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We present a state-of-the-art report on visualization in astrophysics. We survey representative papers from both astrophysics and visualization and provide a taxonomy of existing approaches based on data analysis tasks. The approaches are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-02 Fangfei Lan , Michael Young , Lauren Anderson , Anders Ynnerman , Alexander Bock , Michelle A. Borkin , Angus G. Forbes , Juna A. Kollmeier , Bei Wang

Robotic perception is becoming a key technology for navigation aids, especially helping individuals with visual impairments through spatial sonification. This paper introduces a mapping representation that accurately captures scene geometry…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Lan Wu , Craig Jin , Monisha Mushtary Uttsha , Teresa Vidal-Calleja

In this work, we identify elements of effective machine learning datasets in astronomy and present suggestions for their design and creation. Machine learning has become an increasingly important tool for analyzing and understanding the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Bernie Boscoe , Tuan Do , Evan Jones , Yunqi Li , Kevin Alfaro , Christy Ma

Astronomy is entering a new era as multiple, large area, digital sky surveys are in production. The resulting datasets are truly remarkable in their own right; however, a revolutionary step arises in the aggregation of complimentary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Szalay , R. J. Brunner

Humans can robustly recognize and localize objects by integrating visual and auditory cues. While machines are able to do the same now with images, less work has been done with sounds. This work develops an approach for dense semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

With the application of advanced astronomical technologies, equipments and methods all over the world, astronomy covers from radio, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-ray and gamma ray band, and enters into the era of full wavelength…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Bo Han , Yanxia Zhang , Shoubo Zhong , Yongheng Zhao

Adaptive Optics is a prime example of how progress in observational astronomy can be driven by technological developments. At many observatories it is now considered to be part of a standard instrumentation suite, enabling ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 R. Davies , M. Kasper

In audio signal processing, the interpretation of complex information using visual representation enhances pattern recognition through its alignment with human perceptual systems. Software tools that carry hidden assumptions inherited from…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Ashlae Blum'e

Astronomical datasets are growing in size and diversity, posing severe technical problems. At the same time scientific goals increasingly require the analysis of very large amounts of data, and data from multiple archives. The Virtual…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-05-14 A. Lawrence

Astronomy has been at the forefront of the development of the techniques and methodologies of data intensive science for over a decade with large sky surveys and distributed efforts such as the Virtual Observatory. However, it faces a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-14 Matthew J. Graham , S. G. Djorgovski , Ashish Mahabal , Ciro Donalek , Andrew Drake , Giuseppe Longo

Astronomical researchers often think of analysis and visualization as separate tasks. In the case of high-dimensional data sets, though, interactive exploratory data visualization can give far more insight than an approach where data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Alyssa A. Goodman

Sequential scientific data span many resolutions and domains, and unifying them into a common representation is a key step toward developing foundation models for the sciences. Astronomical spectra exemplify this challenge: massive surveys…

We review some of the recent developments and challenges posed by the data analysis in modern digital sky surveys, which are representative of the information-rich astronomy in the context of Virtual Observatory. Illustrative examples…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 S. G. Djorgovski , C. Donalek , A. Mahabal , R. Williams , A. Drake , M. Graham , E. Glikman

In this review, we explore the historical development and future prospects of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning in astronomy. We trace the evolution of connectionism in astronomy through its three waves, from the early use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-01 Michael J. Smith , James E. Geach

As our capacity to study ever-expanding domains of our science has increased (including the time domain, non-electromagnetic phenomena, magnetized plasmas, and numerous sky surveys in multiple wavebands with broad spatial coverage and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-04 Kirk D. Borne , Suzanne Jacoby , K. Carney , A. Connolly , T. Eastman , M. J. Raddick , J. A. Tyson , J. Wallin

Astronomy is one of the most data-intensive of the sciences. Data technology is accelerating the quality and effectiveness of its research, and the rate of astronomical discovery is higher than ever. As a result, many view astronomy as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ray P Norris

Over the past decade, astronomers have been using an increasingly larger number of web-based applications and archives to conduct their research. However, despite the early success in creating links across projects and data centers, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Alberto Accomazzi , Michael J. Kurtz , Stephen S. Murray

Interactive Sonification is a well-known guidance method in navigation tasks. Researchers have repeatedly suggested the use of interactive sonification in neuronavigation and image-guided surgery. The hope is to reduce clinicians' cognitive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Tim Ziemer

Smart cities are urban areas with sensor networks that collect data used towards efficient management. As a source of ubiquitous data, smart city initiatives present opportunities to enhance inhabitants' urban awareness. However, making…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Pedro Sarmento , Ove Holmqvist , Mathieu Barthet

Pitch-based sonification of quantitative data increases the accessibility of data visualizations that are otherwise inaccessible for blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals. We argue that, although pitch representations can reveal the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Can Liu , Wenjie Jiang , Shaolun Ruan , Kotaro Hara , Yong Wang