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Ultrasound is widely used in medical diagnostics allowing for accessible and powerful imaging but suffers from resolution limitations due to diffraction and the finite aperture of the imaging system, which restricts diagnostic use. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Duelmer , Walter Simson , Mohammad Farid Azampour , Magdalena Wysocki , Angelos Karlas , Nassir Navab

Inferring the evolution of high-dimensional and multi-modal (e.g., spatio-temporal) physical fields from irregular sparse measurements in real time is a fundamental challenge in science and engineering. Existing approaches, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Panqi Chen , Yifan Sun , Shikai Fang , Xiao Fu , Lei Cheng

In turbid media, scattering of light scrambles information of the incident beam and represents an obstacle to optical imaging. Noninvasive imaging through opaque layers is challenging for dynamic and wide-field objects due to unreliable…

Optics · Physics 2018-10-17 Yuan Yuan , Hui Chen

The principal limitation in many areas of astronomy, especially for directly imaging exoplanets, arises from instability in the point spread function (PSF) delivered by the telescope and instrument. To understand the transfer function, it…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-01 Alison Wong , Benjamin Pope , Louis Desdoigts , Peter Tuthill , Barnaby Norris , Chris Betters

Recent advancements in deep learning for medical image segmentation are often limited by the scarcity of high-quality training data.While diffusion models provide a potential solution by generating synthetic images, their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Jianhao Xie , Ziang Zhang , Zhenyu Weng , Yuesheng Zhu , Guibo Luo

A new method is presented for determining the Point Spread Function (PSF) of images that lack bright and isolated stars. It is based on the same principles as the MCS (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) image deconvolution algorithm. It uses the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Magain , F. Courbin , M. Gillon , S. Sohy , G. Letawe , V. Chantry , Y. Letawe

A novel method for generating coded mask patterns based on Gaussian random fields (GRF) is proposed. In contrast to traditional algorithms based on cyclic difference sets, it is possible to construct mask patterns that encode a predefined…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bjoern Malte Schaefer

The ability to accurately measure the shapes of faint objects in images taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys(ACS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) depends upon detailed knowledge of the Point Spread Function (PSF). We show that…

For robotic interaction in environments shared with other agents, access to volumetric and semantic maps of the scene is crucial. However, such environments are inevitably subject to long-term changes, which the map needs to account for. We…

We introduce Mask-ToF, a method to reduce flying pixels (FP) in time-of-flight (ToF) depth captures. FPs are pervasive artifacts which occur around depth edges, where light paths from both an object and its background are integrated over…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-01 Ilya Chugunov , Seung-Hwan Baek , Qiang Fu , Wolfgang Heidrich , Felix Heide

Localization microscopy is an imaging technique in which the positions of individual nanoscale point emitters (e.g. fluorescent molecules) are determined at high precision from their images. This is the key ingredient in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Elias Nehme , Daniel Freedman , Racheli Gordon , Boris Ferdman , Lucien E. Weiss , Onit Alalouf , Reut Orange , Tomer Michaeli , Yoav Shechtman

Three-dimensional spatiotemporal tracking of microscopic particles in multiple colors is a challenging optical imaging task. Existing approaches require a trade-off between photon-efficiency, field of view, mechanical complexity, spectral…

This study introduces a novel point-wise diffusion model that processes spatio-temporal points independently to efficiently predict complex physical systems with shape variations. This methodological contribution lies in applying forward…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Jiyong Kim , Sunwoong Yang , Namwoo Kang

Ground based optical telescopes are seriously affected by atmospheric turbulence induced aberrations. Understanding properties of these aberrations is important both for instruments design and image restoration methods development. Because…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Peng Jia , Xuebo Wu , Yi Huang , Bojun Cai , Dongmei Cai

The point spread function (PSF) reflects states of a telescope and plays an important role in development of data processing methods, such as PSF based astrometry, photometry and image restoration. However, for wide field small aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-07 Peng Jia , Xuebo Wu , Zhengyang Li , Bo Li , Weihua Wang , Qiang Liu , Adam Popowicz

Current Point-based detectors can only learn from the provided points, with limited receptive fields and insufficient global learning capabilities for such targets. In this paper, we present a novel Point Dilation Mechanism for single-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ao Liang , Haiyang Hua , Jian Fang , Wenyu Chen , Huaici Zhao

Point spread function (PSF) engineering of the emitter can code higher spatial frequency information of an image to break diffraction limit but suffer from the complexed optical systems. Here we present a robust strategy to simultaneously…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-23 Chaohao Chen , Baolei Liu , Yongtao Liu , Jiayan Liao , Xuchen Shan , Fan Wang , Dayong Jin

Propagation of an ultrashort pulse of light through strongly scattering media generates an intricate spatio-spectral speckle that can be described by means of the multi-spectral transmission matrix (MSTM). In conjunction with a spatial…

Continuous wavefront sensing benefits space observatories in on-orbit optical performance maintenance. To measure the phase of a wavefront, phase retrieval is an attractive technique as it uses multiple point spread function (PSF) images…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Hyukmo Kang , Kyle Van Gorkom , Meghdoot Biswas , Daewook Kim , Ewan S. Douglas

The conversion of phase variations in an optical wavefield into intensity information is of fundamental importance for optical imaging technology including microscopy of biological cells. While conventional approaches to phase-imaging…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-07 Lukas Wesemann , Jon Rickett , Timothy J. Davis , Ann Roberts