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We introduce a new, non-parametric method to infer deprojected 3D mass profiles $M(r)$ of galaxy clusters from weak gravitational lensing observations. The method assumes spherical symmetry and a moderately small convergence, $\kappa…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-20 Tobias Mistele , Amel Durakovic

Random field and random cluster theory are used to describe certain mathematical results concerning the probability distribution of image pixel intensities characterized as generic $2D$ integer arrays. The size of the smallest bounded…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-27 Robert A. Murphy

We present here a new method, MMF, for automatically segmenting cosmic structure into its basic components: clusters, filaments, and walls. Importantly, the segmentation is scale independent, so all structures are identified without…

Three-dimensional particle reconstruction with limited two-dimensional projections is an under-determined inverse problem that the exact solution is often difficult to be obtained. In general, approximate solutions can be obtained by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Qi Gao , Shaowu Pan , Hongping Wang , Runjie Wei , Jinjun Wang

We demonstrate that the maximum-entropy method for gravitational lens reconstruction presented in Bridle et al. (1998) may be applied even when only shear \emph{or} magnification information is present. We also demonstrate that the method…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. L. Bridle , M. P. Hobson , Richard Saunders , A. N. Lasenby

In computer vision, the estimation of the fundamental matrix is a basic problem that has been extensively studied. The accuracy of the estimation imposes a significant influence on subsequent tasks such as the camera trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Hao Wu , Yi Wan

The distortion of images of faint background galaxies by (weak) gravitational lensing can be used to measure the mass distribution of the deflector. The image distortions can be used to define a weighted mean of the mass inside a circular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Peter Schneider

We present a numerical investigation of nonlinear cluster lens reconstruction using weak lensing mass mapping. Recent advances in imaging and shear estimation have pushed reliable reduced shear measurements closer to cluster cores, making…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Yuan Shi , Li Cui

One way of imaging X-ray emission from solar flares is to measure Fourier components of the spatial X-ray source distribution. We present a new Compressed Sensing-based algorithm named VIS_CS, which reconstructs the spatial distribution…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-01 Simon Felix , Roman Bolzern , Marina Battaglia

We develop three inverse elastic scattering schemes for locating multiple small, extended and multiscale rigid bodies, respectively. There are some salient and promising features of the proposed methods. The cores of those schemes are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-10-15 Guanghui Hu , Jingzhi Li , Hongyu Liu , Hongpeng Sun

The study of strong-lensing systems conventionally involves constructing a mass distribution that can reproduce the observed multiply-imaging properties. Such mass reconstructions are generically non-unique. Here, we present an alternative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Philipp Denzel , Sampath Mukherjee , Prasenjit Saha

Highly confined vectorial electromagnetic field distributions represent an excellent tool for detailed studies in nano-optics and high resolution microscopy, such as nonlinear microscopy, advanced fluorescence imaging or nanoplasmonics.…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-03 Thomas Bauer , Sergej Orlov , Ulf Peschel , Peter Banzer , Gerd Leuchs

Context. An automatic tool to derive structural parameters of semi-resolved star clusters located in crowded stellar fields in nearby galaxies is needed for homogeneous processing of archival frames. Aims. We have developed a program that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-31 D. Narbutis , D. Semionov , R. Stonkutė , P. de Meulenaer , T. Mineikis , A. Bridžius , V. Vansevičius

We investigate lensing reconstruction using the clustered galaxy distribution as a source field, using both the traditional cosmic microwave background quadratic estimator and a shear-only estimator. We calculate the expected…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-13 Brandon Buncher , Gilbert Holder , Selim Hotinli

The Wiener Filter (WF) technique enables the reconstruction of density and velocity fields from observed radial peculiar velocities. This paper aims at identifying the optimal design of peculiar velocity surveys within the WF framework. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-19 Jenny G. Sorce , Yehuda Hoffman , Stefan Gottlöber

Weak gravitational lensing allows one to reconstruct the spatial distribution of the projected mass density across the sky. These "mass maps" provide a powerful tool for studying cosmology as they probe both luminous and dark matter. In…

Filtered backpropagation (FBPP) is a well-known technique used for Diffraction Tomography (DT). For accurate reconstruction of a complex image using FBPP, full $360^{\circ}$ angular coverage is necessary. However, it has been shown that…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-05-09 Pavel Roy Paladhi , Ashoke Sinha , Amin Tayebi , Lalita Udpa

In this paper, we propose a new model to segment cells in phase contrast microscopy images. Cell images collected from the similar scenario share a similar background. Inspired by this, we separate cells from the background in images by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Lin Zhang

We propose R3GS, a robust reconstruction and relocalization framework tailored for unconstrained datasets. Our method uses a hybrid representation during training. Each anchor combines a global feature from a convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xu yan , Zhaohui Wang , Rong Wei , Jingbo Yu , Dong Li , Xiangde Liu

We analyze multi-bounce propagation of light in an unknown hidden volume and demonstrate that the reflected light contains sufficient information to recover the 3D structure of the hidden scene. We formulate the forward and inverse theory…