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Access to knowledge of the point spread function (PSF) of adaptive optics(AO)-assisted observations is still a major limitation when processing AO data. This limitation is particularly important when image analysis requires the use of…

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The image degradation produced by atmospheric turbulence and optical aberrations is usually alleviated using post-facto image reconstruction techniques, even when observing with adaptive optics systems. These techniques rely on the…

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Surface reconstruction has traditionally relied on the Multi-View Stereo (MVS)-based pipeline, which often suffers from noisy and incomplete geometry. This is due to that although MVS has been proven to be an effective way to recover the…

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We propose the use of a Transformer to accurately predict normals from point clouds with noise and density variations. Previous learning-based methods utilize PointNet variants to explicitly extract multi-scale features at different input…

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The ill-posed problem of phase retrieval in optics, using one or more intensity measurements, has a multitude of applications using electromagnetic or matter waves. Many phase retrieval algorithms are computed on pixel arrays using discrete…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 J. A. Pollock , K. S. Morgan , L. C. P. Croton , M. K. Croughan , G. Ruben , N. Yagi , H. Sekiguchi , M. J. Kitchen

Modern diffusion/flow-based models for image generation typically exhibit two core characteristics: (i) using multi-step sampling, and (ii) operating in a latent space. Recent advances have made encouraging progress on each aspect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yiyang Lu , Susie Lu , Qiao Sun , Hanhong Zhao , Zhicheng Jiang , Xianbang Wang , Tianhong Li , Zhengyang Geng , Kaiming He

We present revised point-spread functions (PSFs) for the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). These PSFs provide a robust estimate of the light diffracted by the meshes holding the entrance and…

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Surface reconstruction is a fundamental problem in 3D graphics. In this paper, we propose a learning-based approach for implicit surface reconstruction from raw point clouds without normals. Our method is inspired by Gauss Lemma in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Dong Xiao , Siyou Lin , Zuoqiang Shi , Bin Wang

We introduce a new software package for modeling the point-spread function (PSF) of astronomical images, called Piff (PSFs In the Full FOV), which we apply to the first three years (known as Y3) of the Dark Energy Survey (DES) data. We…

This study proposes a self-optimization physics-informed Fourier-features randomized neural network (SO-PIFRNN) framework, which significantly improves the numerical solving accuracy of PDEs through hyperparameter optimization mechanism.…

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Deconvolution microscopy has been extensively used to improve the resolution of the widefield fluorescent microscopy. Conventional approaches, which usually require the point spread function (PSF) measurement or blind estimation, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Sungjun Lim , Sang-Eun Lee , Sunghoe Chang , Jong Chul Ye

A main science goal for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is to measure the cosmic shear signal from weak lensing to extreme accuracy. One difficulty, however, is that with the short exposure time ($\simeq$15 seconds) proposed, the…

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) is a powerful quantitative technique that provides metabolic and molecular contrast, offering strong translational potential for label-free, real-time diagnostics. However, its clinical…

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In this paper, we address the task of aberration-aware depth-from-defocus (DfD), which takes account of spatially variant point spread functions (PSFs) of a real camera. To effectively obtain the spatially variant PSFs of a real camera…

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

In order to efficiently image a non-absorbing sample (a phase object), dedicated phase contrast optics are required. Typically, these optics are designed with the assumption that the sample is weakly scattering, implying a linear relation…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-22 Stewart Koppell , Mark Kasevich

Imaging devices exploit the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem to avoid both aliasing and redundant oversampling by design. Conversely, in medical image resampling, images are considered as continuous functions, are warped by a spatial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 M. Jorge Cardoso , Marc Modat , Tom Vercauteren , Sebastien Ourselin

Ultrasound (US) interpretation is hampered by multiplicative speckle, acquisition blur from the point-spread function (PSF), and scanner- and operator-dependent artifacts. Supervised enhancement methods assume access to clean targets or…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Shujaat Khan , Syed Muhammad Atif , Jaeyoung Huh , Syed Saad Azhar

Neural implicit reconstruction via volume rendering has demonstrated its effectiveness in recovering dense 3D surfaces. However, it is non-trivial to simultaneously recover meticulous geometry and preserve smoothness across regions with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ziyu Tang , Weicai Ye , Yifan Wang , Di Huang , Hujun Bao , Tong He , Guofeng Zhang

Focused ion beams (FIBs) are widely used in nanofabrication for applications such as circuit repair, ultra-thin lamella preparation, strain engineering, and quantum device prototyping. Although the lateral spread of the ion beam is often…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-04 M. G. Masteghin , Z. P. Aslam , A. P. Brown , M. J. Whiting , S. K. Clowes , R. P. Webb , D. C. Cox

In recent studies, the generalization of neural radiance fields for novel view synthesis task has been widely explored. However, existing methods are limited to objects and indoor scenes. In this work, we extend the generalization task to…

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