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The civil engineering industry faces a critical need for innovative non-destructive evaluation methods, particularly for ageing critical infrastructure, such as bridges, where current techniques fall short. Muography, a non-invasive imaging…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-03 William O'Donnell , David Mahon , Guangliang Yang , Simon Gardner

Muon radiography is a fast growing field in applied scientific research. In recent years, many detector technologies and imaging techniques using the Coulomb scattering and absorption properties of cosmic-ray muons have been developed for…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-11-11 F. Ambrosino , L. Bonechi , L. Cimmino , R. D'Alessandro , D. G. Ireland , R. Kaiser , D. F. Mahon , N. Mori , P. Noli , G. Saracino , C. Shearer , L. Viliani , G. Yang

Nuclear materials accountability and nonproliferation are among the critical tasks to be addressed for the advancement of nuclear energy in the United States. Monitoring spent nuclear fuel is important to continue reliable stewardship of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-12-12 Junghyun Bae , Stylianos Chatzidakis

The performance demands of future particle-physics experiments investigating the high-energy frontier pose a number of new challenges, forcing us to find improved solutions for the detection, identification, and measurement of final-state…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-03-31 Jan Kieseler , Giles C. Strong , Filippo Chiandotto , Tommaso Dorigo , Lukas Layer

Cosmic ray muon tomography is considered a promising method for the non-invasive inspection of shipping containers and trucks. It utilizes highly penetrating cosmic-ray muons and their interactions with various materials to generate…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-04 Anzori Sh. Georgadze

Diffusion-based trajectory planners can synthesize rich, multimodal robot motions, but their iterative denoising makes online planning and control prohibitively slow. Existing accelerations either modify the sampler or compress the…

Deep neural networks are a powerful technique that have found ample applications in several branches of Physics. In this work, we apply machine learning algorithms to a specific problem of Cosmic Ray Physics: the estimation of the muon…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 A. Guillen , A. Bueno , J. M. Carceller , J. C. Martinez-Velazquez , G. Rubio , C. J. Todero Peixoto , P. Sanchez-Lucas

Long-term monitoring and exploration of extreme environments, such as underwater storage facilities, is costly, labor-intensive, and hazardous. Automating this process with low-cost, collaborative robots can greatly improve efficiency.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Shuang Chen , Yifeng He , Barry Lennox , Farshad Arvin , Amir Atapour-Abarghouei

Diffusion magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) is a crucial non-invasive technique for exploring the microstructure of the living human brain. Traditional hand-crafted and model-based tissue microstructure reconstruction methods often require…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Xinrui Ma , Jian Cheng , Wenxin Fan , Ruoyou Wu , Yongquan Ye , Shanshan Wang

We present an underground cosmic ray muon tomographic experiment imaging 3D density of overburden, part of a joint study with differential gravity. Muon data were acquired at four locations within a tunnel beneath Los Alamos, New Mexico,…

Muons interact with matter via two major interaction mechanisms: ionization and radioactive process, and multiple Coulomb scattering leading to energy loss and trajectory deflection, respectively. For a monoenergetic muon beam crossing an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-24 Zhengzhi Liu

Modelling carbon monoxide (CO) line radiation is computationally expensive for traditional numerical solvers, especially when applied to complex, three-dimensional stellar atmospheres. We present COEmuNet, a 3D convolutional neural network…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-16 Shiqi Su , Frederik De Ceuster , Jaehoon Cha , Mark I. Wilkinson , Jeyan Thiyagalingam , Jeremy Yates , Yi-Hang Zhu , Jan Bolte

Remote sensing image change description represents an innovative multimodal task within the realm of remote sensing processing.This task not only facilitates the detection of alterations in surface conditions, but also provides…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dongwei Sun , Jing Yao , Wu Xue , Changsheng Zhou , Pedram Ghamisi , Xiangyong Cao

Objective: Bloch simulation constitutes an essential part of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) development. However, even with the graphics processing unit (GPU) acceleration, the heavy computational load remains a major challenge,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-19 Haitao Huang , Qinqin Yang , Jiechao Wang , Pujie Zhang , Shuhui Cai , Congbo Cai

Hydrodynamical simulations are the most accurate way to model structure formation in the universe, but they often involve a large number of astrophysical parameters modeling subgrid physics, in addition to cosmological parameters. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-05 Benjamin Horowitz , Zarija Lukic

Muon tomography is a relatively new method of radiography that utilizes muons from cosmic rays and their multiple Coulomb scattering property to distinguish materials. Researchers around the world have been developing various detection…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-12-20 Weihe Zeng , Xingyu Pan , Zhi Zeng , Hao Ma , Ming Zeng , Jianping Cheng

Collision detection is one of the most time-consuming operations during motion planning. Thus, there is an increasing interest in exploring machine learning techniques to speed up collision detection and sampling-based motion planning. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Dominik Joho , Jonas Schwinn , Kirill Safronov

Nowadays underwater vision systems are being widely applied in ocean research. However, the largest portion of the ocean - the deep sea - still remains mostly unexplored. Only relatively few image sets have been taken from the deep sea due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Yifan Song , David Nakath , Mengkun She , Furkan Elibol , Kevin Köser

This paper explores the use of cosmic ray muons to image the contents of shielded containers and detect high-Z special nuclear materials inside them. Cosmic ray muons are a naturally occurring form of radiation, are highly penetrating and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-10-09 G. Jonkmans , V. N. P. Anghel , C. Jewett , M. Thompson

Large models recently are widely applied in artificial intelligence, so efficient training of large models has received widespread attention. More recently, a useful Muon optimizer is specifically designed for matrix-structured parameters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Feihu Huang , Yuning Luo , Songcan Chen