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We introduce a novel method for weak-lensing measurements, which is based on a mathematically exact deconvolution of the moments of the apparent brightness distribution of galaxies from the telescope's PSF. No assumptions on the shape of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-04-24 Peter Melchior , Massimo Viola , Björn Malte Schäfer , Matthias Bartelmann

In this paper, we address the task of aberration-aware depth-from-defocus (DfD), which takes account of spatially variant point spread functions (PSFs) of a real camera. To effectively obtain the spatially variant PSFs of a real camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhuofeng Wu , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Accurate astrometry and photometry of saturated and coronagraphic point spread functions (PSFs) are fundamental to both ground- and space-based high contrast imaging projects. For ground-based adaptive optics imaging, differential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Marois , D. Lafreniere , B. Macintosh , R. Doyon

The combined PSF of the BFI and the SOT onboard the Hinode spacecraft is investigated. Observations of the Mercury transit from November 2006 and the solar eclipse(s) from 2007 are used to determine the PSFs of SOT for the blue, green, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sven Wedemeyer-Böhm

Reconstruction of the point spread function (PSF) plays an important role in many areas of astronomy, including photometry, astrometry, galaxy morphology, and shear measurement. The atmospheric and instrumental effects are the two main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Pedro Alonso , Jun Zhang , Cong Liu

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

We present a performance test of the Point Spread Function deconvolution algorithm applied to astronomical Integral Field Unit (IFU) Spectroscopy data for restoration of galaxy kinematics. We deconvolve the IFU data by applying the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Haeun Chung , Changbom Park , Yong-Sun Park

Bolton and Schlegel presented a promising deconvolution method to extract 1D spectra from a 2D optical fiber spectral CCD image. The method could eliminate the PSF difference between fibers, extract spectra to the photo noise level, as well…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Guangwei Li , Haotong Zhang , Zhongrui Bai

Hyperspectral images enable precise identification of ground objects by capturing their spectral signatures with fine spectral resolution.While high spatial resolution further enhances this capability, increasing spatial resolution through…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Ankur Garg , Meenakshi Sarkar , S. Manthira Moorthi , Debajyoti Dhar

[Abridged] An increasing number of astronomical instruments (on Earth and space-based) provide hyperspectral images, that is three-dimensional data cubes with two spatial dimensions and one spectral dimension. The intrinsic limitation in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-17 Axel Boulais , Olivier Berné , Guillaume Faury , Yannick Deville

Hyperspectral imaging is a cutting-edge type of remote sensing used for mapping vegetation properties, rock minerals and other materials. A major drawback of hyperspectral imaging devices is their intrinsic low spatial resolution. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Leon Bungert , David A. Coomes , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Jennifer Rasch , Rafael Reisenhofer , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

As ground-based all-sky astronomical surveys will gather millions of images in the coming years, a critical requirement emerges for the development of fast deconvolution algorithms capable of efficiently improving the spatial resolution of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Utsav Akhaury , Pascale Jablonka , Jean-Luc Starck , Frédéric Courbin

Although the advances of self-supervised blind denoising are significantly superior to conventional approaches without clean supervision in synthetic noise scenarios, it shows poor quality in real-world images due to spatially correlated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Kanggeun Lee , Kyungryun Lee , Won-Ki Jeong

In this work we present a new algorithm for data deconvolution that allows the retrieval of the target function with super-resolution with a simple approach that after a precis e measurement of the instrument response function (IRF), the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Sandra Martínez , Oscar E. Martínez

The Point Spread Function (PSF) is a key figure of merit for specifying the angular resolution of optical systems and, as the demand for higher and higher angular resolution increases, the problem of surface finishing must be taken…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-04 K. Tayabaly , D. Spiga , G. Sironi , R. Canestrari , M. Lavagna , G. Pareschi

The point spread function (PSF) serves as a fundamental descriptor linking the real-world scene to the captured signal, manifesting as camera blur. Accurate PSF estimation is crucial for both optical characterization and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiajian He , Enjie Hu , Shiqi Chen , Tianchen Qiu , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu , Yueting Chen

We have developed a novel method for co-adding multiple under-sampled images that combines the iteratively reweighted least squares and divide-and-conquer algorithms. Our approach not only allows for the anti-aliasing of the images but also…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Lei Wang , Huanyuan Shan , Lin Nie , Dezi Liu , Zhaojun Yan , Guoliang Li , Cheng Cheng , Yushan Xie , Han Qu , Wenwen Zheng , Xi Kang

Image blurring refers to the degradation of an image wherein the image's overall sharpness decreases. Image blurring is caused by several factors. Additionally, during the image acquisition process, noise may get added to the image. Such a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Poorna Banerjee Dasgupta

Lensless cameras replace bulky optics with thin modulation masks, enabling compact imaging systems. However, existing methods rely on an idealized model that assumes a globally shift-invariant point spread function (PSF) and sufficiently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yu Ren , Xiaoling Zhang , Xu Zhan , Xiangdong Ma , Yunqi Wang , Edmund Y. Lam , Tianjiao Zeng

High-resolution ground-based solar imaging relies heavily on multi-object multi-frame blind deconvolution to correct for atmospheric turbulence. However, the traditional joint maximum likelihood estimation methods in which object and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 A. Asensio Ramos