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We present GIGA-Lens: a gradient-informed, GPU-accelerated Bayesian framework for modeling strong gravitational lensing systems, implemented in TensorFlow and JAX. The three components, optimization using multi-start gradient descent,…

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A finite-difference Micromagnetic simulation code written in MATLAB is presented with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) acceleration. The high performance of Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) is demonstrated compared to a typical Central…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Ru Zhu

We introduce an approach for the real-time (2Hz) creation of a dense map and alignment of a moving robotic agent within that map by rendering using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU). This is done by recasting the scan alignment part of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Julian Ryde , Xuchu , Ding

Optimization plays a central role in modern radiation therapy, where it is used to determine optimal treatment machine parameters in order to deliver precise doses adapted to each patient case. In general, solving the optimization problems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Felix Liu , Albin Fredriksson , Stefano Markidis

3D Gaussian Splatting shows great potential in reconstructing photo-realistic 3D scenes. However, these methods typically bake illumination into their representations, limiting their use for physically-based rendering and scene editing.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zirui Wu , Jianteng Chen , Laijian Li , Shaoteng Wu , Zhikai Zhu , Kang Xu , Martin R. Oswald , Jie Song

In the last few years, several deep learning models, especially Generative Adversarial Networks have received a lot of attention for the task of Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR). These methods focus on building an end-to-end framework,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-12 Vibhu Bhatia , Yatender Kumar

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) is a transformative technique with profound implications on novel view synthesis and real-time rendering. Given its importance, there have been many attempts to improve its performance. However, with the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yi Hu , Huiyang Zhou

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated computational framework for reconstructing high resolution (HR) LF images under a mixed Gaussian-Impulse noise condition. The main focus is on developing a high-performance approach considering…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Trung-Hieu Tran , Kaicong Sun , Sven Simon

Particle-based representations of radiance fields such as 3D Gaussian Splatting have found great success for reconstructing and re-rendering of complex scenes. Most existing methods render particles via rasterization, projecting them to…

Recovering the intrinsic physical attributes of a scene from images, generally termed as the inverse rendering problem, has been a central and challenging task in computer vision and computer graphics. In this paper, we present GUS-IR, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Zhihao Liang , Hongdong Li , Kui Jia , Kailing Guo , Qi Zhang

This study presents a reconstruction of the Gaussian Beam Tracing solution using CUDA, with a particular focus on the utilisation of GPU acceleration as a means of overcoming the performance limitations of traditional CPU algorithms in…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zhang Sheng , Lishu Duan , Hanbo Jiang

A computer code is described for the simulation of gravitational lensing data. The code incorporates adaptive mesh refinement in choosing which rays to shoot based on the requirements of the source size, location and surface brightness…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-29 R. Benton Metcalf , Margarita Petkova

In this work, we have explored the advantages and drawbacks of using GPUs instead of CPUs in the calculation of a standard 2-point correlation function algorithm, which is useful for the analysis of Large Scale Structure of galaxies. Taking…

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This paper proposes a novel framework for large-scale scene reconstruction based on 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) and aims to address the scalability and accuracy challenges faced by existing methods. For tackling the scalability issue, we…

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We introduce microJAX, the first fully differentiable implementation of the image-centered ray-shooting (ICRS) algorithm for gravitational microlensing. Built on JAX and its XLA just-in-time compiler, microJAX exploits GPU parallelism while…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-06 Shota Miyazaki , Hajime Kawahara

In inverse rendering, accurately modeling visibility and indirect radiance for incident light is essential for capturing secondary effects. Due to the absence of a powerful Gaussian ray tracer, previous 3DGS-based methods have either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Chun Gu , Xiaofei Wei , Zixuan Zeng , Yuxuan Yao , Li Zhang

Cosmological gravitational microlensing is a useful technique for understanding the structure of the inner parts of a quasar, especially the accretion disk and the central supermassive black hole. So far, most of the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-03 Georgios Vernardos , Christopher J. Fluke

We present a fast, differentiable, GPU-accelerated optimization method for ray path tracing in environments containing planar reflectors and straight diffraction edges. Based on Fermat's principle, our approach reformulates the path-finding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-01 Jérome Eertmans , Sophie Lequeu , Benoît Legat , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges

Recent advancements in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have shifted the focus toward balancing reconstruction fidelity with computational efficiency. In this work, we propose ImprovedGS+, a high-performance, low-level reinvention of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jordi Muñoz Vicente

We present a new algorithm to quickly generate high-performance GPU implementations of complex imaging and vision pipelines, directly from high-level Halide algorithm code. It is fully automatic, requiring no schedule templates or…

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