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We propose an approach for fast random number generation based on homemade optical physical unclonable functions (PUFs). The optical PUF is illuminated with input laser wavefront of continuous modulation to obtain different speckle…

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Computational micromagnetics has become an essential tool in academia and industry to support fundamental research and the design and development of devices. Consequently, computational micromagnetics is widely used in the community, and…

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The combination of different cosmological probes offers stringent tests of the $\Lambda$CDM model and enhanced control of systematics. For this purpose, we present an extension of the lightcone generator UFalcon first introduced in Sgier et…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-17 Raphael Sgier , Janis Fluri , Jörg Herbel , Alexandre Réfrégier , Adam Amara , Tomasz Kacprzak , Andrina Nicola

We present a multi-scale, multi-wavelength source extraction algorithm called getsources. Although it has been designed primarily for use in the far-infrared surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel, the method can be applied…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 A. Men'shchikov , Ph. André , P. Didelon , F. Motte , M. Hennemann , N. Schneider

In this work, we provide an efficient and realistic data-driven approach to simulate astronomical images using deep generative models from machine learning. Our solution is based on a variant of the generative adversarial network (GAN) with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Mohamad Dia , Elodie Savary , Martin Melchior , Frederic Courbin

In the era of large time-domain spectro-photometric surveys, surface variations such as starspots, chemical inhomogeneities, pulsations, rotational distortions, and binary interactions can now be directly detected and modelled. Accurately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 M. Jabłońska , T. Różański , L. Casagrande , H. Shah , P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański , M. Rychlicki , Yuan-Sen Ting

Generative models have achieved remarkable performance recently, and thus model hubs have emerged. Existing model hubs typically assume basic text matching is sufficient to search for models. However, in reality, due to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhi Zhou , Hao-Zhe Tan , Peng-Xiao Song , Lan-Zhe Guo

In recent years, diffusion models have gained popularity for their ability to generate higher-quality images in comparison to GAN models. However, like any other large generative models, these models require a huge amount of data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Rajesh Shrestha , Bowen Xie

Despite the promise of Neural Posterior Estimation (NPE) methods in astronomy, the adaptation of NPE into the routine inference workflow has been slow. We identify three critical issues: the need for custom featurizer networks tailored to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-25 Keming Zhang , Joshua S. Bloom , Stéfan van der Walt , Nina Hernitschek

We present an algorithm capable of detecting diffuse, dim sources of any size in an astronomical image. These sources often defeat traditional methods for source finding, which expand regions around points of high intensity. Extended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-05 T. Butler-Yeoman , M. Frean , C. P. Hollitt , D. W. Hogg , M. Johnston-Hollitt

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an important image format widely adopted in graphic design because of their resolution independence and editability. The study of generating high-quality SVG has continuously drawn attention from both…

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We present the first Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope Serendipitous Source Catalogue (UVOTSSC). The catalogue was compiled from 23,059 Swift datasets taken within the first five years of observations with the Swift UVOT. A purpose-built…

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The IMAGINE Consortium aims to bring modeling of the magnetic field of the Milky Way to a next level, by using Bayesian inference. IMAGINE includes an open-source modular software pipeline that optimizes parameters in a user-defined…

Detection of point sources in images is a fundamental operation in astrophysics, and is crucial for constraining population models of the underlying point sources or characterizing the background emission. Standard techniques fall short in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-28 Tansu Daylan , Stephen K. N. Portillo , Douglas P. Finkbeiner

Vector graphics are widely used in graphical designs and have received more and more attention. However, unlike raster images which can be easily obtained, acquiring high-quality vector graphics, typically through automatically converting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Haokun Zhu , Juang Ian Chong , Teng Hu , Ran Yi , Yu-Kun Lai , Paul L. Rosin

We present a novel framework, InfinityGAN, for arbitrary-sized image generation. The task is associated with several key challenges. First, scaling existing models to an arbitrarily large image size is resource-constrained, in terms of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Chieh Hubert Lin , Hsin-Ying Lee , Yen-Chi Cheng , Sergey Tulyakov , Ming-Hsuan Yang

New surveys such as ESA's Euclid mission are planned to map with unprecedented precision the large-scale structure of the Universe by measuring the 3D positions of tens of millions of galaxies. It is necessary to develop theoretically…

The search for refining 3D LiDAR data has attracted growing interest motivated by recent techniques such as supervised learning or generative model-based methods. Existing approaches have shown the possibilities for using diffusion models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Sander Elias Magnussen Helgesen , Kazuto Nakashima , Jim Tørresen , Ryo Kurazume

We introduce a new generator architecture, aimed at fast and efficient high-resolution image-to-image translation. We design the generator to be an extremely lightweight function of the full-resolution image. In fact, we use pixel-wise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Tamar Rott Shaham , Michael Gharbi , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Tomer Michaeli

Fast imaging localises celestial transients using source finders in the image domain. The need for high computational throughput in this process is driven by next-generation telescopes such as Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which, upon…

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