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X-ray tomographic reconstruction typically uses voxel basis functions to represent volumetric images. Due to the structure in voxel basis representations, efficient ray-tracing methods exist allowing fast, GPU accelerated implementations.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Ander Biguri , Hossein Towsyfyan , Richard Boardman , Thomas Blumensath

To reproduce the observed spectra and light curves originated in the neighborhood of compact objects requires accurate relativistic ray-tracing codes. In this work, we present Skylight, a new numerical code for general-relativistic ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-07 Joaquín Pelle , Oscar Reula , Federico Carrasco , Carlos Bederian

Ray-tracing-based 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) methods overcome the limitations of rasterization -- rigid pinhole camera assumptions, inaccurate shadows, and lack of native reflection or refraction -- but remain slower due to the cost of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Peiyu Xu , Xin Sun , Krishna Mullia , Raymond Fei , Iliyan Georgiev , Shuang Zhao

Gradient-based algorithms are crucial to modern computer-vision and graphics applications, enabling learning-based optimization and inverse problems. For example, photorealistic differentiable rendering pipelines for color images have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Benjamin Planche , Rajat Vikram Singh

Magnetic Particle Imaging is an emerging imaging modality through which it is possible to detect tracers containing superparamagnetic nanoparticles. The exposure of the particles to dynamic magnetic fields generates a non-linear response…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Vladyslav Gapyak , Thomas März , Andreas Weinmann

In this work, we use multi-view aerial images to reconstruct the geometry, lighting, and material of facades using neural signed distance fields (SDFs). Without the requirement of complex equipment, our method only takes simple RGB images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Zixuan Xie , Rengan Xie , Rong Li , Kai Huang , Pengju Qiao , Jingsen Zhu , Xu Yin , Qi Ye , Wei Hua , Yuchi Huo , Hujun Bao

We present a new three-dimensional radiative transfer (RT) code, RADAMESH, based on a ray-tracing, photon-conserving and adaptive (in space and time) scheme. RADAMESH uses a novel Monte Carlo approach to sample the radiation field within…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sebastiano Cantalupo , Cristiano Porciani

Topographic mapping in planetary environments relies on accurate 3D scan registration methods. However, most global registration algorithms relying on features such as FPFH and Harris-3D show poor alignment accuracy in these settings due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-24 Siddhant Ahuja , Peter Iles , Steven L. Waslander

A new N-body and hydrodynamical code, called RAMSES, is presented. It has been designed to study structure formation in the universe with high spatial resolution. The code is based on Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) technique, with a tree…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Romain Teyssier

Full ray-tracing maps of gravitational lensing, constructed from N-Body simulations, represent a fundamental tool to interpret present and future weak lensing data. However the limitation of computational resources and storage capabilities…

In this brief communication a new method is outlined for modelling magnification patterns on an observer's plane using a first order approximation to the null geodesic path equations for a point mass lens. For each ray emitted from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-08 S. J. Walters , L. K. Forbes

High-precision regression of physical parameters from black hole images generated by General Relativistic Ray Tracing (GRRT) is essential for investigating spacetime curvature and advancing black hole astrophysics. However, due to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-23 Jialei Wei , Ao Liu , Dejiang Li , Cuihong Wen

I present a new algorithm, CALCLENS, for efficiently computing weak gravitational lensing shear signals from large N-body light cone simulations over a curved sky. This new algorithm properly accounts for the sky curvature and boundary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-15 Matthew R. Becker

We describe the construction of an N-body simulation that mimics the true velocity and mass-density fields in a box of side 256\hmpc about the Local Group , and the production of mock catalogs that mimic in detail current catalogs of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Tsafrir Kolatt , Avishai Dekel , Galit Ganon , Jeffrey Willick

Safe navigation of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) requires not only obstacle-free flight paths according to a static environment map, but also the perception of and reaction to previously unknown and dynamic objects. This implies that the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Matthias Nieuwenhuisen , Sven Behnke

Modern computer vision algorithms have brought significant advancement to 3D geometry reconstruction. However, illumination and material reconstruction remain less studied, with current approaches assuming very simplified models for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Dejan Azinović , Tzu-Mao Li , Anton Kaplanyan , Matthias Nießner

We introduce and study a new scheme to construct relativistic observables from post-processing light cone data. This construction is based on a novel approach, LC-Metric, which takes general light cone or snapshot output generated by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Chi Tian , Matthew F. Carney , James B. Mertens , Glenn Starkman

This is the first in a series of papers devoted to fully general-relativistic $N$-body simulations applied to late-time cosmology. The purpose of this paper is to present the combination of a numerical relativity scheme, discretization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-29 David Daverio , Yves Dirian , Ermis Mitsou

The Kassiopeia particle tracking framework is an object-oriented software package using modern C++ techniques, written originally to meet the needs of the KATRIN collaboration. Kassiopeia features a new algorithmic paradigm for particle…

With the ability of providing direct and accurate enough range measurements, light detection and ranging (LiDAR) is playing an essential role in localization and detection for autonomous vehicles. Since single LiDAR suffers from hardware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Yusheng Wang , Yidong Lou , Weiwei Song , Huan Yu , Zhiyong Tu