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LiDAR-based 3D detection has made great progress in recent years. However, the performance of 3D detectors is considerably limited when deployed in unseen environments, owing to the severe domain gap problem. Existing domain adaptive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Ziyu Li , Jingming Guo , Tongtong Cao , Liu Bingbing , Wankou Yang

Large-scale numerical simulations of planetary interiors require dedicated visualization algorithms that are able to efficiently extract a large amount of information in an interactive and user-friendly way. Here we present a software…

Nighttime UAV tracking faces significant challenges in real-world robotics operations. Low-light conditions not only limit visual perception capabilities, but cluttered backgrounds and frequent viewpoint changes also cause existing trackers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xuzhao Li , Xuchen Li , Shiyu Hu

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the primary cosmological probes, providing powerful constraints on the cosmological model. As Stage IV surveys are expected to deliver data of unprecedented precision, accurate modeling of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Mattia Pantiri , Matthieu Schaller , Alessandra Silvestri , Jeger C. Broxterman , Joop Schaye

The high computational expense of simulating light through ray-tracing in large, sparsely instrumented particle detectors such as IceCube and Antares is a critical outstanding problem in particle physics. When the detector is sparsely…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-13 Gabriel H. Collin

Accurate photometric redshift estimation is critical for observational cosmology, especially in large-scale surveys where spectroscopic measurements are impractical. Traditional approaches include template fitting and machine learning, each…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Jonas Chris Ferrao , Dickson Dias , Pranav Naik , Glory D'Cruz , Anish Naik , Siya Khandeparkar , Manisha Gokuldas Fal Dessai

We model weak gravitational lensing of light by large-scale structure using ray tracing through N-body simulations. The method is described with particular attention paid to numerical convergence. We investigate some of the key…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chris Vale , Martin White

Mega-pixel charge-integrating detectors are common in near-IR imaging applications. Optimal signal-to-noise ratio estimates of the photocurrents, which are particularly important in the low-signal regime, are produced by fitting linear…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-16 Michael Zemcov , Brendan Crill , Matthew Ryan , Zak Staniszewski

We present the last version of the PyrAmid Simulator Software for Adaptive opTics Arcetri (PASSATA), an IDL and CUDA based object oriented software developed in the Adaptive Optics group of the Arcetri observatory for Monte-Carlo end-to-end…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 G. Agapito , A. Puglisi , S. Esposito

The physical world consists of spatially varying media, such as the atmosphere and the ocean, in which light and sound propagates along non-linear trajectories. This presents a challenge to existing ray-tracing based methods, which are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Qi Mo , Hengchin Yeh , Dinesh Manocha

We present the methodology of a photon-conserving, spatially-adaptive, ray-tracing radiative transfer algorithm, designed to run on multiple parallel Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). Each GPU has thousands computing cores, making them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Blake Hartley , Massimo Ricotti

In this paper, we aim to model 3D scene geometry, appearance, and physical information just from dynamic multi-view videos in the absence of any human labels. By leveraging physics-informed losses as soft constraints or integrating simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jinxi Li , Ziyang Song , Bo Yang

Computing the relative motion of objects is an important navigation task that we routinely perform by relying on inherently unreliable biological cells in the retina. The non-linear and adaptive response of memristive devices make them…

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We present a ray-tracing technique for radiative transfer modeling of complex three-dimensional (3D) structures which include dense regions of high optical depth like in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar disks, envelopes of evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Steinacker , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

HII regions powered by ionizing radiation from massive stars drive the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium. Fast radiative transfer methods for incorporating photoionization effects are thus essential in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

We introduce a lightweight and accurate localization method that only utilizes the geometry of 2D-3D lines. Given a pre-captured 3D map, our approach localizes a panorama image, taking advantage of the holistic 360 view. The system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Junho Kim , Jiwon Jeong , Young Min Kim

This paper proposes a robust, high-precision positioning methodology to address localization failures arising from complex background interference in large-scale flight navigation and the computational inefficiency inherent in conventional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jing Tao , Banglei Guan , Yang Shang , Shunkun Liang , Qifeng Yu

Numerical simulations are becoming a more effective tool for conducting detailed investigations into the evolution of our universe. In this article, we show how the framework of numerical relativity can be used for studying cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-13 David Garrison

This work presents a highly optimized computational framework for the Discrete Dipole Approximation, a numerical method for calculating the optical properties associated with a target of arbitrary geometry that is widely used in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-07 James Mc Donald , Aaron Golden , S. Gerard Jennings

We propose R3GS, a robust reconstruction and relocalization framework tailored for unconstrained datasets. Our method uses a hybrid representation during training. Each anchor combines a global feature from a convolutional neural network…

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