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Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Adrian M. Price-Whelan , David W. Hogg

This document describes a convention for compressing n-dimensional images and storing the resulting byte stream in a variable-length column in a FITS binary table. The FITS file structure outlined here is independent of the specific data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-09 Richard L. White , Perry Greenfield , William Pence , Doug Tody , Rob Seaman

The familiar tools of Fourier analysis and Fisher matrices are applied to derive the uncertainties on photometric, astrometric, and weak-lensing measurements of stars and galaxies in real astronomical images. Many effects or functions that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gary Bernstein

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

Soft compression is a lossless image compression method, which is committed to eliminating coding redundancy and spatial redundancy at the same time by adopting locations and shapes of codebook to encode an image from the perspective of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Gangtao Xin , Pingyi Fan

The FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) data format has been the de facto data format for astronomy-related data products since its inception in the late 1970s. While the FITS file format is widely supported, it lacks many of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 D. C. Price , B. R. Barsdell , L. J. Greenhill

Lossy image compression algorithms play a crucial role in various domains, including graphics, and image processing. As image information density increases, so do the resources required for processing and transmission. One of the most…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-10 Anton Kozyriev , Vladimir Norkin

An accurate method for warping images is presented. Differently from most commonly used techniques, this method guarantees the conservation of the intensity of the transformed image, evaluated as the sum of its pixel values over the whole…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Enrico Segre

Astronomical images often have regions with missing or unwanted information, such as bad pixels, bad columns, cosmic rays, masked objects, or residuals from imperfect model subtractions. In certain situations it can be essential, or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-06 Pieter van Dokkum , Imad Pasha

Many approaches to astronomical data reduction and analysis cannot tolerate missing data: corrupted pixels must first have their values imputed. This paper presents astrofix, a robust and flexible image imputation algorithm based on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-17 Hengyue Zhang , Timothy D. Brandt

Image Rotation and Subtraction (IRS) is a high-contrast imaging technique which can be used to suppress the speckles noise and facilitate the direct detection of exoplanets. IRS is different from Angular Differential Imaging (ADI), in which…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Jiangpei Dou , Deqing Ren , Gang Zhao , Xi Zhang , Rui Chen , Yongtian Zhu

Recent deep learning-based methods for lossy image compression achieve competitive rate-distortion performance through extensive end-to-end training and advanced architectures. However, emerging applications increasingly prioritize semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Ruiqi Shen , Haotian Wu , Wenjing Zhang , Jiangjing Hu , Deniz Gunduz

In this paper, we will present p roposed enhance process of image compression by using RLE algorithm. This proposed yield to decrease the size of compressing image, but the original method used primarily for compressing a binary images…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Ali H. Husseen Al-nuaimi , Shyamaa Shakir Al-juboori , R. J. Mohammed

We investigate data compression schemes for proposed all-sky diffraction-limited visible/NIR sky surveys aimed at the dark energy problem. We show that lossy square-root compression to 1 bit of noise per pixel, followed by standard lossless…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Gary M. Bernstein , Chris Bebek , Jason Rhodes , Chris Stoughton , R. Ali Vanderveld , Penshu Yeh

Nowadays digital image compression and decompression techniques are very much important. So our aim is to calculate the quality of face and other regions of the compressed image with respect to the original image. Image segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Abhishek Bhattacharya , Tanusree Chatterjee

Data is compressed by reducing its redundancy, but this also makes the data less reliable, more prone to errors. In this paper a novel approach of image compression based on a new method that has been created for image compression which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-21 Firas A. Jassim , Hind E. Qassim

Dithering is a technique that can improve human perception of low-resolution data by reducing quantization artifacts. In this work we formalize and analytically justify two metrics for quantization artifact prominence, using them to design…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Morriel Kasher , Michael Tinston , Predrag Spasojevic

Radio astronomical observations have very poor signal to noise ratios, unlike in other disciplines. On the other hand, it is possible to observe the object of interest for long time intervals as well as using a wider bandwidth.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-02 Sarod Yatawatta

Inpainting-based compression represents images in terms of a sparse subset of its pixel data. Storing the carefully optimised positions of known data creates a lossless compression problem on sparse and often scattered binary images. This…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Rahul Mohideen Kaja Mohideen , Pascal Peter , Joachim Weickert

In this paper, we present a novel approach to the estimation of strongly varying backgrounds in astronomical images by means of small objects removal and subsequent missing pixels interpolation. The method is based on the analysis of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Adam Popowicz , Bogdan Smolka