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The emerging generation of radio interferometric (RI) telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will acquire massive volumes of data and transition radio astronomy to a big-data era. The ill-posed inverse problem of imaging the…

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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

The celebrated CLEAN algorithm has been the cornerstone of deconvolution algorithms in radio interferometry almost since its conception in the 1970s. For all its faults, CLEAN is remarkably fast, robust to calibration artefacts and in its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-21 Hertzog L. Bester , Audrey Repetti , Simon Perkins , Oleg M. Smirnov , Jonathan S. Kenyon

We introduce a new technique for imaging the polarized radio sky using interferometric data. The new approach, which we call Faraday synthesis, combines aperture and rotation measure synthesis imaging and deconvolution into a single…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. R. Bell , T. A. Enßlin

Sparsity promoting functions (SPFs) are commonly used in optimization problems to find solutions which are assumed or desired to be sparse in some basis. For example, the l1-regularized variation model and the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Lixin Shen , Bruce W. Suter , Erin E. Tripp

Sparse-view Computed Tomography (CT) is an emerging protocol designed to reduce X-ray dose radiation in medical imaging. Traditional Filtered Back Projection algorithm reconstructions suffer from severe artifacts due to sparse data. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-03 Elena Loli Piccolomini , Davide Evangelista , Elena Morotti

Spectral imaging enables spatially-resolved identification of materials in remote sensing, biomedicine, and astronomy. However, acquisition times require balancing spectral and spatial resolution with signal-to-noise. Hyperspectral imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Nguyen Tran , Rupali Mankar , David Mayerich , Zhu Han

Feature extraction from infrared (IR) images remains a challenging task. Learning based methods that can work on raw imagery/patches have therefore assumed significance. We propose a novel multi-task extension of the widely used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-04 Xuelu Li , Vishal Monga

We propose a federated algorithm for reconstructing images using multimodal tomographic data sourced from dispersed locations, addressing the challenges of traditional unimodal approaches that are prone to noise and reduced image quality.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Geunyeong Byeon , Minseok Ryu , Zichao Wendy Di , Kibaek Kim

MR image sparsity/compressibility has been widely exploited for imaging acceleration with the development of compressed sensing. A sparsity-based approach to rigid-body motion correction is presented for the first time in this paper. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-02-04 Zai Yang , Cishen Zhang , Lihua Xie

An ideal fusion method preserves the Spectral information in fused image and adds spatial information to it with no spectral distortion. Among the existing fusion algorithms, the contourlet-based fusion method is the most frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Hamid Reza Shahdoosti

Two features desired in a three-dimensional (3D) optical tomographic image reconstruction algorithm are the ability to reduce imaging artifacts and to do fast processing of large data volumes. Traditional iterative inversion algorithms are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Zihui Wu , Yu Sun , Alex Matlock , Jiaming Liu , Lei Tian , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Two complementary approaches have been extensively used in signal and image processing leading to novel results, the sparse representation methodology and the variational strategy. Recently, a new sparsity based model has been proposed, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Raja Giryes , Michael Elad , Alfred M. Bruckstein

Developing reliable and generalizable deep learning systems for medical imaging faces significant obstacles due to spurious correlations, data imbalances, and limited text annotations in datasets. Addressing these challenges requires…

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Extensive research on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) has primarily focused on optimizing reflective coefficients for passive beamforming in specific target directions. This optimization typically assumes prior knowledge of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-05 Xiao Cai , Hei Victor Cheng , Daniel E. Lucani

In this paper, we propose a successive convex approximation framework for sparse optimization where the nonsmooth regularization function in the objective function is nonconvex and it can be written as the difference of two convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Yang Yang , Marius Pesavento , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

The calibration of modern radio interferometers is a significant challenge, specifically at low frequencies. In this perspective, we propose a novel iterative calibration algorithm, which employs the popular sparse representation framework,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-06 Martin Brossard , Mohamed Nabil El Korso , Marius Pesavento , Rémy Boyer , Pascal Larzabal

Spike and slab priors play a key role in inducing sparsity for sparse signal recovery. The use of such priors results in hard non-convex and mixed integer programming problems. Most of the existing algorithms to solve the optimization…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-02 Fekadu L. Bayisa , Zhiyong Zhou , Ottmar Cronie , Jun Yu

We describe a new multi-scale deconvolution algorithm that can also be used in multi-frequency mode. The algorithm only affects the minor clean loop. In single-frequency mode, the minor loop of our improved multi-scale algorithm is over an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. R. Offringa , O. Smirnov

The recent focus on the efficiency of deep neural networks (DNNs) has led to significant work on model compression approaches, of which weight pruning is one of the most popular. At the same time, there is rapidly-growing computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Elias Frantar , Dan Alistarh