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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

Sparsity promoting functions (SPFs) are commonly used in optimization problems to find solutions which are assumed or desired to be sparse in some basis. For example, the l1-regularized variation model and the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-13 Lixin Shen , Bruce W. Suter , Erin E. Tripp

A major issue in optical astronomical image analysis is the combined effect of the instrument's point spread function (PSF) and the atmospheric seeing that blurs images and changes their shape in a way that is band and time-of-observation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-02 Sreevarsha Sreejith , Anže Slosar , Hong Wang

We have shown that the vector of the point spread function (PSF) lexicographical presentation belongs to the left side conjugated null space (NS) of the autoregression (AR) matrix operator on condition the AR parameters are common for…

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Interferometric radio astronomy data require the effects of limited coverage in the Fourier plane to be accounted for via a deconvolution process. For the last 40 years this process, known as `cleaning', has been performed almost…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

Astronomical images from optical photometric surveys are typically contaminated with transient artifacts such as cosmic rays, satellite trails and scattered light. We have developed and tested an algorithm that removes these artifacts using…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-16 Shantanu Desai , Joseph Mohr , Emmanuel Bertin , Martin Kummel , Michael Wetzstein

We implement an algorithm for detecting and removing artifacts from astronomical images by means of outlier rejection during stacking. Our method is capable of addressing both small, highly significant artifacts such as cosmic rays and, by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 D. Gruen , S. Seitz , G. M. Bernstein

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

Initially designed to detect and characterize exoplanets, extreme adaptive optics systems (AO) open a new window on the solar system by resolving its small bodies. Nonetheless, despite the always increasing performances of AO systems, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Anthony Berdeu , Férréol Soulez , Kate Minker , Benoit Carry , Guillaume Bourdarot , Antoine Kaszczyc , Maud Langlois

Example-based mesh deformation methods are powerful tools for realistic shape editing. However, existing techniques typically combine all the example deformation modes, which can lead to overfitting, i.e. using a overly complicated model to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Lin Gao , Yu-Kun Lai , Jie Yang , Ling-Xiao Zhang , Leif Kobbelt , Shihong Xia

Predicting accurate normal maps of objects from two-dimensional images in regions of complex structure and spatial material variations is challenging using photometric stereo methods due to the influence of surface reflection properties…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Kai Luo , Yakun Ju , Lin Qi , Kaixuan Wang , Junyu Dong

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

Imaging below the diffraction limit is always a public interest because of the restricted resolution of conventional imaging systems. To beat the limit, evanescent harmonics decaying in space must participate in the imaging process. Here,…

Optics · Physics 2019-10-02 Tie-Jun Huang , Li-Zheng Yin , Ya Shuang , Jiang-Yu Liu , Yunhua Tan , Pu-Kun Liu

Accurate and fast 3D imaging of specular surfaces still poses major challenges for state-of-the-art optical measurement principles. Frequently used methods, such as phase-measuring deflectometry (PMD) or shape-from-polarization (SfP), rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jiazhang Wang , Oliver Cossairt , Florian Willomitzer

The resolution of optical imaging is classically limited by the width of the point-spread function, which in turn is determined by the Rayleigh length. Recently, spatial-mode demultiplexing (SPADE) has been proposed as a method to achieve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Giuseppe Buonaiuto , Cosmo Lupo

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

This paper presents a variational based approach to fusing hyperspectral and multispectral images. The fusion process is formulated as an inverse problem whose solution is the target image assumed to live in a much lower dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Qi Wei , José Bioucas-Dias , Nicolas Dobigeon , Jean-Yves Tourneret

We introduce Spurfies, a novel method for sparse-view surface reconstruction that disentangles appearance and geometry information to utilize local geometry priors trained on synthetic data. Recent research heavily focuses on 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Kevin Raj , Christopher Wewer , Raza Yunus , Eddy Ilg , Jan Eric Lenssen

Direct exoplanet detection is limited by speckle noise in the point spread function (PSF) of the central star. This noise can be reduced by subtracting PSF images obtained simultaneously in adjacent narrow spectral bands using a…