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Strongly lensed quasar systems with time delay measurements provide "time delay distances", which are a combination of three angular diameter distances and serve as powerful tools to determine the Hubble constant $H_0$. However, current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-18 Kai Liao , Arman Shafieloo , Ryan E. Keeley , Eric V. Linder

Recent advances in vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved great performance in visual recognition tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exploit spatial inductive bias to learn visual representations, but these networks are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Youpeng Zhao , Huadong Tang , Yingying Jiang , Yong A , Qiang Wu

Strong gravitational lensing of time variable sources such as quasars and supernovae creates observable time delays between the multiple images. Time delays can provide a powerful cosmographic probe through the "time delay distance"…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-18 Alireza Hojjati , Alex G. Kim , Eric V. Linder

Strong gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for investigating dark matter and dark energy properties. With the advent of large-scale sky surveys, we can discover strong lensing systems on an unprecedented scale, which requires efficient…

In recent years, Transformers have achieved remarkable progress in computer vision tasks. However, their global modeling often comes with substantial computational overhead, in stark contrast to the human eye's efficient information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Yuguang Zhang , Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang

Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) are one of the most promising methods for identifying strong gravitational lens candidates in survey data. We present two ConvNet lens-finders which we have trained with a dataset composed of real…

Distinguishing between quark- and gluon-initiated jets is a critical and challenging task in high-energy physics, pivotal for improving new physics searches and precision measurements at the Large Hadron Collider. While deep learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Md Abrar Jahin , Shahriar Soudeep , Arian Rahman Aditta , M. F. Mridha , Nafiz Fahad , Md. Jakir Hossen

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated their superior accuracy for computer vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, ViT models are often computation-intensive for efficient deployment on…

Land Use Scene Classification (LUSC) from remote sensing imagery plays a critical role in environmental monitoring, urban planning, and sustainable resource management. In recent years, deep learning methods have significantly advanced the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Arun D. Kulkarni

Forthcoming large imaging surveys such as Euclid and the Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time are expected to find more than $10^5$ strong gravitational lens systems, including many rare and exotic populations such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Joshua Wilde , Stephen Serjeant , Jane M. Bromley , Hugh Dickinson , Leon V. E. Koopmans , R. Benton Metcalf

We use supernovae measurements, calibrated by the local determination of the Hubble constant $H_0$ by SH0ES, to interpolate the distance-redshift relation using Gaussian process regression. We then predict, independent of the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Shivam Pandey , Marco Raveri , Bhuvnesh Jain

Accurate and precise measurements of the Hubble constant are critical for testing our current standard cosmological model and revealing possibly new physics. With Hubble Space Telescope (HST) imaging, each strong gravitational lens system…

Transformer design is the de facto standard for natural language processing tasks. The success of the transformer design in natural language processing has lately piqued the interest of researchers in the domain of computer vision. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Md Sohag Mia , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Md Shariful Islam

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have demonstrated outstanding Compressed Sensing (CS) performance compared to traditional, hand-crafted methods. However, they are broadly limited in terms of generalisability, inductive bias and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Marlon Bran Lorenzana , Craig Engstrom , Shekhar S. Chandra

We use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to estimate the parameters of strong gravitational lenses from interferometric observations. We explore multiple strategies and find that the best results are…

Future large-scale surveys with high resolution imaging will provide us with a few $10^5$ new strong galaxy-scale lenses. These strong lensing systems however will be contained in large data amounts which are beyond the capacity of human…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-14 C. Schaefer , M. Geiger , T. Kuntzer , J-P. Kneib

Strongly lensed supernovae are a promising new probe to obtain independent measurements of the Hubble constant (${H_0}$). In this work, we employ simulated gravitationally lensed Type Ia supernovae (glSNe Ia) to train our machine learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-16 Gonçalo Gonçalves , Nikki Arendse , Doogesh Kodi Ramanah , Radosław Wojtak

We present a detailed strong lensing analysis of an HST/ACS legacy dataset for the first gravitational lens, Q0957+561. With deep imaging we identify 24 new strongly lensed features, which we use to constrain mass models. We model the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Ross Fadely , Charles R. Keeton , Reiko Nakajima , Gary M. Bernstein

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos

Strong gravitational lensing provides a wealth of astrophysical information on the baryonic and dark matter content of galaxies. It also serves as a valuable cosmological probe by allowing us to measure the Hubble constant independently of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 A. Galan , A. Peel , R. Joseph , F. Courbin , J. -L. Starck