Kavli Affiliate: Wendy L. Freedman | First 5 Authors: Wendy L. Freedman, , , , | Summary: Measurement of the distances to nearby galaxies have improved rapidly in recent decades. The ever-present challenge is to reduce systematic effects, especially as greater distances are probed, and the uncertainties become larger. In this paper, we combine several […]
Kavli Affiliate: Subo Dong | First 5 Authors: N. Elias-Rosa, P. Chen, S. Benetti, Subo Dong, J. L. Prieto | Summary: There is a wide consensus that type Ia supernovae (SN Ia) originate from the thermonuclear explosion of CO white dwarfs (WD), with the lack of hydrogen in the observed spectra as a distinctive feature. […]
Kavli Affiliate: Wei Gao | First 5 Authors: Zihao Xiao, Xianfeng Gao, Chilin Fu, Yinpeng Dong, Wei Gao | Summary: Face recognition is greatly improved by deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Recently, these face recognition models have been used for identity authentication in security sensitive applications. However, deep CNNs are vulnerable to adversarial patches, which […]