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Upcoming radio interferometers are aiming to image the sky at new levels of resolution and sensitivity, with wide-band image cubes reaching close to the Petabyte scale for SKA. Modern proximal optimization algorithms have shown a potential…

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Transient radio signals of astrophysical origin present an avenue for studying the dynamic universe. With the next generation of radio interferometers being planned and built, there is great potential for detecting and studying large…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Cathryn M. Trott , Randall B. Wayth , Jean-Pierre R. Macquart , Steven J. Tingay

Radio interferometry is an observational technique used to study astrophysical phenomena. Data gathered by an interferometer requires substantial processing before astronomers can extract the scientific information from it. Data processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-24 Brian M. Kirk , Urvashi Rau , Ramyaa Ramyaa

High-fidelity compression of multispectral solar imagery remains challenging for space missions, where limited bandwidth must be balanced against preserving fine spectral and spatial details. We present a learned image compression framework…

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The modern practice of Radio Astronomy is characterized by extremes of data volume and rates, principally because of the direct relationship between the signal to noise ratio that can be achieved and the need to Nyquist sample the RF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Tim Natusch

Radio interferometers designed to measure the cosmological 21 cm power spectrum require high sensitivity. Several modern low-frequency interferometers feature drift-scan antennas placed on a regular grid to maximize the number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-19 Yunfan Gerry Zhang , Adrian Liu , Aaron R. Parsons

We describe a scalable distributed imaging algorithm framework for next-generation radio telescopes, managing the Fourier transform from apertures to sky (or vice versa) with a focus on minimising memory load, data transfers, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Peter Wortmann , James Kent , Bojan Nikolic

While learning based compression techniques for images have outperformed traditional methods, they have not been widely adopted in machine learning pipelines. This is largely due to lack of standardization and lack of retention of salient…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Kartik Gupta , Kimberley Faria , Vikas Mehta

The properties of the Gabor and Morlet transforms are examined with respect to the Fourier analysis of discretely sampled data. Forward and inverse transform pairs based on a fixed window with uniform sampling of the frequency axis can…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-07-23 Robert W. Johnson

Radio-interferometry (RI) observes the sky at unprecedented angular resolutions, enabling the study of several far-away galactic objects such as galaxies and black holes. In RI, an array of antennas probes cosmic signals coming from the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Olivier Leblanc , Yves Wiaux , Laurent Jacques

To avoid decorrelation, conventional synthetic aperture radar interferometry (InSAR) requires that interferometric images should have a common spectral band and the same resolution after proper preprocessing. For a high-resolution (HR)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Huizhang Yang , Chengzhi Chen , Shengyao Chen , Feng Xi , Zhong Liu

Many existing translation averaging algorithms are either sensitive to disparate camera baselines and have to rely on extensive preprocessing to improve the observed Epipolar Geometry graph, or if they are robust against disparate camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Bingbing Zhuang , Loong-Fah Cheong , Gim Hee Lee

We generalize the technique of fringe-rate filtering, whereby visibilities measured by a radio interferometer are re-weighted according to their temporal variation. As the Earth rotates, radio sources traverse through an interferometer's…

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Feature screening is an important tool in analyzing ultrahigh-dimensional data, particularly in the field of Omics and oncology studies. However, most attention has been focused on identifying features that have a linear or monotonic impact…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-10 Yaxian Chen , KF Lam , Zhonghua Liu

Optimal measurement scheme with an efficient data processing is important in quantum-enhanced interferometry. Here we prove that for a general binary outcome measurement, the simplest data processing based on inverting the average signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-11 X. M. Feng , G. R. Jin , W. Yang

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

Missions studying the dynamic behaviour of the Sun are defined to capture multi-spectral images of the sun and transmit them to the ground station in a daily basis. To make transmission efficient and feasible, image compression systems need…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Ali Zafari , Atefeh Khoshkhahtinat , Piyush M. Mehta , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Barbara J. Thompson , Michael S. F. Kirk , Daniel da Silva

Modern radio interferometers sensitive to low frequencies will make use of wide-band detectors. For such wide bandwidths, dispersive atmospheric effects introduce variations in the fringe delay which change through the band of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-25 I. Marti-Vidal

For the next generation of radio interferometric telescopes it is of paramount importance to incorporate wide field-of-view (WFOV) considerations in interferometric imaging, otherwise the fidelity of reconstructed images will suffer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-04 J. D. McEwen , Y. Wiaux

Radio interferometers consisting of identical antennas arranged on a regular lattice permit fast Fourier transform beamforming, which reduces the correlation cost from $\mathcal{O}(n^2)$ in the number of antennas to $\mathcal{O}(n\log n)$.…

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