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Deep astronomical images are often constructed by digitially stacking many individual sub-exposures. Each sub-exposure is expected to show small differences in the positions of stars and other objects in the field, due to the movement of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-22 Carter Lee Rhea , Pieter Van Dokkum , Steven R. Janssens , Imad Pasha , Roberto Abraham , William P Bowman , Deborah Lokhorst , Seery Chen

Simulated wide-field images are becoming an important part of observational astronomy, either to prepare for new surveys or to test measurement methods. In order to efficiently explore vast parameter spaces, the computational speed of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-09-07 Joel Bergé , Lukas Gamper , Alexandre Réfrégier , Adam Amara

The reconstruction fidelity of computational optical imaging is fundamentally constrained by the model-reality gap, i.e., the inevitable discrepancy between idealized forward models and the physical imaging process. Conventional paradigms…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-22 Sui-peng Wang , Si-yi Xie , Chang-tao Cai , Zhun Wei , Rui Chen

We present a rigorous mathematical solution to photometric redshift estimation and the more general inversion problem. The challenge we address is to meaningfully constrain unknown properties of astronomical sources based on given…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Tamas Budavari

We describe and demonstrate an optimization-based x-ray image reconstruction framework called Adorym. Our framework provides a generic forward model, allowing one code framework to be used for a wide range of imaging methods ranging from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 Ming Du , Saugat Kandel , Junjing Deng , Xiaojing Huang , Arnaud Demortiere , Tuan Tu Nguyen , Remi Tucoulou , Vincent De Andrade , Qiaoling Jin , Chris Jacobsen

In light-sheet microscopy, overall image content and resolution are improved by acquiring and fusing multiple views of the sample from different directions. State-of-the-art multi-view (MV) deconvolution employs the point spread functions…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-30 Benjamin Schmid , Jan Huisken

The primary challenge in accelerating image super-resolution lies in reducing computation while maintaining performance and adaptability. Motivated by the observation that high-frequency regions (e.g., edges and textures) are most critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Wei Shang , Dongwei Ren , Wanying Zhang , Pengfei Zhu , Qinghua Hu , Wangmeng Zuo

(arXiv abridged abstract) The current years are seeing huge developments of radio telescopes and a tremendous increase of their capabilities. Such systems make mandatory the design of more sophisticated techniques not only for transporting,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-18 Arwa Dabbech , Chiara Ferrari , David Mary , Eric Slezak , Oleg Smirnov , Jonathan S. Kenyon

We present a model-independent method of quantifying galaxy evolution in high-resolution images, which we apply to the Hubble Deep Field (HDF). Our procedure is to k-correct all pixels belonging to the images of a complete set of bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rychard J. Bouwens , Tom Broadhurst , Joseph Silk

A high accuracy photometry algorithm is needed to take full advantage of the potential of the transit method for the characterization of exoplanets, especially in deep crowded fields. It has to reduce to the lowest possible level the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Gillon , F. Pont , C. Moutou , F. Bouchy , F. Courbin , S. Sohy , P. Magain

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

With the advent of surveys like Euclid and Vera C. Rubin, astrophysicists will have access to both deep, high-resolution images and multiband images. However, these two types are not simultaneously available in any single dataset. It is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Utsav Akhaury , Pascale Jablonka , Frédéric Courbin , Jean-Luc Starck

Reconstructing high-quality magnetic resonance images (MRI) from undersampled raw data is of great interest from both technical and clinical point of views. To this date, however, it is still a mathematically and computationally challenging…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-01 T. Schmoderer , A. I Aviles-Rivero , V. Corona , N. Debroux , C-B. Schönlieb

Optimal error estimation is key to achieve accurate photometry and astrometry. Stellar fluxes and positions in high angular resolution images are typically measured with PSF fitting routines, such as StarFinder. However, the formal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-12 E. Gallego-Cano , R. Schödel , A. T. Gallego-Calvente , A. M. Ghez

Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) are able to reconstruct scenes with unprecedented fidelity, and various recent works have extended NeRF to handle dynamic scenes. A common approach to reconstruct such non-rigid scenes is through the use of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Keunhong Park , Utkarsh Sinha , Peter Hedman , Jonathan T. Barron , Sofien Bouaziz , Dan B Goldman , Ricardo Martin-Brualla , Steven M. Seitz

Lensless in-line holography is a simple, portable, and cost-effective method of imaging especially for the biomedical microscopy applications. We propose a multiplicative gradient descent optimization based method to obtain multi-depth…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Sanjeev Kumar , Manjunatha Mahadevappa , Pranab Kumar Dutta

In the era of big data, radio astronomical image reconstruction algorithms are challenged to estimate clean images given limited computing resources and time. This article is driven by the need for large scale image reconstruction for the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-20 Rita Ammanouil , André Ferrari , David Mary , Chiara Ferrari , Francesca Loi

We present a new Hybrid Photometry and Extraction Routine: Hyper. It is designed to do compact source photometry allowing for varying spatial resolution and sensitivity in multi-wavelength surveys. Hyper combines multi-Gaussian fitting with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-04 A. Traficante , G. A. Fuller , J. E. Pineda , S. Pezzuto

Real-time dense scene reconstruction during unstable camera motions is crucial for robotics, yet current RGB-D SLAM systems fail when cameras experience large viewpoint changes, fast motions, or sudden shaking. Classical optimization-based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Siyan Dong , Zijun Wang , Lulu Cai , Yi Ma , Yanchao Yang

Fusion-based hyperspectral image super-resolution aims to fuse low-resolution hyperspectral images (LR-HSIs) and high-resolution multispectral images (HR-MSIs) to reconstruct high spatial and high spectral resolution images. Current methods…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-25 Songcheng Du , Yang Zou , Zixu Wang , Xingyuan Li , Ying Li , Changjing Shang , Qiang Shen