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Diffraction limit is manifested in the loss of high spatial frequency information that results from decay of evanescent waves. As a result, conventional far-field optics yields no information about an object's subwavelength features. Here…

Optics · Physics 2012-01-24 Leonid Alekseyev , Evgenii Narimanov , Jacob Khurgin

We propose an image resolution improvement method for optical coherence tomography (OCT) based on sparse continuous deconvolution. Traditional deconvolution techniques such as Lucy-Richardson deconvolution suffers from the artifact…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Zhengyu Qiao , Yong Huang , Qun Hao

Medical ultrasound imaging relies heavily on high-quality signal processing to provide reliable and interpretable image reconstructions. Conventionally, reconstruction algorithms where derived from physical principles. These algorithms rely…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-21 Ben Luijten , Nishith Chennakeshava , Yonina C. Eldar , Massimo Mischi , Ruud J. G. van Sloun

We consider the limits of super-resolution using imaging constraints. Due to various theoretical and practical limitations, reconstruction-based methods have been largely restricted to small increases in resolution. In addition, motion-blur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Gabby Litterio , Juan-David Lizarazo-Ferro , Pedro Felzenszwalb , Rashid Zia

Also recently, exciting strides forward have been made in the area of image restoration, particularly for image denoising and single image super-resolution. Deep learning techniques contributed to this significantly. The top methods differ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Jiqing Wu , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

A point-spread function describes the optics of an imaging system and can be used to correct collected images for instrumental effects. The state of the art for deconvolving images with the point-spread function is the Richardson-Lucy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 Stefan Johann Hofmeister

PET super-resolution is highly under-constrained because paired multi-resolution scans from the same subject are rarely available, and effective resolution is determined by scanner-specific physics (e.g., PSF, detector geometry, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Liutao Yang , Zi Wang , Peiyuan Jing , Xiaowen Wang , Javier A. Montoya-Zegarra , Kuangyu Shi , Daoqiang Zhang , Guang Yang

Functional ultrasound (fUS) imaging provides exceptional spatiotemporal resolution for neurovascular mapping, yet its practical application is significantly hampered by critical challenges. Foremost among these are data scarcity, arising…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Xuhang Chen , Zhuo Li , Yanyan Shen , Mufti Mahmud , Hieu Pham , Chi-Man Pun , Shuqiang Wang

We present the development of a data-driven, AI-based model of the Point Spread Function (PSF) that achieves higher accuracy than the current state-of-the-art approach, "PSF in the Full Field-of-View'' (PIFF). PIFF is widely used in leading…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-18 Dayana Andrea Henao Arbeláez , Pierre-François Léget , Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagón

In order to address the issue that medical image would suffer from severe blurring caused by the lack of high-frequency details in the process of image super-resolution reconstruction, a novel medical image super-resolution method based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Kewen Liu , Yuan Ma , Hongxia Xiong , Zejun Yan , Zhijun Zhou , Panpan Fang , Chaoyang Liu

Thanks to its capability of acquiring full-view frames at multiple kilohertz, ultrafast ultrasound imaging unlocked the analysis of rapidly changing physical phenomena in the human body, with pioneering applications such as ultrasensitive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-22 Dimitris Perdios , Manuel Vonlanthen , Florian Martinez , Marcel Arditi , Jean-Philippe Thiran

Convolution and deconvolution are essential techniques in various fields, notably in medical imaging, where they play a crucial role in analyzing dynamic processes such as blood flow. This paper explores the convolution and deconvolution of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Ishmael N. Amartey , Andreas A. Linninger , Thomas Ventimiglia

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

Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) stands out as one of the most widely used microscopy techniques, thanks to its three-dimensional imaging capability and its sub-diffraction spatial resolution, achieved through the closure of a…

Super-resolution reconstruction techniques entail the utilization of software algorithms to transform one or more sets of low-resolution images captured from the same scene into high-resolution images. In recent years, considerable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Hao Yan , Zixiang Wang , Zhengjia Xu , Zhuoyue Wang , Zhizhong Wu , Ranran Lyu

In portable, three dimensional, and ultra-fast ultrasound imaging systems, there is an increasing demand for the reconstruction of high quality images from a limited number of radio-frequency (RF) measurements due to receiver (Rx) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Yeo Hun Yoon , Shujaat Khan , Jaeyoung Huh , Jong Chul Ye

In this paper we propose a blind deconvolution method which applies to data perturbed by Poisson noise. The objective function is a generalized Kullback-Leibler divergence, depending on both the unknown object and unknown point spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-25 M. Prato , A. La Camera , S. Bonettini , M. Bertero

The stability of spike deconvolution, which aims at recovering point sources from their convolution with a point spread function (PSF), is known to be related to the separation between those sources. When the observations are noisy, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Yuejie Chi

The field of steganography has experienced a surge of interest due to the recent advancements in AI-powered techniques, particularly in the context of multimodal setups that enable the concealment of signals within signals of a different…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Jaume Ros , Margarita Geleta , Jordi Pons , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

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