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Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

We describe a scalable distributed imaging algorithm framework for next-generation radio telescopes, managing the Fourier transform from apertures to sky (or vice versa) with a focus on minimising memory load, data transfers, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Peter Wortmann , James Kent , Bojan Nikolic

Schlieren imaging is an optical technique to observe the flow of transparent media, such as air or water, without any particle seeding. However, conventional frame-based techniques require both high spatial and temporal resolution cameras,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shintaro Shiba , Friedhelm Hamann , Yoshimitsu Aoki , Guillermo Gallego

This paper considers blind inverse image restoration, the task of predicting a target image from a degraded source when the degradation (i.e. the forward operator) is unknown. Existing solutions typically rely on restrictive assumptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Michail Dontas , Yutong He , Naoki Murata , Yuki Mitsufuji , J. Zico Kolter , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

We have developed a method for the linear reconstruction of an image from undersampled, dithered data, which has been used to create the distributed, combined Hubble Deep Field images -- the deepest optical images yet taken of the universe.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrew Fruchter , Richard Hook

Real-world imaging systems acquire measurements that are degraded by noise, optical aberrations, and other imperfections that make image processing for human viewing and higher-level perception tasks challenging. Conventional cameras…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Steven Diamond , Vincent Sitzmann , Frank Julca-Aguilar , Stephen Boyd , Gordon Wetzstein , Felix Heide

Shift-and-add is an approach employed to mitigate the phenomenon of resolution degradation in images acquired through a turbulent medium. Using this technique, a large number of consecutive short exposures is registered below the coherence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-15 A. Popowicz , A. R. Kurek , A. Pollo , B. Smolka

Remote sensing scene classification plays a key role in Earth observation by enabling the automatic identification of land use and land cover (LULC) patterns from aerial and satellite imagery. Despite recent progress with convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mohammed Q. Alkhatib , Ali Jamali , Swalpa Kumar Roy

We propose a new incremental aggregation algorithm for multi-image deblurring with automatic image selection. The primary motivation is that current bursts deblurring methods do not handle well situations in which misalignment or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Fidel A. Guerrero Peña , Pedro D. Marrero Fernández , Tsang Ing Ren , Jorge J. G. Leandro , Ricardo Nishihara

Reconstructing an image from sparsely sampled Fourier data is an ill-posed inverse problem that occurs in a variety of subjects within science, including the data analysis for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) and the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-22 Hendrik Müller , Paolo Massa , Alejandro Mus , Jong-Seo Kim , Emma Perracchione

Charge-Coupled Device (CCD) detectors, widely used to obtain digital imaging, can be damaged by high energy radiation. Degraded images appear blurred, because of an effect known as Charge Transfer Inefficiency (CTI), which trails bright…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 Richard Massey , Tim Schrabback , Oliver Cordes , Ole Marggraf , Holger Israel , Lance Miller , David Hall , Mark Cropper , Thibaut Prod'homme , Sami-Matias Niemi

Lucky Imaging combined with a low order adaptive optics system has given the highest resolution images ever taken in the visible or near infrared of faint astronomical objects. This paper describes a new instrument that has already been…

A key processing step in ground-based astronomy involves combining multiple noisy and blurry exposures to produce an image of the night sky with an improved signal-to-noise ratio. Typically, this is achieved via image coaddition, and can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 Yashil Sukurdeep , Tamás Budavári , Andrew J. Connolly , Fausto Navarro

Hyperspectral imaging is useful for applications ranging from medical diagnostics to agricultural crop monitoring; however, traditional scanning hyperspectral imagers are prohibitively slow and expensive for widespread adoption. Snapshot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Kristina Monakhova , Kyrollos Yanny , Neerja Aggarwal , Laura Waller

Lensless imaging offers a significant opportunity to develop ultra-compact cameras by removing the conventional bulky lens system. However, without a focusing element, the sensor's output is no longer a direct image but a complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Rakesh Raj Madavan , Akshat Kaimal , Badhrinarayanan K , Vinayak Gupta , Rohit Choudhary , Chandrakala Shanmuganathan , Kaushik Mitra

The CLEAN algorithm, widely used in radio interferometry for the deconvolution of radio images, performs well only if the raw radio image (dirty image) is, to good approximation, a simple convolution between the instrumental point-spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 I. M. Stewart , D. M. Fenech , T. W. B. Muxlow

Since its original use on the Hubble Deep Field, "Drizzle" has become a de facto standard for the combination of images taken by the Hubble Space Tele- scope. However, the drizzle algorithm was developed with small, faint, partially…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Andrew S. Fruchter

Mask-based lensless imaging uses an optical encoder (e.g. a phase or amplitude mask) to capture measurements, then a computational decoding algorithm to reconstruct images. In this work, we evaluate and design lensless encoders based on 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

The goal of dynamic scene deblurring is to remove the motion blur in a given image. Typical learning-based approaches implement their solutions by minimizing the L1 or L2 distance between the output and the reference sharp image. Recent…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Seungjun Nah , Sanghyun Son , Jaerin Lee , Kyoung Mu Lee