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For cosmic shear to become an accurate cosmological probe, systematic errors in the shear measurement method must be unambiguously identified and corrected for. Previous work of this series has demonstrated that cosmic shears can be…

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[abridged] In large-scale time-domain surveys, the processing of data, from procurement up to the detection of sources, is generally automated. One of the main challenges is contamination by artifacts, especially in regions of strong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 Monika D. Soraisam , Marat Gilfanov , Thomas Kupfer , Frank Masci , Allen W. Shafter , Thomas A. Prince , Shrinivas R. Kulkarni , Eran O. Ofek , Eric Bellm

Accurate and efficient object detection is crucial for safe and efficient operation of earth-moving equipment in mining. Traditional 2D image-based methods face limitations in dynamic and complex mine environments. To overcome these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Mehala Balamurali , Ehsan Mihankhah

Context. Source extraction for large-scale HI surveys currently involves large amounts of manual labor. For data volumes expected from future HI surveys with upcoming facilities, this approach is not feasible any longer. Aims. We describe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-01 Lars Flöer , Benjamin Winkel , Jürgen Kerp

The analysis of time-sequence satellite images is a powerful tool in remote sensing; it is used to explore the statics and dynamics of the surface of the earth. Usually, the quality of multitemporal images is influenced by metrological…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Hessah Albanwan

Multiple objects tracking (MOT) is a difficult task, as it usually requires special hardware and higher computation complexity. In this work, we present a new framework of MOT by using of equilibrium optimizer (EO) algorithm and reducing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Djemai Charef-Khodja , Toumi Abida

The problem of denoising a one-dimensional signal possessing varying degrees of smoothness is ubiquitous in time-domain astronomy and astronomical spectroscopy. For example, in the time domain, an astronomical object may exhibit a smoothly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Collin A. Politsch , Jessi Cisewski-Kehe , Rupert A. C. Croft , Larry Wasserman

In this work, we empirically explore the question: how can we assess the quality of samples from some target distribution? We assume that the samples are provided by some valid Monte Carlo procedure, so we are guaranteed that the collection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Arjumand Masood , Weiwei Pan , Finale Doshi-Velez

All next generation ground-based and space-based solar telescopes require a good quality assessment metric in order to evaluate their imaging performance. In this paper, a new image quality metric, the median filter gradient similarity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-24 Hui Deng , Dandan Zhang , Tianyu Wang , Kaifan Ji , Feng Wang , Zhong Liu , Yongyuan Xiang , Zhenyu Jin , Wenda Cao

The analysis of data from gravitational wave detectors can be divided into three phases: search, characterization, and evaluation. The evaluation of the detection - determining whether a candidate event is astrophysical in origin or some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-06 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

Bayesian optimization is a popular and versatile approach that is well suited to solve challenging optimization problems. Their popularity comes from their effective minimization of expensive function evaluations, their capability to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-14 André L. Marchildon , David W. Zingg

Aims. We present a stand-alone software (named EXSdetect) for the detection of extended sources in X-ray images. Our goal is to provide a flexible tool capable of detecting extended sources down to the lowest flux levels attainable within…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-18 Teng Liu , Paolo Tozzi , Elena Tundo , A. Moretti , Jun-Xian Wang , Piero Rosati , Fabrizia Guglielmetti

We introduce ProFound, a source finding and image analysis package. ProFound provides methods to detect sources in noisy images, generate segmentation maps identifying the pixels belonging to each source, and measure statistics like flux,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 A. S. G. Robotham , L. J. M. Davies , S. P. Driver , S. Koushan , D. S. Taranu , S. Casura , J. Liske

We present the spectral atlas of sources observed in low resolution with the Infrared Spectrograph on board the Spitzer Space Telescope. More than 11,000 distinct sources were extracted using a dedicated algorithm based on the SMART…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 V. Lebouteiller , D. J. Barry , H. W. W. Spoon , J. Bernard-Salas , G. C. Sloan , J. R. Houck , D. W. Weedman

Due to the significance of its various applications, source localization has garnered considerable attention as one of the most important means to confront diffusion hazards. Multi-source localization from a single-snapshot observation is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Zonghan Zhang , Zijian Zhang , Zhiqian Chen

Moment-based estimation filters have successfully aided spacecraft navigation for decades. However, future missions plan to venture into deep-space regimes with significant round-trip light-time telecommunication delays, operate in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Benjamin L. Hanson , Todd A. Ely , Thomas R. Bewley , Aaron J. Rosengren

The low surface brightness (LSB) regime ($\mu_{g} \gtrsim 26$ mag arcsec$^{-2}$) comprises a vast, mostly unexplored discovery space, from dwarf galaxies to the diffuse interstellar medium. Accessing this regime requires precisely removing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-24 A. E. Watkins , S. Kaviraj , C. C. Collins , J. H. Knapen , L. S. Kelvin , P. -A. Duc , J. Román , J. C. Mihos

Bayesian optimisation is a popular, surrogate model-based approach for optimising expensive black-box functions. Given a surrogate model, the next location to expensively evaluate is chosen via maximisation of a cheap-to-query acquisition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-31 George De Ath , Richard M. Everson , Jonathan E. Fieldsend , Alma A. M. Rahat

Optimal surface segmentation is a state-of-the-art method used for segmentation of multiple globally optimal surfaces in volumetric datasets. The method is widely used in numerous medical image segmentation applications. However, nodes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Abhay Shah , Michael D. Abramoff , Xiaodong Wu

Interacting with the environment, such as object detection and tracking, is a crucial ability of mobile robots. Besides high accuracy, efficiency in terms of processing effort and energy consumption are also desirable. To satisfy both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Xuesong Li , Jose Guivant