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The legacy of the IXPE instrument and prospects for the next generation of polarimetric photoelectric X-ray detectors
Hemanth Manikantan, Vladislavs Plesanovs, Paolo Soffitta, Dennis Sauerland, Reinhard Beck, Enrico Costa, Ettore Del Monte, Klaus Desch, Alessandro Di Marco, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Markus Gruber, Saba Imtiaz, Jochen Kaminski, Alessandro Lacerenza, Fabio Muleri, Ajay Ratheesh, Alda Rubinia

The legacy of the IXPE instrument and prospects for the next generation of polarimetric photoelectric X-ray detectors
Imaging X-ray polarimetry with IXPE has demonstrated the scientific potential of the technique but also revealed the need for significant detector upgrades, particularly with the read-out ASIC that images photoelectron tracks and possibly the multiplication stage. Building on this experience, we are developing a next generation three-dimensional photoelectron track polarimeter based on the GridPix detector, originally developed for axion and axion-like-particle searches. We report on the curren…

Capture Stage Environments: A Guide to Better Matting
Hannah Dr\"oge, Janelle Pfeifer, Saskia Rabich, Markus Plack, Reinhard Klein, Matthias B. Hullin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07623

Capture Stage Environments: A Guide to Better Matting
Capture stages are high-end sources of state-of-the-art recordings for downstream applications in movies, games, and other media. One crucial step in almost all pipelines is the matting of images to isolate the captured performances from the background. While common matting algorithms deliver remarkable performance in other applications like teleconferencing and mobile entertainment, we found that they struggle significantly with the peculiarities of capture stage content. The goal of our work …

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