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Imaging by aperture synthesis from interferometric data is a well-known, but is a strong ill-posed inverse problem. Strong and faint radio sources can be imaged unambiguously using time and frequency integration to gather more Fourier…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-22 M. Jiang , J. N. Girard , J. -L. Starck , S. Corbel , C. Tasse

Future Square Kilometre Array (SKA) surveys are expected to generate huge datasets of 21cm maps on cosmological scales from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR). We assess the viability of exploiting machine learning techniques, namely,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 Sultan Hassan , Sambatra Andrianomena , Caitlin Doughty

The Square Kilometer Array will initiate a new era of radio astronomy by allowing 3D imaging of the Universe during Cosmic Dawn and Reionization. Modern machine learning is crucial to analyse the highly structured and complex signal.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Ayodele Ore , Caroline Heneka , Tilman Plehn

In this paper we introduce a reliable, fully automated and fast algorithm to detect extended extragalactic radio sources (cluster of galaxies, filaments) in existing and forthcoming surveys (like LOFAR and SKA). The proposed solution is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-11 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza , Annalisa Bonafede

Radio astronomy is transitioning to a big-data era due to the emerging generation of radio interferometric (RI) telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), which will acquire massive volumes of data. In this article we review…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-15 Xiaohao Cai , Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen

As ground-based all-sky astronomical surveys will gather millions of images in the coming years, a critical requirement emerges for the development of fast deconvolution algorithms capable of efficiently improving the spatial resolution of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Utsav Akhaury , Pascale Jablonka , Jean-Luc Starck , Frédéric Courbin

Future surveys such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will observe an order of magnitude more astrophysical transient events than any previous survey before. With this deluge of photometric data,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Tarek Allam , Jason D. McEwen

Current and future radio interferometric arrays such as LOFAR and SKA are characterized by a paradox. Their large number of receptors (up to millions) allow theoretically unprecedented high imaging resolution. In the same time, the ultra…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-03 André Ferrari , David Mary , Rémi Flamary , Cédric Richard

Recovering sharper images from blurred observations, referred to as deconvolution, is an ill-posed problem where classical approaches often produce unsatisfactory results. In ground-based astronomy, combining multiple exposures to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Fausto Navarro , Daniel Hall , Tamas Budavari , Yashil Sukurdeep

In recent years, deep learning has been successfully applied in various scientific domains. Following these promising results and performances, it has recently also started being evaluated in the domain of radio astronomy. In particular,…

Despite the fact real-world video deinterlacing and demosaicing are well-suited to supervised learning from synthetically degraded data because the degradation models are known and fixed, learned video deinterlacing and demosaicing have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Ronglei Ji , A. Murat Tekalp

In computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) focused on microscopy, denoising improves the quality of image analysis. In general, the accuracy of this process may depend both on the experience of the microscopist and on the equipment sensitivity and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-04 Fabio Hernán Gil Zuluaga , Francesco Bardozzo , Jorge Iván Ríos Patiño , Roberto Tagliaferri

Flagging of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) is an increasingly important challenge in radio astronomy. We present R-Net, a deep convolutional ResNet architecture that significantly outperforms existing algorithms -- including the default…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Alireza Vafaei Sadr , Bruce A. Bassett , Nadeem Oozeer , Yabebal Fantaye , Chris Finlay

The upcoming Square Kilometer Array (SKA) telescope marks a significant step forward in radio astronomy, presenting new opportunities and challenges for data analysis. Traditional visual models pretrained on optical photography images may…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-25 Thomas Cecconello , Simone Riggi , Ugo Becciani , Fabio Vitello , Andrew M. Hopkins , Giuseppe Vizzari , Concetto Spampinato , Simone Palazzo

For transient sources with timescales of 1-100 seconds, standardized imaging for all observations at each time step become impossible as large modern interferometers produce significantly large data volumes in this observation time frame.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Xia Zhang , Foivos I. Diakogiannis , Richard Dodson , Andreas Wicenec

Radio interferometry invariably suffers from an incomplete coverage of the spatial Fourier space, which leads to imaging artifacts. The current state-of-the-art technique is to create an image by Fourier-transforming the incomplete…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-19 F. Geyer , K. Schmidt , J. Kummer , M. Brüggen , H. W. Edler , D. Elsässer , F. Griese , A. Poggenpohl , L. Rustige , W. Rhode

The new generation of radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometer Array (SKA), requires dramatic advances in computer hardware and software, in order to process the large amounts of produced data efficiently. In this document, we explore…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-15 Matthias Petschow

Next generation radio interferometric telescopes are entering an era of big data with extremely large data sets. While these telescopes can observe the sky in higher sensitivity and resolution than before, computational challenges in image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-17 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Xiaohao Cai , David Perez-Suarez , Ilektra Christidi , Roland Guichard

With the next generation of interferometric telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the need for highly computationally efficient reconstruction techniques is particularly acute. The challenge in designing learned, data-driven…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-17 Matthijs Mars , Marta M. Betcke , Jason D. McEwen

Transient surveys are a vital tool in exploring the dynamic universe, with radio transients acting as beacons for explosive and highly energetic astrophysical phenomena. However, performing commensal transient surveys using radio imaging…