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Galaxy imaging surveys observe a vast number of objects that are affected by the instrument's Point Spread Function (PSF). Weak lensing missions, in particular, aim at measuring the shape of galaxies, and PSF effects represent an important…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 T. Liaudat , J. Bonnin , J. -L. Starck , M. A. Schmitz , A. Guinot , M. Kilbinger , S. D. J. Gwyn

Readout multiplexing is a promising solution to overcome hardware limitations and data bottlenecks in imaging with single-photon detectors. Conventional multiplexed readout processing creates an upper bound on photon counts at a very fine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Shashwath Bharadwaj , Ruangrawee Kitichotkul , Akshay Agarwal , Vivek K Goyal

In point cloud analysis, point-based methods have rapidly developed in recent years. These methods have recently focused on concise MLP structures, such as PointNeXt, which have demonstrated competitiveness with Convolutional and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Xin Deng , WenYu Zhang , Qing Ding , XinMing Zhang

Source separation or demixing is the process of extracting multiple components entangled within a signal. Contemporary signal processing presents a host of difficult source separation problems, from interference cancellation to background…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Michael B. McCoy , Volkan Cevher , Quoc Tran Dinh , Afsaneh Asaei , Luca Baldassarre

All observations by the aperture photometer (PHT-P) and the far-infrared (FIR) camera section (PHT-C) of ISOPHOT included reference measurements against stable internal fine calibration sources (FCS) to correct for temporal drifts in…

This paper proposes a novel adaptive algorithm to extract facial feature points automatically such as eyebrows corners, eyes corners, nostrils, nose tip, and mouth corners in frontal view faces, which is based on cumulative histogram…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-03-16 Sushil Kumar Paul , Mohammad Shorif Uddin , Saida Bouakaz

We present a method for subtracting point sources from interferometric radio images via forward modeling of the instrument response and involving an algebraic nonlinear minimization. The method is applied to simulated maps of the Murchison…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Bernardi , D. A. Mitchell , S. M. Ord , L. J. Greenhill , B. Pindor , R. B. Wayth , J. S. B. Wyithe

Analysing extended emission in photometric observations of star-forming regions requires maps free from compact foreground, embedded, and background sources, which can interfere with various techniques used to characterise the interstellar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-02 M. Madarász , G. Marton , I. Gezer , S. Lehner , J. Roquette , M. Audard , D. Hernandez , O. Dionatos

Image coaddition is one of the most basic operations that astronomers perform. In Paper~I, we presented the optimal ways to coadd images in order to detect faint sources and to perfrom flux measurements under the assumption that the noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-28 Barak Zackay , Eran O. Ofek

The detection of exoplanets in coronographic images is severely limited by residual starlight speckles. Dedicated post-processing can drastically reduce this "stellar leakage" and thereby increase the faintness of detectable exoplanets.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Nicholas Devaney , Éric Thiébaut

To make a power spectrum (PS) detection of the 21 cm signal from the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR), one must avoid/subtract bright foreground sources. Sources such as Fornax A present a modelling challenge due to spatial structures spanning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 J. L. B. Line , D. A. Mitchell , B. Pindor , J. L. Riding , B. McKinley , R. L. Webster , C. M. Trott , N. Hurley-Walker , A. R. Offringa

3D object detection from point clouds plays a critical role in autonomous driving. Currently, the primary methods for point cloud processing are voxel-based and pillar-based approaches. Voxel-based methods offer high accuracy through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Liu Qifeng , Zhao Dawei , Dong Yabo , Xiao Liang , Wang Juan , Min Chen , Li Fuyang , Jiang Weizhong , Lu Dongming , Nie Yiming

We have imaged an 11.5 sq. deg. region of sky towards the South Ecliptic Pole (RA = 04h43m, Dec = -53d40m, J2000) at 24 and 70 microns with MIPS, the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer. This region is coincident with a field mapped at…

In the era of large time-domain spectro-photometric surveys, surface variations such as starspots, chemical inhomogeneities, pulsations, rotational distortions, and binary interactions can now be directly detected and modelled. Accurately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-17 M. Jabłońska , T. Różański , L. Casagrande , H. Shah , P. A. Kołaczek-Szymański , M. Rychlicki , Yuan-Sen Ting

We describe in this paper a new, public software for accurate "PSF-matched" multiband photometry for images of different resolution and depth, that we have named ConvPhot, of which we analyse performances and limitations. It is designed to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. De Santis , A. Grazian , A. Fontana , P. Santini

We present an algorithm capable of detecting diffuse, dim sources of any size in an astronomical image. These sources often defeat traditional methods for source finding, which expand regions around points of high intensity. Extended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-05 T. Butler-Yeoman , M. Frean , C. P. Hollitt , D. W. Hogg , M. Johnston-Hollitt

We present three independent catalogs of point-sources extracted from SPIRE images at 250, 350, and 500 micron as a part of the Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey (HeViCS). The source positions are determined by estimating the likelihood to be a…

Stokes flows with near-touching rigid particles induce near-singular lubrication forces under relative motion, making their accurate numerical treatment challenging. With the aim of controlling the accuracy with a computationally cheap…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Anna Broms , Alex H. Barnett , Anna-Karin Tornberg

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained significant attention for their effectiveness across various domains. This study focuses on applying GNN to process 3D point cloud data for human pose estimation (HPE) and human activity recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Abdullah Al Masud , Shi Xintong , Mondher Bouazizi , Ohtsuki Tomoaki