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Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) is a promising tomographic technique for visualizing the spatio-temporal distribution of superparamagnetic nanoparticles, with applications ranging from cancer detection to real-time cardiovascular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Vladyslav Gapyak , Thomas März , Andreas Weinmann

The recent advances in deep learning indicate significant progress in the field of single image super-resolution. With the advent of these techniques, high-resolution image with high peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR) and excellent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-09 Meenu Ajith , Aswathy Rajendra Kurup , Manel Martínez-Ramón

This paper introduces a novel computationally efficient method of solving the 3D single image super-resolution (SR) problem, i.e., reconstruction of a high-resolution volume from its low-resolution counterpart. The main contribution lies in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Nwigbo Kenule Tuador , Duong Hung Pham , Jérôme Michetti , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé

We present an optimized conductance-based retina microcircuit simulator which transforms light stimuli into a series of graded and spiking action potentials through photo transduction. We use discrete retinal neuron blocks based on a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-16 Jason K. Eshraghian , Seungbum Baek , Wesley Thio , Yulia Sandamirskaya , Herbert H. C. Iu , Wei D. Lu

How to efficiently identify multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) linear parameter-varying (LPV) discrete-time state-space (SS) models with affine dependence on the scheduling variable still remains an open question, as identification…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Pepijn B. Cox , Roland Tóth , Mihály Petreczky

Markov decision processes (MDP) are a well-established model for sequential decision-making in the presence of probabilities. In robust MDP (RMDP), every action is associated with an uncertainty set of probability distributions, modelling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Tobias Meggendorfer , Maximilian Weininger , Patrick Wienhöft

Despite the numerous applications that may be expeditiously modelled by counting processes, stochastic filtering strategies involving Poisson-type observations still remain somewhat poorly developed. In this work, we propose a Monte Carlo…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-07-09 Mamatha Venugopal , Ram Mohan Vasu , Debasish Roy

Image slicing is a powerful technique in astronomy. It allows the instrument designer to reduce the slit width of the spectrograph, increasing spectral resolving power whilst retaining throughput. Conventionally this is done using bulk…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-13 Th. Anagnos , R. J. Harris , M. K. Corrigan , A. P. Reeves , M. J. Townson , D. G. MacLachlan , R. R. Thomson , T. J. Morris , C. Schwab , A. Quirrenbach

Enriching Brownian motion with regenerations from a fixed regeneration distribution $\mu$ at a particular regeneration rate $\kappa$ results in a Markov process that has a target distribution $\pi$ as its invariant distribution. For the…

Computation · Statistics 2024-02-22 Hector McKimm , Andi Q Wang , Murray Pollock , Christian P Robert , Gareth O Roberts

This paper presents a new Bayesian spectral unmixing algorithm to analyse remote scenes sensed via sparse multispectral Lidar measurements. To a first approximation, in the presence of a target, each Lidar waveform consists of a main peak,…

Diffusion-based image super-resolution (SR) methods are mainly limited by the low inference speed due to the requirements of hundreds or even thousands of sampling steps. Existing acceleration sampling techniques inevitably sacrifice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Zongsheng Yue , Jianyi Wang , Chen Change Loy

We analyse the performance of a recursive Monte Carlo method for the Bayesian estimation of the static parameters of a discrete--time state--space Markov model. The algorithm employs two layers of particle filters to approximate the…

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We demonstrate the importance and utility of Monte Carlo simulation of single-photon detectors. Devising an optimal simulation is strongly influenced by the particular application because of the complexity of modern, avalanche-diode-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-14 Mario Stipčević , Daniel J. Gauthier

Accurate LiDAR-Camera (LC) calibration is challenging but crucial for autonomous systems and robotics. In this paper, we propose two single-shot and target-less algorithms to estimate the calibration parameters between LiDAR and camera…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yanyu Zhang , Jie Xu , Wei Ren

We propose a new regret minimization algorithm for episodic sparse linear Markov decision process (SMDP) where the state-transition distribution is a linear function of observed features. The only previously known algorithm for SMDP…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-25 Wonyoung Kim , Garud Iyengar , Assaf Zeevi

In this paper, we present a novel Bayesian approach for estimating spectral and range profiles from single-photon Lidar waveforms associated with single surfaces in the photon-limited regime. In contrast to classical multispectral Lidar…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Quentin Legros , Sylvain Meignen , Stephen McLaughlin , Yoann Altmann

Here, we explore the problem of error propagation mitigation in modular digital twins as a sequential decision process. Building on a companion study that used a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to infer latent error regimes from surrogate-physics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Annice Najafi , Shokoufeh Mirzaei

The rapid growth of large-scale AI models has intensified energy consumption and data-movement challenges in modern datacenters. Photonic accelerators offer a promising path by executing the linear matrix multiplications of transformer…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-26 Hyoseok Park , Yeonsang Park

Key challenges in the analysis of highly multivariate large-scale spatial stochastic processes, where both the number of components (p) and spatial locations (n) can be large, include achieving maximal sparsity in the joint precision…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-27 Xiaoqing Chen , Peter Diggle , James V. Zidek , Gavin Shaddick

Single-pixel cameras based on the concepts of compressed sensing (CS) leverage the inherent structure of images to retrieve them with far fewer measurements and operate efficiently over a significantly broader spectral range than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Qiang Guo , Hongwei Chen , Yuxi Wang , Yong Guo , Peng Liu , Xiurui Zhu , Zheng Cheng , Zhenming Yu , Minghua Chen , Sigang Yang , Shizhong Xie