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Galaxies are biased tracers of the underlying cosmic web, which is dominated by dark matter components that cannot be directly observed. Galaxy formation simulations can be used to study the relationship between dark matter density fields…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 Victoria Ono , Core Francisco Park , Nayantara Mudur , Yueying Ni , Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro , Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro

Gravitational lensing is a powerful tool for constraining substructure in the mass distribution of galaxies, be it from the presence of dark matter sub-halos or due to physical mechanisms affecting the baryons throughout galaxy evolution.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-28 Georgios Vernardos , Grigorios Tsagkatakis , Yannis Pantazis

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies by foreground structures has proven to be a powerful tool to study the mass distribution in the universe. The advent of panoramic cameras on 4m class telescope has led to a first generation of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-23 Henk Hoekstra

Most of the matter in the universe is not luminous and can be observed directly only through its gravitational effect. An emerging technique called weak gravitational lensing uses background galaxies to reveal the foreground dark matter…

Large scale image super-resolution is a challenging computer vision task, since vast information is missing in a highly degraded image, say for example forscale x16 super-resolution. Diffusion models are used successfully in recent years in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Chun-Chuen Hui , Wan-Chi Siu , Ngai-Fong Law

Diffusion models that are based on iterative denoising have been recently proposed and leveraged in various generation tasks like image generation. Whereas, as a way inherently built for continuous data, existing diffusion models still have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiaao Chen , Aston Zhang , Mu Li , Alex Smola , Diyi Yang

Real-world image denoising is an extremely important image processing problem, which aims to recover clean images from noisy images captured in natural environments. In recent years, diffusion models have achieved very promising results in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Cheng Yang , Lijing Liang , Zhixun Su

Real-world image noise removal is a long-standing yet very challenging task in computer vision. The success of deep neural network in denoising stimulates the research of noise generation, aiming at synthesizing more clean-noisy image pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Zongsheng Yue , Qian Zhao , Lei Zhang , Deyu Meng

Patient scans from MRI often suffer from noise, which hampers the diagnostic capability of such images. As a method to mitigate such artifact, denoising is largely studied both within the medical imaging community and beyond the community…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Hyungjin Chung , Eun Sun Lee , Jong Chul Ye

Weak gravitational lensing has proven to be a powerful tool to map directly the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. The technique, currently used, relies on the accurate measurement of the gravitational shear that corresponds to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 S. Pires , A. Amara

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger

The distortion of images of faint background galaxies by (weak) gravitational lensing can be used to measure the mass distribution of the deflector. The image distortions can be used to define a weighted mean of the mass inside a circular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Schneider

Diffusion models are emerging as powerful solutions for generating high-fidelity and diverse images, often surpassing GANs under many circumstances. However, their slow inference speed hinders their potential for real-time applications. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Luan Thanh Trinh , Tomoki Hamagami

Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique method to map directly the distribution of dark matter in the universe and to measure cosmological parameters. This cosmic-shear technique is based on the measurement of the weak distortions that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexandre Refregier

One of the most powerful techniques to study the dark sector of the Universe is weak gravitational lensing. In practice, to infer the reduced shear, weak lensing measures galaxy shapes, which are the consequence of both the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Sami-Matias Niemi , Thomas Kitching , Mark Cropper

Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies can probe the total projected mass distribution of foreground gravitational structures on all scales and has been used successfully to map the projected mass distribution of rich intermediate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Van Waerbeke , Y. Mellier

Weak lensing (WL) promises to be a particularly sensitive probe of both the growth of large scale structure (LSS) as well as the fundamental relation between matter density perturbations and metric perturbations, thus providing a powerful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Geraint Pratten , Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas , Philippe Brax

Denoising diffusion models are a popular class of generative models providing state-of-the-art results in many domains. One adds gradually noise to data using a diffusion to transform the data distribution into a Gaussian distribution.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Francisco Vargas , Will Grathwohl , Arnaud Doucet

A wide variety of deep generative models has been developed in the past decade. Yet, these models often struggle with simultaneously addressing three key requirements including: high sample quality, mode coverage, and fast sampling. We call…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Zhisheng Xiao , Karsten Kreis , Arash Vahdat

Gravitational waves (GWs) can be distorted by intervening mass distributions while propagating, leading to frequency-dependent modulations that imprint a distinct signature on the observed waveforms. Bayesian inference for GW lensing with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-15 Juno C. L. Chan , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Jose María Ezquiaga , Rico K. L. Lo , Luka Vujeva , Joey Bowman