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Vision-based object detectors are a crucial basis for robotics applications as they provide valuable information about object localisation in the environment. These need to ensure high reliability in different lighting conditions,…

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Astronomical data take on a multitude of forms -- catalogs, data cubes, images, and simulations. The availability of software for rendering high-quality three-dimensional graphics lends itself to the paradigm of exploring the incredible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 Brian R. Kent

We introduce Synference, a new, flexible Python framework for galaxy SED fitting using simulation-based inference (SBI). Synference leverages the Synthesizer package for flexible forward-modelling of galaxy SEDs and integrates the LtU-ILI…

In this paper I describe the visualization toolkit Sator, which is designed to read, analyze and visualize simulation data of the moving-mesh code Arepo. It is written in Python and employs a graphical user interface based on the Tkinter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-20 Thomas H. Greif

We introduce PyMGal, a Python package for generating optical mock observations of galaxies from hydrodynamical simulations. PyMGal reads the properties of stellar particles from these simulations and generates spectral energy distributions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-02 Patrick Janulewicz , Weiguang Cui

To reduce and analyze astronomical images, astronomers can rely on a wide range of libraries providing low-level implementations of legacy algorithms. However, combining these routines into robust and functional pipelines requires a major…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Lionel J. Garcia , Mathilde Timmermans , Francisco J. Pozuelos , Elsa Ducrot , Michaël Gillon , Laetitia Delrez , Robert D. Wells , Emmanuël Jehin

We present the 'simage' software suite for the simulation of artificial extragalactic images, based empirically around real observations of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF). The simulations reproduce galaxies with realistic and complex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Benjamin M. Dobke , David E. Johnston , Richard Massey , F. William High , Matthew Ferry , Jason Rhodes , R. Ali Vanderveld

A wide range of scientific imaging datasets benefit from human inspection for purposes ranging from prosaic-such as fault identification and quality inspection-to profound, enabling the discovery of new phenomena. As such, these datasets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-04 Ryan Walker , Andi Kisare , Lindsey Bleem

Observations of protostars are often compared with synthetic observations of models in order to infer the underlying physical properties of the protostars. The majority of these models have a single protostar, attended by a disc and an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 O. Lomax , A. P. Whitworth

We introduce GalaxyGenius, a Python package designed to produce synthetic galaxy images tailored to different telescopes based on hydrodynamical simulations. Its implementation will support and advance research on galaxies in the era of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-13 Xingchen Zhou , Hang Yang , Nan Li , Qi Xiong , Furen Deng , Xian-Min Meng , Renhao Ye , Shiyin Shen , Peng Wei , Qifan Cui , Zizhao He , Ayodeji Ibitoye , Chengliang Wei , Yuedong Fang

When modeling astronomical objects throughout the universe, it is important to correctly treat the limitations of the data, for instance finite resolution and sensitivity. In order to simulate these effects, and to make radiative transfer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Christine M. Koepferl , Thomas P. Robitaille

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

The analysis of complex multiphysics astrophysical simulations presents a unique and rapidly growing set of challenges: reproducibility, parallelization, and vast increases in data size and complexity chief among them. In order to meet…

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Iris is an extensible application that provides astronomers with a user-friendly interface capable of ingesting broad-band data from many different sources in order to build, explore, and model spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Iris…

The rapid advancement of AI and computer vision has significantly increased the demand for high-quality annotated datasets, particularly for semantic segmentation. However, creating such datasets is resource-intensive, requiring substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ngoc-Do Tran , Minh-Tuan Huynh , Tam V. Nguyen , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

Hydrodynamic simulations are powerful tools for studying galaxy formation. However, it is crucial to test and improve the sub-grid physics underlying these simulations by comparing their predictions with observations. To this aim,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-30 A. Cornejo-Cárdenas , E. Sillero , P. B. Tissera , M. Boquien , J. Vilchez , G. Bruzual , P. Jofré

Data for good implies unfettered access to data. But data owners must be conservative about how, when, and why they share data or risk violating the trust of the people they aim to help, losing their funding, or breaking the law. Data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Bill Howe , Julia Stoyanovich , Haoyue Ping , Bernease Herman , Matt Gee

The most direct way to confront observed galaxies with those formed in numerical simulations is to forward-model simulated galaxies into synthetic observations. Provided that synthetic galaxy observations include similar constraints and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-16 Connor Bottrell , Maan H. Hani

This paper is concerned with synthesizing programs based on black-box oracles: we are interested in the case where there exists an executable implementation of a component or library, but its internal structure is unknown. We are provided…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Bruce Collie , Jackson Woodruff , Michael F. P. O'Boyle

Feature selection is an important and active field of research in machine learning and data science. Our goal in this paper is to propose a collection of synthetic datasets that can be used as a common reference point for feature selection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Firuz Kamalov , Hana Sulieman , Aswani Kumar Cherukuri