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The aim of the paper is to estimate distances to dense molecular cores that harbour Very Low Luminosity Objects (VeLLO) detected by Spitzer Space Telescope and to confirm their VeLLO nature. The cloud distances are estimated using near-IR…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Maheswar , Chang Won Lee , Sami Dib

In the last few years, deep neural networks opened the doors for big advances in novel view synthesis. Many of these approaches are based on a (coarse) proxy geometry obtained by structure from motion algorithms. Small deficiencies in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Linus Franke , Darius Rückert , Laura Fink , Matthias Innmann , Marc Stamminger

Remote sensing instruments observe radiation being scattered and absorbed by molecules, aerosol particles, cloud droplets and ice crystals. In order to interpret and accurately model such observations, the vector radiative transfer equation…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 C. Emde , B. Mayer

Cloud detection is an important preprocessing step for the precise application of optical satellite imagery. In this paper, we propose a deep learning based cloud detection method named multi-scale convolutional feature fusion (MSCFF) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-06 Zhiwei Li , Huanfeng Shen , Qing Cheng , Yuhao Liu , Shucheng You , Zongyi He

Supervised deep learning for land cover semantic segmentation (LCS) relies on labeled satellite data. However, most existing Sentinel-2 datasets are cloud-free, which limits their usefulness in tropical regions where clouds are common. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Sara Mobsite , Renaud Hostache , Laure Berti Equille , Emmanuel Roux , Joris Guerin

Curved-spacetime geometric-optics maps derived from a deep photometric survey should contain information about the three-dimensional matter distribution and thus about cosmic voids in the survey, despite projection effects. We explore to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Marius Peper , Boudewijn F. Roukema , Krzysztof Bolejko

We investigate the intrinsic shapes of starless cores in the Orion GMC, using the prestellar core sample of Nutter and Ward-Thompson (2007), which is based on submillimeter SCUBA data. We employ a maximum-likelihood method to reconstruct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Konstantinos Tassis

(abridged) We develop the mid-infrared extinction (MIREX) mapping technique of Butler & Tan (2009, Paper I), presenting a new method to correct for the Galactic foreground emission based on observed saturation in independent cores. Using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Michael J. Butler , Jonathan C. Tan

We analyze a three-dimensional smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulation of an evolving and later collapsing pre-stellar core. Using a three-dimensional continuum radiative transfer program, we generate images at 7 micron, 15 micron, 175…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Steinacker , B. Lang , A. Burkert , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

Point cloud completion aims to recover partial geometric and topological shapes caused by equipment defects or limited viewpoints. Current methods either solely rely on the 3D coordinates of the point cloud to complete it or incorporate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Feng Zhou , Qi Zhang , Ju Dai , Lei Li , Qing Fan , Junliang Xing

The field of autonomous driving technology is rapidly advancing, with deep learning being a key component. Particularly in the field of sensing, 3D point cloud data collected by LiDAR is utilized to run deep neural network models for 3D…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Taisuke Noguchi , Takuya Azumi

We define the molecular cloud properties of the Milky Way first quadrant using data from the JCMT CO(3-2) High Resolution Survey. We apply the Spectral Clustering for Interstellar Molecular Emission Segmentation (SCIMES) algorithm to…

We consider the problem of removing and replacing clouds in satellite image sequences, which has a wide range of applications in remote sensing. Our approach first detects and removes the cloud-contaminated part of the image sequences. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Jialei Wang , Peder A. Olsen , Andrew R. Conn , Aurelie C. Lozano

We derive computed tomography (CT) of a time-varying volumetric translucent object, using a small number of moving cameras. We particularly focus on passive scattering tomography, which is a non-linear problem. We demonstrate the approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Roi Ronen , Yoav Y. Schechner , Eshkol Eytan

The abundance of H2 in molecular clouds, relative to the commonly used tracer CO, has only been measured toward a few embedded stars, which may be surrounded by atypical gas. We present observations of near-infrared absorption by H2, CO,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-30 John H. Lacy , Christopher Sneden , Hwihyun Kim , Daniel T. Jaffe

The origin of cosmic rays have remained a mistery for more than a century. JEM-EUSO is a pioneer space-based telescope that will be located at the International Space Station (ISS) and its aim is to detect Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 G. Sáez-Cano , J. A. Morales de los Ríos , L. del Peral , A. Neronov , S. Wada , M. D. Rodríguez Frías

In the existing methods, LiDAR odometry shows superior performance, but visual odometry is still widely used for its price advantage. Conventionally, the task of visual odometry mainly rely on the input of continuous images. However, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Huiying Deng , Guangming Wang , Zhiheng Feng , Chaokang Jiang , Xinrui Wu , Yanzi Miao , Hesheng Wang

We introduce the {\em polygon cloud}, also known as a polygon set or {\em soup}, as a compressible representation of 3D geometry (including its attributes, such as color texture) intermediate between polygonal meshes and point clouds.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Philip A. Chou , Eduardo Pavez , Ricardo L. de Queiroz , Antonio Ortega

For satellite images, the presence of clouds presents a problem as clouds obscure more than half to two-thirds of the ground information. This problem causes many issues for reliability in a noise-free environment to communicate data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Dale Chen-Song , Erfan Khalaji , Vaishali Rani

Solving the challenging problem of 3D object reconstruction from a single image appropriately gives existing technologies the ability to perform with a single monocular camera rather than requiring depth sensors. In recent years, thanks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Guiju Ping , Mahdi Abolfazli Esfahani , Han Wang