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Deep-learning (DL)-based image deconvolution (ID) has exhibited remarkable recovery performance, surpassing traditional linear methods. However, unlike traditional ID approaches that rely on analytical properties of the point spread…

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Deconvolution of large survey images with millions of galaxies requires to develop a new generation of methods which can take into account a space variant Point Spread Function (PSF) and have to be at the same time accurate and fast. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Florent Sureau , Alexis Lechat , Jean-Luc Starck

Inverse problems in image reconstruction are fundamentally complicated by unknown noise properties. Classical iterative deconvolution approaches amplify noise and require careful parameter selection for an optimal trade-off between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Mikhail Papkov , Kaupo Palo , Leopold Parts

In multi-photon microscopy (MPM), a recent in-vivo fluorescence microscopy system, the task of image restoration can be decomposed into two interlinked inverse problems: firstly, the characterization of the Point Spread Function (PSF) and…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Julien Ajdenbaum , Emilie Chouzenoux , Claire Lefort , Ségolène Martin , Jean-Christophe Pesquet

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

Removing optical and atmospheric blur from galaxy images significantly improves galaxy shape measurements for weak gravitational lensing and galaxy evolution studies. This ill-posed linear inverse problem is usually solved with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Tianao Li , Emma Alexander

We present a semi-blind, spatially-variant deconvolution technique aimed at optical microscopy that combines a local estimation step of the point spread function (PSF) and deconvolution using a spatially variant, regularized Richardson-Lucy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Adrian Shajkofci , Michael Liebling

The spatial resolution of astronomical images is limited by atmospheric turbulence and diffraction in the telescope optics, resulting in blurred images. This makes it difficult to accurately measure the brightness of blended objects because…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-31 Kevin Michalewicz , Martin Millon , Frédéric Dux , Frédéric Courbin

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

Blind deconvolution is a challenging problem, but in low-light it is even more difficult. Existing algorithms, both classical and deep-learning based, are not designed for this condition. When the photon shot noise is strong, conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-21 Yash Sanghvi , Abhiram Gnanasambandam , Zhiyuan Mao , Stanley H. Chan

Application of deconvolution algorithms to astronomical images is often limited by variations in PSF structure over the domain of the images. One major difficulty is that Fourier methods can no longer be used for fast convolutions over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tod R. Lauer

The study of astronomical phenomena through ground-based observations is always challenged by the distorting effects of Earth's atmosphere. Traditional methods of post-facto image correction, essential for correcting these distortions,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 A. Asensio Ramos

This paper demonstrates a practical method that can correct spatial varying blur from a set of images of the same object. The algorithm jointly estimates the object and local point spread functions~(PSF). The method prioritizes sections…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-04 Wouter van de Ketterij , Oleg Soloviev , Michel Verhaegen

The desire for wide-field of view, large fractional bandwidth, high sensitivity, high spectral and temporal resolution has driven radio interferometry to the point of big data revolution where the data is represented in at least three…

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We seek to find a shapelet-based scheme for deconvolving galaxy images from the PSF which leads to unbiased shear measurements. Based on the analytic formulation of convolution in shapelet space, we construct a procedure to recover the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-03 Peter Melchior , Rene Andrae , Matteo Maturi , Matthias Bartelmann

We describe a rapid and direct method for regularizing, post-facto, the point-spread function (PSF) of a telescope or other imaging instrument, across its entire field of view. Imaging instruments in general blur point sources of light by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-20 J. M. Hughes , C. E. DeForest , D. B. Seaton

We present a variational Bayesian method of joint image reconstruction and point spread function (PSF) estimation when the PSF of the imaging device is only partially known. To solve this semi-blind deconvolution problem, prior…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-03-18 Se Un Park , Nicolas Dobigeon , Alfred O. Hero

Image subtraction is essential for transient detection in time-domain astronomy. The point spread function (PSF), photometric scaling, and sky background generally vary with time and across the field-of-view for imaging data taken with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Lei Hu , Lifan Wang , Xingzhuo Chen , Jiawen Yang

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

Images from adaptive optics systems are generally affected by significant distortions of the point spread function (PSF) across the field of view, depending on the position of natural and artificial guide stars. Image reduction techniques…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Andrea La Camera , Laura Schreiber , Emiliano Diolaiti , Patrizia Boccacci , Mario Bertero , Michele Bellazzini , Paolo Ciliegi