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Mass spectrometry is a widespread approach to work out what are the constituents of a material. Atoms and molecules are removed from the material and collected, and subsequently, a critical step is to infer their correct identities based…

Instrumental aberrations strongly limit high-contrast imaging of exoplanets, especially when they produce quasistatic speckles in the science images. With the help of recent advances in deep learning, we have developed in previous works an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-14 Maxime Quesnel , Gilles Orban de Xivry , Olivier Absil , Gilles Louppe

Point spread function (PSF) plays an essential role in image reconstruction. In the context of confocal microscopy, optical performance degrades towards the edge of the field of view as astigmatism, coma and vignetting. Thus, one should…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Anna Jezierska , Hugues Talbot , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Gilbert Engler

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

The point spread function (PSF) is fundamental to any type of microscopy, most importantly so for single-molecule localization techniques, where the exact PSF shape is crucial for precise molecule localization at the nanoscale. However,…

Ultrasound imaging systems rely on accurate point spread function (PSF) estimation to support advanced image quality enhancement techniques such as deconvolution and speckle reduction. Phase aberration, caused by sound speed inhomogeneity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Wei-Hsiang Shen , Yu-An Lin , Meng-Lin Li

Incoherently illuminated or luminescent objects give rise to a low-contrast speckle-like pattern when observed through a thin diffusive medium, as such a medium effectively convolves their shape with a speckle-like point spread function…

Point Spread Function (PSF) engineering is used in single emitter localization to measure the emitter position in 3D and possibly other parameters such as the emission color or dipole orientation as well. Advanced PSF models such as spline…

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 present the implementation and use of algorithms for matching point-spread functions (PSFs) within the Pan-STARRS Image Processing Pipeline (IPP). PSF-matching is an essential part of the IPP for the detection of supernovae and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Paul A. Price , Eugene A. Magnier

The point spread function (PSF) serves as a fundamental descriptor linking the real-world scene to the captured signal, manifesting as camera blur. Accurate PSF estimation is crucial for both optical characterization and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiajian He , Enjie Hu , Shiqi Chen , Tianchen Qiu , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu , Yueting Chen

A method for spatial deconvolution of spectra is presented. It follows the same fundamental principles as the ``MCS image deconvolution algorithm'' (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) and uses information contained in the spectrum of a reference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Courbin , P. Magain , M. Kirkove , S. Sohy

In this second paper in a series dedicated to developing efficient numerical techniques for the deblurring Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) maps, we consider the case of asymmetric point spread functions (PSF). Although conceptually this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Vio , J. G. Nagy , L. Tenorio , P. Andreani , C. Baccigalupi , W. Wamsteker

We provide a detailed exploration of the connection between choice of coaddition schemes and the point-spread function (PSF) of the resulting coadded images. In particular, we investigate what properties of the coaddition algorithm lead to…

A simple theoretical framework for the description and interpretation of spatially correlated modelling residuals is presented, and the resulting tools are found to provide a useful aid to model selection in the context of weak…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Barnaby Rowe

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

The shear measurement is a crucial task in the current and the future weak lensing survey projects. And the reconstruction of the point spread function(PSF) is one of the essential steps. In this work, we present three different methods,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Baishun Li , Guoliang Li , Jun Cheng , John Peterson , Wei Cui

Aims:Calibrating the point spread function (PSF) is a fundamental part of weak gravitational lensing analyses. Even with corrected galaxy images, imperfect calibrations can introduce biases. We propose an analytical framework for…

Optical astronomical images are strongly affected by the point spread function (PSF) of the optical system and the atmosphere (seeing) which blurs the observed image. The amount of blurring depends both on the observed band, and on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Hong Wang , Sreevarsha Sreejith , Yuewei Lin , Nesar Ramachandra , Anže Slosar , Shinjae Yoo

We propose a new method for Point Spread Function (PSF) correction in weak gravitational lensing shear analysis using an artificial image with the same ellipticity as the lensed image. This avoids the systematic error associated with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Yuki Okura , Toshifumi Futamase