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Impact craters, as "lunar fossils", are the most dominant lunar surface features and occupy most of the Moon's surface. Their formation and evolution record the history of the Solar System. Sixty years of triumphs in the lunar exploration…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-29 Chen Yang , Haishi Zhao , Lorenzo Bruzzone , Jon Atli Benediktsson , Yanchun Liang , Bin Liu , Xingguo Zeng , Renchu Guan , Chunlai Li , Ziyuan Ouyang

Summaries of craters on terrestrial bodies, such as the number and size distribution, are essential for understanding the history of the Solar System. Identifying craters, however, has not been automated and thus relies on expert…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-21 Nathan Weed , Emily Castleton , Dave Osthus , Brian Weaver , Richard L. Warr

Clouds and aerosols provide unique insight into the chemical and physical processes of gas-giant planets. Mapping and characterizing the spectral features indicative of the cloud structure and composition enables an understand-ing of a…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-01 Ingo P. Waldmann , Caitlin A. Griffith

The identification of impact craters on planetary surfaces provides important information about their geological history. Most studies have relied on individual analysts who map and identify craters and interpret crater statistics. However,…

Surface cracks are a very common indicator of potential structural faults. Their early detection and monitoring is an important factor in structural health monitoring. Left untreated, they can grow in size over time and require expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Jacob König , Mark Jenkins , Mike Mannion , Peter Barrie , Gordon Morison

As space missions aim to explore increasingly hazardous terrain, accurate and timely position estimates are required to ensure safe navigation. Vision-based navigation achieves this goal through correlating impact craters visible through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Matthew Rodda , Sofia McLeod , Ky Cuong Pham , Tat-Jun Chin

Laboratory made granular-granular impact craters have been used as model analogues of planetary impact craters. These kind of craters have been observed and studied using profilometry techniques that allow to retrieve important morphologic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-24 F. Corrales-Machín , G. Viera-López , R. Bartali , Y. Nahmad-Molinari

We present a theoretical and analytical curve with reproduce essential features of the frequency distributions vs. diameter, of the 42,000 crater contained in the Barlow Mars Catalog. The model is derived using reasonable simple assumptions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 W. A. Bruckman , A. Ruiz , E. Ramos

Risk to human astronauts and interplanetary distance causing slow and limited communication drives scientists to pursue an autonomous approach to exploring distant planets, such as Mars. A portion of exploration of Mars has been conducted…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Ali Momennasab

This paper provides a critical review of the literature on deep learning applications in breast tumor diagnosis using ultrasound and mammography images. It also summarizes recent advances in computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Yuliana Jiménez-Gaona , María José Rodríguez-Álvarez , Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) has established its role as a non-invasive modality for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD). The CAD-Reporting and Data System (CAD-RADS) has been developed to standardize communication and aid in…

In this paper, we build autoencoders to learn a latent space from unlabeled image datasets obtained from the Mars rover. Then, once the latent feature space has been learnt, we use k-means to cluster the data. We test the performance of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-18 Vikas Ramachandra

Internal crack detection has been a subject of focus in structural health monitoring. By focusing on crack detection in structural datasets, it is demonstrated that deep learning (DL) methods can effectively analyze seismic wave fields…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Fatahlla Moreh , Yusuf Hasan , Bilal Zahid Hussain , Mohammad Ammar , Sven Tomforde

Rockfalls are a hazard for the safety of infrastructure as well as people. Identifying loose rocks by inspection of slopes adjacent to roadways and other infrastructure and removing them in advance can be an effective way to prevent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Roya Nasimi , Fernando Moreu , John Stormont

The selection of an optimal pacing site, which is ideally scar-free and late activated, is critical to the response of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). Despite the success of current approaches formulating the detection of such late…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-14 Jiarui Xing , Shuo Wang , Kenneth C. Bilchick , Frederick H. Epstein , Amit R. Patel , Miaomiao Zhang

Accurate mineral identification on the Martian surface is critical for understanding the planet's geological history. This paper presents a UNet-based autoencoder model for efficient spectral preprocessing of CRISM MTRDR hyperspectral data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Priyanka Kumari , Sampriti Soor , Amba Shetty , Archana M. Nair

The NASA Planetary Data System hosts millions of images acquired from the planet Mars. To help users quickly find images of interest, we have developed and deployed content-based classification and search capabilities for Mars orbital and…

Depth estimation plays a great potential role in obstacle avoidance and navigation for further Mars exploration missions. Compared to traditional stereo matching, learning-based stereo depth estimation provides a data-driven approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Junjie Li , Jiawei Wang , Miyu Li , Yu Liu , Yumei Wang , Haitao Xu

Computational methods that automatically extract knowledge from data are critical for enabling data-driven materials science. A reliable identification of lattice symmetry is a crucial first step for materials characterization and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-19 A. Ziletti , D. Kumar , M. Scheffler , L. M. Ghiringhelli

Impact craters are a cornerstone of planetary surface analysis. However, while most deep learning pipelines treat craters solely as a detection problem, critical scientific workflows such as catalog deduplication, cross-observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jichao Fang , Lei Zhang , Michael Phillips , Wei Luo