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Radio interferometry invariably suffers from an incomplete coverage of the spatial Fourier space, which leads to imaging artifacts. The current state-of-the-art technique is to create an image by Fourier-transforming the incomplete…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 F. Geyer , K. Schmidt , J. Kummer , M. Brüggen , H. W. Edler , D. Elsässer , F. Griese , A. Poggenpohl , L. Rustige , W. Rhode

We propose an interferometric scheme where each photon returns one bit of the binary expansion of an unknown phase. It sets up a method for estimating the phase value at arbitrary uncertainty. This strategy is global, since it requires no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Simone Roncallo , Xi Lu , Lorenzo Maccone

A chemometric data analysis challenge has been arranged during the first edition of the "International Workshop on Spectroscopy and Chemometrics", organized by the Vistamilk SFI Research Centre and held online in April 2021. The aim of the…

Infrared Imaging Video Bolometer (IRVB) measures total radiation power loss from plasma in 2 dimensions through a pinhole camera geometry. Where a free-standing thin metal foil act as a broad band absorber from Soft X-Rays to IR radiation.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Vinit Pandya , Santosh P. Pandya , Ansh Patel , Kumudni Tahiliani , Kumar Ajay

Image restoration algorithms are typically evaluated by some distortion measure (e.g. PSNR, SSIM, IFC, VIF) or by human opinion scores that quantify perceived perceptual quality. In this paper, we prove mathematically that distortion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Yochai Blau , Tomer Michaeli

MRI images of the same subject in different contrasts contain shared information, such as the anatomical structure. Utilizing the redundant information amongst the contrasts to sub-sample and faithfully reconstruct multi-contrast images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Xinwen Liu , Jing Wang , Fangfang Tang , Shekhar S. Chandra , Feng Liu , Stuart Crozier

In this paper, the problem of compressive imaging is addressed using natural randomization by means of a multiply scattering medium. To utilize the medium in this way, its corresponding transmission matrix must be estimated. To calibrate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Boshra Rajaei , Eric W. Tramel , Sylvain Gigan , Florent Krzakala , Laurent Daudet

This paper investigates the possibility of improving radio interferometric images using an algorithm inspired by an optical method known as "lucky imaging", which would give more weight to the best-calibrated visibilities used to make a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-18 Etienne Bonnassieux , Cyril Tasse , Oleg Smirnov , Philippe Zarka

We developed the tool GEM-FIND that allows to constrain the morphology and brightness distribution of objects. The software fits geometrical models to spectrally dispersed interferometric visibility measurements in the N-band using the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 D. Klotz , S. Sacuto , C. Paladini , J. Hron , G. Wachter

Accelerating MRI scans is one of the principal outstanding problems in the MRI research community. Towards this goal, we hosted the second fastMRI competition targeted towards reconstructing MR images with subsampled k-space data. We…

Increasing the angular resolution of an interferometric array requires placing its elements at large separations. This often leads to sparse coverage and introduces challenges to reconstructing images from interferometric data. We introduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Dimitrios Psaltis , Feryal Ozel , Yassine Ben Zineb

Shearing interferometry is a common-path quantitative phase imaging technique in which an object beam interferes with a laterally shifted replica of itself, providing high temporal stability, reduced sensitivity to environmental noise,…

This paper presents the evaluation methodology, datasets, and results of the BOP Challenge 2020, the third in a series of public competitions organized with the goal to capture the status quo in the field of 6D object pose estimation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Tomas Hodan , Martin Sundermeyer , Bertram Drost , Yann Labbe , Eric Brachmann , Frank Michel , Carsten Rother , Jiri Matas

We introduce the AIM 2025 Real-World RAW Image Denoising Challenge, aiming to advance efficient and effective denoising techniques grounded in data synthesis. The competition is built upon a newly established evaluation benchmark featuring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Feiran Li , Jiacheng Li , Marcos V. Conde , Beril Besbinar , Vlad Hosu , Daisuke Iso , Radu Timofte

This paper provides a general introduction to the problem of image reconstruction from interferometric data. A simple model of the interferometric observables is given and the issues arising from sparse Fourier data are discussed. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 Éric Thiébaut , John Young

An inverse scattering problem is formulated for reconstructing optical properties of biological tissues. A recursive linearization algorithm is used to solve the inverse scattering problem. We employed the idea of finite element boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-30 Ying Li

We report on a broader evaluation of statistical bootstrap resampling methods as a tool for pixel-level calibration and imaging fidelity assessment in radio interferometry. Pixel-level imaging fidelity assessment is a challenging problem,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Athol Kemball , Adam Martinsek , Modhurita Mitra , Hsin-Fang Chiang

A new technique is presented for producing images from interferometric data. The method, ``smear fitting'', makes the constraints necessary for interferometric imaging double as a model, with uncertainties, of the sky brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Robert I. Reid

In the previous blind deconvolution methods, de-blurred images can be obtained by using the edge or pixel information. However, the existing edge-based methods did not take advantage of edge information in ommi-directions, but only used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Trung Dung Do , Xuenan Cui , Thi Hai Binh Nguyen , Hakil Kim , Van Huan Nguyen

Blind face restoration (BFR) is important while challenging. Prior works prefer to exploit GAN-based frameworks to tackle this task due to the balance of quality and efficiency. However, these methods suffer from poor stability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Xinmin Qiu , Congying Han , Zicheng Zhang , Bonan Li , Tiande Guo , Xuecheng Nie