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This work is concerned with optical imaging in strongly diffusive environments. We consider a typical setting in optical coherence tomography where a sample is probed by a collection of wavefields produced by a laser and propagating through…

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In Super-resolution, a varying-illumination image stack is required. This enriched the dataset typically necessitates precise mechanical control and micron scale optical alignment and repeatability. Here, we introduce a novel methodology…

Ultrasonography offers an inexpensive, widely-accessible and compact medical imaging solution. However, compared to other imaging modalities such as CT and MRI, ultrasound images notoriously suffer from strong speckle noise, which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Vincent van de Schaft , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

Photometric Redshift is critical for analyzing astronomical objects, but existing ML methods often overlook the aleatoric uncertainties inherent in observed data. We introduce Starkindler, a novel training objective that explicitly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Raahul Singh , Ashutosh Pandey

The uncertainty in the photometric redshift estimation is one of the major systematics in weak lensing cosmology. The self-calibration method is able to reduce this systematics without assuming strong priors. We improve the recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-07 Hui Peng , Haojie Xu , Le Zhang , Zhao Chen , Yu Yu

A comparison of the most popular techniques for 3D spectroscopy is presented in a way which should hopefully be useful for astronomers intending to use these techniques. Integral field spectroscopy, slitless spectroscopy, tunable imaging…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sperello di Serego Alighieri

The combination of multiple cosmological probes can produce measurements of cosmological parameters much more stringent than those possible with any individual probe. We examine the combination of two highly correlated probes of late-time…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Donnacha Kirk , Ofer Lahav , Sarah Bridle , Stephanie Jouvel , Filipe B. Abdalla , Joshua A. Frieman

Examining the properties of subhalos with strong gravitational lensing images can shed light on the nature of dark matter. From upcoming large-scale surveys, we expect to discover orders of magnitude more strong lens systems that can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-22 Gemma Zhang , Atınç Çağan Şengül , Cora Dvorkin

Image denoising is a fundamental task in computer vision, particularly in medical ultrasound (US) imaging, where speckle noise significantly degrades image quality. Although recent advancements in deep neural networks have led to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Xuesong Li , Nassir Navab , Zhongliang Jiang

Imaging the direct light signal from a faint exoplanet against the overwhelming glare of its host star presents one of the fundamental challenges to modern astronomical instrumentation. Achieving sufficient signal-to-noise for detection by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 S. Lacour , P. Tuthill , J. D. Monnier , T. Kotani , L. Gauchet , P. Labeye

Objective: Evaluate and compare multiple mechanics-based and traditional regularization strategies within a variational image registration framework for quasi-static ultrasound elastography. Methods:We reformulate a previously proposed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Olalekan A. Babaniyi , Rebecca Rodrigues , Michael S. Richards

Accurate photometric redshifts are among the key requirements for precision weak lensing measurements. Both the large size of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the existence of large spectroscopic redshift samples that are…

Obtaining accurately calibrated redshift distributions of photometric samples is one of the great challenges in photometric surveys like LSST, Euclid, HSC, KiDS, and DES. We present an inference methodology that combines the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 M. M. Rau , C. B. Morrison , S. J. Schmidt , S. Wilson , R. Mandelbaum , Y. Y. Mao

We propose a new post-processing technique for the detection of faint companions from a sequence of adaptive optics corrected short exposures. The algorithm exploits the difference in shape between the on-axis and off-axis irradiance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Szymon Gladysz , Julian C. Christou

When there are many observations of an astronomical source - many images with different dithers, or many spectra taken at different barycentric velocities - it is standard practice to shift and stack the data, to (for example) make a high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 David W. Hogg , Andrew R. Casey

We present a new algorithm for stacking radio interferometric data in the uv-domain. The performance of uv-stacking is compared to the stacking of fully imaged data using simulated Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Lukas Lindroos , K. K. Knudsen , W. Vlemmings , J. Conway , I. Martí-Vidal

We study the noise of the intensity variance and of the intensity correlation and structure functions measured in light scattering from a random medium in the case when these quantities are obtained by averaging over a finite number N of…

Digital co-addition of astronomical images is a common technique for increasing signal-to-noise and image depth. A modification of this simple technique has been applied to the detection of minor bodies in the Solar System: first stationary…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Alex H. Parker , JJ. Kavelaars

This paper studies the problem of line spectral estimation in the continuum of a bounded interval with one snapshot of array measurement. The single-snapshot measurement data is turned into a Hankel data matrix which admits the Vandermonde…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-23 Wenjing Liao , Albert Fannjiang

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