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Image denoising based on deep learning has witnessed significant advancements in recent years. However, existing deep learning methods lack quantitative control of the deviation or error on denoised images. The neural networks Self2Self is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Tie Liu , Yuhui Quan , Yingna Su , Yang Guo , Shu Liu , Haisheng Ji , Qi Hao , Yulong Gao , Yuxia Liu , Yikang Wang , Wenqing Sun , Mingde Ding

We present a new method for blind motion deblurring that uses a neural network trained to compute estimates of sharp image patches from observations that are blurred by an unknown motion kernel. Instead of regressing directly to patch…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-02 Ayan Chakrabarti

We propose a solution to the image deconvolution problem where the convolution kernel or point spread function (PSF) is assumed to be only partially known. Small perturbations generated from the model are exploited to produce a few…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-04 Se Un Park , Nicolas Dobigeon , Alfred O. Hero

The Point Spread Function (PSF) is a key figure of merit for specifying the angular resolution of optical systems and, as the demand for higher and higher angular resolution increases, the problem of surface finishing must be taken…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-04 K. Tayabaly , D. Spiga , G. Sironi , R. Canestrari , M. Lavagna , G. Pareschi

A point-spread function describes the optics of an imaging system and can be used to correct collected images for instrumental effects. The state of the art for deconvolving images with the point-spread function is the Richardson-Lucy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Stefan Johann Hofmeister

We apply a new deep learning technique to detect, classify, and deblend sources in multi-band astronomical images. We train and evaluate the performance of an artificial neural network built on the Mask R-CNN image processing framework, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Colin J. Burke , Patrick D. Aleo , Yu-Ching Chen , Xin Liu , John R. Peterson , Glenn H. Sembroski , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin

The image degradation produced by atmospheric turbulence and optical aberrations is usually alleviated using post-facto image reconstruction techniques, even when observing with adaptive optics systems. These techniques rely on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 A. Asensio Ramos , A. Lopez Ariste

We seek to find a shapelet-based scheme for deconvolving galaxy images from the PSF which leads to unbiased shear measurements. Based on the analytic formulation of convolution in shapelet space, we construct a procedure to recover the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-03 Peter Melchior , Rene Andrae , Matteo Maturi , Matthias Bartelmann

The ultimate goal of the "Pi of the Sky" apparatus is observation of optical flashes of astronomical origin and other light sources variable on short timescales. We search mainly for optical emission of Gamma Ray Bursts, but also for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-02 Lech Wiktor Piotrowski

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of observed stars in wide-field images is crucial for chromatic point spread function (PSF) modelling methods, which use unresolved stars as integrated spectral samples of the PSF across the field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Ezequiel Centofanti , Samuel Farrens , Jean-Luc Starck , Tobias Liaudat , Alex Szapiro , Jennifer Pollack

Marine Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) is employed both in large-scale geophysical applications as well as within exploration of hydrocarbons and gas hydrates. Due to the diffusive character of the EM field only very low…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 Feng-Ping Li , Vemund Stenbekk Thorkildsen , Leiv-J Gelius , Jian-Hua Yue

Even though the technology of adaptive optics (AO) is rapidly maturing, calibration of the resulting images remains a major challenge. The AO point-spread function (PSF) changes quickly both in time and position on the sky. In a typical…

A non iterative direct blind deconvolution procedure, previously used successfully to sharpen Hubble Space Telescope imagery, is now found useful in sharpening nanoscale scanning electron microscope (SEM) and helium ion microscope (HIM)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-28 Alfred S. Carasso , Andras E. Vladar

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

Aims: This study investigates whether a U-Net architecture can perform standalone end-to-end blind deconvolution of astronomical images without any prior knowledge of the Point Spread Function (PSF) or noise characteristics. Our goal is to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Jean-Eric Campagne

We investigate the ellipticity of the point-spread function (PSF) produced by imaging an unresolved source with a telescope, subject to the effects of atmospheric turbulence. It is important to quantify these effects in order to understand…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 W. H. de Vries , S. S. Olivier , S. J. Asztalos , L. J. Rosenberg , K. L. Baker

We report a point spread function (PSF) and deconvolution procedure to remove stray light from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) data. Pre-launch calibration observations, post-launch Venus transit and lunar transit data were used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 A. A. Norton , T. L. Duvall, , J. Schou , R. S. Bogart , J. Zhao , C. Rabello-Soares , P. J. Levens , J. T. Hoeksema , C. S. Baldner

We investigate possibilities to speed up iterative algorithms for non-blind image deconvolution. We focus on algorithms in which convolution with the point-spread function to be deconvolved is used in each iteration, and aim at accelerating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Martin Welk , Martin Erler

Monocular depth estimation and image deblurring are two fundamental tasks in computer vision, given their crucial role in understanding 3D scenes. Performing any of them by relying on a single image is an ill-posed problem. The recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Saqib Nazir , Lorenzo Vaquero , Manuel Mucientes , Víctor M. Brea , Daniela Coltuc

[Abriged] Astronomical Wide Field Imaging performed with new large format CCD detectors poses data reduction problems of unprecedented scale which are difficult to deal with traditional interactive tools. We present here NExt (Neural…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Andreon , G. Gargiulo , G. Longo , R. Tagliaferri , N. Capuano