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Removing the aberrations introduced by the Point Spread Function (PSF) is a fundamental aspect of astronomical image processing. The presence of noise in observed images makes deconvolution a nontrivial task that necessitates the use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-03 Samuel Farrens , Jean-Luc Starck , Fred Maurice Ngolè Mboula

Accurate modelling of the effective point spread function (ePSF) is essential for high-precision photometry and astrometry, particularly in undersampled imaging regimes. In this work, we build on a well-established ePSF modelling framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Emma Godden , Katherine M. Blundell

Ground-to-space astronomical super-resolution requires recovering space-quality images from ground-based observations that are simultaneously limited by pixel sampling resolution and atmospheric seeing, which imposes a stochastic, spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shuhong Liu , Xining Ge , Ziteng Cui , Liuzhuozheng Li , Gengjia Chang , Jun Liu , Ziying Gu , Dong Li , Xuangeng Chu , Lin Gu , Tatsuya Harada

Ground-based astronomical observations will continue to produce resolution-limited images due to atmospheric seeing. Deconvolution reverses such effects and thus can benefit extracted science in multifaceted ways. We apply the Scaled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-04 Yash Gondhalekar , Richard M. Feder , Matthew J. Graham , Ajit K. Kembhavi , Margarita Safonova , Snehanshu Saha , Ashish A. Mahabal

Infrared-visible image fusion aims to create an information-rich fused image by integrating the complementary thermal saliency from infrared sensing and fine textures from visible imaging. Such accurate fusion is essential for real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhenyu Sun , Luobin Zhang , Axi Niu , Haishen Wang , Qingsen Yan

We present a new technique - photon folding - for imaging in non-focusing telescopes. Motivated by the epoch-folding method in timing analysis, the photon folding technique directly provides the statistical significance of signals in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 JaeSub Hong

Aims. In astronomy, machine learning has been successful in various tasks such as source localisation, classification, anomaly detection, and segmentation. However, feature regression remains an area with room for improvement. We aim to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-20 F. Stoppa , R. Ruiz de Austri , P. Vreeswijk , S. Bhattacharyya , S. Caron , S. Bloemen , G. Zaharijas , G. Principe , V. Vodeb , P. J. Groot , E. Cator , G. Nelemans

Applications in materials and biological imaging are limited by the ability to collect high-resolution data over large areas in practical amounts of time. One solution to this problem is to collect low-resolution data and interpolate to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-18 Emma J Reid , Lawrence F Drummy , Charles A Bouman , Gregery T Buzzard

The PRobe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics concept aims to map large areas with spectral coverage and sensitivities inaccessible to previous FIR space telescopes, covering 25-235um. We synthesise images representing a deep imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 J. M. S. Donnellan , B. Pautasso , S. J. Oliver , M. Béthermin , L. Bing , A. Bolatto , L. Ciesla , D. Koopmans , A. Pope , S. Serjeant , L. Wang

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

We present a comprehensive analysis of the performance of noise-reduction (``denoising'') algorithms to determine whether they provide advantages in source detection on extragalactic survey images. The methods under analysis are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 V. Roscani , S. Tozza , M. Castellano , E. Merlin , D. Ottaviani , M. Falcone , A. Fontana

A high accuracy photometry algorithm is needed to take full advantage of the potential of the transit method for the characterization of exoplanets, especially in deep crowded fields. It has to reduce to the lowest possible level the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Gillon , F. Pont , C. Moutou , F. Bouchy , F. Courbin , S. Sohy , P. Magain

Recovering high-fidelity images of the night sky from blurred observations is a fundamental problem in astronomy, where traditional methods typically fall short. In ground-based astronomy, combining multiple exposures to enhance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Yashil Sukurdeep , Fausto Navarro , Tamás Budavári

We present a new multiband extension to the crowdsource photometric pipeline, enabling simultaneous fitting across multiple imaging bands in crowded fields. The core idea is that multiple images of the same part of the sky should have the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Jayashree Behera , Edward F. Schlafly , Aaron M. Meisner , Lucas Napolitano

Image matting is a fundamental computer vision problem and has many applications. Previous algorithms have poor performance when an image has similar foreground and background colors or complicated textures. The main reasons are prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Ning Xu , Brian Price , Scott Cohen , Thomas Huang

Due to the singularity of real-world paired datasets and the complexity of low-light environments, this leads to supervised methods lacking a degree of scene generalisation. Meanwhile, limited by poor lighting and content guidance, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jinhong He , Shivakumara Palaiahnakote , Aoxiang Ning , Minglong Xue

In this paper, we solve blind image deconvolution problem that is to remove blurs form a signal degraded image without any knowledge of the blur kernel. Since the problem is ill-posed, an image prior plays a significant role in accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-29 In S. Jeon , Deokyoung Kang , Suk I. Yoo

We present a computationally efficient expectation-maximization framework for multi-frame image deconvolution and super-resolution. Our method is well adapted for processing large scale imaging data from modern astronomical surveys. Our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Yashil Sukurdeep , Fausto Navarro , Tamas Budavari

Image fusion is famous as an alternative solution to generate one high-quality image from multiple images in addition to image restoration from a single degraded image. The essence of image fusion is to integrate complementary information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Pengwei Liang , Junjun Jiang , Qing Ma , Xianming Liu , Jiayi Ma