arXiv AI

Reinforcement learning for post-coronagraphic wavefront control

arXiv AI
Jul 9

Does AI Understand Imaging? A Systematic Benchmark of Agentic AI for Computational Imaging Tasks

arXiv:2607. 07189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) and agentic AI have shown strong performance on semantic visual tasks, but it remains unclear whether they can handle the physics and inverse problems that underlie computational imaging.

By Ethan Chung, Chuanjun Zheng, Jasper Tan, Jingxi Li, Haopeng Zhang, Huaijin Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Improving Faint Object Detection for Space Situational Awareness with Variational Autoencoders

The paper introduces a deep‑learning pipeline that improves detection of faint moving objects in optical space situational awareness imagery. It combines a Tiny‑U‑Net segmentation network to mask stars with a partial‑convolution variational autoencoder (astro‑VAE) that learns background statistics and performs context‑aware inpainting. The reconstructed, star‑free backgrounds are used as a preprocessing step before detection, and when integrated with a shift‑and‑stack scheme, the method shows high‑fidelity background reconstruction and significant enhancement of moving‑target detectability in real ground‑based telescope data.

By Angela Cratere, Luca Ghilardi, Vishnu Reddy, Francesco Dell'Olio, Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos, Roberto Furfaro
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 18

Semi-LAR: Semi-supervised Contrastive Learning with Linear Attention for Removal of Nighttime Flares

The paper introduces Semi-LAR, a semi‑supervised framework for removing nighttime lens flares. It uses an adaptive pseudo‑label repository that refines supervision through quality assessment, momentum updates, and invalid label filtering. A flare‑aware contrastive loss treats flare‑contaminated inputs as negatives, encouraging representations that distinguish flare patterns while aligning with reliable pseudo targets.

By Xiyu Zhu, Wei Wang, Kui Jiang, Zhengguo Li
arXiv AI
Aug 20

DELOS: Contrastive Deep Learning for Low-SNR Blind Transit Searches in Kepler Photometry

DELOS is a deep‑learning framework that uses contrastive scoring to perform blind searches for shallow transits in Kepler photometry. It combines GPU‑accelerated phase folding, optimized phase binning, and a custom one‑dimensional convolutional encoder to produce a transit‑likeness score periodogram without relying on pre‑detected events. In tests on synthetic data and controlled injection‑recovery experiments, DELOS outperforms traditional methods (BLS and TLS) in precision‑recall and speed, and successfully recovers all known shallow intermediate‑to‑long‑period transit signals in a selected Kepler sample.

By Qingtian Liu, Jian Ge, XingChen Yan, Kevin Willis, Xinyu Yao, QuanQuan Hu, Jiapeng Zhu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

NaCR: Visual Localization via NeRF-aided Camera Ray Regression

NaCR: Visual Localization via NeRF-aided Camera Ray Regression proposes a unified framework that integrates Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) with Camera Ray Regression (CRR) to improve visual localization accuracy. The method enhances the CRR baseline with three simple improvements, augments training data by synthesizing novel views from a pre‑trained NeRF, and employs a closed‑loop supervision pipeline that back‑propagates photometric rendering errors to refine predicted camera rays. A two‑stage training curriculum ensures stable convergence, and experiments on indoor and outdoor benchmarks show competitive accuracy with validated component efficacy.

By Yesheng Zhang, Xiang Dai, Xu Zhao, Chongyang Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

Learning What's Real: Disentangling Signal and Measurement Artifacts in Multi-Sensor Data, with Applications to Astrophysics

arXiv:2604. 09787v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Data collected from the physical world is always a combination of multiple sources: an underlying signal from the physical process of interest and a signal from measurement-dependent artifacts from the sensor or instrument.

By Pablo Mercader-Perez, Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro, Daniel Muthukrishna, Jeroen Audenaert, V. Ashley Villar, David W. Hogg, Marc Huertas-Company, William T. Freeman