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Deep learning has been successfully demonstrated in MRI reconstruction of accelerated acquisitions. However, its dependence on representative training data limits the application across different contrasts, anatomies, or image sizes. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-20 Chaoping Zhang , Florian Dubost , Marleen de Bruijne , Stefan Klein , Dirk H. J. Poot

We present a general linear algorithm for measuring the surface mass density 1-\kappa from the observable reduced shear g=\gamma/(1-\kappa) in the strong lensing regime. We show that in general, the observed polarization field can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ue-Li Pen

Weak-lensing mass-mapping algorithms, which reconstruct the convergence field from galaxy shear measurements, are crucial for extracting higher-order statistics to constrain cosmological parameters. However, only limited research has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-28 Andreas Tersenov , Lucie Baumont , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger

We develop a new tool to generate statistically precise dark matter maps from the cosmic magnification of galaxies with distance estimates. We show how to overcome the intrinsic clustering problem using the slope of the luminosity function,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Pengjie Zhang , Ue-Li Pen

Using higher-order statistics to capture cosmological information from weak lensing surveys often requires a transformation of observed shear to a measurement of the convergence signal. This inverse problem is complicated by noise and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Nisha Grewal , Joe Zuntz , Tilman Tröster

Alternative to weak lensing measurements through cosmic shear, we present a weak lensing convergence $\hat{\kappa}$ map reconstructed through cosmic magnification effect in DECaLS galaxies of the DESI imaging surveys DR9. This is achieved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-05 Jian Qin , Pengjie Zhang , Haojie Xu , Yu Yu , Ji Yao , Ruijie Ma , Huanyuan Shan

The Spherical Geometry Algorithm (SGA) demonstrates superior capability in achieving efficient and precise spaceborne SAR image formation processing, even under challenging imaging conditions including non-linear radar trajectories and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Xinhua Mao , Manyi Tao , Jixia Fan

We update the field-level inference code KARMMA to enable tomographic forward-modelling of shear maps. Our code assumes a lognormal prior on the convergence field, and properly accounts for the cross-covariance in the lensing signal across…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-11 Supranta S. Boruah , Pier Fiedorowicz , Eduardo Rozo

We present DeepCHART (Deep learning for Cosmological Heterogeneity and Astrophysical Reconstruction via Tomography), a deep learning framework designed to reconstruct the three-dimensional dark matter density field at redshift $z=2.5$ from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Soumak Maitra , Matteo Viel , Girish Kulkarni

We present reconstructed convergence maps, \textit{mass maps}, from the Dark Energy Survey (DES) third year (Y3) weak gravitational lensing data set. The mass maps are weighted projections of the density field (primarily dark matter) in the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-23 N. Jeffrey , M. Gatti , C. Chang , L. Whiteway , U. Demirbozan , A. Kovacs , G. Pollina , D. Bacon , N. Hamaus , T. Kacprzak , O. Lahav , F. Lanusse , B. Mawdsley , S. Nadathur , J. L. Starck , P. Vielzeuf , D. Zeurcher , A. Alarcon , A. Amon , K. Bechtol , G. M. Bernstein , A. Campos , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , R. Cawthon , R. Chen , A. Choi , J. Cordero , C. Davis , J. DeRose , C. Doux , A. Drlica-Wagner , K. Eckert , F. Elsner , J. Elvin-Poole , S. Everett , A. Ferté , G. Giannini , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , I. Harrison , W. G. Hartley , K. Herner , E. M. Huff , D. Huterer , N. Kuropatkin , M. Jarvis , P. F. Leget , N. MacCrann , J. McCullough , J. Muir , J. Myles , A. Navarro-Alsina , S. Pandey , J. Prat , M. Raveri , R. P. Rollins , A. J. Ross , E. S. Rykoff , C. Sánchez , L. F. Secco , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , E. Sheldon , T. Shin , M. A. Troxel , I. Tutusaus , T. N. Varga , B. Yanny B. Yin , Y. Zhang , J. Zuntz , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Aguena , S. Allam , F. Andrade-Oliveira , M. R. Becker , E. Bertin , S. Bhargava , D. Brooks , D. L. Burke , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , C. Conselice , M. Costanzi , M. Crocce , L. N. da Costa , M. E. S. Pereira , J. De Vicente , S. Desai , H. T. Diehl , J. P. Dietrich , P. Doel , I. Ferrero , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , J. Gschwend , G. Gutierrez , S. R. Hinton , D. L. Hollowood , B. Hoyle , B. Jain , D. J. James , M. Lima , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , J. L. Marshall , P. Melchior , F. Menanteau , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , R. Morgan , R. L. C. Ogando , A. Palmese , F. Paz-Chinchón , A. A. Plazas , M. Rodriguez-Monroy , A. Roodman , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , S. Serrano , M. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , E. Suchyta , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , C. To , J. Weller

We introduce the skew-spectrum statistic for weak lensing convergence $\kappa$ maps and test it against state-of-the-art high-resolution all-sky numerical simulations. We perform the analysis as a function of source redshift and smoothing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , T. D. Kitching , J. D. McEwen , F. R. Bouchet

Surface reconstruction with preservation of geometric features is a challenging computer vision task. Despite significant progress in implicit shape reconstruction, state-of-the-art mesh extraction methods often produce aliased,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Natalia Soboleva , Olga Gorbunova , Maria Ivanova , Evgeny Burnaev , Matthias Nießner , Denis Zorin , Alexey Artemov

We describe a novel end-to-end approach using Machine Learning to reconstruct the power spectrum of cosmological density perturbations at high redshift from observed quasar spectra. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Maria Han Veiga , Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Xun Huan

The abundance of peaks in weak gravitational lensing maps is a potentially powerful cosmological tool, complementary to measurements of the shear power spectrum. We study peaks detected directly in shear maps, rather than convergence maps,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Nicolas Martinet , James G. Bartlett , Alina Kiessling , Barbara Sartoris

We develop an algorithm for the reconstruction of the two-dimensional mass distribution of a gravitational lens from the observable distortion of background galaxies. From the measured reduced shear, the lens mapping is obtained, from which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tarun Deep Saini , Somak Raychaudhury

The exact cover problem is an NP-complete problem with broad applications. Studies show that although applying the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) to this problem can yield improved solution quality with deeper circuit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Xiao-Hui Ni , Jia-Cheng Fan , Ling-Xiao Li , Zi-Wen Huang , Su-Juan Qin , Bing-Jie Xu , Wei-Huang , Fei Gao

We introduce SCAR, a method for long-term auto-calibration refinement of aerial visual-inertial systems that exploits georeferenced satellite imagery as a persistent global reference. SCAR estimates both intrinsic and extrinsic parameters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Henry Hölzemann , Michael Schleiss

This work establishes COMPRA, a compact and reactive autonomy framework for fast deployment of Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) in subterranean Search-and-Rescue (SAR) missions. A COMPRA-enabled MAV is able to autonomously explore previously…

We develop the maximum-entropy weak shear mass reconstruction method presented in earlier papers by taking each background galaxy image shape as an independent estimator of the reduced shear field and incorporating an intrinsic smoothness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. J. Marshall , M. P. Hobson , S. F. Gull , S. L. Bridle

Based on realistic simulations, we propose an hybrid method to reconstruct the lensing potential power spectrum, directly on PLANCK-like CMB frequency maps. It implies using a large galactic mask and dealing with a strong inhomogeneous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-20 S. Plaszczynski , A. Lavabre , L. Perotto , J. -L. Starck