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We provide a quantitative analysis of super-resolution imaging techniques which exploit temporal fluctuations of luminosity of the sources in order to beat the Rayleigh limit. We define an operationally justified resolution gain figure of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-08 Stanislaw Kurdzialek , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

We consider the inverse scattering problem of retrieving the structural parameters of a stratified medium consisting of dispersive materials, given knowledge of the complex reflection coefficient in a finite frequency range. It is shown…

Optics · Physics 2012-08-23 Johannes Skaar , Magnus W. Haakestad

A new method is presented for determining the Point Spread Function (PSF) of images that lack bright and isolated stars. It is based on the same principles as the MCS (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) image deconvolution algorithm. It uses the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Magain , F. Courbin , M. Gillon , S. Sohy , G. Letawe , V. Chantry , Y. Letawe

Sign changes in sums of arithmetic functions and their inverses are a subtle topic with room to grow new results. Suppose that $S_f(x) := \sum_{n \leq x} f(n)$ is the summatory function of some arithmetic function $f$ such that $f(1) \neq…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Maxie Dion Schmidt

We propose and demonstrate a photon-efficient optical classifier to overcome the Rayleigh limit in spatial resolution. It utilizes mode-selective sum frequency generation and single-pixel photon detection to resolve closely spaced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-21 He Zhang , Santosh Kumar , Yu-Ping Huang

In super-resolution it is necessary to locate with high precision point sources from noisy observations of the spectrum of the signal at low frequencies capped by f_c. In the case when the point sources are positive and are located on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Veniamin I. Morgenshtern

Current and future imaging surveys will measure cosmic shear with a statistical precision that demands a deeper understanding of potential systematic biases in galaxy shape measurements than has been achieved to date. We investigate the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 J. E. Meyers , P. R. Burchat

Flow-based generative super-resolution (SR) models learn to produce a diverse set of feasible SR solutions, called the SR space. Diversity of SR solutions increases with the temperature ($\tau$) of latent variables, which introduces random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Cansu Korkmaz , A. Murat Tekalp , Zafer Dogan , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem

Generated images of score-based models can suffer from errors in their spatial means, an effect, referred to as a color shift, which grows for larger images. This paper investigates a previously-introduced approach to mitigate color shifts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Katherine Deck , Tobias Bischoff

While scattered light conveys most of the information we perceive, scattering may also distort that information before it reaches our detectors. The problem is acute in many applications, such as in high-resolution microscopy of biological…

We study zero-shot conditional sampling with pretrained diffusion models for linear inverse problems, including inpainting and super-resolution. In these problems, the observation determines only part of the unknown signal. The remaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ahmad Aghapour , Erhan Bayraktar , Asaf Cohen

The present paper introduces a method for substantial reduction of the number of diffusion encoding gradients required for reliable reconstruction of HARDI signals. The method exploits the theory of compressed sensing (CS), which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-21 Oleg Michailovich , Yogesh Rathi , Sudipto Dolui

The spatial and spectral degradation functions are critical to hyper- and multi-spectral image fusion. However, few work has been payed on the estimation of the degradation functions. To learn the spatial response function and the point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Ting Hu

Diffraction tomography aims to recover an object's scattering potential from measured wave fields. In the classical setting, the object is illuminated by plane waves from many directions, and the Fourier diffraction theorem provides a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Peter Elbau , Noemi Naujoks

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

Single image super resolution aims to enhance image quality with respect to spatial content, which is a fundamental task in computer vision. In this work, we address the task of single frame super resolution with the presence of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Xinyi Zhang , Hang Dong , Zhe Hu , Wei-Sheng Lai , Fei Wang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of wide-field sky surveys to search for a variety of transient objects. Using relatively short focal lengths, the optics of these systems produce undersampled stellar images often marred by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fang Yuan , Carl W. Akerlof

We describe a simple and fast method to correct ellipticity measurements of galaxies from the distortion by the instrumental and atmospheric point spread function (PSF), in view of weak lensing shear measurements. The method performs a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-01 M. Tewes , N. Cantale , F. Courbin , T. D. Kitching , G. Meylan

Curse of Dimensionality is an unavoidable challenge in statistical probability models, yet diffusion models seem to overcome this limitation, achieving impressive results in high-dimensional data generation. Diffusion models assume that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-01 Zhenxin Zheng , Zhenjie Zheng

Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a powerful computational imaging techniques wherein a custom phase mask is integrated into an optical system to encode additional information into captured images. Used in combination with deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sachin Shah , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Christopher A. Metzler
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