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In this paper, we analyze the capacity of super-resolution of one-dimensional positive sources. In particular, we consider the same setting as in [arXiv:1904.09186v2 [math.NA]] and generalize the results there to the case of super-resolving…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-02 Ping Liu , Habib Ammari

Rayleigh's criterion for resolving two incoherent point sources has been the most influential measure of optical imaging resolution for over a century. In the context of statistical image processing, violation of the criterion is especially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 Mankei Tsang , Ranjith Nair , Xiao-Ming Lu

We study the ubiquitous super-resolution problem, in which one aims at localizing positive point sources in an image, blurred by the point spread function of the imaging device. To recover the point sources, we propose to solve a convex…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Armin Eftekhari , Tamir Bendory , Gongguo Tang

In mathematics, a super-resolution problem can be formulated as acquiring high-frequency data from low-frequency measurements. This extrapolation problem in the frequency domain is well-known to be unstable. We propose a model-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zetao Fei , Hai Zhang

This paper studies the spectral estimation problem of estimating the locations of a fixed number of point sources given multiple snapshots of Fourier measurements collected by a uniform array of sensors. We prove novel stability bounds for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Weilin Li , Zengying Zhu , Weiguo Gao , Wenjing Liao

In some super-resolution techniques, adjacent points are illuminated at different times. Thereby, their locations and light intensities can be detected even if the images are very blurred due to diffraction. According to conventional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-10 Edward Y. Sheffield

Achieving resolution in the sub-Rayleigh regime (superresolution) is one of the rapidly developing topics in quantum optics and metrology. Recently, it was shown that perfect measurement based on spatial mode demultiplexing (SPADE) in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Konrad Schlichtholz , Łukasz Rudnicki

In this paper, we study the spectral estimation problem of estimating the locations of a fixed number of point sources given multiple snapshots of Fourier measurements in a bounded domain. We aim to provide a mathematical foundation for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-27 Ping Liu , Sanghyeon Yu , Ola Sabet , Lucas Pelkmans , Habib Ammari

We study super-resolution multi-reference alignment, the problem of estimating a signal from many circularly shifted, down-sampled, and noisy observations. We focus on the low SNR regime, and show that a signal in $\mathbb{R}^M$ is uniquely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Tamir Bendory , Ariel Jaffe , William Leeb , Nir Sharon , Amit Singer

This paper studies sparse super-resolution in arbitrary dimensions. More precisely, it develops a theoretical analysis of support recovery for the so-called BLASSO method, which is an off-the-grid generalisation of l1 regularization (also…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Clarice Poon , Gabriel Peyré

The problem of super-resolution is concerned with the reconstruction of temporally/spatially localized events (or spikes) from samples of their convolution with a low-pass filter. Distinct from prior works which exploit sparsity in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-06 Pulak Sarangi , Ryoma Hattori , Takaki Komiyama , Piya Pal

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

From 1971 to 2012 dual-wavelength optical-metrology used only the demodulated low-sensitivity phase-difference of two close-sensitive fringes. Dual-wavelength phase-metrology that additionally uses the phase-sum was first reported by Di et…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-04-04 Manuel Servin , Moises Padilla , Guillermo Garnica

We present a parameter-decoupled superresolution framework for estimating sub-wavelength separations of passive two-point sources without requiring prior knowledge or control of the source. Our theoretical foundation circumvents the need to…

Super-resolution theory aims to estimate the discrete components lying in a continuous space that constitute a sparse signal with optimal precision. This work investigates the potential of recent super-resolution techniques for spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-24 M. Ferreira Da Costa , W. Dai

We consider the inverse problem of recovering the locations and amplitudes of a collection of point sources represented as a discrete measure, given $M+1$ of its noisy low-frequency Fourier coefficients. Super-resolution refers to a stable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Weilin Li , Wenjing Liao

We consider imaging of two partially coherent sources and derive the ultimate quantum limits for estimating the separation, location, relative intensity, and coherence factor. We show that super-resolution in the separation is achievable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Joaquín López-Suárez , Michalis Skotiniotis

Improving axial resolution is crucial for three-dimensional optical imaging systems. Here we present a scheme of axial superresolution for two incoherent point sources based on spatial mode demultiplexing. A radial mode sorter is used to…

Super-resolution is a fundamental problem in computer vision which aims to overcome the spatial limitation of camera sensors. While significant progress has been made in single image super-resolution, most algorithms only perform well on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Xiangyu Xu , Yongrui Ma , Wenxiu Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

In single-molecule microscopy it is necessary to locate with high precision point sources from noisy observations of the spectrum of the signal at frequencies capped by $f_c$, which is just about the frequency of natural light. This paper…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-06 Veniamin I. Morgenshtern , Emmanuel J. Candes