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Future wireless networks are envisioned to provide ubiquitous sensing services, which also gives rise to a substantial demand for high-dimensional non-convex parameter estimation, i.e., the associated likelihood function is non-convex and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Zhixiang Hu , An Liu , Minjian Zhao

Radio interferometry invariably suffers from an incomplete coverage of the spatial Fourier space, which leads to imaging artifacts. The current state-of-the-art technique is to create an image by Fourier-transforming the incomplete…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 F. Geyer , K. Schmidt , J. Kummer , M. Brüggen , H. W. Edler , D. Elsässer , F. Griese , A. Poggenpohl , L. Rustige , W. Rhode

Infrared Imaging Video Bolometer (IRVB) measures total radiation power loss from plasma in 2 dimensions through a pinhole camera geometry. Where a free-standing thin metal foil act as a broad band absorber from Soft X-Rays to IR radiation.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Vinit Pandya , Santosh P. Pandya , Ansh Patel , Kumudni Tahiliani , Kumar Ajay

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

We report on the first wide-field, very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) survey at 90 cm. The survey area consists of two overlapping 28 deg^2 fields centred on the quasar J0226+3421 and the gravitational lens B0218+357. A total of 618…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Emil Lenc , Mike A. Garrett , Olaf Wucknitz , James M. Anderson , Steven J. Tingay

Purpose: In multi-spectral imaging (MSI), several fast spin echo volumes with discrete Larmor frequency offsets are acquired in an interleaved fashion with multiple concatenations. Here, a variable resolution (VR) method to nearly halve…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Nikolai J. Mickevicius , Azadeh Sharafi , Andrew S. Nencka , Kevin M. Koch

Astronomical imaging can be broadly classified into two types. The first type is amplitude interferometry, which includes conventional optical telescopes and Very Large Baseline Interferometry (VLBI). The second type is intensity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Manuel Bojer , Zixin Huang , Sebastian Karl , Stefan Richter , Pieter Kok , J. von Zanthier

Multiview super-resolution image reconstruction (SRIR) is often cast as a resampling problem by merging non-redundant data from multiple low-resolution (LR) images on a finer high-resolution (HR) grid, while inverting the effect of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Vildan Atalay Aydin , Hassan Foroosh

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs), hosting powerful relativistic jet outflows, provide an excellent laboratory for studying jet physics. Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) enables high-resolution imaging on milli-arcsecond…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 X. -P. Cheng , T. An , X. -Y. Hong , J. Yang , P. Mohan , K. I. Kellermann , M. L. Lister , S. Frey , W. Zhao , Z. -L. Zhang , X. -C. Wu , X. -F. Li , Y. -K. Zhang

Extremely high data rates expected in next-generation radio interferometers necessitate a fast and robust way to process measurements in a big data context. Dimensionality reduction can alleviate computational load needed to process these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Vijay Kartik , Arwa Dabbech , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Yves Wiaux

Interplanetary scintillation (IPS) provides an approach for identifying the presence of sub-arcsec structures in radio sources, and very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique can help verify whether the IPS sources have fine…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-27 Sumit Jaiswal , Tao An , Ailing Wang , Steven Tingay

The search for relics from the inflation era in the form of B-mode polarization of the CMB is a major challenge in cosmology. The main obstacle appears to come from the complexity of Galactic foregrounds that need to be removed.…

In this paper, a Bayesian fusion technique for remotely sensed multi-band images is presented. The observed images are related to the high spectral and high spatial resolution image to be recovered through physical degradations, e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Qi Wei , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jean-Yves Tourneret

Horizon-scale imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has provided transformative insights into supermassive black holes but its resolution and scope are limited by ground-based constraints such as the size of the Earth, its…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Yassine Ben Zineb , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis

A short overview is given of the status of research on young extragalactic radio sources. We concentrate on Very Long Baseline Interferometric (VLBI), and space-VLBI results obtained with the VLBI Space Observatory Programme (VSOP). In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-15 I. A. G. Snellen

Massive binaries are crucial laboratories that allow us to investigate processes occurring in quite extreme conditions, such as particle acceleration, high-energy emission, or even dust formation. All these processes are intimately…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-21 M. De Becker

Recent work showed neural-network-based approaches to reconstructing images from compressively sensed measurements offer significant improvements in accuracy and signal compression. Such methods can dramatically boost the capability of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-29 Fangliang Bai , Jinchao Liu , Xiaojuan Liu , Margarita Osadchy , Chao Wang , Stuart J. Gibson

Imaging algorithms form powerful analysis tools for VLBI data analysis. However, these tools cannot measure certain image features (e.g., ring diameter) by their non-parametric nature. This is unfortunate since these image features are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-12 Paul Tiede , Avery E. Broderick , Daniel C. M. Palumbo

To increase the flexibility and scalability of deep neural networks for image reconstruction, a framework is proposed based on bandpass filtering. For many applications, sensing measurements are performed indirectly. For example, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Joseph Y. Cheng , Feiyu Chen , Marcus T. Alley , John M. Pauly , Shreyas S. Vasanawala

Context: Radio interferometers measure frequency components of the sky brightness, modulated by the gains of the individual radio antennas. Due to atmospheric turbulence and variations in the operational conditions of the antennas these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-25 Jakob Roth , Philipp Arras , Martin Reinecke , Richard A. Perley , Rüdiger Westermann , Torsten A. Enßlin