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Deconvolution serves as a computational means of removing the effect of optical aberrations from recorded images and is employed in many technical and scientific fields of study. In most imaging scenarios the nature of the blurring kernel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-18 Dean Wilding , Oleg Soloviev , Paolo Pozzi , Carlas Smith , Gleb Vdovin , Michel Verhaegen

Two features desired in a three-dimensional (3D) optical tomographic image reconstruction algorithm are the ability to reduce imaging artifacts and to do fast processing of large data volumes. Traditional iterative inversion algorithms are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Zihui Wu , Yu Sun , Alex Matlock , Jiaming Liu , Lei Tian , Ulugbek S. Kamilov

Due to limited size and imperfect of the optical components in a spectrometer, aberration has inevitably been brought into two-dimensional multi-fiber spectrum image in LAMOST, which leads to obvious spacial variation of the point spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jiali Xu , Qian Yin , Ping Guo , Xin Zheng

In the imaging process of an astronomical telescope, the deconvolution of its beam or Point Spread Function (PSF) is a crucial task. However, deconvolution presents a classical and challenging inverse computation problem. In scenarios where…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Shulei Ni , Yisheng Qiu , Yunchun Chen , Zihao Song , Hao Chen , Xuejian Jiang , Huaxi Chen

Context. For accurately measuring intensities and determining magnetic field strengths of small-scale solar (magnetic) structure, knowledge of and compensation for the point spread function is crucial. For images recorded with the Swedish…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 G. B. Scharmer , M. G. Löfdahl , T. I. M. van Werkhoven , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez

Hyperspectral cameras provide numerous advantages in terms of the utility of the data captured. They capture hundreds of data points per sample (pixel) instead of only the few of RGB or multispectral camera systems. Aerial systems sense…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Thomas P. Watson , Eddie L. Jacobs

Much recent attention has been devoted to gradient descent algorithms where the steepest descent step size is replaced by a similar one from a previous iteration or gets updated only once every second step, thus forming a {\em faster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-13 Hui Huang , Uri Ascher

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

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a widely adopted iterative method for optimizing differentiable objective functions. In this paper, we propose and discuss a novel approach to scale up SGD in applications involving non-convex functions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-10-07 Saad Mohamad , Hamad Alamri , Abdelhamid Bouchachia

Modern Giant Segmented Mirror Telescopes (GSMTs) like the Extremely Large Telescope, which is currently under construction, depend heavily on Adaptive Optics (AO) systems to correct for atmospheric distortions. However, a residual blur…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-05 Roland Wagner , Jenny Niebsch , Ronny Ramlau

When recording spectra from the ground, atmospheric turbulence causes degradation of the spatial resolution. We present a data reduction method that restores the spatial resolution of the spectra to their undegraded state. By assuming that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Michiel van Noort

Image restoration methods are commonly used to improve the quality of astronomical images. In recent years, developments of deep neural networks and increments of the number of astronomical images have evoked a lot of data--driven image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Peng Jia , Ruiyu Ning , Ruiqi Sun , Xiaoshan Yang , Dongmei Cai

We present the source separation framework SCARLET for multi-band images, which is based on a generalization of the Non-negative Matrix Factorization to alternative and several simultaneous constraints. Our approach describes the observed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-14 Peter Melchior , Fred Moolekamp , Maximilian Jerdee , Robert Armstrong , Ai-Lei Sun , James Bosch , Robert Lupton

This paper presents CSST-PSFNet, a deep learning method for high-fidelity point spread function (PSF) reconstruction developed for the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST). The model integrates a residual neural network, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Peipei Wang , Peng Wei , Chao Liu , Rui Wang , Feng Wang , Xin Zhang

In this work, we propose "tangent images," a spherical image representation that facilitates transferable and scalable $360^\circ$ computer vision. Inspired by techniques in cartography and computer graphics, we render a spherical image to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Marc Eder , Mykhailo Shvets , John Lim , Jan-Michael Frahm

We present a proof of concept for a new algorithm which can be used to detect exoplanets in high contrast images. The algorithm properly combines mutliple observations acquired during different nights, taking into account the orbital motion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-01 M. Nowak , H. Le Coroller , L. Arnold , K. Dohlen , D. Estevez , T. Fusco , J. -F. Sauvage , A. Vigan

The landscape of computational building blocks of efficient image restoration architectures is dominated by a combination of convolutional processing and various attention mechanisms. However, convolutional filters, while efficient, are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-23 Mohammad Shahab Sepehri , Zalan Fabian , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Optical interferometers provide multiple wavelength measurements. In order to fully exploit the spectral and spatial resolution of these instruments, new algorithms for image reconstruction have to be developed. Early attempts to deal with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Éric Thiébaut , Ferréol Soulez , Loïc Denis

Deep optical images are often crowded with overlapping objects. This is especially true in the cores of galaxy clusters, where images of dozens of galaxies may lie atop one another. Accurate measurements of cluster properties require…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-03 Yuanyuan Zhang , Timothy A. McKay , Emmanuel Bertin , Tesla Jeltema , Christopher J. Miller , Eli Rykoff , Jeeseon Song

The low-rank matrix recovery problem seeks to reconstruct an unknown $n_1 \times n_2$ rank-$r$ matrix from $m$ linear measurements, where $m\ll n_1n_2$. This problem has been extensively studied over the past few decades, leading to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-02 Zhenxuan Li , Meng Huang