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Bayesian estimation is a vital tool in robotics as it allows systems to update the robot state belief using incomplete information from noisy sensors. To render the state estimation problem tractable, many systems assume that the motion and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Miguel Saavedra-Ruiz , Steven A. Parkison , Ria Arora , James Richard Forbes , Liam Paull

Aims: We address two issues for the adoption of convex optimization in radio interferometric imaging. First, a method for a fine resolution setup is proposed which scales naturally in terms of memory usage and reconstruction speed. Second,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-22 Adrian Jarret , Sepand Kashani , Joan Rué-Queralt , Paul Hurley , Julien Fageot , Matthieu Simeoni

This paper considers homography estimation in a Bayesian filtering framework using rate gyro and camera measurements. The use of rate gyro measurements facilitates a more reliable estimate of homography in the presence of occlusions, while…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Arturo Del Castillo Bernal , Philippe Decoste , James Richard Forbes

Uncertainty quantification is a critical missing component in radio interferometric imaging that will only become increasingly important as the big-data era of radio interferometry emerges. Statistical sampling approaches to perform…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Xiaohao Cai , Marcelo Pereyra , Jason D. McEwen

The estimation of the polarization $P$ of extragalactic compact sources in Cosmic Microwave Background images is a very important task in order to clean these images for cosmological purposes -- as, for example, to constrain the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 D. Herranz , F. Argüeso , L. Toffolatti , A. Manjón-García , M. López-Caniego

A variational Bayesian inference for measured wave intensity, such as X-ray intensity, is proposed in this paper. The data is popular to obtain information about unobservable features of an object, such as a material sample and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Akinori Asahara , Yoshihiro Osakabe , Yamamoto Mitsuya , Hidekazu Morita

Inferring sky surface brightness distributions from noisy interferometric data in a principled statistical framework has been a key challenge in radio astronomy. In this work, we introduce Imaging for Radio Interferometry with Score-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-07 Noé Dia , M. J. Yantovski-Barth , Alexandre Adam , Micah Bowles , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh , Anna Scaife

Polarimetric radio observations of the Sun can provide rich information about emission mechanisms and the propagation medium. For the past five decades, solar polarimetric studies at low radio frequencies have almost always assumed the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-05 Soham Dey , Devojyoti Kansabanik , Divya Oberoi , Surajit Mondal

All-sky observations of the Milky Way show both Galactic and non-Galactic diffuse emission, for example from interstellar matter or the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The different emitters are partly superimposed in the measurements,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Sara Milosevic , Philipp Frank , Reimar H. Leike , Ancla Müller , Torsten A. Enßlin

Self-calibration methods with the CLEAN algorithm have been widely employed in Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data processing in order to correct antenna-based amplitude and phase corruptions present in the data. However, human…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Jong-Seo Kim , Aleksei S. Nikonov , Jakob Roth , Torsten A. Ensslin , Michael Janssen , Philipp Arras , Hendrik Mueller , Andrei P. Lobanov

Radio interferometry invariably suffers from an incomplete coverage of the spatial Fourier space, which leads to imaging artifacts. The current state-of-the-art technique is to create an image by Fourier-transforming the incomplete…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 F. Geyer , K. Schmidt , J. Kummer , M. Brüggen , H. W. Edler , D. Elsässer , F. Griese , A. Poggenpohl , L. Rustige , W. Rhode

This paper investigates the possibility of improving radio interferometric images using an algorithm inspired by an optical method known as "lucky imaging", which would give more weight to the best-calibrated visibilities used to make a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Etienne Bonnassieux , Cyril Tasse , Oleg Smirnov , Philippe Zarka

Radio interferometric imaging aims to estimate an unknown sky intensity image from degraded observations, acquired through an antenna array. In the theoretical case of a perfectly calibrated array, it has been shown that solving the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-25 Audrey Repetti , Jasleen Birdi , Arwa Dabbech , Yves Wiaux

We present a novel analysis method for measurements of polarization transferred in $A(\vec{e},e'\vec{N})$ experiments, which can be applied to other kinds of polarization measurements as well. In this method the polarization transfer…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 D. Izraeli , I. Mardor , E. O. Cohen , M. Duer , T. Y. Izraeli , I. Korover , J. Lichtenstadt , E. Piasetzky

Mechanical and electronic imperfections can result into polarization leakage in individual antennas of a radio interferometer. Such leakages manifest themselves as closure errors even in co-polar visibility measurements of unpolarized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Sanjay Bhatnagar , Rajaram Nityananda

Recovering images from optical interferometric observations is one of the major challenges in the field. Unlike the case of observations at radio wavelengths, in the optical the atmospheric turbulence changes the phases on a very short time…

Polarization-based vision has gained increasing attention for providing richer physical cues beyond RGB images. While achieving single-shot capture is highly desirable for practical applications, existing Division-of-Focal-Plane (DoFP)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shuangfan Zhou , Chu Zhou , Heng Guo , Youwei Lyu , Boxin Shi , Zhanyu Ma , Imari Sato

We investigate interferometric techniques to estimate the deflection angle of an optical beam and compare them to the direct detection of the beam deflection. We show that quantum metrology methods lead to a unifying treatment for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 S. P. Walborn , G. H. Aguilar , P. L. Saldanha , L. Davidovich , R. L. de Matos Filho

We use Bayesian model selection tools to forecast the Planck satellite's ability to distinguish between different models for the reionization history of the Universe, using the large angular scale signal in the cosmic microwave background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Pia Mukherjee , Andrew R. Liddle

The data reduction procedure for radio interferometers can be viewed as a combined calibration and imaging problem. We present an algorithm that unifies cross-calibration, self-calibration, and imaging. Being a Bayesian method, that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 Philipp Arras , Philipp Frank , Reimar Leike , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten Enßlin