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Cross-View Geo-localisation (CVGL) matches ground imagery against satellite tiles to give absolute position fixes, an alternative to GNSS where signals are occluded, jammed, or spoofed. Recent fine-grained CVGL methods regress sub-tile…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Tavis Shore , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield

CTA will comprise a sub-array of up to 70 small size telescopes (SSTs) at the southern array. The SST-1M project, a 4 m-diameter Davies Cotton telescope with 9 degrees FoV and a 1296 pixels SiPM camera, is designed to meet the requirements…

We have developed a multi-pixel beamformer technique, which can be used for enhancing the capabilities for studying pulsars using an interferometric array. Using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), we illustrate the application of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jayanta Roy , Bhaswati Bhattacharyya , Yashwant Gupta

Reliable spatial information can be difficult to obtain in planetary remote sensing applications because of errors present in the metadata of images taken with space probes. We have designed a pipeline to address this problem on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-07 Ines Belgacem , Grégory Jonniaux , Frédéric Schmidt

lightcurver is a photometric pipeline for time series astronomical imaging data, designed for the semi-automatic extraction of precise light curves from small, blended targets. Such targets include, but are not limited to, lensed quasars,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-18 Frédéric Dux

With the arrival of a number of wide-field snapshot image-plane radio transient surveys, there will be a huge influx of images in the coming years making it impossible to manually analyse the datasets. Automated pipelines to process the…

We summarize here an experimental frame combination pipeline we developed for ultra high-contrast imaging with systems like the upcoming VLT SPHERE instrument. The pipeline combines strategies from the Drizzle technique, the Spitzer…

A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

This manuscript presents a new framework towards automated digital documentation and progress reporting of mechanical pipes in building construction projects, using smartphones. New methods were proposed to optimize video frame rate to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Reza Maalek , Derek Lichti , Shahrokh Maalek

High precision time series photometry from space is being used for a number of scientific cases. In this context, the recently launched CHEOPS (ESA) mission promises to bring 20 ppm precision over an exposure time of 6 hours, when targeting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 André M. Silva , Sérgio G. Sousa , Nuno Santos , Olivier D. S. Demangeon , Pedro Silva , S. Hoyer , P. Guterman , Magali Deleuil , David Ehrenreich

We present a fast and efficient volumetric capture and reconstruction system that processes either RGB-D or RGB-only input to generate 3D representations in the form of point clouds and Gaussian splats. For Gaussian splat reconstructions,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Athanasios Charisoudis , Simone Croci , Lam Kit Yung , Pascal Frossard , Aljosa Smolic

We describe the InfraRed Data Reduction (IRDR) software package, a small ANSI C library of fast image processing routines for automated pipeline reduction of infrared (dithered) observations. We developed the software to satisfy certain…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris N. Sabbey , Richard G. McMahon , James R. Lewis , Mike J. Irwin

HERA is a highly-redundant transit interferometer with 14\,m-diameter parabolic dish elements. We exploit the fact that the Galactic centre transits through the main beam of the telescope to attempt a conventional self-calibration approach…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-18 Bojan Nikolic , Chris Carilli , HERA Collaboration

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation observatory for the study of very high-energy gamma rays from about 20 GeV up to 300 TeV. Thanks to the large effective area and field of view, the CTA observatory will be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Andrea Zoli , Andrea Bulgarelli , Adriano De Rosa , Alessio Aboudan , Valentina Fioretti , Giovanni De Cesare , Ramin Marx

In recent works, compressed sensing (CS) and convex optimization techniques have been applied to radio-interferometric imaging showing the potential to outperform state-of-the-art imaging algorithms in the field. We review our latest…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-15 Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next generation of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy observatory that will improve the sensitivity of current generation instruments by one order of magnitude. The LST-1 is the first telescope…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-02 Enrique Garcia , Thomas Vuillaume , Lukas Nickel

Apertif (APERture Tile In Focus) is one of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) pathfinder facilities. The Apertif project is an upgrade to the 50-year-old Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) using phased-array feed technology. The new…

In a companion paper, a faceted wideband imaging technique for radio interferometry, dubbed Faceted HyperSARA, has been introduced and validated on synthetic data. Building on the recent HyperSARA approach, Faceted HyperSARA leverages the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 Pierre-Antoine Thouvenin , Arwa Dabbech , Ming Jiang , Abdullah Abdulaziz , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Adrian Jackson , Yves Wiaux

With the accumulation of big data of CME observations by coronagraphs, automatic detection and tracking of CMEs has proven to be crucial. The excellent performance of convolutional neural network in image classification, object detection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Pengyu Wang , Yan Zhang , Li Feng , Hanqing Yuan , Yuan Gan , Shuting Li , Lei Lu , Beili Ying , Weiqun Gan , Hui Li

The past few decades have seen the burgeoning of wide field, high cadence surveys, the most formidable of which will be the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) to be conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. So new is the field of…