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We demonstrate a lock-in particle tracking scheme in optical tweezers based on stroboscopic modulation of an illuminating optical field. This scheme is found to evade low frequency noise sources while otherwise producing an equivalent…

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Visual tracking algorithms are naturally adopted in various applications, there have been several benchmarks and many tracking algorithms, more expected to appear in the future. In this report, I focus on single object tracking and revisit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Zan Huang

In this paper, an online adaptive model-free tracker is proposed to track single objects in video sequences to deal with real-world tracking challenges like low-resolution, object deformation, occlusion and motion blur. The novelty lies in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Tanushri Chakravorty , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Eric Granger

We present an algorithm implemented in the astroalign Python module for image registration in astronomy. Our module does not rely on WCS information and instead matches 3-point asterisms (triangles) on the images to find the most accurate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Martin Beroiz , Juan B. Cabral , Bruno Sanchez

The presented algorithms for segmentation and tracking follow a 3-step approach where we detect, track and finally segment nuclei. In the preprocessing phase, we detect centroids of the cell nuclei using a convolutional neural network (CNN)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-16 Dennis Eschweiler , Johannes Stegmaier

In this study, we investigate the problem of tracking objects with unknown shapes using three-dimensional (3D) point cloud data. We propose a Gaussian process-based model to jointly estimate object kinematics, including position,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-12 Murat Kumru , Emre Özkan

Detecting objects from LiDAR point clouds is an important component of self-driving car technology as LiDAR provides high resolution spatial information. Previous work on point-cloud 3D object detection has re-purposed convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jiquan Ngiam , Benjamin Caine , Wei Han , Brandon Yang , Yuning Chai , Pei Sun , Yin Zhou , Xi Yi , Ouais Alsharif , Patrick Nguyen , Zhifeng Chen , Jonathon Shlens , Vijay Vasudevan

We discuss in some details a novel algorithm for performing partial-sky spherical harmonic transforms (SHT), building on the Fourier-sphere method of Reinecke et al (2023) handling efficiently high numbers of arbitrary locations on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Julien Carron , Martin Reinecke

Star clusters are often hard to find, as they may lie in a dense field of background objects or, because in the case of embedded clusters, they are surrounded by a more dispersed population of young stars. This paper discusses four…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-16 S. Schmeja

Target tracking problem has many practical applications in real life. In submarines, target tracking is done using, preferably, passive sensors. These sensors measure only the bearing angles between the observed target and the ownship.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-24 Hasan Hüseyin Sönmez , Köksal Hocaoğlu

We implement an algorithm based on the weighted stacking of astronomical images that can combine different observations of the same region of the sky removing the interfering signals. We develop a C++ code that takes as input a set of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-30 Giulia Murgia , Sofia Fatigoni

Dense point tracking is a fundamental problem in computer vision, with applications ranging from video analysis to robotic manipulation. State-of-the-art trackers typically rely on cost volumes to match features across frames, but this…

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In beyond 5G and 6G network scenarios, the use of satellites has been actively discussed for extending target monitoring areas, even for extreme circumstances, where the monitoring functionalities can be realized due to the usage of…

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We have designed a powerful new algorithm to detect stellar streams in an automated and systematic way. The algorithm, which we call the STREAMFINDER, is well suited for finding dynamically cold and thin stream structures that may lie along…

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Gaussianizing transformations are used statistically in many non-cosmological fields, but in cosmology, we are only starting to apply them. Here I explain a strategy of analyzing the 1-point function (PDF) of a spatial field, together with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-22 Mark C. Neyrinck

Estimator algorithms in learning automata are useful tools for adaptive, real-time optimization in computer science and engineering applications. This paper investigates theoretical convergence properties for a special case of estimator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-09-28 Ryan Martin , Omkar Tilak

A Kalman Filter alignment algorithm has been applied to cosmic-ray data. We discuss the alignment algorithm and an experiment-independent implementation including outlier rejection and treatment of weakly determined parameters. Using this…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2012-11-13 D. Sprenger , M. Weber , R. Adolphi , R. Brauer , L. Feld , K. Klein , A. Ostaptchuk , S. Schael , B. Wittmer

Over the past 30 years, numerous large-scale photometric astronomical surveys have been conducted, including SDSS, Pan-STARRS, Gaia,2MASS, WISE, and others. These surveys provide extensive photometric measurements that can be used to infer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-03 Mateusz Kapusta

We make the in-orbit calibration to the point-spread functions (PSFs) of the collimators of the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope with the scanning observation of the Crab. We construct the empirical adjustments to the theoretically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Yi Nang , Jin-Yuan Liao , Na Sai , Chen Wang , Ju Guan , Cheng-Kui Li , Cheng-Cheng Guo , Yuan Liu , Jing Jin , Xiao-Bo Li , Shu Zhang , Shuang-Nan Zhang