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Deconvolution of the telescope Point Spread Function (PSF) is necessary for even moderate dynamic range imaging with interferometric telescopes. The process of deconvolution can be treated as a search for a model image such that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Bhatnagar , T. J. Cornwell

The point-spread function (PSF) is a fundamental property of any astronomical instrument. In interferometers, differing array configurations combined with their $uv$ coverage, and various weighting schemes can produce an irregular but…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 Jack F. Radcliffe , R. J. Beswick , A. P. Thomson , A. Njeri , T. W. B. Muxlow

We propose a solution to the image deconvolution problem where the convolution kernel or point spread function (PSF) is assumed to be only partially known. Small perturbations generated from the model are exploited to produce a few…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-04 Se Un Park , Nicolas Dobigeon , Alfred O. Hero

We propose a new point-spread function (PSF) deconvolution algorithm for images of galaxies hosting an active galactic nucleus (AGN), designed to simultaneously enhance the spatial resolution of the host galaxy and remove the bright central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Ren Kawase , Takatoshi Shibuya , Kazunori Matsuda

Lensless cameras replace bulky optics with thin modulation masks, enabling compact imaging systems. However, existing methods rely on an idealized model that assumes a globally shift-invariant point spread function (PSF) and sufficiently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Yu Ren , Xiaoling Zhang , Xu Zhan , Xiangdong Ma , Yunqi Wang , Edmund Y. Lam , Tianjiao Zeng

We introduce a novel framework for upsampled Point Spread Function (PSF) modeling using pixel-level Bayesian inference. Accurate PSF characterization is critical for precision measurements in many fields including: weak lensing, astrometry,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-26 Connor Stone , Ronan Legin , Alexandre Adam , Nikolay Malkin , Gabriel Missael Barco , Laurence Perreaul-Levasseur , Yashar Hezaveh

A major issue in optical astronomical image analysis is the combined effect of the instrument's point spread function (PSF) and the atmospheric seeing that blurs images and changes their shape in a way that is band and time-of-observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Sreevarsha Sreejith , Anže Slosar , Hong Wang

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) image resolution is constrained by waveform bandwidth and array geometry. Specifically, the waveform bandwidth determines a point spread function (PSF) that blurs the locations of point scatterers in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Albert Reed , Thomas Blanford , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

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 present a physics-informed deep learning framework to address common limitations in Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM), such as diffraction limited resolution, noise, and undersampling due to low laser power conditions. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-27 Zaheer Ahmad , Junaid Shabeer , Usman Saleem , Tahir Qadeer , Abdul Sami , Zahira El Khalidi , Saad Mehmood

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

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…

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-shot volumetric fluorescence (SVF) imaging offers a significant advantage over traditional imaging methods that require scanning across multiple axial planes as it can capture biological processes with high temporal resolution. The…

In this paper, we propose a novel design of image deblurring in the form of one-shot convolution filtering that can directly convolve with naturally blurred images for restoration. The problem of optical blurring is a common disadvantage to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

This paper addresses the problem of high-resolution Doppler blood flow estimation from an ultrafast sequence of ultrasound images. Formulating the separation of clutter and blood components as an inverse problem has been shown in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 Duong-Hung Pham , Adrian Basarab , Ilyess Zemmoura , Jean-Pierre Remenieras , Denis Kouame

Acoustic-Resolution Photoacoustic Microscopy (AR-PAM) is promising for subcutaneous vascular imaging, but its spatial resolution is constrained by the Point Spread Function (PSF). Traditional deconvolution methods like Richardson-Lucy and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Youshen Xiao , Sheng Liao , Xuanyang Tian , Fan Zhang , Xinlong Dong , Yunhui Jiang , Xiyu Chen , Ruixi Sun , Yuyao Zhang , Fei Gao

In this paper, we address the task of aberration-aware depth-from-defocus (DfD), which takes account of spatially variant point spread functions (PSFs) of a real camera. To effectively obtain the spatially variant PSFs of a real camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhuofeng Wu , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Modeling the Point Spread Function (PSF) of wide-field surveys is vital for many astrophysical applications and cosmological probes including weak gravitational lensing. The PSF smears the image of any recorded object and therefore needs to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 Jörg Herbel , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier , Aurelien Lucchi

We have shown that the left side null space of the autoregression (AR) matrix operator is the lexicographical presentation of the point spread function (PSF) on condition the AR parameters are common for original and blurred images. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Yu. A. Bunyak , O. Yu. Sofina , R. N. Kvetnyy