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The paper reviews progress in imaging in radio interferometry for the period 1993-1996. Unlike an optical telescope, the basic measurements of a radio interferometer (correlations between antennas) are indirectly related to a sky brightness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Sault , T. A. Oosterloo

Radio-astronomical observations are increasingly contaminated by interference, and suppression techniques become essential. A powerful candidate for interference mitigation is adaptive spatial filtering. We study the effect of spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Amir Leshem , Alle-Jan van der Veen

Since the 1970s, much of traditional interferometric imaging has been built around variations of the CLEAN algorithm, in both terminology, methodology, and algorithm development. Recent developments in applying new algorithms from convex…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-29 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , Jason D. McEwen

Next-generation radio interferometers, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will revolutionise our understanding of the universe through their unprecedented sensitivity and resolution. However, to realise these goals significant…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Rafael E. Carrillo , Alexandru Onose , Yves Wiaux

Data sizes for next generation radio telescopes, such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), are far above that of their predecessors. The CLEAN algorithm was originally developed by H\"ogbom [1974], long before such data sizes were thought…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-06 Daniel Wright , Karel Adámek , Wesley Armour

Next generation radio interferometric telescopes are entering an era of big data with extremely large data sets. While these telescopes can observe the sky in higher sensitivity and resolution than before, computational challenges in image…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-17 Luke Pratley , Jason D. McEwen , Mayeul d'Avezac , Xiaohao Cai , David Perez-Suarez , Ilektra Christidi , Roland Guichard

CLEAN is a well-established deconvolution approach to Fourier imaging at both radio wavelwengths and hard X-ray energies. However, specifically for hard X-ray imaging, CLEAN suffers two significant drawbacks: a rather limited degree of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-10 Miriana Catalano , Anna Volpara , Paolo Massa , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

The CLEAN algorithm, first published by H\"{o}gbom and its later variants such as Multiscale CLEAN (msCLEAN) by Cornwell, has been the most popular tool for deconvolution in radio astronomy. Interferometric imaging used in aperture…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Daniel Wright , Karel Adámek , Wesley Armour

Radio interferometry enables high-resolution imaging of astronomical radio sources by synthesizing a large effective aperture from an array of antennas and solving a deconvolution problem to reconstruct the image. Deep learning has emerged…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Zihui Wu , Liam Connor , Samuel McCarty , Katherine L. Bouman

Aims: To formulate, implement, and validate a user-independent release of CLEAN for Fourier-based image reconstruction of hard X-rays flaring sources. Methods: CLEAN is an iterative deconvolution method for radio and hard X-ray solar…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-20 Emma Perracchione , Fabiana Camattari , Anna Volpara , Paolo Massa , Anna Maria Massone , Michele Piana

Acceleration of convolutional neural network has received increasing attention during the past several years. Among various acceleration techniques, filter pruning has its inherent merit by effectively reducing the number of convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Dong Wang , Lei Zhou , Xiao Bai , Jun Zhou

Deconvolution is essential for radio interferometric imaging to produce scientific quality data because of finite sampling in the Fourier plane. Most deconvolution algorithms are based on CLEAN which uses a grid of image pixels, or clean…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-18 Sarod Yatawatta

Realizing high-throughput aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) exploration of atomic structures requires rapid tuning of multipole probe correctors while compensating for the inevitable drift of the optical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Utkarsh Pratiush , Austin Houston , Richard Liu , Gerd Duscher , Sergei Kalinin

Radio astronomy is currently thriving with new large ground-based radio telescopes coming online in preparation for the upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Facilities like LOFAR, MeerKAT/SKA, ASKAP/SKA, and the future SKA-LOW bring…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Benjamin Naoto Chiche , Julien N. Girard , Joana Frontera-Pons , Arnaud Woiselle , Jean-Luc Starck

We introduce the CRONOS algorithm for convex optimization of two-layer neural networks. CRONOS is the first algorithm capable of scaling to high-dimensional datasets such as ImageNet, which are ubiquitous in modern deep learning. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Miria Feng , Zachary Frangella , Mert Pilanci

In this paper we explore acceleration techniques for large scale nonconvex optimization problems with special focuses on deep neural networks. The extrapolation scheme is a classical approach for accelerating stochastic gradient descent for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-18 Guangzeng Xie , Yitan Wang , Shuchang Zhou , Zhihua Zhang

We introduce a new class of iterative image reconstruction algorithms for radio interferometry, at the interface of convex optimization and deep learning, inspired by plug-and-play methods. The approach consists in learning a prior image…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-28 Matthieu Terris , Arwa Dabbech , Chao Tang , Yves Wiaux

We introduce an algorithm for the deconvolution of radio synthesis images that accounts for the non-coplanar-baseline effect, allows multiscale reconstruction onto arbitrarily positioned pixel grids, and allows the antenna elements to have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-09 Stephen J. Hardy

Compressed sensing theory is slowly making its way to solve more and more astronomical inverse problems. We address here the application of sparse representations, convex optimization and proximal theory to radio interferometric imaging.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-28 Julien N. Girard , Hugh Garsden , Jean Luc Starck , Stéphane Corbel , Arnaud Woiselle , Cyril Tasse , John P. McKean , Jérôme Bobin

Novel sparse reconstruction algorithms are proposed for beamspace channel estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output systems. The proposed algorithms minimize a least-squares objective having a nonconvex regularizer. This…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Pengxia Wu , Julian Cheng