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Here follows a preliminary report on the construction of fake millimeter and sub-millimeter skies, as observed by virtual instruments, e.g. the COBRA/SAMBA mission, using theoretical modeling and data extrapolations. Our goal is to create…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 F. R. Bouchet , R. Gispert , N. Aghanim , J. R. Bond , A. De Luca , E. Hivon , B. Maffei

Scene reconstruction is an essential capability for underwater robots navigating in close proximity to structures. Monocular vision-based reconstruction methods are unreliable in turbid waters and lack depth scale information. Sonars are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ivana Collado-Gonzalez , John McConnell , Paul Szenher , Brendan Englot

Acoustic propagation models are widely used in numerous oceanic and other underwater applications. Most conventional models are approximate solutions of the acoustic wave equation, and require accurate environmental knowledge to be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Kexin Li , Mandar Chitre

Numerous maritime applications rely on the ability to recognize acoustic targets using passive sonar. While there is a growing reliance on pre-trained models for classification tasks, these models often require extensive computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Atharva Agashe , Davelle Carreiro , Alexandra Van Dine , Joshua Peeples

Under the sea, visible spectrum cameras have limited sensing capacity, being able to detect objects only in clear water, but in a constrained range. Considering any sea water condition, sonars are more suitable to support autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Gustavo Neves , Rômulo Cerqueira , Jan Albiez , Luciano Oliveira

In the reconstruction process of unknown multiple scattering objects in inverse medium scattering problems, the first important step is to effectively locate some approximate domains that contain all inhomogeneous media. Without such an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-12 Keji Liu , Jun Zou

Extensive monitoring of acoustic activities is important for many fields, including biology, security, oceanography, and Earth science. Distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) is an evolving technique for continuous, wide-coverage measurements…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Angeliki Xenaki , Peter Gerstoft , Ethan Williams , Shima Abadi

The study explores machine learning methods for revealing chemical sensitivity in Helium spin-echo spectroscopy, in order to obtain ultra-sensitive surface analytic technique. We model bi-species co-adsorbed systems and demonstrate that by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Reinis Irmejs , Nadav Avidor

Sensitive measurements of the linearly polarized spectra of stars can be used to deduce geometric properties of their otherwise unresolved circumstellar environments. This paper describes some of the evidence for optical pumping and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 J. R. Kuhn , B Geiss , D. M. Harrington

Various autonomous applications rely on recognizing specific known landmarks in their environment. For example, Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) is an important technique that lays the foundation for many common tasks, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Maarten de Backer , Wouter Jansen , Dennis Laurijssen , Ralph Simon , Walter Daems , Jan Steckel

Sonar systems are frequently used to classify objects at a distance by using the structure of the echoes of acoustic waves as a proxy for the object's shape and composition. Traditional synthetic aperture processing is highly effective in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Michael Robinson

In the recent decade, electronic technology gets advanced day by day the methodologies too should update. For the purpose of ranging various methods such Radio Detection and Ranging (RADAR), Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) and Sonic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Md Ziaul Haque Zim , Nimai Chandra Das

This paper presents a novel deep learning approach for analyzing massive underwater acoustic data by leveraging a model trained on a broad spectrum of non-underwater (aerial) sounds. Recognizing the challenge in labeling vast amounts of…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Jeongsoo Park , Dong-Gyun Han , Hyoung Sul La , Sangmin Lee , Yoonchang Han , Eun-Jin Yang

The integration of fine-scale multispectral imagery with deep learning models has revolutionized land use and land cover (LULC) classification. However, the atmospheric effects present in Top-of-Atmosphere sensor measured Digital Number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Soham Mukherjee , Yash Dixit , Naman Srivastava , Joel D Joy , Rohan Olikara , Koesha Sinha , Swarup E , Rakshit Ramesh

Instrumental projects that will improve the direct optical finding and characterisation of exoplanets have advanced sufficiently to trigger organized investigation and development of corresponding signal processing algorithms. The first…

In this paper we introduce a semi-analytical model for bathymetry, water turbidity and bottom composition; which is primarily based on the physics-based model, HOPE, of Lee et al. Unlike the model of Lee, which was originally designed to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Sam Blake

Humans can robustly recognize and localize objects by using visual and/or auditory cues. While machines are able to do the same with visual data already, less work has been done with sounds. This work develops an approach for scene…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Dengxin Dai , Arun Balajee Vasudevan , Jiri Matas , Luc Van Gool

Ground-penetrating radar on planes and satellites now makes it practical to collect 3D observations of the subsurface structure of the polar ice sheets, providing crucial data for understanding and tracking global climate change. But…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Mingze Xu , David J Crandall , Geoffrey C Fox , John D Paden

Knowledge of ocean circulation is important for understanding and predicting weather and climate, and managing the blue economy. This circulation can be estimated through Sea Surface Height (SSH) observations, but requires decomposing the…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Jingwen Lyu , Yue Wang , Christian Pedersen , Spencer Jones , Dhruv Balwada

The possibility of automatically classifying high frequency sub-bottom acoustic reflections collected from an Autonomous Underwater Robot is investigated in this paper. In field surveys of Cobalt-rich Manganese Crusts (Mn-crusts), existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Umesh Neettiyath , Harumi Sugimatsu , Blair Thornton