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Access to knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) of adaptive optics(AO)-assisted observations is still a major limitation when processing AO data. This limitation is particularly important when image analysis requires the use of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-10 A. Lau , R. JL. Fétick , B. Neichel , O. Beltramo-Martin , T. Fusco

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

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

Point spread function (PSF) engineering has been pivotal in the remarkable progress made in high-resolution imaging in the last decades. However, the diversity in PSF structures attainable through existing engineering methods is limited.…

Optics · Physics 2025-06-10 Md Sadman Sakib Rahman , Aydogan Ozcan

In multi-photon microscopy (MPM), a recent in-vivo fluorescence microscopy system, the task of image restoration can be decomposed into two interlinked inverse problems: firstly, the characterization of the Point Spread Function (PSF) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Julien Ajdenbaum , Emilie Chouzenoux , Claire Lefort , Ségolène Martin , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

Point-spread function (PSF) estimation in spatially undersampled images is challenging because large pixels average fine-scale spatial information. This is problematic when fine-resolution details are necessary, as in optimal photometry…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Teresa Symons , Michael Zemcov , James Bock , Yun-Ting Cheng , Brendan Crill , Christopher Hirata , Stephanie Venuto

Image deraining is crucial for vision applications but is challenged by the complex multi-scale physics of rain and its coupling with scenes. To address this challenge, a novel approach inspired by multi-stage image restoration is proposed,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiayu Wang , Haoyu Bian , Haoran Sun , Shaoning Zeng

The point spread function (PSF) of a translation invariant imaging system is its impulse response, which cannot always be measured directly. This is the case in high energy X-ray radiography, and it must be estimated from images of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-27 Kevin T. Joyce , Johnathan M. Bardsley , Aaron Luttman

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

In this paper, we address the task of aberration-aware depth-from-defocus (DfD), which takes account of spatially variant point spread functions (PSFs) of a real camera. To effectively obtain the spatially variant PSFs of a real camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Zhuofeng Wu , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Deblurring is a fundamental inverse problem in bioimaging. It requires modelling the point spread function (PSF), which captures the optical distortions entailed by the image formation process. The PSF limits the spatial resolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-04 Denis K. Samuylov , Prateek Purwar , Gábor Székely , Grégory Paul

The desire for wide-field of view, large fractional bandwidth, high sensitivity, high spectral and temporal resolution has driven radio interferometry to the point of big data revolution where the data is represented in at least three…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 M. Atemkeng , O. Smirnov , C. Tasse , G. Foster , S. Makhathini

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

Point-spread-function (PSF) engineering is a well-established computational imaging technique that uses phase masks and other optical elements to embed extra information (e.g., depth) into the images captured by conventional CMOS image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sachin Shah , Matthew Albert Chan , Haoming Cai , Jingxi Chen , Sakshum Kulshrestha , Chahat Deep Singh , Yiannis Aloimonos , Christopher Metzler

Accurately estimating the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system requires solving free-space wave propagation, which entails evaluating a diffraction integral. This integral is traditionally computed numerically using Fast Fourier…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-22 Nicholas Ganino , Qi Guo

Ultrasound imaging systems rely on accurate point spread function (PSF) estimation to support advanced image quality enhancement techniques such as deconvolution and speckle reduction. Phase aberration, caused by sound speed inhomogeneity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-24 Wei-Hsiang Shen , Yu-An Lin , Meng-Lin Li

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 a previous work we have demonstrated a novel numerical model for the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system that can efficiently model both experimental measurements and lens design simulations of the PSF. The novelty lies in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-25 Matthias Lehmann , Christian Wittpahl , Hatem Ben Zakour , Alexander Braun

One of the most important issues in the image processing is the approximation of the image that has been lost due to the blurring process. These types of matters are divided into non-blind and blind problems. The second type of problem is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Reza Parvaz

Deep-learning (DL)-based image deconvolution (ID) has exhibited remarkable recovery performance, surpassing traditional linear methods. However, unlike traditional ID approaches that rely on analytical properties of the point spread…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Romario Gualdrón-Hurtado , Roman Jacome , Sergio Urrea , Henry Arguello , Luis Gonzalez