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Novel view synthesis has recently been revolutionized by 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), which enables real-time rendering through explicit primitive rasterization. However, existing methods tie visual fidelity strictly to the number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Mihnea-Bogdan Jurca , Bert Van hauwermeiren , Adrian Munteanu

Precise photometric and astrometric measurements on astronomical images require an accurate knowledge of the Point Spread Function (PSF). When the PSF cannot be modelled directly from the image, PSF-reconstruction techniques become the only…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 D. Massari , A. Marasco , O. Beltramo-Martin , J. Milli , G. Fiorentino , E. Tolstoy , F. Kerber

Application of deconvolution algorithms to astronomical images is often limited by variations in PSF structure over the domain of the images. One major difficulty is that Fourier methods can no longer be used for fast convolutions over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tod R. Lauer

Deconvolution of large survey images with millions of galaxies requires to develop a new generation of methods which can take into account a space variant Point Spread Function (PSF) and have to be at the same time accurate and fast. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Florent Sureau , Alexis Lechat , Jean-Luc Starck

Recently, Gaussian splatting has demonstrated significant success in novel view synthesis. Current methods often regress Gaussians with pixel or point cloud correspondence, linking each Gaussian with a pixel or a 3D point. This leads to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiamin Wu , Kenkun Liu , Han Gao , Xiaoke Jiang , Yao Yuan , Lei Zhang

Traditional galaxy-galaxy lensing is a well-established method of probing the statistical properties of the Universe's matter and galaxy distribution. However, this measure does not carry all the statistical information, provided the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Jonathan Oel , Lucas Porth , Peter Schneider , Elena Silvestre-Rosello

We present an extension of the multi-band galaxy fitting method scarlet which allows the joint modeling of astronomical images from different instruments, by performing simultaneous resampling and convolution. We introduce a fast and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-16 Rémy Joseph , Peter Melchior , Fred Moolekamp

Telescopes capture images with a particular point spread function (PSF). Inferring what an image would have looked like with a much sharper PSF, a problem known as PSF deconvolution, is ill-posed because PSF convolution is not an invertible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-24 Zhiwei Xue , Yuhang Li , Yash Patel , Jeffrey Regier

Forthcoming Stage-IV dark energy optical surveys, such as LSST, have the ambitious goal of measuring cosmological parameters at sub-percent precision. Realizing their full scientific potential requires very precise measurement of the cosmic…

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

In recent years, parametric representations of point clouds have been widely applied in tasks such as memory-efficient mapping and multi-robot collaboration. Highly adaptive models, like spline surfaces or quadrics, are computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yuan Gao , Wei Dong

Model fitting is frequently used to determine the shape of galaxies and the point spread function, for examples, in weak lensing analyses or morphology studies aiming at probing the evolution of galaxies. However, the number of parameters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-03 Guoliang Li , Bo Xin , Wei Cui

Rendering high-fidelity images from sparse point clouds is still challenging. Existing learning-based approaches suffer from either hole artifacts, missing details, or expensive computations. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Jiaxu Wang , Ziyi Zhang , Junhao He , Renjing Xu

We discuss in some details a novel algorithm for performing partial-sky spherical harmonic transforms (SHT), building on the Fourier-sphere method of Reinecke et al (2023) handling efficiently high numbers of arbitrary locations on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-20 Julien Carron , Martin Reinecke

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

We present a spectrally accurate, efficient FFT-based method for the three-dimensional free-space Poisson equation with smooth, compactly supported sources. The method adopts a super-potential formulation: we first compute the convolution…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Lukas Exl , Sebastian Schaffer

Though Fourier Transforms (FTs) are a common technique for finding correlation functions, they are not typically used in computations of the anisotropy of the two-point correlation function (2PCF) about the line of sight in wide-angle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-28 Zachary Slepian , Daniel J. Eisenstein

We use automated surface photometry and pattern classification techniques to morphologically classify galaxies. The two-dimensional light distribution of a galaxy is reconstructed using Fourier series fits to azimuthal profiles computed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. C. Odewahn , S. H. Cohen , R. A. Windhorst , N. S. Philip

A fast forward feature selection algorithm is presented in this paper. It is based on a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier. GMM are used for classifying hyperspectral images. The algorithm selects iteratively spectral features that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Mathieu Fauvel , Clement Dechesne , Anthony Zullo , Frédéric Ferraty

Superpixel segmentation algorithms are to partition an image into perceptually coherence atomic regions by assigning every pixel a superpixel label. Those algorithms have been wildly used as a preprocessing step in computer vision works, as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Zhihua Ban , Jianguo Liu , Li Cao