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Understanding shock-solid interactions remains a central challenge in compressiblefluiddynamics. WepresentJAX-Shock: afully-differentiable,GPU-accelerated, high-order shock-capturing solver for efficient simulation of the compressible…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-09 Bo Zhang

This paper describes AutoFocus, an efficient multi-scale inference algorithm for deep-learning based object detectors. Instead of processing an entire image pyramid, AutoFocus adopts a coarse to fine approach and only processes regions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Mahyar Najibi , Bharat Singh , Larry S. Davis

Differentiable rendering is a key ingredient for inverse rendering and machine learning, as it allows to optimize scene parameters (shape, materials, lighting) to best fit target images. Differentiable rendering requires that each scene…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Haocheng Yuan , Adrien Bousseau , Hao Pan , Chengquan Zhang , Niloy J. Mitra , Changjian Li

Since the first observations of interstellar molecules, astrochemical simulations have been employed to model and understand its formation and destruction path- ways. With the advent of high-resolution telescopes such as JWST and ALMA, the…

Collision detection is a core component of robotics applications such as simulation, control, and planning. Traditional algorithms like GJK+EPA compute witness points (i.e., the closest or deepest-penetration pairs between two objects) but…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiayi Chen , Wei Zhao , Liangwang Ruan , Baoquan Chen , He Wang

The application of monocular dense Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is often hindered by high latency, large GPU memory consumption, and reliance on camera calibration. To relax this constraint, we propose EC3R-SLAM, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Lingxiang Hu , Naima Ait Oufroukh , Fabien Bonardi , Raymond Ghandour

Support for lower precision computation is becoming more common in accelerator hardware due to lower power usage, reduced data movement and increased computational performance. However, computational science and engineering (CSE) problems…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Jennifer A. Loe , Christian A. Glusa , Ichitaro Yamazaki , Erik G. Boman , Sivasankaran Rajamanickam

Intrinsic image decomposition aims to separate images into physical components such as albedo, depth, normals, and illumination. While recent diffusion- and transformer-based models benefit from paired supervision from synthetic datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Alara Dirik , Tuanfeng Wang , Duygu Ceylan , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Anna Frühstück

The global 21-cm signal provides a powerful probe of early-Universe astrophysics, but its detection is hindered by Galactic foregrounds that are orders of magnitude brighter than the signal and distortions introduced by beam chromaticity.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-16 Jacob L. Tutt , Peter H. Sims , Joe H. N. Pattison , Dominic J. Anstey , Samuel A. K. Leeney , Eloy de Lera Acedo

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated framework for solving block tridiagonal linear systems that arise naturally in numerous real-time applications across engineering and scientific computing. Through a multi-stage permutation strategy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Roland Schwan , Daniel Kuhn , Colin N. Jones

Most camera lens systems are designed in isolation, separately from downstream computer vision methods. Recently, joint optimization approaches that design lenses alongside other components of the image acquisition and processing pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Geoffroi Côté , Fahim Mannan , Simon Thibault , Jean-François Lalonde , Felix Heide

Instruction-guided image editing has seen remarkable progress with models like FLUX.2 and Qwen-Image-Edit, yet they still struggle with complex scenarios with multiple similar instances each requiring individual edits. We observe that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ziqian Liu , Stephan Alaniz

Differentiable numerical simulations of physical systems have gained rising attention in the past few years with the development of automatic differentiation tools. This paper presents JAX-SSO, a differentiable finite element analysis…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Gaoyuan Wu

In this paper, we propose a scene-level inverse rendering framework that uses multi-view images to decompose the scene into geometry, SVBRDF, and 3D spatially-varying lighting. While multi-view images have been widely used for object-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 JunYong Choi , SeokYeong Lee , Haesol Park , Seung-Won Jung , Ig-Jae Kim , Junghyun Cho

Microlensing of multiply imaged quasars is a unique probe of quasar structure, down to the size of the accretion disc and the central black hole. Flux ratios between close pairs of images of lensed quasars can be used to constrain the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-05 Georgios Vernardos

Traditional inverse rendering techniques are based on textured meshes, which naturally adapts to modern graphics pipelines, but costly differentiable multi-bounce Monte Carlo (MC) ray tracing poses challenges for modeling global…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Jiakai Sun , Weijing Zhang , Zhanjie Zhang , Tianyi Chu , Guangyuan Li , Lei Zhao , Wei Xing

Epithelial tissues dynamically reshape through local mechanical interactions among cells, a process well captured by vertex models. Yet their many tunable parameters make inference and optimization challenging, motivating computational…

Time-delay distance measurements from strongly lensed quasars provide a robust, independent method for determining the Hubble constant ($H_0$). This approach cross-checks $H_0$ estimates from the distance ladder in the late universe and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-18 Han Wang , Sherry H. Suyu , Aymeric Galan , Aleksi Halkola , Michele Cappellari , Anowar J. Shajib , Miha Cernetic

We introduce a novel modeling pipeline for strongly lensed point sources, using the GIGA-Lens framework, running on four A100 GPUs via the JAX platform. Using simulations, we demonstrate accurate and precise recovery of image positions,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-27 Saul Baltasar , Nicolas Ratier-Werbin , Xiaosheng Huang , W. Sheu , C. J. Storfer , Y. -M. Hsu , Sean Xu , David J. Schlegel

Finding corresponding pixels within a pair of images is a fundamental computer vision task with various applications. Due to the specific requirements of different tasks like optical flow estimation and local feature matching, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Songyan Zhang , Xinyu Sun , Hao Chen , Bo Li , Chunhua Shen