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Anisoplanatic effects can cause significant systematic photometric uncertainty in the analysis of dense stellar fields observed with adaptive optics. Program packages have been developed for a spatially variable PSF, but they require that a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-08 R. Schoedel

Integrated localization and communication systems aim to reuse communication waveforms for simultaneous data transmission and localization, but delay resolution is fundamentally limited by the available bandwidth. In practice, large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Jialun Kou , Achiel Colpaert , Zhuangzhuang Cui , Sofie Pollin

To determine the precise positions of stars in CCD frames, various centering algorithms have been proposed for astrometry. The effective point spread function (ePSF) and the Gaussian centering algorithms are two representative centering…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-28 F. R. Lin , Q. Y. Peng , Z. J. Zheng , B. F. Guo , Y. J. Shang

It is commonplace in cosmology to analyze fields projected onto the celestial sphere, and in particular density fields that are defined by a set of points e.g. galaxies. When performing an harmonic-space analysis of such data (e.g. an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Antón Baleato Lizancos , Martin White

Point spread function (PSF) engineering is vital for precisely controlling the focus of light in computational imaging, with applications in neural imaging, fluorescence microscopy, and biophotonics. The PSF is derived from the magnitude of…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-22 Aleksey Valouev

After reviewing a large body of literature on the modeling of bivariate discrete distributions with finite support, \cite{Gee20} made a compelling case for the use of $I$-projections in the sense of \cite{Csi75} as a sound way to attempt to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-18 Ivan Kojadinovic , Tommaso Martini

In this paper, we consider the problem in defocus image deblurring. Previous classical methods follow two-steps approaches, i.e., first defocus map estimation and then the non-blind deblurring. In the era of deep learning, some researchers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Qian Ye , Masanori Suganuma , Takayuki Okatani

We extend the pure pseudo-power-spectrum formalism proposed recently in the context of the Cosmic Microwave Background polarized power spectra estimation by Smith (2006) to incorporate cross-spectra computed for multiple maps of the same…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-09 J. Grain , M. Tristram , R. Stompor

Szapudi et al (2001) introduced the method of estimating angular power spectrum of the CMB sky via heuristically weighted correlation functions. Part of the new technique is that all (co)variances are evaluated by massive Monte Carlo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Szapudi , S. Prunet , S. Colombi

We use an iterative generalized least squares map-making algorithm, in conjunction with Monte Carlo techniques, to obtain estimates of the angular power spectrum from cosmic microwave background (CMB) maps. This is achieved by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Balbi , G. de Gasperis , P. Natoli , N. Vittorio

Symmetric nonnegative matrix factorization (SymNMF) has important applications in data analytics problems such as document clustering, community detection and image segmentation. In this paper, we propose a novel nonconvex variable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-27 Songtao Lu , Mingyi Hong , Zhengdao Wang

The prediction of chemical properties using Machine Learning (ML) techniques calls for a set of appropriate descriptors that accurately describe atomic and, on a larger scale, molecular environments. A mapping of conformational information…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-02 Martin P. Bircher , Andreas Singraber , Christoph Dellago

Distributed microphone arrays composed of multiple subarrays enable blind source separation over a wide spatial area. Directly applying fast multichannel nonnegative matrix factorization (FastMNMF) to all subarrays can exploit observations…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Hirotaka Nishikori , Nobutaka Ito , Kouei Yamaoka , Norihiro Takamune , Hiroshi Saruwatari

We have shown that the left side null space of the autoregression (AR) matrix operator is the lexicographical presentation of the point spread function (PSF) on condition the AR parameters are common for original and blurred images. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Yu. A. Bunyak , O. Yu. Sofina , R. N. Kvetnyy

The problem of detecting Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) clusters in multifrequency CMB observations is investigated using a number of filtering techniques. A multifilter approach is introduced, which optimizes the detection of SZ clusters on…

We demonstrate that artificial bipolar structure can be detected using spectro-astrometry when the point spread function (PSF) of a point source suffers distortion in a relatively wide slit. Spectro-astrometry is a technique which allows us…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Brannigan , M. Takami , A. Chrysostomou , J. Bailey

A long-standing challenge in multiple-particle-tracking is the accurate and precise 3D localization of individual particles at close proximity. One established approach for snapshot 3D imaging is point-spread-function (PSF) engineering, in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Elias Nehme , Boris Ferdman , Lucien E. Weiss , Tal Naor , Daniel Freedman , Tomer Michaeli , Yoav Shechtman

In the imaging process of an astronomical telescope, the deconvolution of its beam or Point Spread Function (PSF) is a crucial task. However, deconvolution presents a classical and challenging inverse computation problem. In scenarios where…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Shulei Ni , Yisheng Qiu , Yunchun Chen , Zihao Song , Hao Chen , Xuejian Jiang , Huaxi Chen

Marine Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) is employed both in large-scale geophysical applications as well as within exploration of hydrocarbons and gas hydrates. Due to the diffusive character of the EM field only very low…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-11-08 Feng-Ping Li , Vemund Stenbekk Thorkildsen , Leiv-J Gelius , Jian-Hua Yue

We present a method for measuring CMB polarization power spectra given incomplete sky coverage and test it with simulated examples such as Boomerang 2001 and MAP. By augmenting the quadratic estimator method with an additional step, we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Angelica de Oliveira-Costa