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Galaxy-scale strong lenses in galaxy clusters provide a unique tool to investigate their inner mass distribution and the sub-halo density profiles in the low-mass regime, which can be compared with the predictions from cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 G. Angora , P. Rosati , M. Meneghetti , M. Brescia , A. Mercurio , C. Grillo , P. Bergamini , A. Acebron , G. Caminha , M. Nonino , L. Tortorelli , L. Bazzanini , E. Vanzella

Low light image enhancement is an important challenge for the development of robust computer vision algorithms. The machine learning approaches to this have been either unsupervised, supervised based on paired dataset or supervised based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Harshana Weligampola , Gihan Jayatilaka , Suren Sritharan , Roshan Godaliyadda , Parakrama Ekanayaka , Roshan Ragel , Vijitha Herath

Strong gravitational lensing is a promising way of uncovering the nature of dark matter, by finding perturbations to images that cannot be well accounted for by modeling the lens galaxy without additional structure, be it subhalos (smaller…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ana Diaz Rivero , Cora Dvorkin

The SPARKLING algorithm was originally developed for accelerated 2D magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the compressed sensing (CS) context. It yields non-Cartesian sampling trajectories that jointly fulfill a target sampling density while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Chaithya G R , Zaccharie Ramzi , Philippe Ciuciu

Strong gravitational lensing forms multiple, time delayed images of cosmological sources, with the "focal length" of the lens serving as a cosmological distance probe. Robust estimation of the time delay distance can tightly constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-10 Alireza Hojjati , Eric V. Linder

Understanding the nature of dark matter in the Universe is an important goal of modern cosmology. A key method for probing this distribution is via weak gravitational lensing mass-mapping - a challenging ill-posed inverse problem where one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Jessica J. Whitney , Tobías I. Liaudat , Matthew A. Price , Matthijs Mars , Jason D. McEwen

The emergence of neural and Gaussian-based radiance field methods has led to considerable advancements in novel view synthesis and 3D object reconstruction. Nonetheless, specular reflection and refraction continue to pose significant…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Letian Huang , Dongwei Ye , Jialin Dan , Chengzhi Tao , Huiwen Liu , Kun Zhou , Bo Ren , Yuanqi Li , Yanwen Guo , Jie Guo

Modelling the mass distributions of strong gravitational lenses is often necessary to use them as astrophysical and cosmological probes. With the high number of lens systems ($>10^5$) expected from upcoming surveys, it is timely to explore…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-24 S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixé , R. Cañameras , S. Taubenberger , A. Halkola

We aim to construct a machine-learning approach that allows for a pixel-by-pixel reconstruction of the intergalactic medium (IGM) density field for various warm dark matter (WDM) models using the Lyman-alpha forest. With this regression…

Inverse Problem techniques offer powerful tools which deal naturally with marginal data and asymmetric or strongly smoothing kernels, in cases where parameter-fitting methods may be used only with some caution. Although they are typically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Norman Gray , Iain J. Coleman

Weak gravitational lensing is the slight distortion of galaxy shapes caused primarily by the gravitational effects of dark matter in the universe. In our work, we seek to invert the weak lensing signal from 2D telescope images to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Brandon Zhao , Aviad Levis , Liam Connor , Pratul P. Srinivasan , Katherine L. Bouman

Strong gravitational lensing can reveal the influence of dark-matter substructure in galaxies, but analyzing these effects from noisy, low-resolution images poses a significant challenge. In this work, we propose a masked autoencoder (MAE)…

Rendering high-fidelity images from sparse point clouds is still challenging. Existing learning-based approaches suffer from either hole artifacts, missing details, or expensive computations. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiaxu Wang , Ziyi Zhang , Junhao He , Renjing Xu

Super-resolution using deep neural networks typically relies on highly curated training sets that are often unavailable in clinical deployment scenarios. Using loss functions that assume Gaussian-distributed residuals makes the learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Uddeshya Upadhyay , Suyash P. Awate

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies can probe the total projected mass distribution of foreground gravitational structures on all scales and has been used successfully to map the projected mass distribution of rich intermediate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier

Vision transformer networks have shown superiority in many computer vision tasks. In this paper, we take a step further by proposing a novel generative vision transformer with latent variables following an informative energy-based prior for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jing Zhang , Jianwen Xie , Nick Barnes , Ping Li

Strong gravitational lensing of an extended object is described by a mapping from source to image coordinates that is nonlinear and cannot generally be inverted analytically. Determining the structure of the source intensity distribution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Adam Rogers , Jason D. Fiege

Challenging computer vision tasks, in particular semantic image segmentation, require large training sets of annotated images. While obtaining the actual images is often unproblematic, creating the necessary annotation is a tedious and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-29 Alexander Kolesnikov , Christoph H. Lampert

We investigate strong gravitational lensing in the concordance $\Lambda$CDM cosmology by carrying out ray-tracing along past light cones through the Millennium Simulation, the largest simulation of cosmic structure formation ever carried…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-03 Stefan Hilbert , Simon D. M. White , Jan Hartlap , Peter Schneider

An appealing requirement from the well-known diffraction tomography (DT) exists for success reconstruction from few-view and limited-angle data. Inspired by the well-known compressive sensing (CS), the accurate super-resolution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2009-04-20 Lianlin Li , Wenji Zhang , Fang Li