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We present the methodology of a photon-conserving, spatially-adaptive, ray-tracing radiative transfer algorithm, designed to run on multiple parallel Graphic Processing Units (GPUs). Each GPU has thousands computing cores, making them…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 Blake Hartley , Massimo Ricotti

Tracking on the rotation group is a key component of many modern systems for estimation of the motion of rigid bodies. To address this problem, here we describe a Bayesian algorithm that relies on directional measurements for tracking on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-26 Sofia Suvorova , Stephen D. Howard , Bill Moran

We present a light and fast, public available, ray-tracer {\tt Splotch} software tool which supports the effective visualization of cosmological simulations data. We describe the algorithm it relies on, which is designed in order to deal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 K. Dolag , M. Reinecke , C. Gheller , S. Imboden

Thermochemistry, ray-tracing radiation, and radiation-matter interactions are important processes which are computationally difficult to model in astrophysical simulations, addressed by introducing novel algorithms optimized for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Lile Wang

A fast 2-dimensional image reconstruction method is presented, which takes as input 1-dimensional data acquired from scans across a central source in different orientations. The resultant reconstructed images do not show artefacts due to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-04 D. L. Harrison

Ensuring positioning integrity amid faulty measurements is crucial for safety-critical applications, making receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM) indispensable. This paper introduces a Bayesian RAIM algorithm with a streamlined…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-15 Liqin Ding , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Hyowon Kim , Russ Whiton , Erik G. Ström , Jonas Sjöberg , Henk Wymeersch

We introduce SPHRAY, a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) ray tracer designed to solve the 3D, time dependent, radiative transfer (RT) equations for arbitrary density fields. The SPH nature of SPHRAY makes the incorporation of separate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gabriel Altay , Rupert A. C. Croft , Inti Pelupessy

The physical world consists of spatially varying media, such as the atmosphere and the ocean, in which light and sound propagates along non-linear trajectories. This presents a challenge to existing ray-tracing based methods, which are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Qi Mo , Hengchin Yeh , Dinesh Manocha

This paper presents an optimization-based receding horizon trajectory planning algorithm for dynamical systems operating in unstructured and cluttered environments. The proposed approach is a two-step procedure that uses a motion planning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Kristoffer Bergman , Oskar Ljungqvist , Torkel Glad , Daniel Axehill

State-of-the-art techniques for 3D reconstruction are largely based on volumetric scene representations, which require sampling multiple points to compute the color arriving along a ray. Using these representations for more general inverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Benjamin Attal , Dor Verbin , Ben Mildenhall , Peter Hedman , Jonathan T. Barron , Matthew O'Toole , Pratul P. Srinivasan

Ultrasound imaging tasks such as calibration, inverse parameter estimation, and acquisition design require models that are physically grounded, efficient, and differentiable with respect to meaningful material and system parameters. While…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-17 L. River Spencer , Reagan A. Cardoza , Vijay K. Dubey , Collin E. Haese , Felix Kreidel , Issam Moussa , Manuel K. Rausch , Jan N. Fuhg

Background and Objective: Deep learning enables tremendous progress in medical image analysis. One driving force of this progress are open-source frameworks like TensorFlow and PyTorch. However, these frameworks rarely address issues…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Alain Jungo , Olivier Scheidegger , Mauricio Reyes , Fabian Balsiger

This paper introduces a differential dynamic programming (DDP) based framework for polynomial trajectory generation for differentially flat systems. In particular, instead of using a linear equation with increasing size to represent…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Kun Cao , Muqing Cao , Shenghai Yuan , Lihua Xie

We introduce GRay, a massively parallel integrator designed to trace the trajectories of billions of photons in a curved spacetime. This GPU-based integrator employs the stream processing paradigm, is implemented in CUDA C/C++, and runs on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Chi-kwan Chan , Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel

Computing on graphics processing units (GPUs) has become standard in scientific computing, allowing for incredible performance gains over classical CPUs for many computational methods. As GPUs were originally designed for 3D rendering, they…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Algis David , Bérenger Bramas

HII regions powered by ionizing radiation from massive stars drive the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium. Fast radiative transfer methods for incorporating photoionization effects are thus essential in astrophysical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Cheryl S. C. Lau , Maya A. Petkova , Ian A. Bonnell

We introduce FlowTIE, a neural-network-based framework for phase reconstruction from 4D-Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) data, which integrates the Transport of Intensity Equation (TIE) with a flow-based representation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Arya Bangun , Maximilian Töllner , Xuan Zhao , Christian Kübel , Hanno Scharr

Ray tracing algorithms, that can simulate multipath radio propagation in presence of geometric obstacles such as buildings, objects or vehicles, are becoming quite popular, due to the increasing availability of digital environment databases…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Denis Bilibashi , Enrico M. Vitucci , Vittorio Degli-Esposti

This work describes a novel radiation algorithm designed to capture the three-dimensional, space-time resolved electromagnetic field structure emitted by large ensembles of charged particles. % in particle-in-cell (PIC) codes. The algorithm…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 M. Pardal , A. Sainte-Marie , A. Reboul-Salze , R. A. Fonseca , J. Viera

Recently, Differentiable Ray Tracing has been successfully applied in the field of wireless communications for learning radio materials or optimizing the transmitter orientation. However, in the frame of gradient based optimization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Jerome Eertmans , Laurent Jacques , Claude Oestges