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This paper considers the problem of recovering an ensemble of Diracs on a sphere from its low resolution measurements. The Diracs can be located at any location on the sphere, not necessarily on a grid. We show that under a separation…

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We study variational regularisation methods for inverse problems with imperfect forward operators whose errors can be modelled by order intervals in a partial order of a Banach lattice. We carry out analysis with respect to existence and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-25 Leon Bungert , Martin Burger , Yury Korolev , Carola-Bibiane Schoenlieb

The well-known Caputo fractional derivative and the corresponding Caputo fractional integral occur naturally in many equations that model physical phenomena under inhomogeneous media. The relationship between the two fractional terms can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Wesley Davis , Richard Noren

Led by a result derived from Sion's minimax theorem concerning constraint violation in quadratically constrained quadratic programs (QCQPs) with at least one constraint bounding the possible solution magnitude, we propose a heuristic scheme…

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This work is about the use of regularized optimal-transport distances for convex, histogram-based image segmentation. In the considered framework, fixed exemplar histograms define a prior on the statistical features of the two regions in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Julien Rabin , Nicolas Papadakis

When a linear model is adjusted to control for additional explanatory variables the sign of a fitted coefficient may reverse. Here these reversals are studied using coefficients of determination. The resulting theory can be used to…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-11 Brian Knaeble , Seth Dutter

"Classical" First Order (FO) algorithms of convex optimization, such as Mirror Descent algorithm or Nesterov's optimal algorithm of smooth convex optimization, are well known to have optimal (theoretical) complexity estimates which do not…

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Computational corrections of defocus and aberrations in optical coherence tomography (OCT) offers a promising approach to realize high-resolution imaging with deep imaging depth, but without additional high hardware costs. However, these…

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The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has recently sparked interest as a flexible and efficient optimization tool for imaging inverse problems, namely deconvolution and reconstruction under non-smooth convex regularization.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Mariana S. C. Almeida , Mário A. T. Figueiredo

In theory of optical aberrations, an aberrated wavefront is represented by its coefficients in some orthogonal basis, for instance by Zernike polynomials. However, many wavefront measurement techniques implicitly approximate the gradient of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-06-02 Oleg Soloviev

A common distortion in videos is image instability in the form of chaotic (global and local displacements). Those instabilities can be used to enhance image resolution by using subpixel elastic registration. In this work, we investigate the…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-28 Gil Shabat

Super-resolution estimation is the problem of recovering a stream of spikes (point sources) from the noisy observation of a few numbers of its first trigonometric moments. The performance of super-resolution is recognized to be intimately…

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Variational regularization of ill-posed inverse problems is based on minimizing the sum of a data fidelity term and a regularization term. The balance between them is tuned using a positive regularization parameter, whose automatic choice…

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The main feature of vicinal surfaces of crystals characterized by the Miller indices (hhm) is rather small width (less than 10 nm) and substantially large length (more than 200 nm) of atomically-flat terraces on sample surface. This makes…

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Seeing-limited resolution in large telescopes working over wide wavelength range depends substantially on the turbulence outer scale and cannot be adequately described by one "seeing" value. We attempt to clarify frequent confusions on this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 P. Martinez , J. Kolb , A. Tokovinin , M. Sarazin

We consider imaging of fast moving small objects in space, such as low earth orbit satellites, which are also rotating around a fixed axis. The imaging system consists of ground based, asynchronous sources of radiation and several passive…

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A simple, yet general, formalism for the optimized linear combination of astrophysical images is constructed and demonstrated. The formalism allows the user to combine multiple undersampled images to provide oversampled output at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Barnaby Rowe , Christopher Hirata , Jason Rhodes

The Virtual Image Correlation method applies for the measurement of silhouettes boundaries with sub-pixel precision. It consists in a correlation between the image of interest and a virtual image based on a parametrized curve. Thanks to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-11 M. L. M. François

Atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) characterization requires precise tilting of the specimen to high symmetric zone axis, which is usually processed in reciprocal space by following the diffraction patterns.…

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