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Blind image deconvolution is the problem of recovering the latent image from the only observed blurry image when the blur kernel is unknown. In this paper, we propose an edge-based blur kernel estimation method for blind motion…

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The ultimate detection limit of optical biosensors is often limited by various noise sources, including those introduced by the optical measurement setup. While sophisticated modifications to instrumentation may reduce noise, a simpler…

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Diffraction limit is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information that results from decay of evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics yields no information about an object's subwavelength features. Here…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-24 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

Currently, most speech processing techniques use magnitude spectrograms as front-end and are therefore by default discarding part of the signal: the phase. In order to overcome this limitation, we propose an end-to-end learning method for…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Dario Rethage , Jordi Pons , Xavier Serra

Broadband radio waves emitted from pulsars are distorted and delayed as they propagate toward the Earth due to interactions with the free electrons that compose the interstellar medium, with lower radio frequencies being more impacted than…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-12 Olivia Young , Michael Lam

In this paper, we propose two contributions to neural network based denoising. First, we propose applying separate convolutional layers to each sub-band of discrete wavelet transform (DWT) as opposed to the common usage of DWT which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Caglar Aytekin , Sakari Alenius , Dmytro Paliy , Juuso Gren

Multipath propagation in the interstellar medium distorts radio pulses, an effect predominant for distant pulsars observed at low frequencies. Typically, broadened pulses are analyzed to determine the amount of propagation-induced pulse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. D. R. Bhat , J. M. Cordes , S. Chatterjee

This work introduces a robust single-channel inverse filter for dereverberation of non-ideal recordings, validated on real audio. The developed method focuses on the calculation and modification of a discrete impulse response in order to…

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Contrast and quality of ultrasound images are adversely affected by the excessive presence of speckle. However, being an inherent imaging property, speckle helps in tissue characterization and tracking. Thus, despeckling of the ultrasound…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Deepak Mishra , Santanu Chaudhury , Mukul Sarkar , Arvinder Singh Soin

Denoising is of utmost importance for the visualization and processing of images featuring low signal-to-noise ratio. Total variation methods are among the most popular techniques to perform this task improving the signal-to-noise ratio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-24 Gonzalo D. Maso Talou , Pablo J. Blanco

We introduce a loss compensation method to increase the resolution of near-field imaging with a plasmonic superlens that relies on the convolution of a high spatial frequency passband function with the object. Implementation with incoherent…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-23 Wyatt Adams , Anindya Ghoshroy , Durdu Ö. Güney

A novel phase retrieval algorithm for broadband hyperspectral phase imaging from noisy intensity observations is proposed. It utilizes advantages of the Fourier Transform spectroscopy in the self-referencing optical setup and provides,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Igor Shevkunov , Vladimir Katkovnik , Karen Egiazarian

Removal or cancellation of noise has wide-spread applications for imaging and acoustics. In every-day-life applications, denoising may even include generative aspects, which are unfaithful to the ground truth. For scientific use, however,…

Wavelets are waveform functions that describe transient and unstable variations, such as noises. In this work, we study the advantages of discrete and continuous wavelet transforms (DWT and CWT) of microlensing data to denoise them and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Sedighe Sajadian , Hossein Fatheddin

Most blind deconvolution methods usually pre-define a large kernel size to guarantee the support domain. Blur kernel estimation error is likely to be introduced, yielding severe artifacts in deblurring results. In this paper, we first…

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Spatial resolution of most imaging devices is fundamentally restricted by diffraction. This limitation is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information contained in evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics…

Optics · Physics 2010-03-16 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

Ultrasound is a widely used medical tool for non-invasive diagnosis, but its images often contain speckle noise which can lower their resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio. This can make it more difficult to extract, recognize, and analyze…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-06 Suraj Bhute , Subhamoy Mandal , Debashree Guha

Quantitative evaluations of differences and/or similarities between data samples define and shape optimisation problems associated with learning data distributions. Current methods to compare data often suffer from limitations in capturing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Deborah Pelacani Cruz , George Strong , Oscar Bates , Carlos Cueto , Jiashun Yao , Lluis Guasch

Blind deconvolution problems are severely ill-posed because neither the underlying signal nor the forward operator are not known exactly. Conventionally, these problems are solved by alternating between estimation of the image and kernel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Yash Sanghvi , Yiheng Chi , Stanley H. Chan

This paper deals with the problem of estimating the delays and amplitudes of a weighted superposition of pulses, called stream of pulses. This problem is motivated by a variety of applications, such as ultrasound and radar. This paper shows…

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