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We present a new algorithm to perform wide-field radio interferometric image reconstruction, with exact non-coplanar correction, that scales to big-data. This algorithm allows us to image 2 billion visibilities on 50 nodes of a computing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-20 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

The sparse layouts of radio interferometers result in an incomplete sampling of the sky in Fourier space which leads to artifacts in the reconstructed images. Cleaning these systematic effects is essential for the scientific use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-27 Kevin Schmidt , Felix Geyer , Stefan Fröse , Paul-Simon Blomenkamp , Marcus Brüggen , Francesco de Gasperin , Dominik Elsässer , Wolfgang Rhode

It has previously been demonstrated that model-based reconstruction methods relying on a priori knowledge of the imaging point spread function (PSF) coupled to sparsity priors on the object to image can provide super-resolution in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-02 Sergey Vilov , Bastien Arnal , Eliel Hojman , Yonina C. Eldar , Ori Katz , Emmanuel Bossy

This paper proposes an image interpolation algorithm exploiting sparse representation for natural images. It involves three main steps: (a) obtaining an initial estimate of the high resolution image using linear methods like FIR filtering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-07 H. Lakshman , W. -Q Lim , H. Schwarz , D. Marpe , G. Kutyniok , T. Wiegand

A radio interferometer indirectly measures the intensity distribution of the sky over the celestial sphere. Since measurements are made over an irregularly sampled Fourier plane, synthesising an intensity image from interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Daniel Muscat

Radio-astronomical observations are increasingly contaminated by interference, and suppression techniques become essential. A powerful candidate for interference mitigation is adaptive spatial filtering. We study the effect of spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amir Leshem , Alle-Jan van der Veen

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

Radio interferometry probes astrophysical signals through incomplete and noisy Fourier measurements. The theory of compressed sensing demonstrates that such measurements may actually suffice for accurate reconstruction of sparse or…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 Y. Wiaux , L. Jacques , G. Puy , A. M. M. Scaife , P. Vandergheynst

Uncertainty quantification is a critical missing component in radio interferometric imaging that will only become increasingly important as the big-data era of radio interferometry emerges. Since radio interferometric imaging requires…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-12 Xiaohao Cai , Marcelo Pereyra , Jason D. McEwen

In this paper, the problem of Magnetic Resonance (MR) image reconstruction from partial Fourier samples has been considered. To this aim, we leverage the evidence that MR images are sparser than their zero-filled reconstructed ones from…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-19 Fateme Ghayem , Farokh Marvasti

We introduce a new class of iterative image reconstruction algorithms for radio interferometry, at the interface of convex optimization and deep learning, inspired by plug-and-play methods. The approach consists in learning a prior image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Matthieu Terris , Arwa Dabbech , Chao Tang , Yves Wiaux

Next generation radio telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array, will acquire an unprecedented amount of data for radio astronomy. The development of fast, parallelisable or distributed algorithms for handling such large-scale data sets…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-28 Alexandru Onose , Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will operate one of the world's largest continuous scientific data systems, sustaining petascale imaging under strict power envelopes. Current radio-interferometric pipelines typically achieve only 4-14% of…

We present an approach for improving spatial frequency sampling in active incoherent millimeter-wave (AIM) imaging systems using frequency diversity. AIM imaging relies on active transmission of spatio-temporally incoherent signals to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Jorge R. Colon-Berrios , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

Interferometric radio astronomy data require the effects of limited coverage in the Fourier plane to be accounted for via a deconvolution process. For the last 40 years this process, known as `cleaning', has been performed almost…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

Spike and slab priors play a key role in inducing sparsity for sparse signal recovery. The use of such priors results in hard non-convex and mixed integer programming problems. Most of the existing algorithms to solve the optimization…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-04-02 Fekadu L. Bayisa , Zhiyong Zhou , Ottmar Cronie , Jun Yu

We leverage the Sparsity Averaging Reweighted Analysis (SARA) approach for interferometric imaging, that is based on convex optimisation, for the super-resolution of Cyg A from observations at the frequencies 8.422GHz and 6.678GHz with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-15 Arwa Dabbech , Alexandru Onose , Abdullah Abdulaziz , Richard A. Perley , Oleg M. Smirnov , Yves Wiaux

Image convolution with complex kernels is a fundamental operation in photography, scientific imaging, and animation effects, yet direct dense convolution is computationally prohibitive on resource-limited devices. Existing approximations,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhizhen Wu , Zhe Cao , Yuchi Huo

The increased sensitivity of future radio telescopes will result in requirements for higher dynamic range within the image as well as better resolution and immunity to interference. In this paper we propose a new matrix formulation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Chen Ben-David , Amir Leshem

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a kind of medical imaging technology used for diagnostic imaging of diseases, but its image quality may be suffered by the long acquisition time. The compressive sensing (CS) based strategy may decrease…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-25 Yanyun Ding , Peili Li , Yunhai Xiao , Haibin Zhang