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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

The deconvolution, or cleaning, of radio interferometric images often involves computing model visibilities from a list of clean components, in order that the contribution from the model can be subtracted from the observed visibilities.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Chris J. Skipper , Anna M. M. Scaife , Jason D. McEwen

In recent works, sparse models and convex optimization techniques have been applied to radio-interferometric (RI) imaging showing the potential to outperform state-of-the-art imaging algorithms in the field. In this talk, I will review our…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-19 Rafael E. Carrillo , Jason D. McEwen , Yves Wiaux

Radio interferometric imaging has long relied on the CLEAN algorithm, valued for its speed, robustness, and integration with calibration pipelines. However, next-generation facilities such as the ngVLA, SKA, and ALMAs Wideband Sensitivity…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-19 Hendrik Müller

We describe a "spatio-spectral" deconvolution algorithm for wide-band imaging in radio interferometry. In contrast with the existing multi-frequency reconstruction algorithms, the proposed method does not rely on a model of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 André Ferrari , Jérémy Deguignet , Chiara Ferrari , David Mary , Antony Schutz , Oleg Smirnov

This paper is concerned with the image reconstruction problem when the measured data are solar hard X-ray modulation profiles obtained from the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI)} instrument. Our goal is to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Federico Benvenuto , Richard Schwartz , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

Compressive sampling is a new paradigm for sampling, based on sparseness of signals or signal representations. It is much less restrictive than Nyquist-Shannon sampling theory and thus explains and systematises the widespread experience…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Feng Li , Tim J. Cornwell , Frank de Hoog

Radio interferometry enables high-resolution imaging of astronomical radio sources by synthesizing a large effective aperture from an array of antennas and solving a deconvolution problem to reconstruct the image. Deep learning has emerged…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Zihui Wu , Liam Connor , Samuel McCarty , Katherine L. Bouman

Multidimensional imaging, capturing image data in more than two dimensions, has been an emerging field with diverse applications. Due to the limitation of two-dimensional detectors in obtaining the high-dimensional image data, computational…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Didem Dogan , Figen S. Oktem

The increased sensitivity of future radio telescopes will result in requirements for higher dynamic range within the image as well as better resolution and immunity to interference. In this paper we propose a new matrix formulation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 Chen Ben-David , Amir Leshem

In order to produce high dynamic range images in radio interferometry, bright extended sources need to be removed with minimal error. However, this is not a trivial task because the Fourier plane is sampled only at a finite number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-17 Sarod Yatawatta

Deconvolution is essential for radio interferometric imaging to produce scientific quality data because of finite sampling in the Fourier plane. Most deconvolution algorithms are based on CLEAN which uses a grid of image pixels, or clean…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Sarod Yatawatta

Modern reconstruction methods for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exploit the spatially varying sensitivity profiles of receive-coil arrays as additional source of information. This allows to reduce the number of time-consuming…

Medical Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Martin Uecker

We propose a simple, interpretable framework for solving a wide range of image reconstruction problems such as denoising and deconvolution. Given a corrupted input image, the model synthesizes a spatially varying linear filter which, when…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-29 Shu Kong , Charless Fowlkes

The "dirty" image made by direct Fourier inversion of visibility data is an important first step in inteferometric imaging. This is where the "deconvolution problem" is defined and the degree to which that problem is either well- or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-22 Robert Braun

Super-resolution techniques overcome the diffraction-limit and get very high resolutions. A category of these techniques, e.g., STED achieves this by creating an illumination spot smaller than the Airy Disk. As a result, points are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-20 Yaohua Xie

Multi-spectral imaging, which simultaneously captures the spatial and spectral information of a scene, is widely used across diverse fields, including remote sensing, biomedical imaging, and agricultural monitoring. Here, we introduce a…

A new method for improving the resolution of astronomical images is presented. It is based on the principle that sampled data cannot be fully deconvolved without violating the sampling theorem. Thus, the sampled image should not be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Magain , F. Courbin , S. Sohy

Recovering a signal from auto-correlations or, equivalently, retrieving the phase linked to a given Fourier modulus, is a wide-spread problem in imaging. This problem has been tackled in a number of experimental situations, from optical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-03 Daniele Ancora , Andrea Bassi

Confocal laser-scanning microscopy (CLSM) is one of the most popular optical architectures for fluorescence imaging. In CLSM, a focused laser beam excites the fluorescence emission from a specific specimen position. Some actuators scan the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-10 Alessandro Zunino , Marco Castello , Giuseppe Vicidomini