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Direct inversion of incomplete visibility samples in VLBI (Very Large Baseline Interferometry) radio telescopes produces images with convolutive artifacts. Since proper analysis and interpretations of astronomical radio sources require a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-06 Andriyan Bayu Suksmono

In this work, we propose a new approach for efficient edge-preserving image deconvolution. Our algorithm is based on a novel type of explicit image filter - guided filter. The guided filter can be used as an edge-preserving smoothing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Hang Yang , Ming Zhu , Zhongbo Zhang , Heyan Huang

Single-pixel imaging (SPI) has attracted widespread attention because it generally uses a non-pixelated photodetector and a digital micromirror device (DMD) to acquire the object image. Since the modulated patterns seen from two reflection…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-18 Wen-Kai Yu , Ying Yang , Jin-Rui Liu , Ning Wei , Shuo-Fei Wang

A non iterative direct blind deconvolution procedure, previously used successfully to sharpen Hubble Space Telescope imagery, is now found useful in sharpening nanoscale scanning electron microscope (SEM) and helium ion microscope (HIM)…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-28 Alfred S. Carasso , Andras E. Vladar

Blind deconvolution and demixing is the problem of reconstructing convolved signals and kernels from the sum of their convolutions. This problem arises in many applications, such as blind MIMO. This work presents a separable approach to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-21 Dana Weitzner , Raja Giryes

Ultrasound reflection tomography is widely used to image large complex specimens that are only accessible from a single side, such as well systems and nuclear power plant containment walls. Typical methods for inverting the measurement rely…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-01 Hani Almansouri , S. V. Venkatakrishnan , Gregery T. Buzzard , Charles A. Bouman , Hector Santos-Villalobos

Interferometric radio astronomy data require the effects of limited coverage in the Fourier plane to be accounted for via a deconvolution process. For the last 40 years this process, known as `cleaning', has been performed almost…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-15 Luke Pratley , Melanie Johnston-Hollitt

We demonstrate a motion-free intensity diffraction tomography technique that enables direct inversion of 3D phase and absorption from intensity-only measurements for weakly scattering samples. We derive a novel linear forward model,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-26 Ruilong Ling , Waleed Tahir , Hsing-Ying Lin , Hakho Lee , Lei Tian

One of the main goals of modern observational cosmology is to map the large scale structure of the Universe. A potentially powerful approach for doing this would be to exploit three-dimensional spectral maps, i.e. the specific intensity of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Roland de Putter , Gilbert P. Holder , Tzu-Ching Chang , Olivier Dore

Defect detection by ultrasonic method is limited by the pulse width. Resolution can be improved through a deconvolution process with a priori information of the pulse or by its estimation. In this paper a regularization of the Wiener filter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-17 Roberto H. Herrera , Eduardo Moreno , Héctor Calas , Rubén Orozco

Adaptive (or deformable) mirrors are widely used as wavefront correctors in adaptive optics systems. The optical calibration of an adaptive mirror is a fundamental step during its life-cycle: the process is in facts required to compute a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-11 Runa Briguglio , Marco Xompero , Armando Riccardi

The decomposition of a stochastic time series into three component series representing a dual signal - namely, the mean and dispersion - while isolating noise is presented. The decomposition is performed by applying machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Alex Glushkovsky

For submillimeter spectroscopy with ground-based single-dish telescopes, removing noise contribution from the Earth's atmosphere and the instrument is essential. For this purpose, here we propose a new method based on a data-scientific…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-20 Akio Taniguchi , Yoichi Tamura , Shiro Ikeda , Tatsuya Takekoshi , Ryohei Kawabe

A method for spatial deconvolution of spectra is presented. It follows the same fundamental principles as the ``MCS image deconvolution algorithm'' (Magain, Courbin, Sohy, 1998) and uses information contained in the spectrum of a reference…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Courbin , P. Magain , M. Kirkove , S. Sohy

Despite super-resolution fluorescence blinking microscopes break the diffraction limit, the intense phototoxic illumination and long-term image sequences thus far still pose to major challenges in visualizing live-organisms. Here, we…

Photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) are extensively employed as photosensors in neutrino and dark matter detection. The precise charge and timing information extracted from the PMT waveform plays a crucial role in energy and vertex reconstruction.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-14 Jingzhe Tang , Tianying Xiao , Xuan Tang , Yongbo Huang

In this paper, a novel method to enhance Frequency Modulated Continuous Wave (FMCW) THz imaging resolution beyond its diffraction limit is proposed. Our method comprises two stages. Firstly, we reconstruct the signal in depth-direction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-03 Tak Ming Wong , Matthias Kahl , Peter Haring Bolívar , Andreas Kolb

Optical beams and starlight distorted by atmospheric turbulence can be corrected with adaptive optics systems to enable efficient coupling into single-mode fibers. Deformable mirrors, used to flatten the wavefront in astronomical…

Heavy sweep distortion induced by alignments and inter-reflections of layers of a sample is a major burden in recovering 2D and 3D information in time resolved spectral imaging. This problem cannot be addressed by conventional denoising and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Alireza Aghasi , Barmak Heshmat , Albert Redo-Sanchez , Justin Romberg , Ramesh Raskar

Ground-based mid-infrared (MIR) astronomical observations require the removal of the fast time variable components of (a) sky/background variation and (b) array background. Typically, this has been achieved through oscillating the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Amílcar R. Torres-Quijano , Christopher Packham , Sergio Fernandez Acosta