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Despite diffusion models' superior capabilities in modeling complex distributions, there are still non-trivial distributional discrepancies between generated and ground-truth images, which has resulted in several notable problems in image…

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We developed a source detection algorithm based on the Minimal Spanning Tree (MST), that is a graph-theoretical method useful for finding clusters in a given set of points. This algorithm is applied to gamma-ray bidimensional images where…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Riccardo Campana , Enrico Massaro , Dario Gasparrini , Sara Cutini , Andrea Tramacere

In astronomy multiple images are frequently obtained at the same position of the sky for follow-up co-addition as it helps one go deeper and look for fainter objects. With large scale panchromatic synoptic surveys becoming more common,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Jogesh Babu , Ashish Mahabal , S. G. Djorgovski , R. Williams

Dense image matching aims to find a correspondent for every pixel of a source image in a partially overlapping target image. State-of-the-art methods typically rely on a coarse-to-fine mechanism where a single correspondent hypothesis is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Matthieu Vilain , Rémi Giraud , Yannick Berthoumieu , Guillaume Bourmaud

The continuing monitoring and surveying of the nearby space to detect Near Earth Objects (NEOs) and Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) are essential because of the threats that this kind of objects impose on the future of our planet. We need more…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-15 V. Bacu , A. Sabou , T. Stefanut , D. Gorgan , O. Vaduvescu

Context: Astronomical imaging aims to maximize signal capture while minimizing noise. Enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio directly on detectors is difficult and expensive, leading to extensive research in advanced post-processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Rodney Nicolaas , Sascha Caron , Fiorenzo Stoppa , Saptashwa Bhattacharyya , Roberto Ruiz de Austri , Paul J. Groot , Andrew J. Levan

We present an efficient algorithm designed for and capable of detecting elongated, thin features such as lines and curves in astronomical images, and its application to the automatic detection of gravitational arcs. The algorithm is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gregor Seidel , Matthias Bartelmann

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

The morphologies of astronomical sources are highly complex, making it essential not only to classify the identified sources into their predefined categories but also to determine the sources that are most similar to a given query source.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Steven Ndungu , Trienko Grobler , Stefan J. Wijnholds , George Azzopardi

We present RESOLVE, a new algorithm for radio aperture synthesis imaging of extended and diffuse emission in total intensity. The algorithm is derived using Bayesian statistical inference techniques, estimating the surface brightness in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 H. Junklewitz , M. R. Bell , M. Selig , T. A. Enßlin

Over the past several decades, advances in telescope/detector technologies and deep imaging techniques have pushed surface brightness limits to ever fainter levels. We can now both detect and measure the diffuse, extended star light that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-23 J. Christopher Mihos

Following the discovery of the brightest high-energy neutrino sources in the sky, the further detection of fainter sources is more challenging. A natural solution is to combine fainter source candidates, and instead of individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 I. Bartos , M. Ackermann , M. Kowalski

This work is concerned with the problem of blind source separation and its applications to imaging. We first establish a theoretical result that we stated in our previous article on imaging in diffusive environments. This result is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Randy Bartels , Olivier Pinaud

The detection and flux estimation of point sources in cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps is a very important task in order to clean the maps and also to obtain relevant astrophysical information. In this paper we propose a maximum a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 F. Argueso , E. Salerno , D. Herranz , J. L. Sanz , E. E. Kuruoglu , K. Kayabol

We present the method of multiplexed imaging designed for astronomical observations of large sky areas in the IR, visible and UV frequencies. Our method relies on the sparse nature of astronomical observations. The method consists of an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-11 Barak Zackay , Avishay Gal-Yam

Image deblurring is an economic way to reduce certain degradations (blur and noise) in acquired images. Thus, it has become essential tool in high resolution imaging in many applications, e.g., astronomy, microscopy or computational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Rahul Mourya , André Ferrari , Rémi Flamary , Pascal Bianchi , Cédric Richard

In this paper we introduce a reliable, fully automated and fast algorithm to detect extended extragalactic radio sources (cluster of galaxies, filaments) in existing and forthcoming surveys (like LOFAR and SKA). The proposed solution is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-11 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede

The tens of millions of radio sources to be detected with next-generation surveys pose new challenges, quite apart from the obvious ones of processing speed and data volumes. For example, existing algorithms are inadequate for source…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Ray P. Norris

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger

Clusters of galaxies are the most massive objects in the Universe and mapping their location is an important astronomical problem. This paper describes an algorithm (based on statistical signal processing methods), a software architecture…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-26 Jeremy Kepner , Rita Kim