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In this paper we describe a self-contained method for performing the spectral-imaging deconvolution of X-ray data on clusters of galaxies observed by the ASCA satellite. Spatially-resolved spectral studies of data from this satellite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. A. White , D. Buote

Exoplanet detections and characterizations via direct imaging require high contrast and high angular resolution. These requirements typically require (i) cutting-edge instrumental facilities, (ii) optimized differential imaging to introduce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-01 Jules Dallant , Maud Langlois , Olivier Flasseur , Éric Thiébaut

By circumventing the resolution limitations of optics, coherent diffractive imaging (CDI) and ptychography are making their way into scientific fields ranging from X-ray imaging to astronomy. Yet, the need for time consuming iterative phase…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-13 Oliver Hoidn , Aashwin Ananda Mishra , Apurva Mehta

Data processing constitutes a critical component of high-contrast exoplanet imaging. Its role is almost as important as the choice of a coronagraph or a wavefront control system, and it is intertwined with the chosen observing strategy.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 C. A. Gomez Gonzalez , O. Absil , P. -A. Absil , M. Van Droogenbroeck , D. Mawet , J. Surdej

We propose a direct imaging method based on the reverse time migration to reconstruct extended obstacles in the half space with finite aperture elastic scattering data at a fixed frequency. We prove the resolution of the reconstruction…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Zhiming Chen , Shiqi Zhou

Image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from degraded observations. When the degradation process is known, the recovery problem can be formulated as an inverse problem, and in a Bayesian context, the goal is to sample a clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-13 Darshan Thaker , Abhishek Goyal , René Vidal

Active stereo cameras that recover depth from structured light captures have become a cornerstone sensor modality for 3D scene reconstruction and understanding tasks across application domains. Existing active stereo cameras project a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Seung-Hwan Baek , Felix Heide

In this paper, we present a novel approach to the estimation of strongly varying backgrounds in astronomical images by means of small objects removal and subsequent missing pixels interpolation. The method is based on the analysis of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Adam Popowicz , Bogdan Smolka

We present Diffusion Restore, a real-time framework for diffusion-based MCMC light transport. MCMC methods are highly suitable for sampling from complex high-dimensional distributions and for approximating integrals over them. In practice,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sascha Holl , Gurprit Singh , Hans-Peter Seidel

The increasing demand for larger and higher fidelity simulations has made Adaptive Mesh Refinement (AMR) and unstructured mesh techniques essential to focus compute effort and memory cost on just the areas of interest in the simulation…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Xuan Huang , Will Usher , Valerio Pascucci

We provide a framework for solving inverse problems with diffusion models learned from linearly corrupted data. Firstly, we extend the Ambient Diffusion framework to enable training directly from measurements corrupted in the Fourier…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Asad Aali , Giannis Daras , Brett Levac , Sidharth Kumar , Alexandros G. Dimakis , Jonathan I. Tamir

Inverse scattering problems are critical in electromagnetic imaging and medical diagnostics but are challenged by their nonlinearity and diverse measurement scenarios. This paper proposes a physics-informed deep contrast source inversion…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Haoran Sun , Daoqi Liu , Hongyu Zhou , Maokun Li , Shenheng Xu , Fan Yang

Recent developments in astronomical observations enable direct imaging of circumstellar disks. Precise characterization of such extended structure is essential to our understanding of stellar systems. However, the faint intensity of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-01 Benoît Pairet , Faustine Cantalloube , Laurent Jacques

A new code for evaluation of light absorption and scattering by interstellar dust grains is presented. The radiative transfer problem is solved using ray-tracing algorithm in a self-consistent and highly efficient way. The code demonstrates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Semionov , V. Vansevicius

Direct imaging of exoplanets is crucial for advancing our understanding of planetary systems beyond our solar system, but it faces significant challenges due to the high contrast between host stars and their planets. Wavefront aberrations…

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We propose a three-dimensional nonlinear diffusion method to implement the similar autofocusing function of multiple micro-objects and simultaneously remove the defocused images, which can distinguish the locations of certain sized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Wei-Na Li , Zhengyun Zhang , Jianshe Ma , Xiaohao Wang , Ping Su

Scene rearrangement, like table tidying, is a challenging task in robotic manipulation due to the complexity of predicting diverse object arrangements. Web-scale trained generative models such as Stable Diffusion can aid by generating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Shutong Jin , Ruiyu Wang , Kuangyi Chen , Florian T. Pokorny

Direct imaging of exoplanets involves the extraction of very faint signals from highly noisy data sets, with noise that often exhibits significant spatial, spectral and temporal correlations. As a results, a large number of post-processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-26 Dmitry Savransky

Diffusion models have recently emerged as powerful generative priors for solving inverse problems. However, training diffusion models in the pixel space are both data-intensive and computationally demanding, which restricts their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Bowen Song , Soo Min Kwon , Zecheng Zhang , Xinyu Hu , Qing Qu , Liyue Shen

The recent development of scintillation crystals combined with $\gamma$-rays sources opens the way to an imaging concept based on Compton scattering, namely Compton scattering tomography (CST). The associated inverse problem rises many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-22 Janek Gödeke , Gaël Rigaud