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Nanoscale localization of point emitters is critical to several methods in optical fluorescence microscopy, including single-molecule super-resolution imaging and tracking. While the precision of the localization procedure has been the…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Petar N. Petrov , W. E. Moerner

Nanoparticles (NPs) have proven their applicability in biosensing, drug delivery, and photo-thermal therapy, but their performance depends critically on the distribution and number of functional groups on their surface. When studying…

The knowledge of the exact structure of the optical system PSF enables a high-quality image reconstruction in fluorescence microscopy. Accurate PSF models account for the vector nature of light and the phase and amplitude modifications.…

We consider the problem of joint three-dimensional (3D) localization and material classification of unresolved space debris using a multispectral rotating point spread function (RPSF). The use of RPSF allows one to estimate the 3D locations…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Chao Wang , Grey Ballard , Robert Plemmons , Sudhakar Prasad

Context: in astronomy, observing large fractions of the sky within a reasonable amount of time implies using large field-of-view (fov) optical instruments that typically have a spatially varying Point Spread Function (PSF). Depending on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-20 F. M. Ngolè Mboula , J. -L. Starck

The Point Spread Function (PSF) is a key figure of merit for specifying the angular resolution of optical systems and, as the demand for higher and higher angular resolution increases, the problem of surface finishing must be taken…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-04 K. Tayabaly , D. Spiga , G. Sironi , R. Canestrari , M. Lavagna , G. Pareschi

Point Spread Function (PSF) modeling is a central part of any astronomy data analysis relying on measuring the shapes of objects. It is especially crucial for weak gravitational lensing, in order to beat down systematics and allow one to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Joel Bergé , Sedona Price , Adam Amara , Jason Rhodes

To determine the precise positions of stars in CCD frames, various centering algorithms have been proposed for astrometry. The effective point spread function (ePSF) and the Gaussian centering algorithms are two representative centering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 F. R. Lin , Q. Y. Peng , Z. J. Zheng , B. F. Guo , Y. J. Shang

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…

A robust and extended characterization of the point spread function (PSF) is crucial to extract the photometric information produced by deep imaging surveys. Here, we present the extended PSFs of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), one of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-28 Raúl Infante-Sainz , Ignacio Trujillo , Javier Román

Based on point spread function (PSF) engineering and astigmatism due to a pair of cylindrical lenses, a novel compressed imaging mechanism is proposed to achieve single-shot incoherent 3D imaging. The speckle-like PSF of the imaging system…

Optics · Physics 2021-05-24 Qiong Gao , Weidong Qu , Ming Shao , Wei Liu , Xiangzheng Cheng

Uncertainty in the wide-angle Point Spread Function (PSF) at large angles (tens of arcseconds and beyond) is one of the dominant sources of error in a number of important quantities in observational astronomy. Examples include the stellar…

Direct imaging of exoplanets is limited by bright quasi-static speckles in the point spread function (PSF) of the central star. This limitation can be reduced by subtraction of reference PSF images. We have developed an algorithm to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 David Lafreniere , Christian Marois , Rene Doyon , Daniel Nadeau , Etienne Artigau

In astronomy, upcoming space telescopes with wide-field optical instruments have a spatially varying point spread function (PSF). Specific scientific goals require a high-fidelity estimation of the PSF at target positions where no direct…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-22 Tobias Liaudat , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger , Pierre-Antoine Frugier

Point spread function (PSF) engineering of the emitter can code higher spatial frequency information of an image to break diffraction limit but suffer from the complexed optical systems. Here we present a robust strategy to simultaneously…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-23 Chaohao Chen , Baolei Liu , Yongtao Liu , Jiayan Liao , Xuchen Shan , Fan Wang , Dayong Jin

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

We provide a detailed exploration of the connection between choice of coaddition schemes and the point-spread function (PSF) of the resulting coadded images. In particular, we investigate what properties of the coaddition algorithm lead to…

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

Current Point-based detectors can only learn from the provided points, with limited receptive fields and insufficient global learning capabilities for such targets. In this paper, we present a novel Point Dilation Mechanism for single-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ao Liang , Haiyang Hua , Jian Fang , Wenyu Chen , Huaici Zhao

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