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Astronomy has a rich tradition of using color photography and imaging, for visualization in research as well as for sharing scientific discoveries in formal and informal education settings (i.e., for "public outreach.") In the modern era,…

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This paper attempts to discuss the evolution of the retrieval approaches focusing on development, challenges and future direction of the image retrieval. It highlights both the already addressed and outstanding issues. The explosive growth…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Hui Hui Wang , Dzulkifli Mohamad , N. A. Ismail

I provide a personal perspective on the future of the field of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, on the occasion of the 2024 {\it Gamma} conference in Milan. I discuss some of the scientific motivations for new instrumentation and the major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Jim Hinton

Transient imaging has recently made a huge impact in the computer graphics and computer vision fields. By capturing, reconstructing, or simulating light transport at extreme temporal resolutions, researchers have proposed novel techniques…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Adrian Jarabo , Belen Masia , Julio Marco , Diego Gutierrez

What else can be said about star formation rate indicators that has not been said already many times over? The `coming of age' of large ground-based surveys and the unprecedented sensitivity, angular resolution and/or field-of-view of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-16 Daniela Calzetti

Mid-infrared photothermal microscopy is a highly promising imaging technique that enables spatially resolved vibrational fingerprinting. The combination of infrared induced heating with optical readout at visible wavelengths provides…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-05 Dennis van de Lockand , Daan Wolters , Matz Liebel

This article begins with the discussions on the formation of speckles in the case of non-coherent quasi monochromatic source and of ways to detect them. Prior to this, a brief introduction on the behavior of the atmosphere and its effect on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Swapan K. Saha

Electronically Assisted Astronomy consists in capturing deep sky images with a digital camera coupled to a telescope to display views of celestial objects that would have been invisible through direct observation. This practice generates a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-20 Olivier Parisot , Pierrick Bruneau , Patrik Hitzelberger

In the last years, the need for automated real-time detection and classification of astronomical transients began to be more impelling. Better technologies involve a higher number of detected candidates and an automated classification will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-04 Gianmario Broccia

Augmented Reality consists of merging live images with virtual layers of information. The rapid growth in the popularity of smartphones and tablets over recent years has provided a large base of potential users of Augmented Reality…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-04 Frédéric P. A. Vogt , Luke J. Shingles

Near-diffraction limited imaging and spectroscopy in the visible on large (8-10 meter) class telescopes has proved to be beyond the capabilities of current adaptive optics technologies, even when using laser guide stars. The need for high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Craig Mackay , Tim D. Staley , David King , Frank Suess , Keith Weller

Advances in computing power, deep learning architectures, and expert labelled datasets have spurred the development of medical imaging artificial intelligence systems that rival clinical experts in a variety of scenarios. The National…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Rohan Shad , John P. Cunningham , Euan A. Ashley , Curtis P. Langlotz , William Hiesinger

The science and clinical practice of medical physics has been integral to the advancement of radiology and radiation therapy for over a century. In parallel, advances in surgery - including intraoperative imaging, registration, and other…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-04 Jeffrey H. Siewerdsen

Upcoming astronomical surveys produce imagery that spans many orders of magnitude in spatial scale, requiring scientists to reason fluidly between global structure and local detail. Data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory exemplifies this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ava Nederlander , Zainab Aamir , Arie E. Kaufman

The far-infrared (FIR) regime is one of the few wavelength ranges where no astronomical data with sub-arcsecond spatial resolution exist. Neither of the medium-term satellite projects like SPICA, Millimetron nor O.S.T. will resolve this…

Interferometric techniques are at the forefront of modern astronomical instrumentation. A new generation of instruments are either operating or nearing completion, including arrays of small telescopes as well as the ``big guns'' (VLTI and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timothy R. Bedding

What will the future be? We wonder! In this survey, we explore the gap between current research in egocentric vision and the ever-anticipated future, where wearable computing, with outward facing cameras and digital overlays, is expected to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Chiara Plizzari , Gabriele Goletto , Antonino Furnari , Siddhant Bansal , Francesco Ragusa , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Dima Damen , Tatiana Tommasi

In this whitepaper, we outline how recent technological advances and ongoing developments open qualitatively new science opportunities in cosmology, fundamental physics, and quantum astrophysics. First, intensity interferometry can…

An overview is given of high-energy gamma-ray and neutrino astronomy, emphasizing the links between the two fields. With several new large detectors just becoming operational, the TeV gamma-ray and neutrino sky will soon be surveyed with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Bergstrom

The increased sensitivity of future radio telescopes will result in requirements for higher dynamic range within the image as well as better resolution and immunity to interference. In this paper we propose a new matrix formulation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Chen Ben-David , Amir Leshem