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We present the development of a data-driven, AI-based model of the Point Spread Function (PSF) that achieves higher accuracy than the current state-of-the-art approach, "PSF in the Full Field-of-View'' (PIFF). PIFF is widely used in leading…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Dayana Andrea Henao Arbeláez , Pierre-François Léget , Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagón

The point spread function (PSF) reflects states of a telescope and plays an important role in development of data processing methods, such as PSF based astrometry, photometry and image restoration. However, for wide field small aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Peng Jia , Xuebo Wu , Zhengyang Li , Bo Li , Weihua Wang , Qiang Liu , Adam Popowicz

Astrometric measurements are significantly challenged by the relative motion between the point source and the telescope, primarily due to the difficulty in accurately determining the position of the point source at the mid-exposure moment.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-11 Linpeng Wu , Qingfeng Zhang , Valéry Lainey , Nick Cooper , Nicolas Rambaux , Weiheng Zhu

This paper presents CSST-PSFNet, a deep learning method for high-fidelity point spread function (PSF) reconstruction developed for the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST). The model integrates a residual neural network, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Peipei Wang , Peng Wei , Chao Liu , Rui Wang , Feng Wang , Xin Zhang

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a recently proposed quantitative phase imaging technique with high resolution and wide field-of-view (FOV). In current FPM imaging platforms, systematic error sources come from the aberrations, LED…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-09-18 An Pan , Yan Zhang , Tianyu Zhao , Zhaojun Wang , Dan Dan , Baoli Yao

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a recently developed computational imaging technique for wide-field, high-resolution microscopy with a high space-bandwidth product. It integrates the concepts of synthetic aperture and phase…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-30 Chuanjian Zheng , Shaohui Zhang , Guocheng Zhou , Yao Hu , Qun Hao

We propose a compact snapshot monocular depth estimation technique that relies on an engineered point spread function (PSF). Traditional approaches used in microscopic super-resolution imaging such as the Double-Helix PSF (DHPSF) are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-05 Bhargav Ghanekar , Vishwanath Saragadam , Dushyant Mehra , Anna-Karin Gustavsson , Aswin Sankaranarayanan , Ashok Veeraraghavan

Lost image areas with different size and arbitrary shape can occur in many scenarios such as error-prone communication, depth-based image rendering or motion compensated wavelet lifting. The goal of image reconstruction is to restore these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-13 Wolfgang Schnurrer , Markus Jonscher , Jürgen Seiler , Thomas Richter , Michel Bätz , André Kaup

Recently Fourier Ptychography (FP) has attracted great attention, due to its marked effectiveness in leveraging snapshot numbers for spatial resolution in large field-of-view imaging. To acquire high signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) images under…

Optics · Physics 2015-02-19 Liheng Bian , Jinli Suo , Guoan Zheng , KaiKai Guo , Feng Chen , Qionghai Dai

Field distortion is widespread in imaging systems. If it cannot be measured and corrected well, it will affect the accuracy of photogrammetry. To this end, we proposed a general field distortion model based on Fredholm integration, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Yunqi Sun , Jianfeng Zhou

Point-spread function (PSF) estimation in spatially undersampled images is challenging because large pixels average fine-scale spatial information. This is problematic when fine-resolution details are necessary, as in optimal photometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Teresa Symons , Michael Zemcov , James Bock , Yun-Ting Cheng , Brendan Crill , Christopher Hirata , Stephanie Venuto

Image subtraction is essential for transient detection in time-domain astronomy. The point spread function (PSF), photometric scaling, and sky background generally vary with time and across the field-of-view for imaging data taken with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Lei Hu , Lifan Wang , Xingzhuo Chen , Jiawen Yang

Direct imaging of exoplanets is limited by bright quasi-static speckles in the point spread function (PSF) of the central star. This limitation can be reduced by subtraction of reference PSF images. We have developed an algorithm to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David Lafreniere , Christian Marois , Rene Doyon , Daniel Nadeau , Etienne Artigau

An undersampled point spread function may interact with the microstructure of a solid-state detector such that the total flux detected can depend sensitively on where the PSF center falls within a pixel. Such intra-pixel sensitivity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tod R. Lauer

We present a new algorithm for estimating the Point Spread Function (PSF) in wide-field astronomical images with extreme source crowding. Robust and accurate PSF estimation in crowded astronomical images dramatically improves the fidelity…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-09 Brendt Wohlberg , Przemek Wozniak

We have developed a new technique for weak lensing analysis, with which the effect of the point spread function (PSF) on small galaxy images can be corrected for accurately. Rather than relying on weighted second moments of detected images,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Konrad Kuijken

We reinterpret the shear estimator developed by Zhang & Komatsu (2011) within the framework of Shapelets and propose the Fourier Power Function Shapelets (FPFS) shear estimator. Four shapelet modes are calculated from the power function of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-12 Xiangchong Li , Nobuhiko Katayama , Masamune Oguri , Surhud More

Accurate blur estimation is essential for high-performance imaging across various applications. Blur is typically represented by the point spread function (PSF). In this paper, we propose a physics-informed PSF learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Liqun Chen , Yuxuan Li , Jun Dai , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

Context: in large-scale spatial surveys, the Point Spread Function (PSF) varies across the instrument field of view (FOV). Local measurements of the PSFs are given by the isolated stars images. Yet, these estimates may not be directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-04 F. M. Ngolè Mboula , J. -L. Starck , K. Okumura , J. Amiaux , P. Hudelot

I present a method for the fast convolution of a model galaxy profile by a point-spread function (PSF) model represented as a pixel grid. The method relies upon three observations: First, most simple radial galaxy profiles of common…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 Dustin Lang