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Instrumental aberrations strongly limit high-contrast imaging of exoplanets, especially when they produce quasistatic speckles in the science images. With the help of recent advances in deep learning, we have developed in previous works an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-14 Maxime Quesnel , Gilles Orban de Xivry , Olivier Absil , Gilles Louppe

Recovering high-fidelity images of the night sky from blurred observations is a fundamental problem in astronomy, where traditional methods typically fall short. In ground-based astronomy, combining multiple exposures to enhance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Yashil Sukurdeep , Fausto Navarro , Tamás Budavári

Image subtraction is essential for transient detection in time-domain astronomy. The point spread function (PSF), photometric scaling, and sky background generally vary with time and across the field-of-view for imaging data taken with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Lei Hu , Lifan Wang , Xingzhuo Chen , Jiawen Yang

Context . Initially designed to detect and characterise exoplanets, extreme adaptive optics (AO) systems open a new window onto the Solar System by resolving its small bodies. Nonetheless, their study remains limited by the accuracy of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-01 Anthony Berdeu

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Christoph Schirninger , Robert Jarolim , Astrid M. Veronig , Matthias Rempel , Friedrich Wöger

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

Simulated images are essential in algorithm development and instrument testing for optical telescopes. During real observations, images obtained by optical telescopes are affected by spatially variable point spread functions (PSFs), a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-17 Zeyu Bai , Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Xiang Zhang , Wennan Xiang , Lin Nie

The convolution of galaxy images by the point-spread function (PSF) is the dominant source of bias for weak gravitational lensing studies, and an accurate estimate of the PSF is required to obtain unbiased shape measurements. The PSF…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-16 Martin Eriksen , Henk Hoekstra

Image subtraction in astronomy is a tool for transient object discovery and characterization, particularly useful in wide fields, and is well suited for moving or photometrically varying objects such as asteroids, extra-solar planets and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-09 Steven Hartung

In the case of ground-based telescopes equipped with adaptive optics systems, the point spread function (PSF) is only poorly known or completely unknown. Moreover, an accurate modeling of the PSF is in general not available. Therefore in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-09 M. Prato , A. La Camera , S. Bonettini , S. Rebegoldi , M. Bertero , P. Boccacci

We present a simple and effective approach for non-blind image deblurring, combining classical techniques and deep learning. In contrast to existing methods that deblur the image directly in the standard image space, we propose to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jiangxin Dong , Stefan Roth , Bernt Schiele

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

The point-spread function (PSF) of an imaging system describes the response of the system to a point source. Accurately determining the PSF enables one to correct for the combined effects of focussing and scattering within the imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Stefan Johann Hofmeister , Michael Hahn , Daniel Wolf Savin

Precise knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) underpins many data analysis steps in astronomy, from photometry and astrometry to source de-blending and deconvolution. In adaptive optics (AO) observations, however, the PSF is highly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Arseniy Kuznetsov , Benoit Neichel , Sylvain Oberti , Thierry Fusco

Astrometric precision and knowledge of the point spread function are key ingredients for a wide range of astrophysical studies including time-delay cosmography in which strongly lensed quasar systems are used to determine the Hubble…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Geoff C. -F. Chen , Tommaso Treu , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Sam Ragland , Thomas Schmidt , Sherry H. Suyu

In single-molecule super-resolution microscopy, engineered point-spread functions (PSFs) are designed to efficiently encode new molecular properties, such as 3D orientation, into complex spatial features captured by a camera. To fully…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Hesam Mazidi , Eshan S. King , Oumeng Zhang , Arye Nehorai , Matthew D. Lew

In observational astronomy, noise obscures signals of interest. Large-scale astronomical surveys are growing in size and complexity, which will produce more data and increase the workload of data processing. Developing automated tools, such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-16 Yunchong Zhang , Brian Nord , Amanda Pagul , Michael Lepori

State of the art methods in astronomical image reconstruction rely on the resolution of a regularized or constrained optimization problem. Solving this problem can be computationally intensive and usually leads to a quadratic or at least…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Rémi Flamary

A method for spatial deconvolution of spectra is presented. It follows the same fundamental principles as the ``MCS image deconvolution algorithm'' (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) and uses information contained in the spectrum of a reference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Courbin , P. Magain , M. Kirkove , S. Sohy

This paper attempts to undertake the study of Restored Gaussian Blurred Images. by using four types of techniques of deblurring image as Wiener filter, Regularized filter, Lucy Richardson deconvlutin algorithm and Blind deconvlution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Salem Saleh Al-amri , N. V. Kalyankar , Khamitkar S. D