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Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) stands out as one of the most widely used microscopy techniques, thanks to its three-dimensional imaging capability and its sub-diffraction spatial resolution, achieved through the closure of a…

Radio interferometry enables high-resolution imaging of astronomical radio sources by synthesizing a large effective aperture from an array of antennas and solving a deconvolution problem to reconstruct the image. Deep learning has emerged…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Zihui Wu , Liam Connor , Samuel McCarty , Katherine L. Bouman

In recent works, sparse models and convex optimization techniques have been applied to radio-interferometric (RI) imaging showing the potential to outperform state-of-the-art imaging algorithms in the field. In this talk, I will review our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-19 Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

Radio interferometry allows astronomers to probe small spatial scales that are often inaccessible with single-dish instruments. However, recovering the radio sky from an interferometer is an ill-posed deconvolution problem that astronomers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-25 Liam Connor , Katherine L. Bouman , Vikram Ravi , Gregg Hallinan

LOFAR, the LOw-Frequency ARray, is a new-generation radio interferometer constructed in the north of the Netherlands and across europe. Utilizing a novel phased-array design, LOFAR covers the largely unexplored low-frequency range from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. P. van Haarlem , M. W. Wise , A. W. Gunst , G. Heald , J. P. McKean , J. W. T. Hessels , A. G. de Bruyn , R. Nijboer , J. Swinbank , R. Fallows , M. Brentjens , A. Nelles , R. Beck , H. Falcke , R. Fender , J. Hörandel , L. V. E. Koopmans , G. Mann , G. Miley , H. Röttgering , B. W. Stappers , R. A. M. J. Wijers , S. Zaroubi , M. van den Akker , A. Alexov , J. Anderson , K. Anderson , A. van Ardenne , M. Arts , A. Asgekar , I. M. Avruch , F. Batejat , L. Bähren , M. E. Bell , M. R. Bell , I. van Bemmel , P. Bennema , M. J. Bentum , G. Bernardi , P. Best , L. Bîrzan , A. Bonafede , A. -J. Boonstra , R. Braun , J. Bregman , F. Breitling , R. H. van de Brink , J. Broderick , P. C. Broekema , W. N. Brouw , M. Brüggen , H. R. Butcher , W. van Cappellen , B. Ciardi , T. Coenen , J. Conway , A. Coolen , A. Corstanje , S. Damstra , O. Davies , A. T. Deller , R. -J. Dettmar , G. van Diepen , K. Dijkstra , P. Donker , A. Doorduin , J. Dromer , M. Drost , A. van Duin , J. Eislöffel , J. van Enst , C. Ferrari , W. Frieswijk , H. Gankema , M. A. Garrett , F. de Gasperin , M. Gerbers , E. de Geus , J. -M. Grießmeier , T. Grit , P. Gruppen , J. P. Hamaker , T. Hassall , M. Hoeft , H. Holties , A. Horneffer , A. van der Horst , A. van Houwelingen , A. Huijgen , M. Iacobelli , H. Intema , N. Jackson , V. Jelic , A. de Jong , E. Juette , D. Kant , A. Karastergiou , A. Koers , H. Kollen , V. I. Kondratiev , E. Kooistra , Y. Koopman , A. Koster , M. Kuniyoshi , M. Kramer , G. Kuper , P. Lambropoulos , C. Law , J. van Leeuwen , J. Lemaitre , M. Loose , P. Maat , G. Macario , S. Markoff , J. Masters , D. McKay-Bukowski , H. Meijering , H. Meulman , M. Mevius , E. Middelberg , R. Millenaar , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , R. N. Mohan , J. D. Mol , J. Morawietz , R. Morganti , D. D. Mulcahy , E. Mulder , H. Munk , L. Nieuwenhuis , R. van Nieuwpoort , J. E. Noordam , M. Norden , A. Noutsos , A. R. Offringa , H. Olofsson , A. Omar , E. Orrú , R. Overeem , H. Paas , M. Pandey-Pommier , V. N. Pandey , R. Pizzo , A. Polatidis , D. Rafferty , S. Rawlings , W. Reich , J. -P. de Reijer , J. Reitsma , A. Renting , P. Riemers , E. Rol , J. W. Romein , J. Roosjen , M. Ruiter , A. Scaife , K. van der Schaaf , B. Scheers , P. Schellart , A. Schoenmakers , G. Schoonderbeek , M. Serylak , A. Shulevski , J. Sluman , O. Smirnov , C. Sobey , H. Spreeuw , M. Steinmetz , C. G. M. Sterks , H. -J. Stiepel , K. Stuurwold , M. Tagger , Y. Tang , C. Tasse , I. Thomas , S. Thoudam , M. C. Toribio , B. van der Tol , O. Usov , M. van Veelen , A. -J. van der Veen , S. ter Veen , J. P. W. Verbiest , R. Vermeulen , N. Vermaas , C. Vocks , C. Vogt , M. de Vos , E. van der Wal , R. van Weeren , H. Weggemans , P. Weltevrede , S. White , S. J. Wijnholds , T. Wilhelmsson , O. Wucknitz , S. Yatawatta , P. Zarka , A. Zensus , J. van Zwieten

Diffusion MRI is a well established imaging modality providing a powerful way to probe the structure of the white matter non-invasively. Despite its potential, the intrinsic long scan times of these sequences have hampered their use in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-12-31 Alessandro Daducci , Dimitri Van De Ville , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Yves Wiaux

We present the experimental reconstruction of sub-wavelength features from the far-field intensity of sparse optical objects: sparsity-based sub-wavelength imaging combined with phase-retrieval. As examples, we demonstrate the recovery of…

A densely-sampled light field (LF) is highly desirable in various applications, such as 3-D reconstruction, post-capture refocusing and virtual reality. However, it is costly to acquire such data. Although many computational methods have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Jing Jin , Junhui Hou , Jie Chen , Huanqiang Zeng , Sam Kwong , Jingyi Yu

Radio interferometry has always faced the problem of incomplete sampling of the Fourier plane. A possible remedy can be found in the promising new theory of compressed sensing (CS), which allows for the accurate recovery of sparse signals…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-22 Clara Fannjiang

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Imaging methods are usually based on algorithms of match-filtering type, without considering the scene's characteristic, which causes limited imaging quality. Besides, post-processing steps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Shunjun Wei , Jun Shi

The application that motivates this paper is molecular imaging at the atomic level. When discretized at sub-atomic distances, the volume is inherently sparse. Noiseless measurements from an imaging technology can be modeled by convolution…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-13 Michael Ting , Raviv Raich , Alfred O. Hero

Benefiting from a relatively larger aperture's angle, and in combination with a wide transmitting bandwidth, near-field synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a high-resolution image of a target's scattering distribution-hot spots.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-29 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Wensi Zhang , Jun Shi , Shunjun Wei , Tianjiao Zeng

Reconstructing the longitudinal profile of extensive air showers, generated from the interaction of cosmic rays in the Earth's atmosphere, is crucial to understanding their mass composition, which in turn provides valuable insight on their…

(arXiv abridged abstract) The current years are seeing huge developments of radio telescopes and a tremendous increase of their capabilities. Such systems make mandatory the design of more sophisticated techniques not only for transporting,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Arwa Dabbech , Chiara Ferrari , David Mary , Eric Slezak , Oleg Smirnov , Jonathan S. Kenyon

Sparse-view computed tomography (CT) is known as a widely used approach to reduce radiation dose while accelerating imaging through lowered projection views and correlated calculations. However, its severe imaging noise and streaking…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Yitong Liu , Ken Deng , Chang Sun , Hongwen Yang

Optical interferometers provide multiple wavelength measurements. In order to fully exploit the spectral and spatial resolution of these instruments, new algorithms for image reconstruction have to be developed. Early attempts to deal with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Éric Thiébaut , Ferréol Soulez , Loïc Denis

Two-dimensional (2D) fully-addressed arrays can conveniently realize three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound imaging while fully controlled such arrays usually demands thousands of independent channels, which is costly. Sparse array technique…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Xi Zhang , Miguel Bernal , Wei-Ning Lee

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a large radio telescope consisting of approximately 100 soccer-field sized antenna stations spread over a region of 400 km in diameter. It will operate at frequencies from ~10 to 240 MHz, with a resolution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. J. A. Rottgering

Cosmic-ray air shower detection with the low-frequency part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope is envisioned to yield very high precision measurements of the particle composition of cosmic rays between $10^{16}$ and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-24 A. Corstanje , S. Buitink , S. Bouma , M. Desmet , J. R. Hörandel , T. Huege , P. Laub , K. Mulrey , A. Nelles , O. Scholten , K. Terveer , S. Thoudam , K. Watanabe

LOFAR, the Low Frequency Array, is a large radio telescope consisting about 100 soccer field sized antenna stations spread over a region of 400 km in diameter. It will operate in the frequency range from ~10 to 240 MHz, with a resolution at…