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Burst super-resolution (SR) technique provides a possibility of restoring rich details from low-quality images. However, since real world low-resolution (LR) images in practical applications have multiple complicated and unknown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Wenyi Lian , Shanglian Peng

We present a new method for reconstructing two-dimensional mass maps of galaxy clusters from the image distortion of background galaxies. In contrast to most previous approaches, which directly convert locally averaged image ellipticities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stella Seitz , Peter Schneider , Matthias Bartelmann

(Abridged) We introduce a novel technique to construct spatially resolved maps of stellar mass surface density in galaxies based on optical and near IR imaging. We use optical/NIR colour(s) to infer effective stellar mass-to-light ratios…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-28 Stefano Zibetti , Stephane Charlot , Hans-Walter Rix

Image decomposition is crucial for many image processing tasks, as it allows to extract salient features from source images. A good image decomposition method could lead to a better performance, especially in image fusion tasks. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Josef Kittler

Traditional weak-lensing mass reconstruction techniques suffer from various artifacts, including noise amplification and the mass-sheet degeneracy. In Hong et al. (2021), we demonstrated that many of these pitfalls of traditional mass…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-27 Sangjun Cha , M. James Jee , Sungwook E. Hong , Sangnam Park , Dongsu Bak , Taehwan kim

Dark Matter (DM) remains poorly probed on critical, sub-galactic scales, where predictions from different models diverge in terms of abundance and density profiles of halos. Gravitational lens systems on milli-arcsecond scales…

Wide-field, multi-band surveys now detect millions of unresolved sources in nearby galaxy clusters, yet separating globular clusters (GCs) from foreground stars and background galaxies remains challenging. Scalable, automated classification…

Next generation radio-interferometers, like the Square Kilometre Array, will acquire tremendous amounts of data with the goal of improving the size and sensitivity of the reconstructed images by orders of magnitude. The efficient processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-26 Alexandru Onose , Arwa Dabbech , Yves Wiaux

A novel application of machine-learning (ML) based image processing algorithms is proposed to analyze an all-sky map (ASM) obtained using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. An attempt was made to simulate a one-year ASM from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Shogo Sato , Jun Kataoka , Soichiro Ito , Jun'ichi Kotoku , Masato Taki , Asuka Oyama , Takaya Toyoda , Yuki Nakamura , Marino Yamamoto

In recent years, Diffusion Models have become the new state-of-the-art in deep generative modeling, ending the long-time dominance of Generative Adversarial Networks. Inspired by the Regularization by Denoising principle, we introduce an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Pasquale Cascarano , Lorenzo Stacchio , Andrea Sebastiani , Alessandro Benfenati , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Gustavo Marfia

This paper considers the suitability of a number of emerging and future instruments for the study of radio recombination lines (RRLs) at frequencies below 200 MHz. These lines arise only in low-density regions of the ionized interstellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 W. M. Peters , T. Joseph W. Lazio , T. E. Clarke , W. C. Erickson , N. E. Kassim

The purpose of this study was to present image reconstruction methods for magnetic particle imaging (MPI) with a field-free-line (FFL) encoding scheme and to propose the use of the maximum likelihood-expectation maximization (ML-EM)…

Medical Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Kenya Murase

A pilot project has been proceeded to map 1 deg$^2$ on the Galactic plane for radio recombination lines (RRLs) using the Five hundred meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST). The motivation is to verify the techniques and reliabilities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-09-21 Bin Liu , Lixin Wang , Junzhi Wang , Bo Peng , Hongjun Wang

There remains an important need for the development of image reconstruction methods that can produce diagnostically useful images from undersampled measurements. In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), for example, such methods can facilitate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-28 Varun A. Kelkar , Sayantan Bhadra , Mark A. Anastasio

Radio wavelength observations of solar system bodies are a powerful method of probing many characteristics of those bodies. From surface and subsurface, to atmospheres (including deep atmospheres of the giant planets), to rings, to the…

Super-resolution (SR) is an ill-posed inverse problem with many feasible solutions consistent with a given low-resolution image. On one hand, regressive SR models aim to balance fidelity and perceptual quality to yield a single solution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Cansu Korkmaz , Ahmet Murat Tekalp , Zafer Dogan

Modern image restoration and super-resolution methods utilize deep learning due to its superior performance compared to traditional algorithms. However, deep learning typically requires large labeled training datasets, which are rarely…

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Direct detection of the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) via the red-shifted 21-cm line will have unprecedented implications on the study of structure formation in the infant Universe. To fulfill this promise, current and future 21-cm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Abhik Ghosh , Florent Mertens , Leon V. E. Koopmans

Image denoising is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most supervised denoising methods learn to reconstruct clean images from noisy inputs, which have intrinsic spectral bias and tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yujin Wang , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu

Photometric redshifts (photo-z's) provide an alternative way to estimate the distances of large samples of galaxies and are therefore crucial to a large variety of cosmological problems. Among the various methods proposed over the years,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-13 Stefano Cavuoti , Massimo Brescia , Valeria Amaro , Civita Vellucci , Giuseppe Longo , Crescenzo Tortora