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Hyperspectral imaging has become a significant source of valuable data for astronomers over the past decades. Current instrumental and observing time constraints allow direct acquisition of multispectral images, with high spatial but low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Claire Guilloteau , Thomas Oberlin , Olivier Berné , Nicolas Dobigeon

We investigate super-resolution methods for image reconstruction from data provided by a family of scanning instruments like the Herschel observatory. To do this, we constructed a model of the instrument that faithfully reflects the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Orieux , J. -F. Giovannelli , T. Rodet , A. Abergel , H. Ayasso , M. Husson

Crucial information barely visible to the human eye is often embedded in a series of low-resolution images taken of the same scene. Super-resolution enables the extraction of this information by reconstructing a single image, at a high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-12-08 S. S. Panda , M. S. R. S Prasad , G. Jena

Context: Polarimetry is a very powerful tool to uncover various properties of astronomical objects that remain otherwise hidden in standard imaging or spectroscopic observations. However, the reliable measurement of the low polarization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-12 S. González-Gaitán , A. M. Mourão , F. Patat , J. P. Anderson , A. Cikota , K. Wiersema , A. B. Higgins , K. Silva

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

This paper addresses reflection removal, which is the task of separating reflection components from a captured image and deriving the image with only transmission components. Considering that the existence of the reflection changes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Wenjiao Bian , Yusuke Monno , Masatoshi Okutomi

Galactic all-sky maps at very disparate frequencies, like in the radio and $\gamma$-ray regime, show similar morphological structures. This mutual information reflects the imprint of the various physical components of the interstellar…

We present a novel method for reconstructing clothed humans from a sparse set of, e.g., 1 to 6 RGB images. Despite impressive results from recent works employing deep implicit representation, we revisit the volumetric approach and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Sicong Tang , Guangyuan Wang , Qing Ran , Lingzhi Li , Li Shen , Ping Tan

Aiming to correctly restore the redshifted 21 cm signals emitted by the neutral hydrogen during the cosmic reionization processes, we re-examine the separation approaches based on the quadratic polynomial fitting technique in frequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu , Tao An , Junhua Gu , Xueying Guo , Weitian Li , Yu Wang , Chengze Liu , Olivier Martineau-Huynh , Xiang-Ping Wu

Multi-wavelength imaging polarimetry at far-infrared wavelengths has proven to be an excellent tool for studying the physical properties of dust, molecular clouds, and magnetic fields in the interstellar medium. Although these wavelengths…

21 cm cosmology is a promising new probe of the evolution of visible matter in our universe, especially during the poorly-constrained Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization. However, in order to separate the 21 cm signal from bright…

The development of the first X-ray polarimeter, based on the photoelectric effect 20 years ago and implemented thanks to advances in gas amplification structures and readout techniques, had a significant impact in opening a new window for…

In the context of next generation radio telescopes, like the Square Kilometre Array, the efficient processing of large-scale datasets is extremely important. Convex optimisation tasks under the compressive sensing framework have recently…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-10 Alexandru Onose , Rafael E. Carrillo , Audrey Repetti , Jason D. McEwen , Jean-Philippe Thiran , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , Yves Wiaux

context: The combination of image restoration and a Fabry-P\'{e}rot interferometer (FPI) based instrument in solar observations results in specific calibration issues. FPIs generally show variations over the field-of-view, while in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 R. S. Schnerr , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , M. van Noort

The structure of magnetic fields in galaxies remains poorly constrained, despite the importance of magnetism in the evolution of galaxies. Radio synchrotron and far-infrared (FIR) polarization and polarimetric observations are the best…

In the past years modern mathematical methods for image analysis have led to a revolution in many fields, from computer vision to scientific imaging. However, some recently developed image processing techniques successfully exploited by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-19 Marco Castellano , Daniele Ottaviani , Adriano Fontana , Emiliano Merlin , Stefano Pilo , Maurizio Falcone

Astronomical data does not always use Cartesian coordinates. Both all-sky observational data and simulations of rotationally symmetric systems, such as accretion and protoplanetary discs, may use spherical polar or other coordinate systems.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 Rhys Taylor

Context. Circumstellar disks and self-luminous giant exoplanets or companion brown dwarfs can be characterized through direct-imaging polarimetry at near-infrared wavelengths. SPHERE/IRDIS at the Very Large Telescope has the capabilities to…

Cosmic Reionization On Computers (CROC) is a long-term program of numerical simulations of cosmic reionization. Its goal is to model fully self-consistently (albeit not necessarily from the first principles) all relevant physics, from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Nickolay Y. Gnedin