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Accurate modelling of the effective point spread function (ePSF) is essential for high-precision photometry and astrometry, particularly in undersampled imaging regimes. In this work, we build on a well-established ePSF modelling framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Emma Godden , Katherine M. Blundell

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are successful in various computer vision tasks. From an image and signal processing point of view, this success is counter-intuitive, as the inherent spatial pyramid design of most CNNs is apparently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Julia Grabinski , Steffen Jung , Janis Keuper , Margret Keuper

This Point spread function (PSF) plays a crucial role in many computational imaging applications, such as shape from focus/defocus, depth estimation, and fluorescence microscopy. However, the mathematical model of the defocus process is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Renzhi He , Yan Zhuang , Boya Fu , Fei Liu

The point-spread function (PSF) of an imaging system describes the response of the system to a point source. Accurately determining the PSF enables one to correct for the combined effects of focussing and scattering within the imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Stefan Johann Hofmeister , Michael Hahn , Daniel Wolf Savin

3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive performance in 3D scene reconstruction. Beyond novel view synthesis, it shows great potential for multi-view surface reconstruction. Existing methods employ optimization-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chensheng Dai , Shengjun Zhang , Min Chen , Yueqi Duan

We have developed a novel method for co-adding multiple under-sampled images that combines the iteratively reweighted least squares and divide-and-conquer algorithms. Our approach not only allows for the anti-aliasing of the images but also…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Lei Wang , Huanyuan Shan , Lin Nie , Dezi Liu , Zhaojun Yan , Guoliang Li , Cheng Cheng , Yushan Xie , Han Qu , Wenwen Zheng , Xi Kang

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

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 remarkable success in face forgery techniques has received considerable attention in computer vision due to security concerns. We observe that up-sampling is a necessary step of most face forgery techniques, and cumulative up-sampling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Honggu Liu , Xiaodan Li , Wenbo Zhou , Yuefeng Chen , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu

Aliasing refers to the phenomenon that high frequency signals degenerate into completely different ones after sampling. It arises as a problem in the context of deep learning as downsampling layers are widely adopted in deep architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Xueyan Zou , Fanyi Xiao , Zhiding Yu , Yong Jae Lee

Stochastic texture filtering (STF) has re-emerged as a technique that can bring down the cost of texture filtering of advanced texture compression methods, e.g., neural texture compression. However, during texture magnification, the swapped…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Bartlomiej Wronski , Matt Pharr , Tomas Akenine-Möller

Without deploying face anti-spoofing countermeasures, face recognition systems can be spoofed by presenting a printed photo, a video, or a silicon mask of a genuine user. Thus, face presentation attack detection (PAD) plays a vital role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Usman Muhammad , Mourad Oussalah

In real-world applications, observations are often constrained to a small fraction of a system. Such spatial subsampling can be caused by the inaccessibility or the sheer size of the system, and cannot be overcome by longer sampling.…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-06-02 Anna Levina , Viola Priesemann

Imaging with a layered superlens is a spatial filtering operation characterized by the point spread function (PSF). We show that in the same optical system the image of a narrow sub-wavelength Gaussian incident field may be surprisingly…

Optics · Physics 2010-04-08 Rafal Kotynski , Tomasz Stefaniuk

In this paper, we present a Scale-adaptive method for Anti-aliasing Gaussian Splatting (SA-GS). While the state-of-the-art method Mip-Splatting needs modifying the training procedure of Gaussian splatting, our method functions at test-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Xiaowei Song , Jv Zheng , Shiran Yuan , Huan-ang Gao , Jingwei Zhao , Xiang He , Weihao Gu , Hao Zhao

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 present nested sampling for factor graphs (NSFG), a novel nested sampling approach to approximate inference for posterior distributions expressed over factor-graphs. Performing such inference is a key step in simultaneous localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Qiangqiang Huang , Alan Papalia , John J. Leonard

It is a common practice in multimodal medical imaging to undersample the anatomically-derived segmentation images to measure the mean activity of a co-acquired functional image. This practice avoids the resampling-related Gibbs effect that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Davide Poggiali , Diego Cecchin , Stefano De Marchi

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

We present an algorithm for resampling a function from its values on a non-Cartesian grid onto a Cartesian grid. This problem arises in many applications such as MRI, CT, radio astronomy and geophysics. Our algorithm, termed SParse Uniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-17 Amir Kiperwas , Daniel Rosenfeld , Yonina C. Eldar