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Ray tracing accelerated with graphics processing units (GPUs) is an accurate and efficient simulation technique of wireless communication channels. In this paper, we extend a GPU-accelerated ray tracer (RT) to support the effects of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Sara Sandh , Hamed Radpour , Benjamin Rainer , Markus Hofer , Thomas Zemen

We introduce a model that can accurately simulate radiation from undulator sources for ray tracing applications. It incorporates several key effects relevant to 4$^\text{th}$ generation synchrotron sources, such as electron emittance,…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2024-10-18 Manuel Sanchez del Rio , Juan Reyes-Herrera

We present a ray-tracing technique for radiative transfer modeling of complex three-dimensional (3D) structures which include dense regions of high optical depth like in dense molecular clouds, circumstellar disks, envelopes of evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Steinacker , A. Bacmann , Th. Henning

The accurate modeling of indoor radio propagation is crucial for localization, monitoring, and device coordination, yet remains a formidable challenge, due to the complex nature of indoor environments where radio can propagate along…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Lihao Zhang , Haijian Sun , Jin Sun , Rose Qingyang Hu

Site-specific radio frequency (RF) propagation prediction increasingly relies on models built from visual data such as cameras and LIDAR sensors. When operating in dynamic settings, the environment may only be partially observed. This paper…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Mingsheng Yin , Yaqi Hu , Tommy Azzino , Seongjoon Kang , Marco Mezzavilla , Sundeep Rangan

Research in manipulation of deformable objects is typically conducted on a limited range of scenarios, because handling each scenario on hardware takes significant effort. Realistic simulators with support for various types of deformations…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Priya Sundaresan , Rika Antonova , Jeannette Bohg

The millimeter wave (mmWave) band will provide multi-gigabits-per-second connectivity in the radio access of future wireless systems. The high propagation loss in this portion of the spectrum calls for the deployment of large antenna arrays…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Mattia Lecci , Paolo Testolina , Michele Polese , Marco Giordani , Michele Zorzi

Ray-tracing (RT) has become central to site-specific electromagnetic propagation modeling in dynamic complex environments. Yet its computational burden grows sharply as high-fidelity digital twins of these environments scale to millions of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Giacomo Melloni , Enrico M. Vitucci , Vittorio Degli Esposti , Samuel Berweger , Jack Chuang , Camillo Gentile , Nada Golmie

Multipaths, reflections, diffractions, and material interactions complicate indoor wireless propagation modelling. More than 80% of wireless data is consumed indoors; hence, planning successful deployments and maximizing network performance…

The high computational expense of simulating light through ray-tracing in large, sparsely instrumented particle detectors such as IceCube and Antares is a critical outstanding problem in particle physics. When the detector is sparsely…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-13 Gabriel H. Collin

Radio wave propagation simulations based on the ray-optical approximation have been widely adopted in coverage analysis for a range of situations, including the outdoor-to-indoor scenario. This work presents O2I ray-tracing simulations…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Pasi Koivumäki , Aki Karttunen , Katsuyuki Haneda

Recently, Differentiable Ray Tracing has been successfully applied in the field of wireless communications for learning radio materials or optimizing the transmitter orientation. However, in the frame of gradient based optimization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Jerome Eertmans , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges

Radiative transfer calculations are essential for modeling planetary atmospheres. However, standard methods are computationally demanding and impose accuracy-speed trade-offs. High computational costs force numerical simplifications in…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Isaac Malsky , Tiffany Kataria , Natasha E. Batalha , Matthew Graham

Algorithmic differentiable ray tracing is a new paradigm that allows one to solve the forward problem of how light propagates through an optical system while obtaining gradients of the simulation results with respect to parameters…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-26 Bart de Koning , Alexander Heemels , Aurèle Adam , Matthias Möller

Realistic modeling of scattering from curved metallic bodies - such as vehicles and roadside structures - is essential for cellular and vehicular channel modeling as well as radar applications. A practical approach is to approximate curved…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Ainur Ziganshin , Enrico M. Vitucci , Wim Kotterman , Reiner Thomae , Christian Schneider , Vittorio Degli-Esposti

Radiative transfer is a key bottleneck in computational astrophysics: it is nonlocal, stiff, and tightly coupled to hydrodynamics. We introduce Ray-trax, a GPU-oriented, fully differentiable 3D ray tracer written in JAX that solves the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Lorenzo Branca , Rune Rost , Tobias Buck

The upcoming roll-out of the new wireless communication standard for wireless railway services, FRMCS, requires a thorough understanding of the system performance in real-world conditions, since this will strongly influence the deployment…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-23 Romain Charbonnier , Thierry Tenoux , Yoann Corre

Optical images of transparent three-dimensional objects can be different from a replica of the object's cross section in the image plane due to refraction at the surface or in the body of the object. Simulations of the object's image are…

While recent advancements in deep-learning point cloud upsampling methods have improved the input to intelligent transportation systems, they still suffer from issues of domain dependency between synthetic and real-scanned point clouds.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sangwon Lim , Karim El-Basyouny , Yee Hong Yang

Ray tracing has become a standard for accurate radio propagation modeling, but suffers from exponential computational complexity, as the number of candidate paths scales with the number of objects raised to the interaction order. This…