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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

Additive manufacturing using light is commonly constrained by serial voxel-by-voxel or layer-by-layer processing, which fundamentally limits fabrication speed and scalability. Here, we introduce a single-exposure holographic…

We present a new shear estimator for weak lensing observations which properly accounts for the effects of a realistic point spread function (PSF). Images of faint galaxies are subject to gravitational shearing followed by smearing with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Nick Kaiser

Efficient and high-fidelity polarization demosaicking is critical for industrial applications of the division of focal plane (DoFP) polarization imaging systems. However, existing methods have an unsatisfactory balance of speed, accuracy,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Guangsen Liu , Peng Rao , Xin Chen , Yao Li , Haixin Jiang

The control of systematic effects when measuring galaxy shapes is one of the main challenges for cosmic shear analyses. In this context, we study the fundamental limitations on shear accuracy due to the measurement of the Point Spread…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Paulin-Henriksson , A. Amara , L. Voigt , A. Refregier , S. L. Bridle

Context: in large-scale spatial surveys, the Point Spread Function (PSF) varies across the instrument field of view (FOV). Local measurements of the PSFs are given by the isolated stars images. Yet, these estimates may not be directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-04 F. M. Ngolè Mboula , J. -L. Starck , K. Okumura , J. Amiaux , P. Hudelot

This paper proposes a novel learning based high-dynamic-range (HDR) reconstruction method using a polarization camera. We utilize a previous observation that polarization filters with different orientations can attenuate natural light…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Juiwen Ting , Moein Shakeri , Hong Zhang

Image projection systems must be efficient in data storage, computation and transmission while maintaining a large space-bandwidth-product (SBP) at their output. Here, we introduce a hybrid image projection system that achieves extended…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-07 Hanlong Chen , Cagatay Isil , Tianyi Gan , Mona Jarrahi , Aydogan Ozcan

The point spread function (PSF) serves as a fundamental descriptor linking the real-world scene to the captured signal, manifesting as camera blur. Accurate PSF estimation is crucial for both optical characterization and computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiajian He , Enjie Hu , Shiqi Chen , Tianchen Qiu , Huajun Feng , Zhihai Xu , Yueting Chen

We propose a holographic microscopy method based on single-pixel imaging technology (HM-SPI). We used a holographic microscopy method based on in-line Gabor holography. In single-pixel imaging technology, cyclic binary masks and…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-11 Arthur G. Fedorov

On 3D imaging, light field cameras typically are of single shot, and however, they heavily suffer from low spatial resolution and depth accuracy. In this paper, by employing an optical projector to project a group of single high-frequency…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Geyou Zhang , Ce Zhu , Kai Liu , Yipeng Liu

We report a new coherent imaging technique, termed ptychographic structured modulation (PSM), for quantitative super-resolution microscopy. In this technique, we place a thin diffuser (i.e., a scattering lens) in between the sample and the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-26 Pengming Song , Shaowei Jiang , He Zhang , Zichao Bian , Chengfei Guo , Kazunori Hoshino , Guoan Zheng

We propose a learning-based method that solves monocular stereo and can be extended to fuse depth information from multiple target frames. Given two unconstrained images from a monocular camera with known intrinsic calibration, our network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Kaixuan Wang , Shaojie Shen

We describe the symmetries present in the point-spread function (PSF) of an optical system either located in space or corrected by an adaptive o to Strehl ratios of about 70% and higher. We present a formalism for expanding the PSF to…

The advent of spatiotemporal wave packets (STWPs), represented by spatiotemporal optical vortices (STOVs), has paved the way for the exploration in optics and photonics. To date, despite considerable efforts, a comprehensive and efficient…

Metric depth estimation from visual sensors is crucial for robots to perceive, navigate, and interact with their environment. Traditional range imaging setups, such as stereo or structured light cameras, face hassles including calibration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Blanca Lasheras-Hernandez , Klaus H. Strobl , Sergio Izquierdo , Tim Bodenmüller , Rudolph Triebel , Javier Civera

We present a novel high-definition (HD) snapshot diffractive spectral imaging system utilizing a diffractive filter array (DFA) to capture a single image that encodes both spatial and spectral information. This single diffractogram can be…

We examined the anisotropic point spread function (PSF) of Suprime-Cam data utilizing dense star field data. We decomposed the PSF ellipticities into three components, the optical aberration, atmospheric turbulence, and chip-misalignment in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Takashi Hamana , Satoshi Miyazaki , Yuki Okura , Tomohiro Okamura , Toshifumi Futamase

Measuring subdiffraction separations between single fluorescent particles is important for biological, nano-, and medical-technology studies. Major challenges include (i) measuring changing molecular separations with high temporal…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Shawn H. DeCenzo , Michael C. DeSantis , Y. M. Wang

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