the MPI-parallel, adaptive mesh-refinement code {\sc FLASH}, which can be used to calculate the gas self-gravity, and also the angle-averaged local optical depth, for treating ambient diffuse radiation.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Richard Wünsch , Stefanie Walch , František Dinnbier , Anthony P. Whitworth

Inference problems in graphical models are often approximated by casting them as constrained optimization problems. Message passing algorithms, such as belief propagation, have previously been suggested as methods for solving these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Amir Globerson , Tommi S. Jaakkola

Radiative transfer is a key bottleneck in computational astrophysics: it is nonlocal, stiff, and tightly coupled to hydrodynamics. We introduce Ray-trax, a GPU-oriented, fully differentiable 3D ray tracer written in JAX that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lorenzo Branca , Rune Rost , Tobias Buck

The Tree-Particle-Mesh (TPM) N-body algorithm couples the tree algorithm for directly computing forces on particles in an hierarchical grouping scheme with the extremely efficient mesh based PM structured approach. The combined TPM…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paul Bode , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Guohong Xu

This paper presents a novel approach for sparse 3D reconstruction by leveraging the expressive power of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) and fast transfer of their features to learn accurate occupancy fields. Existing 3D reconstruction…

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Nonuniform Fourier data are routinely collected in applications such as magnetic resonance imaging, synthetic aperture radar, and synthetic imaging in radio astronomy. To acquire a fast reconstruction that does not require an online inverse…

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This paper presents an uncalibrated deep neural network framework for the photometric stereo problem. For training models to solve the problem, existing neural network-based methods either require exact light directions or ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Berk Kaya , Suryansh Kumar , Carlos Oliveira , Vittorio Ferrari , Luc Van Gool

Trees have long been used as a graphical representation of species relationships. However complex evolutionary events, such as genetic reassortments or hybrid speciations which occur commonly in viruses, bacteria and plants, do not fit into…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-24 Sebastien Roch , Kun-Chieh Wang

We present a novel tensor network algorithm to solve the time-dependent, gray thermal radiation transport equation. The method invokes a tensor train (TT) decomposition for the specific intensity. The efficiency of this approach is dictated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-25 Alex A. Gorodetsky , Patrick D. Mullen , Aditya Deshpande , Joshua C. Dolence , Chad D. Meyer , Jonah M. Miller , Luke F. Roberts

We present a novel convolutional neural network architecture for photometric stereo (Woodham, 1980), a problem of recovering 3D object surface normals from multiple images observed under varying illuminations. Despite its long history in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Tatsunori Taniai , Takanori Maehara

Automatic tree density estimation and counting using single aerial and satellite images is a challenging task in photogrammetry and remote sensing, yet has an important role in forest management. In this paper, we propose the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Hamed Amini Amirkolaee , Miaojing Shi , Mark Mulligan

A novel graph-to-tree conversion mechanism called the deep-tree generation (DTG) algorithm is first proposed to predict text data represented by graphs. The DTG method can generate a richer and more accurate representation for nodes (or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-06 Fenxiao Chen , Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

We proposed a novel test-time optimisation (TTO) approach framed by a NeRF-based architecture for long-term 3D point tracking. Most current methods in point tracking struggle to obtain consistent motion or are limited to 2D motion. TTO…

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