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Background Remover (BGR) is a novel software tool developed as a plugin to the well-known ImageJ program and designed to address the challenges of analysing fluorescent microscopy images characterized by low signal-to-noise ratios and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-29 Anna Kilian , Paweł Bilski , Małgorzata Sankowska

A key processing step in ground-based astronomy involves combining multiple noisy and blurry exposures to produce an image of the night sky with an improved signal-to-noise ratio. Typically, this is achieved via image coaddition, and can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-15 Yashil Sukurdeep , Tamás Budavári , Andrew J. Connolly , Fausto Navarro

The supporting instrument on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) is a wide-field gamma-ray monitor composed of 14 individual scintillation detectors, with a field of view which encompasses the entire…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gerard Fitzpatrick , Sheila McBreen , Valerie Connaughton , Michael Briggs , the GBM Team

We present an algorithm capable of detecting diffuse, dim sources of any size in an astronomical image. These sources often defeat traditional methods for source finding, which expand regions around points of high intensity. Extended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-05 T. Butler-Yeoman , M. Frean , C. P. Hollitt , D. W. Hogg , M. Johnston-Hollitt

We introduce the Bayesian Global Sky Model (B-GSM), a novel data-driven Bayesian approach to modelling radio foregrounds at frequencies <400~MHz. B-GSM aims to address the limitations of previous models by incorporating robust error…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 George Carter , Will Handley , Mark Ashdown , Nima Razavi-Ghods

Cloud removal (CR) remains a challenging task in remote sensing image processing. Although diffusion models (DM) exhibit strong generative capabilities, their direct applications to CR are suboptimal, as they generate cloudless images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yi Liu , Wengen Li , Jihong Guan , Shuigeng Zhou , Yichao Zhang

Diffusion models show promise for dynamic scene deblurring; however, existing studies often fail to leverage the intrinsic nature of the blurring process within diffusion models, limiting their full potential. To address it, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jin-Ting He , Fu-Jen Tsai , Yan-Tsung Peng , Min-Hung Chen , Chia-Wen Lin , Yen-Yu Lin

Astronomical images are essential for exploring and understanding the universe. Optical telescopes capable of deep observations, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, are heavily oversubscribed in the Astronomical Community. Images also often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Antonia Vojtekova , Maggie Lieu , Ivan Valtchanov , Bruno Altieri , Lyndsay Old , Qifeng Chen , Filip Hroch

Complex blur such as the mixup of space-variant and space-invariant blur, which is hard to model mathematically, widely exists in real images. In this paper, we propose a novel image deblurring method that does not need to estimate blur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Chunzhi Gu , Xuequan Lu , Ying He , Chao Zhang

Estimating the true background in an astronomical image is fundamental to detecting faint sources. In a typical low-photon count astronomical image, such as in the far and near-ultraviolet wavelength range, conventional methods relying on…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Pushpak Pandey , Kanak Saha

The impulsive noise in astronomical images originates from various sources. It develops as a result of thermal generation in pixels, collision of cosmic rays with image sensor or may be induced by high readout voltage in Electron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 A. Popowicz , A. R. Kurek , T. Blachowicz , V. Orlov , B. Smolka

Modern radio interferometers deliver large volumes of data containing high-sensitivity sky maps over wide fields-of-view. These large area observations can contain various and superposed structures such as point sources, extended objects,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 Richard Fuchs , Jakob Knollmüller , Jakob Roth , Vincent Eberle , Philipp Frank , Torsten A. Enßlin , Lukas Heinrich

A noise-based non-parametric technique for detecting nebulous objects, for example, irregular or clumpy galaxies, and their structure in noise is introduced. "Noise-based" and "non-parametric" imply that this technique imposes negligible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Mohammad Akhlaghi , Takashi Ichikawa

Purpose: Deep neural networks (DNNs) have been widely applied in medical image classification, benefiting from its powerful mapping capability among medical images. However, these existing deep learning-based methods depend on an enormous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Mengdi Gao , Ximeng Feng , Mufeng Geng , Zhe Jiang , Lei Zhu , Xiangxi Meng , Chuanqing Zhou , Qiushi Ren , Yanye Lu

In the realm of medical imaging, inverse problems aim to infer high-quality images from incomplete, noisy measurements, with the objective of minimizing expenses and risks to patients in clinical settings. The Diffusion Models have recently…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-08 Hossein Askari , Fred Roosta , Hongfu Sun

The Density Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN) is a topometric algorithm used to cluster spatial data that are affected by background noise. For the first time, we propose the use of this method for the detection…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 A. Tramacere , C. Vecchio

A novel application of machine-learning (ML) based image processing algorithms is proposed to analyze an all-sky map (ASM) obtained using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. An attempt was made to simulate a one-year ASM from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-02 Shogo Sato , Jun Kataoka , Soichiro Ito , Jun'ichi Kotoku , Masato Taki , Asuka Oyama , Takaya Toyoda , Yuki Nakamura , Marino Yamamoto

Searching for as yet undetected gamma-ray sources is a major target of the Fermi LAT Collaboration. We present an algorithm capable of identifying such type of sources by non-parametrically clustering the directions of arrival of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-30 Anna Montin , Alessandra R. Brazzale , Giovanna Menardi

Diffusion-based generative models (DBGMs) perturb data to a target noise distribution and reverse this process to generate samples. The choice of noising process, or inference diffusion process, affects both likelihoods and sample quality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Raghav Singhal , Mark Goldstein , Rajesh Ranganath

Image denoising is a fundamental and challenging task in the field of computer vision. Most supervised denoising methods learn to reconstruct clean images from noisy inputs, which have intrinsic spectral bias and tend to produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yujin Wang , Lingen Li , Tianfan Xue , Jinwei Gu
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