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We present Arepo-MCRT, a novel Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) radiation-hydrodynamics (RHD) solver for the unstructured moving-mesh code Arepo. Our method is designed for general multiple scattering problems in both optically thin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-16 Aaron Smith , Rahul Kannan , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Mark Vogelsberger , Ruediger Pakmor

The theory and numerical modelling of radiation processes and radiative transfer play a key role in astrophysics: they provide the link between the physical properties of an object and the radiation it emits. In the modern era of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Ulrich M. Noebauer , Stuart A. Sim

Due to its accuracy and generality, Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) has emerged as the prevalent method for Ly$\alpha$ radiative transfer in arbitrary geometries. The standard MCRT encounters a significant efficiency barrier in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Aaron Smith , Benny T. -H. Tsang , Volker Bromm , Milos Milosavljevic

Radiative transfer (RT) simulations are a powerful tool that enables the calculation of synthetic images of a wide range of astrophysical objects. These simulations are often based on the Monte Carlo (MC) method, as it provides the needed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Anton Krieger , Sebastian Wolf

An algorithm for creating synthetic telescope images of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) density fields is presented, which utilises the adaptive nature of the SPH formalism in full. The imaging process uses Monte Carlo Radiative…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Duncan Forgan , Ken Rice

Significance: Monte Carlo (MC) methods are the gold-standard for modeling light-tissue interactions due to their accuracy. Mesh-based MC (MMC) offers enhanced precision for complex tissue structures using tetrahedral mesh models. Despite…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shijie Yan , Douglas Dwyer , David R. Kaeli , Qianqian Fang

Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) simulations are a powerful tool for determining the appearance of astrophysical objects, analyzing the prevalent physical conditions within them, and inferring their properties on the basis of real…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-13 Anton Krieger , Sebastian Wolf

(Context) Monte Carlo radiative transfer (MCRT) is a widely used technique to model the interaction between radiation and a medium, and plays an important role in astrophysical modelling and when comparing those models with observations.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Bert Vandenbroucke , Peter Camps

Context: The Monte Carlo method is probably the most widely used approach to solve the radiative transfer problem, especially in a general 3D geometry. The physical processes of emission, absorption, and scattering are easily incorporated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-19 Maarten Baes , Peter Camps , Kosei Matsumoto

Dense reconstruction and differentiable rendering are fundamental tightly connected operations in 3D vision and computer graphics. Recent neural implicit representations demonstrate compelling advantages in reconstruction fidelity and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhirui Dai , Hojoon Shin , Yulun Tian , Ki Myung Brian Lee , Nikolay Atanasov

It is vital to recover 3D geometry from multi-view RGB images in many 3D computer vision tasks. The latest methods infer the geometry represented as a signed distance field by minimizing the rendering error on the field through volume…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Sijia Jiang , Tong Wu , Jing Hua , Zhizhong Han

Neural networks that map 3D coordinates to signed distance function (SDF) or occupancy values have enabled high-fidelity implicit representations of object shape. This paper develops a new shape model that allows synthesizing novel distance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Ehsan Zobeidi , Nikolay Atanasov

As commonly used implicit geometry representations, the signed distance function (SDF) is limited to modeling watertight shapes, while the unsigned distance function (UDF) is capable of representing various surfaces. However, its inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Chuanxiang Yang , Yuanfeng Zhou , Guangshun Wei , Long Ma , Junhui Hou , Yuan Liu , Wenping Wang

Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT) is widely used for real-time photorealistic effects. PRT disentangles the rendering equation into transfer and lighting, enabling their precomputation. Transfer accounts for the cosine-weighted visibility…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Sirikonda Dhawal , Aakash KT , P. J. Narayanan

Computer graphics, 3D computer vision and robotics communities have produced multiple approaches to representing 3D geometry for rendering and reconstruction. These provide trade-offs across fidelity, efficiency and compression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Jeong Joon Park , Peter Florence , Julian Straub , Richard Newcombe , Steven Lovegrove

Localization of a robotic system within a previously mapped environment is important for reducing estimation drift and for reusing previously built maps. Existing techniques for geometry-based localization have focused on the description of…

Simulating high-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images in complex scenes has consistently presented a significant research challenge. The development of a microwave-domain surface scattering model and its reversibility are poised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiangtao Wei , Yixiang Luomei , Xu Zhang , Feng Xu

Recent works on implicit neural representations have shown promising results for multi-view surface reconstruction. However, most approaches are limited to relatively simple geometries and usually require clean object masks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jingyang Zhang , Yao Yao , Long Quan

Aims. Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer (MCRT) simulations are a powerful tool for understanding the role of dust in astrophysical systems and its influence on observations. However, due to the strong coupling of the radiation field and medium…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-01 Majda Smole , João Rino-Silvestre , Santiago González-Gaitán , Marko Stalevski

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have been a vital representation to represent 3D shapes or scenes with neural networks. An SDF is an implicit function that can query signed distances at specific coordinates for recovering a 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Qiang Bai , Bojian Wu , Xi Yang , Zhizhong Han
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