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A fundamental requirement for full autonomy is the ability to sustain accurate navigation in the absence of external data, such as GNSS signals or visual information. In these challenging environments, the platform must rely exclusively on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Arup Kumar Sahoo , Itzik Klein

We present the detailed design of the near infrared camera for the SuMIRe (Subaru Measurement of Images and Redshifts) Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) being developed for the Subaru Telescope. The PFS spectrograph is designed to collect…

Lidars are depth measuring sensors widely used in autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, the large volume of data produced by lidars can lead to high costs in data storage and transmission. While lidar data can be represented as…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Xuanyu Zhou , Charles R. Qi , Yin Zhou , Dragomir Anguelov

The scarcity of data acquired under actual space operational conditions poses a significant challenge for developing learning-based visual navigation algorithms crucial for autonomous spacecraft navigation. This data shortage is primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Javier Montalvo , Juan Ignacio Bravo Pérez-Villar , Álvaro García-Martín , Pablo Carballeira , Jesús Bescós

The Segmented Planar Imaging Detector for Electro-Optical Reconnaissance (SPIDER) is an optical interferometric imaging device that aims to offer an alternative to the large space telescope designs of today with reduced size, weight and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 Matthijs Mars , Marta M. Betcke , Jason D. McEwen

A new method for analyzing the returns of the custom-made 'micro'-LIDAR system, which is operated along with the two MAGIC telescopes, allows to apply atmospheric corrections in the MAGIC data analysis chain. Such corrections make it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Christian Fruck , Markus Gaug , Roberta Zanin , Daniela Dorner , Daniel Garrido , Razmik Mirzoyan , Lluis Font

A primary goal of direct imaging techniques is to spectrally characterize the atmospheres of planets around other stars at extremely high contrast levels. To achieve this goal, coronagraphic instruments have favored integral field…

We present IRIS, a new generic three-dimensional (3D) spectral radiative transfer code that generates synthetic spectra, or images. It can be used as a diagnostic tool for comparison with astrophysical observations or laboratory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 L. Ibgui , I. Hubeny , T. Lanz , C. Stehlé

The current fleet of X-ray telescopes produces a wealth of multi-dimensional data, allowing us to study sources in time, photon energy and polarization. At the same time, it has become increasingly clear that progress in our physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-12 Matteo Lucchini , Benjamin Ricketts , Phil Uttley , Daniela Huppenkothen

PyTerrier provides a declarative framework for building and experimenting with Information Retrieval (IR) pipelines. In this demonstration, we highlight several recent pipeline operations that improve their ability to be programmatically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Emmanouil Georgios Lionis , Craig Macdonald , Sean MacAvaney

We have written an automatic image processing pipeline for the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) Guaranteed Time Observation (GTO) program. The pipeline, known as Apsis, supports the different cameras available on the ACS instrument and is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. P. Blakeslee , K. R. Anderson , G. R. Meurer , N. Benitez , D. Magee

Image Rotation and Subtraction (IRS) is a high-contrast imaging technique which can be used to suppress the speckles noise and facilitate the direct detection of exoplanets. IRS is different from Angular Differential Imaging (ADI), in which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jiangpei Dou , Deqing Ren , Gang Zhao , Xi Zhang , Rui Chen , Yongtian Zhu

This paper presents SPIROS (Streamlined, Precise, Intuitive, and Rapid Optical Simulator), a dedicated optical simulation tool developed for the design and analysis of particle physics detectors. Unlike general-purpose frameworks such as…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-10 Tatsuya Kikawa

As several large single-dish radio surveys begin operation within the coming decade, a wealth of radio data will become available and provide a new window to the Universe. In order to fully exploit the potential of these data sets, it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-16 Joel Akeret , Sebastian Seehars , Chihway Chang , Christian Monstein , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

Ever brighter light sources, fast parallel detectors, and advances in phase retrieval methods, have made ptychography a practical and popular imaging technique. Compared to previous techniques, ptychography provides superior robustness and…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-07-20 Stefano Marchesini , Hari Krishnan , Benedikt J. Daurer , David A. Shapiro , Talita Perciano , James A. Sethian , Filipe R. N. C. Maia

The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS)is one of the three instruments on board the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) to be launched in December 2001. The IRS will provide high resolution spectra R~600 from 10--37microns and low resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Houck , J. van Cleve , B. Brandl , V. Charmandaris , D. Devost , K. Uchida

We present the first public release of ShapePipe, an open-source and modular weak-lensing measurement, analysis, and validation pipeline written in Python. We describe the design of the software and justify the choices made. We provide a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-24 S. Farrens , A. Guinot , M. Kilbinger , T. Liaudat , L. Baumont , X. Jimenez , A. Peel , A. Pujol , M. Schmitz , J. -L. Starck , A. Z. Vitorelli

PySE is a Python software package for finding and measuring sources in radio telescope images. The software was designed to detect sources in the LOFAR telescope images, but can be used with images from other radio telescopes as well. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-03 D. Carbone , H. Garsden , H. Spreeuw , J. D. Swinbank , A. J. van der Horst , A. Rowlinson , J. W. Broderick , E. Rol , C. Law , G. Molenaar , R. A. M. J. Wijers