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Optical microscopy is an essential tool in biology and medicine. Imaging thin, yet non-flat objects in a single shot (without relying on more sophisticated sectioning setups) remains challenging as the shallow depth of field that comes with…

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We present a semi-blind, spatially-variant deconvolution technique aimed at optical microscopy that combines a local estimation step of the point spread function (PSF) and deconvolution using a spatially variant, regularized Richardson-Lucy…

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Speckle noise, inherent in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images, degrades the performance of the various SAR image analysis tasks. Thus, speckle noise reduction is a critical preprocessing step for smoothing homogeneous regions while…

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In the past years modern mathematical methods for image analysis have led to a revolution in many fields, from computer vision to scientific imaging. However, some recently developed image processing techniques successfully exploited by…

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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…

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The speckle phenomenon remains a major hurdle for the analysis of SAR images. The development of speckle reduction methods closely follows methodological progress in the field of image restoration. The advent of deep neural networks has…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Loïc Denis , Emanuele Dalsasso , Florence Tupin

Removing the aberrations introduced by the Point Spread Function (PSF) is a fundamental aspect of astronomical image processing. The presence of noise in observed images makes deconvolution a nontrivial task that necessitates the use of…

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Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) image resolution is constrained by waveform bandwidth and array geometry. Specifically, the waveform bandwidth determines a point spread function (PSF) that blurs the locations of point scatterers in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Albert Reed , Thomas Blanford , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

Ground-based solar observations enable unprecedented spatial, spectral, and temporal resolution of the lower solar atmosphere, yet Earths turbulent atmosphere imposes significant limitations, requiring advanced post-facto image…

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Rotating synthetic aperture (RSA) imaging system captures images of the target scene at different rotation angles by rotating a rectangular aperture. Deblurring acquired RSA images plays a critical role in reconstructing a latent sharp…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-03 Dao Lin , Jian Zhang , Martin Benning

Images from adaptive optics systems are generally affected by significant distortions of the point spread function (PSF) across the field of view, depending on the position of natural and artificial guide stars. Image reduction techniques…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrea La Camera , Laura Schreiber , Emiliano Diolaiti , Patrizia Boccacci , Mario Bertero , Michele Bellazzini , Paolo Ciliegi

Image deconvolution is still to be a challenging ill-posed problem for recovering a clear image from a given blurry image, when the point spread function is known. Although competitive deconvolution methods are numerically impressive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-07 Hang Yang , Zhongbo Zhang , Yujing Guan

In this paper, we develop a novel super-resolution algorithm for near-field synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) under irregular scanning geometries. As fifth-generation (5G) millimeter-wave (mmWave) devices are becoming increasingly affordable…

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This paper considers the problem of reconstructing an object with high-resolution using several low-resolution images, which are degraded due to nonuniform defocus effects caused by angular misalignment of the subpixel motions. The new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-30 Hieu Thao Nguyen , Oleg Soloviev , Jacques Noom , Michel Verhaegen

Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) Imaging methods are usually based on algorithms of match-filtering type, without considering the scene's characteristic, which causes limited imaging quality. Besides, post-processing steps…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-07 Xu Zhan , Xiaoling Zhang , Shunjun Wei , Jun Shi

This paper presents deep unfolding neural networks to handle inverse problems in photothermal radiometry enabling super resolution (SR) imaging. Photothermal imaging is a well-known technique in active thermography for nondestructive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Samim Ahmadi , Linh Kästner , Jan Christian Hauffen , Peter Jung , Mathias Ziegler

An optical imaging system forms an object image by recollecting light scattered by the object. However, intact optical information of the object delivered through the imaging system is deteriorated by imperfect optical elements and unwanted…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-28 SangYun Lee , Kyeoreh Lee , Seungwoo Shin , YongKeun Park

The study of astronomical phenomena through ground-based observations is always challenged by the distorting effects of Earth's atmosphere. Traditional methods of post-facto image correction, essential for correcting these distortions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 A. Asensio Ramos

Light field imaging has recently known a regain of interest due to the availability of practical light field capturing systems that offer a wide range of applications in the field of computer vision. However, capturing high-resolution light…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Reuben A. Farrugia , Christine Guillemot

Wide-field fluorescence microscopy with compact optics often suffers from spatially varying blur due to field-dependent aberrations, vignetting, and sensor truncation, while finite sensor sampling imposes an inherent trade-off between field…

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