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This paper introduces a novel Monte Carlo (MC) method to simulate the evolution of the low-earth orbit environment, enhancing the MIT Orbital Capacity Analysis Tool (MOCAT). In recent decades, numerous space environment models have been…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-15 Daniel Jang , Davide Gusmini , Peng Mun Siew , Andrea D'Ambrosio , Simone Servadio , Pablo Machuca , Richard Linares

Biasing or importance sampling is a powerful technique in Monte Carlo radiative transfer, and can be applied in different forms to increase the accuracy and efficiency of simulations. One of the drawbacks of the use of biasing is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-11 Maarten Baes , Karl D. Gordon , Tuomas Lunttila , Simone Bianchi , Peter Camps , Mika Juvela , Rolf Kuiper

We derive an algorithm for compression of the currents and varifolds representations of shapes, using ridge leverage score (RLS) sampling, and the theory of Nystrom approximation in Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. Our method is faster…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Allen Paul , Neill Campbell , Tony Shardlow

Light field, as a new data representation format in multimedia, has the ability to capture both intensity and direction of light rays. However, the additional angular information also brings a large volume of data. Classical coding methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-16 Henan Wang , Hanxin Zhu , Zhibo Chen

Lightsail spacecraft, propelled to relativistic velocities via photon pressure using high power density laser radiation, offer a potentially new route to space exploration within and beyond the solar system, extending to interstellar…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Ramon Gao , Michael D. Kelzenberg , Harry A. Atwater

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) are a novel paradigm for signal representation that have attracted considerable interest for image compression. INRs offer unprecedented advantages in signal resolution and memory efficiency, enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Marcos V. Conde , Andy Bigos , Radu Timofte

The recent decades have seen various attempts at accelerating the process of developing materials targeted towards specific applications. The performance required for a particular application leads to the choice of a particular material…

The interaction of neural networks with physical equations offers a wide range of applications. We provide a method which enables a neural network to transform objects subject to given physical constraints. Therefore an U-Net architecture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-22 Lukas Harsch , Johannes Burgbacher , Stefan Riedelbauch

This paper presents a methodology to learn surrogate models of steady state fluid dynamics simulations on meshed domains, based on Implicit Neural Representations (INRs). The proposed models can be applied directly to unstructured domains…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Giovanni Catalani , Siddhant Agarwal , Xavier Bertrand , Frederic Tost , Michael Bauerheim , Joseph Morlier

Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) research has attracted significant attention recently, with 3D modelling, virtual/augmented reality, and visual effects driving its application. While current NeRF implementations can produce high quality visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Adrian Azzarelli , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , David R Bull

Random cost simulations were introduced as a method to investigate optimization problems in systems with conflicting constraints. Here I study the approach in connection with the training of a feed-forward multilayer perceptron, as used in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Bernd A. Berg

Efficient simulation of photon registrations in single-photon LiDAR (SPL) is essential for applications such as depth estimation under high-flux conditions, where hardware dead time significantly distorts photon measurements. However, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Weijian Zhang , Hashan K. Weerasooriya , Stanley Chan

Solving large-scale optimization on-the-fly is often a difficult task for real-time computer graphics applications. To tackle this challenge, model reduction is a well-adopted technique. Despite its usefulness, model reduction often…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Jianbo Ye , Zhixin Yan

We discuss the efficiency of Monte Carlo methods in solving continuum radiative transfer problems. The sampling of the radiation field and convergence of dust temperature calculations in the case of optically thick clouds are both studied.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Juvela

We report a simple demonstration of radiation pressure on a table-top experiment. Utilizing dynamic force microscopy in ambient environment, the resonant motion of a cm-sized cantilever driven by an amplitude-modulated diode laser is…

Physics Education · Physics 2016-06-08 G. Jesensky , D. Dams , O. Khomenko , W. J. Kim

We discuss historic pressure computations for the hard-disk model performed since 1953, and compare them to results that we obtain with a powerful event-chain Monte Carlo and a massively parallel Metropolis algorithm. Like other simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-07 Botao Li , Yoshihiko Nishikawa , Philipp Hoellmer , Louis Carillo , A. C. Maggs , Werner Krauth

Avoiding over-pressurization in subsurface reservoirs is critical for applications like CO2 sequestration and wastewater injection. Managing the pressures by controlling injection/extraction are challenging because of complex heterogeneity…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Aleksandra Pachalieva , Daniel O'Malley , Dylan Robert Harp , Hari Viswanathan

In my doctoral thesis, I have focussed my attention on radiation processes in high-energy astrophysics connected with the accretion flow physics around compact objects. Generally, a radiation field beside to exert an outward radiation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-03 Vittorio De Falco

Beamforming design for extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems is challenging due to prohibitive computational complexity and complex near-field propagation effects. To address this, this paper introduces a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xiyuan Liu , Qingqing Wu , Rui Wang , Qiaoyan Peng , Jun Wu

Biological tissues are complex structures composed of many elements which make light-based tissue diagnostics challenging. Over the past decades, Monte Carlo technique has been used as a fundamental and versatile approach toward modeling…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-17 Maryam Ghahremani