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Iterative deblurring, notably the Richardson-Lucy algorithm with and without regularization, is analyzed in the context of nuclear and high-energy physics applications. In these applications, probability distributions may be discretized…

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We propose a regularization-based deblurring method that works efficiently for galaxy images. The spatial resolution of a ground-based telescope is generally limited by seeing conditions and much worse than space-based telescopes. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Kazumi Murata , Tsutomu T. Takeuchi

Although much research has been devoted to the problem of restoring Poissonian images, namely in the fields of medical and astronomical imaging, applying the state of the art regularizers (such as those based on wavelets or total variation)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-05-01 Mario A. T. Figueiredo , Jose M. Bioucas-Dias

Hyperspectral imaging is a cutting-edge type of remote sensing used for mapping vegetation properties, rock minerals and other materials. A major drawback of hyperspectral imaging devices is their intrinsic low spatial resolution. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 Leon Bungert , David A. Coomes , Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Jennifer Rasch , Rafael Reisenhofer , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

The practical implementation of maximum likelihood detection is limited by its high complexity as well as requiring perfect channel state information. Although conventional blind detection techniques reduce complexity, they degrade…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-12 M. A. Amirabadi

Unsupervised change detection techniques are generally constrained to two multi-band optical images acquired at different times through sensors sharing the same spatial and spectral resolution. This scenario is suitable for a straight…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-10 Vinicius Ferraris , Nicolas Dobigeon , Marie Chabert

Super-resolution reconstruction techniques entail the utilization of software algorithms to transform one or more sets of low-resolution images captured from the same scene into high-resolution images. In recent years, considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Hao Yan , Zixiang Wang , Zhengjia Xu , Zhuoyue Wang , Zhizhong Wu , Ranran Lyu

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

With the advent of surveys like Euclid and Vera C. Rubin, astrophysicists will have access to both deep, high-resolution images and multiband images. However, these two types are not simultaneously available in any single dataset. It is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Utsav Akhaury , Pascale Jablonka , Frédéric Courbin , Jean-Luc Starck

Maximum-likelihood methods are applied to the problem of absorption tomography. The reconstruction is done with the help of an iterative algorithm. We show how the statistics of the illuminating beam can be incorporated into the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Rehacek , Z. Hradil , M. Zawisky , W. Treimer , M. Strobl

In this paper we present a spatially-adaptive method for image reconstruction that is based on the concept of statistical multiresolution estimation as introduced in [Frick K, Marnitz P, and Munk A. "Statistical multiresolution Dantzig…

Applications · Statistics 2012-04-19 Klaus Frick , Philipp Marnitz , Axel Munk

In the coming years, strong gravitational lens discoveries are expected to increase in frequency by two orders of magnitude. Lens-modelling techniques are being developed to prepare for the coming massive influx of new lens data, and blind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-18 Philipp Denzel , Sampath Mukherjee , Jonathan P. Coles , Prasenjit Saha

Image deconvolution is still to be a challenging ill-posed problem for recovering a clear image from a given blurry image, when the point spread function is known. Although competitive deconvolution methods are numerically impressive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Hang Yang , Zhongbo Zhang , Yujing Guan

We present a semi-blind, spatially-variant deconvolution technique aimed at optical microscopy that combines a local estimation step of the point spread function (PSF) and deconvolution using a spatially variant, regularized Richardson-Lucy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

The Richardson-Lucy method is the most popular deconvolution method in astronomy because it preserves the number of counts and the non-negativity of the original object. Regularization is, in general, obtained by an early stopping of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-10 M. Prato , R. Cavicchioli , L. Zanni , P. Boccacci , M. Bertero

Non-uniform blind deblurring for general dynamic scenes is a challenging computer vision problem as blurs arise not only from multiple object motions but also from camera shake, scene depth variation. To remove these complicated motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Seungjun Nah , Tae Hyun Kim , Kyoung Mu Lee

We propose a novel method for large-scale image stitching that is robust against repetitive patterns and featureless regions in the imagery. In such cases, state-of-the-art image stitching methods easily produce image alignment artifacts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Matti Pellikka , Valtteri Lahtinen

Remote sensing images are widely utilized in many disciplines such as feature recognition and scene semantic segmentation. However, due to environmental factors and the issues of the imaging system, the image quality is often degraded which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Kelum Gajamannage , Dilhani I. Jayathilake , Maria Vasilyeva

The resolution of optical imaging is classically limited by the width of the point-spread function, which in turn is determined by the Rayleigh length. Recently, spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) has been proposed as a method to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Giuseppe Buonaiuto , Cosmo Lupo

We explore the impact of different telescope apertures on the image simulation and deconvolution processes within the context of a synthetic star field. Using HCIPy and Python programming, we modelled six telescope apertures namely…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-09 Jyotika Roychowdhury , Kevin Derby , Daewook Kim