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A numerical scheme is proposed for the solution of the three-dimensional radiative transfer equation with variable optical depth. We show that time-dependent ray tracing is an attractive choice for simulations of astrophysical ionization…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexei Razoumov , Douglas Scott

High-Sfrequency (HF) ray tracing in the complex ionospheric medium generally faces a fundamental trade-off between path accuracy and computational efficiency. This paper presents a high-fidelity Ray Tracing Method (RTM) synergistically…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Qinglin Li , Wen Liu , Zhigang Zhang , Fengjuan Sun , Rong Chen , Zhongxin Deng , Zhiqiang Yao

Computer-based de-novo design of functional molecules is one of the most prominent challenges in cheminformatics today. As a result, generative and evolutionary inverse designs from the field of artificial intelligence have emerged at a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Cynthia Shen , Mario Krenn , Sagi Eppel , Alan Aspuru-Guzik

We describe a new algorithm to solve the time dependent, frequency integrated radiation transport (RT) equation implicitly, which is coupled to an explicit solver for equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) using {\sf Athena++}. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Yan-Fei Jiang

3D Gaussian Splatting has gained widespread adoption across diverse applications due to its exceptional rendering performance and visual quality. While most existing methods rely on rasterization to render Gaussians, recent research has…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Junseo Lee , Sangyun Jeon , Jungi Lee , Junyong Park , Jaewoong Sim

We present the RAW domain diffusion model (RDDM), an end-to-end diffusion model that restores photo-realistic images directly from the sensor RAW data. While recent sRGB-domain diffusion methods achieve impressive results, they are caught…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Yan Chen , Yi Wen , Wei Li , Junchao Liu , Yong Guo , Jie Hu , Xinghao Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end approach for AI-assisted code completion called Pythia. It generates ranked lists of method and API recommendations which can be used by software developers at edit time. The system is currently…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Ying Zhao , Shengyu Fu , Neel Sundaresan

Ray tracing is a technique for generating an image by tracing the path of light through pixels in an image plane and simulating the effects of high-quality global illumination at a heavy computational cost. Because of the high computation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Yutong Qin , Jianbiao Lin , Xiang Huang

This paper presents a rotation-search-based approach for addressing the star identification (Star-ID) problem. The proposed algorithm, ROSIA, is a heuristics-free algorithm that seeks the optimal rotation that maximally aligns the input and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Chee-Kheng Chng , Alvaro Parra Bustos , Benjamin McCarthy , Tat-Jun Chin

Ray tracing algorithm simulates the physical movements of a huge amount of rays to render a high quality image, in which the tracing procedure for each ray can be implemented in parallel. By leveraging the inherent parallelism of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-30 Xi Lu , Hongwei Lin

We describe a novel adaptive ray tracing scheme to solve the equation of radiative transfer around point sources in hydrodynamical simulations. The angular resolution adapts to the local hydrodynamical resolution and hence is of use for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tom Abel , Benjamin D. Wandelt

We have developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer method designed specifically for use with parallel adaptive mesh refinement hydrodynamics codes. This new algorithm, which we call hybrid characteristics, introduces a novel form of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Erik-Jan Rijkhorst , Tomasz Plewa , Anshu Dubey , Garrelt Mellema

We report the development of a new ray-tracing simulation tool having the potential of the full characterization of a radio link through the accurate study of the propagation path of the signal from the transmitting to the receiving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tannous , J. Nigrin

This paper targets the challenge of real-time LiDAR re-simulation in dynamic driving scenarios. Recent approaches utilize neural radiance fields combined with the physical modeling of LiDAR sensors to achieve high-fidelity re-simulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Chenxu Zhou , Lvchang Fu , Sida Peng , Yunzhi Yan , Zhanhua Zhang , Yong Chen , Jiazhi Xia , Xiaowei Zhou

The ray-tracing is often employed in urban areas for channel modeling with high accuracy but encounters a substantial computational complexity for high mobility scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel pre-processing method for dynamic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Songjiang Yang , Cheng-Xiang Wang , Yinghua Wang , Jie Huang , Yuyang Zhou , el-Hadi M. Aggoune

We present an algorithm for solving the radiative transfer problem on massively parallel computers using adaptive mesh refinement and domain decomposition. The solver is based on the method of characteristics which requires an adaptive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-08-13 Lars Buntemeyer , Robi Banerjee , Thomas Peters , Mikhail Klassen , Ralph E. Pudritz

Radiation feedback plays a crucial role in the process of star formation. In order to simulate the thermodynamic evolution of disks, filaments, and the molecular gas surrounding clusters of young stars, we require an efficient and accurate…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Mikhail Klassen , Rolf Kuiper , Ralph E. Pudritz , Thomas Peters , Robi Banerjee , Lars Buntemeyer

A two-point ray-tracing technique for 3D smoothly heterogeneous, weakly transversely-isotropic media is based on Fermat's principle and takes advantage of global Chebyshev approximation of both the model and curved rays. This approximation…

Geophysics · Physics 2019-02-07 Vladimir Grechka , George A. McMechan

This work presents a highly optimized computational framework for the Discrete Dipole Approximation, a numerical method for calculating the optical properties associated with a target of arbitrary geometry that is widely used in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-07 James Mc Donald , Aaron Golden , S. Gerard Jennings

Ray tracing (RT) simulation is a widely used approach to enable modeling wireless channels in applications such as network digital twins. However, the computational cost to execute ray tracing (RT) is proportional to factors such as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Cláudio Modesto , Lucas Mozart , Pedro Batista , André Cavalcante , Aldebaro Klautau