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This article reviews recent advances in the application of machine learning to weak-lensing cosmology. Weak gravitational lensing provides a unique and powerful probe of the total matter distribution in the Universe, independent of its…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Masato Shirasaki

Weak gravitational lensing is considered to be one of the most powerful tools to study the mass and the mass distribution of galaxy clusters. However, weak lensing mass reconstructions are plagued by the so-called mass-sheet degeneracy--the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bradac , M. Lombardi , P. Schneider

Dark matter cannot be observed directly, but its weak gravitational lensing slightly distorts the apparent shapes of background galaxies, making weak lensing one of the most promising probes of cosmology. Several observational studies have…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Dezső Ribli , Bálint Ármin Pataki , István Csabai

We demonstrate the potential of Deep Learning methods for measurements of cosmological parameters from density fields, focusing on the extraction of non-Gaussian information. We consider weak lensing mass maps as our dataset. We aim for our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Jorit Schmelzle , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Raphael Sgier , Alexandre Réfrégier , Thomas Hofmann

Dark matter (DM) occupies the majority of matter content in the universe and is probably cold (CDM). However, modifications to the standard CDM model may be required by the small-scale observations, and DM may be self-interacting (SIDM) or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-27 Xiao Guo , Youjun Lu

This paper details a description of the pattern of galaxy image distortion over the entire sky caused by the gravitational lensing which is the result of large scale inhomogeneities in our universe. We present a tensor spherical harmonic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Albert Stebbins

Image denoising plays a critical role in biomedical and microscopy imaging, especially when acquiring wide-field fluorescence-stained images. This task faces challenges in multiple fronts, including limitations in image acquisition…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Qijun Yang , Yating Huang , Lintao Xiang , Hujun Yin

The developments summarized with the name ``weak gravitational lensing'' have led to exciting possibilities to study the (statistical properties of the) dark matter distribution in the Universe. Concentrating on those aspects which require…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Schneider , Jean-Paul Kneib

We explore an innovative strategy for image denoising by using convolutional neural networks (CNN) to learn similar pixel-distribution features from noisy images. Many types of image noise follow a certain pixel-distribution in common, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Peng Liu , Ruogu Fang

We consider the image transmission problem over a noisy wireless channel via deep learning-based joint source-channel coding (DeepJSCC) along with a denoising diffusion probabilistic model (DDPM) at the receiver. Specifically, we are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Selim F. Yilmaz , Xueyan Niu , Bo Bai , Wei Han , Lei Deng , Deniz Gunduz

This paper reviews statistical methods recently developed to reconstruct and analyze dark matter mass maps from weak lensing observations. The field of weak lensing is motivated by the observations made in the last decades showing that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Pires , J. -L. Starck , A. Refregier

We propose a deep-learning approach based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) to reduce noise in weak lensing mass maps under realistic conditions. We apply image-to-image translation using conditional GANs to the mass map obtained…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-30 Masato Shirasaki , Kana Moriwaki , Taira Oogi , Naoki Yoshida , Shiro Ikeda , Takahiro Nishimichi

Weak lensing experiments are a powerful probe of cosmology through their measurement of the mass distribution of the universe. A challenge for this technique is to control systematic errors that occur when measuring the shapes of distant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alexandre Refregier , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Sarah Bridle , Barnaby Rowe

The Dark Matter present in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe is invisible, but its presence can be inferred through the small gravitational lensing effect it has on the images of far away galaxies. By measuring this lensing effect…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-18 Benjamin Remy , Francois Lanusse , Zaccharie Ramzi , Jia Liu , Niall Jeffrey , Jean-Luc Starck

Microscopy images often suffer from high levels of noise, which can hinder further analysis and interpretation. Content-aware image restoration (CARE) methods have been proposed to address this issue, but they often require large amounts of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-30 Felix Fuentes-Hurtado , Jean-Baptiste Sibarita , Virgile Viasnoff

Weak gravitational lensing allows one to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the projected mass density across the sky. These "mass maps" provide a powerful tool for studying cosmology as they probe both luminous and dark matter. In…

The prevalent convolutional neural network (CNN) based image denoising methods extract features of images to restore the clean ground truth, achieving high denoising accuracy. However, these methods may ignore the underlying distribution of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yang Liu , Saeed Anwar , Zhenyue Qin , Pan Ji , Sabrina Caldwell , Tom Gedeon

Distilled diffusion models accelerate image generation by reducing the number of denoising steps, but often suffer from degraded image quality. To mitigate this trade-off, test-time optimization methods improve quality, yet their iterative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haewon Jeon , Si-Hyeon Lee

While dark matter (DM) makes up roughly 80% of the total matter in the Universe, its microscopic properties remain one of the biggest questions in Cosmology today. Fortunately, those properties dictate the distribution and form of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Michael N. Martinez

Diffusion models (DMs) are a type of generative model that has a huge impact on image synthesis and beyond. They achieve state-of-the-art generation results in various generative tasks. A great diversity of conditioning inputs, such as text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Weiguo Lu , Xuan Wu , Deng Ding , Jinqiao Duan , Jirong Zhuang , Gangnan Yuan