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This paper presents the status of an ongoing project aimed at developing a PSF reconstruction software for adaptive optics (AO) observations. In particular, we test for the first time the implementation of pyramid wave-front sensor data on…

Accurate modelling of the effective point spread function (ePSF) is essential for high-precision photometry and astrometry, particularly in undersampled imaging regimes. In this work, we build on a well-established ePSF modelling framework…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-19 Emma Godden , Katherine M. Blundell

X-ray cone-beam computed tomography (CT) has the notable features such as high efficiency and precision, and is widely used in the fields of medical imaging and industrial non-destructive testing, but the inherent imaging degradation…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hua Zhang , Kuidong Huang , Yikai Shi , Zhe Xu

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

Reconstruction of the point spread function (PSF) plays an important role in many areas of astronomy, including photometry, astrometry, galaxy morphology, and shear measurement. The atmospheric and instrumental effects are the two main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-25 Pedro Alonso , Jun Zhang , Cong Liu

This study presents a comprehensive end-to-end simulation analysis of the optical imaging performance of the China Survey Space Telescope (CSST) under in-orbit conditions. An integrated system model incorporating five static and two dynamic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-11 Zhang Ban , Xiao-Bo Li , Xun Yang , Yu-Xi Jiang , Hong-Cai Ma , Wei Wang , Jin-guang Lv , Cheng-Liang Wei , De-Zi Liu , Guo-Liang Li , Chao Liu , Nan Li , Ran Li , Peng Wei

This Point spread function (PSF) plays a crucial role in many computational imaging applications, such as shape from focus/defocus, depth estimation, and fluorescence microscopy. However, the mathematical model of the defocus process is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Renzhi He , Yan Zhuang , Boya Fu , Fei Liu

The accurate modelling of the Point Spread Function (PSF) is of paramount importance in astronomical observations, as it allows for the correction of distortions and blurring caused by the telescope and atmosphere. PSF modelling is crucial…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Tobias Liaudat , Jean-Luc Starck , Martin Kilbinger

Ground based optical telescopes are seriously affected by atmospheric turbulence induced aberrations. Understanding properties of these aberrations is important both for instruments design and image restoration methods development. Because…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Peng Jia , Xuebo Wu , Yi Huang , Bojun Cai , Dongmei Cai

We present a virtual image refocusing method over an extended depth of field (DOF) enabled by cascaded neural networks and a double-helix point-spread function (DH-PSF). This network model, referred to as W-Net, is composed of two cascaded…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-22 Xilin Yang , Luzhe Huang , Yilin Luo , Yichen Wu , Hongda Wang , Yair Rivenson , Aydogan Ozcan

Accurate blur estimation is essential for high-performance imaging across various applications. Blur is typically represented by the point spread function (PSF). In this paper, we propose a physics-informed PSF learning framework for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Liqun Chen , Yuxuan Li , Jun Dai , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue

Context: in astronomy, observing large fractions of the sky within a reasonable amount of time implies using large field-of-view (fov) optical instruments that typically have a spatially varying Point Spread Function (PSF). Depending on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-20 F. M. Ngolè Mboula , J. -L. Starck

Astrometric precision and knowledge of the point spread function are key ingredients for a wide range of astrophysical studies including time-delay cosmography in which strongly lensed quasar systems are used to determine the Hubble…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Geoff C. -F. Chen , Tommaso Treu , Christopher D. Fassnacht , Sam Ragland , Thomas Schmidt , Sherry H. Suyu

In a previous work we have demonstrated a novel numerical model for the point spread function (PSF) of an optical system that can efficiently model both experimental measurements and lens design simulations of the PSF. The novelty lies in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-25 Matthias Lehmann , Christian Wittpahl , Hatem Ben Zakour , Alexander Braun

The point-spread function (PSF) of an imaging system describes the response of the system to a point source. Accurately determining the PSF enables one to correct for the combined effects of focussing and scattering within the imaging…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-01 Stefan Johann Hofmeister , Michael Hahn , Daniel Wolf Savin

Due to limited size and imperfect of the optical components in a spectrometer, aberration has inevitably been brought into two-dimensional multi-fiber spectrum image in LAMOST, which leads to obvious spacial variation of the point spread…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Jiali Xu , Qian Yin , Ping Guo , Xin Zheng

The key features of the MATPHOT algorithm for precise and accurate stellar photometry and astrometry using discrete Point Spread Functions are described. A discrete Point Spread Function (PSF) is a sampled version of a continuous PSF which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenneth J. Mighell

Many algorithms have been developed to solve the inverse problem of coded aperture snapshot spectral imaging (CASSI), i.e., recovering the 3D hyperspectral images (HSIs) from a 2D compressive measurement. In recent years, learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Yuanhao Cai , Jing Lin , Xiaowan Hu , Haoqian Wang , Xin Yuan , Yulun Zhang , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

Initially designed to detect and characterize exoplanets, extreme adaptive optics systems (AO) open a new window on the solar system by resolving its small bodies. Nonetheless, despite the always increasing performances of AO systems, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-14 Anthony Berdeu , Férréol Soulez , Kate Minker , Benoit Carry , Guillaume Bourdarot , Antoine Kaszczyc , Maud Langlois

Context. Future weak lensing surveys, such as the Euclid mission, will attempt to measure the shapes of billions of galaxies in order to derive cosmological information. These surveys will attain very low levels of statistical error, and…