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Lensless cameras provide a framework to build thin imaging systems by replacing the lens in a conventional camera with an amplitude or phase mask near the sensor. Existing methods for lensless imaging can recover the depth and intensity of…

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High-resolution wide-angle fisheye images are becoming more and more important for robotics applications such as autonomous driving. However, using ordinary convolutional neural networks or vision transformers on this data is problematic…

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We present a concept study on weak lensing map reconstruction through the cosmic magnification effect in galaxy number density distribution. We propose a minimal variance linear estimator to minimize both the dominant systematical and…

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Enhanced modeling of microlensing variations in light curves of strongly lensed quasars improves measurements of cosmological time delays, the Hubble Constant, and quasar structure. Traditional methods for modeling extra-galactic…

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This paper presents a new method for the reconstruction of weak lensing mass maps. It uses the multiscale entropy concept, which is based on wavelets, and the False Discovery Rate which allows us to derive robust detection levels in wavelet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jean-Luc Starck , Sandrine Pires , Alexandre Refregier

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been the consensus for medical image segmentation tasks. However, they suffer from the limitation in modeling long-range dependencies and spatial correlations due to the nature of convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Moein Heidari , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Milad Soltany , Reza Azad , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Julien Cohen-Adad , Dorit Merhof

Referring image segmentation aims to segment the image region of interest according to the given language expression, which is a typical multi-modal task. Existing methods either adopt the pixel classification-based or the learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Zhichao Wei , Xiaohao Chen , Mingqiang Chen , Siyu Zhu

We study the morphology of convergence maps by perturbatively reconstructing their Minkowski Functionals (MFs). We present a systematics study using a set of three generalised skew-spectra as a function of source redshift and smoothing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 D. Munshi , T. Namikawa , J. D. McEwen , T. D. Kitching , F. R. Bouchet

The task of radio map estimation aims to generate a dense representation of electromagnetic spectrum quantities, such as the received signal strength at each grid point within a geographic region, based on measurements from a subset of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Zheng Fang , Kangjun Liu , Ke Chen , Qingyu Liu , Jianguo Zhang , Lingyang Song , Yaowei Wang

Accelerating magnetic resonance image (MRI) reconstruction process is a challenging ill-posed inverse problem due to the excessive under-sampling operation in k-space. In this paper, we propose a recurrent transformer model, namely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-31 Pengfei Guo , Yiqun Mei , Jinyuan Zhou , Shanshan Jiang , Vishal M. Patel

Weak lensing mass-mapping is a useful tool to access the full distribution of dark matter on the sky, but because of intrinsic galaxy ellipticies and finite fields/missing data, the recovery of dark matter maps constitutes a challenging…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Benjamin Remy , Francois Lanusse , Niall Jeffrey , Jia Liu , Jean-Luc Starck , Ken Osato , Tim Schrabback

We present a mask-piloted Transformer which improves masked-attention in Mask2Former for image segmentation. The improvement is based on our observation that Mask2Former suffers from inconsistent mask predictions between consecutive decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Hao Zhang , Feng Li , Huaizhe Xu , Shijia Huang , Shilong Liu , Lionel M. Ni , Lei Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a cornerstone of the Deep Learning toolbox and have led to many breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence. These networks have mostly been developed for regular Euclidean domains such as those…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Nathanaël Perraudin , Michaël Defferrard , Tomasz Kacprzak , Raphael Sgier

Hierarchical clustering is an effective and efficient approach widely used for classical image segmentation methods. However, many existing methods using neural networks generate segmentation masks directly from per-pixel features,…

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Identifying polyps is challenging for automatic analysis of endoscopic images in computer-aided clinical support systems. Models based on convolutional networks (CNN), transformers, and their combinations have been proposed to segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Nguyen Thanh Duc , Nguyen Thi Oanh , Nguyen Thi Thuy , Tran Minh Triet , Dinh Viet Sang

Latent inpainting in diffusion models still relies almost universally on linearly interpolating VAE latents under a downsampled mask. We propose a key principle for compositing image latents: Pixel-Equivalent Latent Compositing (PELC). An…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Rowan Bradbury , Dazhi Zhong

HEALPix -- the Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization -- has become a standard in high-energy and gravitational wave astronomy. Originally developed to improve the efficiency of all-sky Fourier analyses, it is now also utilized to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-18 I. Martinez-Castellanos , Leo P. Singer , E. Burns , D. Tak , Alyson Joens , Judith L. Racusin , Jeremy S. Perkins

To derive the convergence field from the gravitational shear (gamma) of the background galaxy images, the classical methods require a convolution of the shear to be performed over the entire sky, usually expressed thanks to the Fast Fourier…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 E. Deriaz , J. -L. Starck , S. Pires

Polyp segmentation is still known as a difficult problem due to the large variety of polyp shapes, scanning and labeling modalities. This prevents deep learning model to generalize well on unseen data. However, Transformer-based approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mai Nguyen , Tung Thanh Bui , Quan Van Nguyen , Thanh Tung Nguyen , Toan Van Pham

Medical segmentation plays an important role in clinical applications like radiation therapy and surgical guidance, but acquiring clinically acceptable results is difficult. In recent years, progress has been witnessed with the success of…

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