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We present the development of a data-driven, AI-based model of the Point Spread Function (PSF) that achieves higher accuracy than the current state-of-the-art approach, "PSF in the Full Field-of-View'' (PIFF). PIFF is widely used in leading…

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We propose a compact snapshot monocular depth estimation technique that relies on an engineered point spread function (PSF). Traditional approaches used in microscopic super-resolution imaging such as the Double-Helix PSF (DHPSF) are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Bhargav Ghanekar , Vishwanath Saragadam , Dushyant Mehra , Anna-Karin Gustavsson , Aswin Sankaranarayanan , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Accurate blur estimation is essential for high-performance imaging across various applications. Blur is typically represented by the point spread function (PSF). In this paper, we propose a physics-informed PSF learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Liqun Chen , Yuxuan Li , Jun Dai , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

Current and future imaging surveys will measure cosmic shear with a statistical precision that demands a deeper understanding of potential systematic biases in galaxy shape measurements than has been achieved to date. We investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. E. Meyers , P. R. Burchat

Optical microscopy is an essential tool in biology and medicine. Imaging thin, yet non-flat objects in a single shot (without relying on more sophisticated sectioning setups) remains challenging as the shallow depth of field that comes with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-14 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

Weak gravitational lensing is one of the most powerful tools for cosmology, while subject to challenges in quantifying subtle systematic biases. The Point Spread Function (PSF) can cause biases in weak lensing shear inference when the PSF…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-13 Tianqing Zhang , Rachel Mandelbaum , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

With the arrival of the next generation of ultra-deep optical imaging surveys reaching $\mu_V$$\sim$30 mag/arcsec$^2$ (3$\sigma$; 10"$\times$10"), the removal of scattered light due to the point spread function (PSF) effect remains a…

Imaging below the diffraction limit is always a public interest because of the restricted resolution of conventional imaging systems. To beat the limit, evanescent harmonics decaying in space must participate in the imaging process. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Ya Shuang , Jiang-Yu Liu , Yunhua Tan , Pu-Kun Liu

In a previous work we have demonstrated a novel numerical model for the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system that can efficiently model both experimental measurements and lens design simulations of the PSF. The novelty lies in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-25 Matthias Lehmann , Christian Wittpahl , Hatem Ben Zakour , Alexander Braun

A robust and extended characterization of the point spread function (PSF) is crucial to extract the photometric information produced by deep imaging surveys. Here, we present the extended PSFs of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), one of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-28 Raúl Infante-Sainz , Ignacio Trujillo , Javier Román

Layered metal-dielectric metamaterials have filtering properties both in the frequency domain and in the spatial frequency domain. Engineering their spatial filtering response is a way of designing structures with specific diffraction…

Optics · Physics 2014-08-28 Anna Pastuszczak , Marcin Stolarek , Rafal Kotynski

Scanning Kelvin probe microscopy (SKPM) is a powerful technique for investigating the electrostatic properties of material surfaces, enabling the imaging of variations in work function, topology, surface charge density, or combinations…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-07-26 Isaac C. D. Lenton , Felix Pertl , Lubuna Shafeek , Scott R. Waitukaitis

We present a detailed analysis of the point spread function (PSF) of JWST NIRCam imaging in eight filters: F070W, F115W, F150W, F200W, F277W, F356W, F444W, and F480M, using publicly available data. Spatial variations in the PSF FWHM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-28 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Yue Shen

We demonstrate numerically the diffraction-free propagation of sub-wavelength sized optical beams through simple elements built of metal-dielectric multilayers. The proposed metamaterial consists of silver and a high refractive index…

Optics · Physics 2011-06-07 R. Kotynski , T. Stefaniuk , A. Pastuszczak

Point spread function (PSF) engineering is vital for precisely controlling the focus of light in computational imaging, with applications in neural imaging, fluorescence microscopy, and biophotonics. The PSF is derived from the magnitude of…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Aleksey Valouev

Deblurring is a fundamental inverse problem in bioimaging. It requires modelling the point spread function (PSF), which captures the optical distortions entailed by the image formation process. The PSF limits the spatial resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-04 Denis K. Samuylov , Prateek Purwar , Gábor Székely , Grégory Paul

One of the problems often encountered in X-ray mirror manufacturing is setting proper manufacturing tolerances to guarantee an angular resolution - often expressed in terms of Point Spread Function (PSF) - as needed by the specific science…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-17 D. Spiga , L. Raimondi

The knowledge of the exact structure of the optical system PSF enables a high-quality image reconstruction in fluorescence microscopy. Accurate PSF models account for the vector nature of light and the phase and amplitude modifications.…

Accurate reconstruction of the spatial distributions of the Point Spread Function (PSF) is crucial for high precision cosmic shear measurements. Nevertheless, current methods are not good at recovering the PSF fluctuations of high spatial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-12 Tianhuan Lu , Jun Zhang , Fuyu Dong , Yingke Li , Dezi Liu , Liping Fu , Guoliang Li , Zuhui Fan

The point spread function (PSF) reflects states of a telescope and plays an important role in development of data processing methods, such as PSF based astrometry, photometry and image restoration. However, for wide field small aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Peng Jia , Xuebo Wu , Zhengyang Li , Bo Li , Weihua Wang , Qiang Liu , Adam Popowicz