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We propose a new, efficient multi-scale method to decompose a map (or signal in general) into components maps that contain structures of different sizes. In the widely-used wave transform, artifacts containing negative values arise around…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-11 Guang-Xing Li

Application of deconvolution algorithms to astronomical images is often limited by variations in PSF structure over the domain of the images. One major difficulty is that Fourier methods can no longer be used for fast convolutions over the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tod R. Lauer

Segmented primary mirrors are indispensable to master the steady increase in spatial resolution. Phasing optics systems must reduce segment misalignments to guarantee the high optical quality required for astronomical science programs.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-29 Martinez , Janin-Potiron

Using projection between Euclidian spaces of different dimensions, the signal compression and decompression become straightforward. This encoding/decoding technique requires no preassigned measuring matrix as in compressed sensing.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-31 Daizhan Cheng

Lensless on-chip microscopy has shown great potential for biomedical imaging due to its large-area and high-throughput imaging capabilities. By combining the pixel super-resolution (PSR) technique, it can improve the resolution beyond the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Xuyang Chang , Shaowei Jiang , Yongcun Hu , Liheng Bian

We describe a "spatio-spectral" deconvolution algorithm for wide-band imaging in radio interferometry. In contrast with the existing multi-frequency reconstruction algorithms, the proposed method does not rely on a model of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 André Ferrari , Jérémy Deguignet , Chiara Ferrari , David Mary , Antony Schutz , Oleg Smirnov

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a recently developed computational imaging technique for wide-field, high-resolution microscopy with a high space-bandwidth product. It integrates the concepts of synthetic aperture and phase…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-30 Chuanjian Zheng , Shaohui Zhang , Guocheng Zhou , Yao Hu , Qun Hao

Image Phase Alignment Super-Sampling (ImPASS) is a computational imaging algorithm for converting a sequence of displaced low-resolution images into a single high-resolution image. The method consists of a unique combination of Phase…

Optics · Physics 2025-09-01 James N. Caron

Two-Photon Laser-Scanning Microscopy is a powerful tool for exploring biological structure and function because of its ability to optically section through a sample with a tight focus. While it is possible to obtain 3D image stacks by…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Courtney Johnson , Jack Exell , Jonathon Kuo , Kevin Welsher

This work builds on the previous introduction [1] of a coupled experimental-computational system devised to fully characterize the thermal behavior of complex 3D submicron electronic devices. The new system replaces the laser-based surface…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-09-13 Peter E. Raad , Pavel L. Komarov , M. Burzo

We report a new lensless microscopy configuration by integrating the concepts of transverse translational ptychography and defocus multi-height phase retrieval. In this approach, we place a tilted image sensor under the specimen for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Shaowei Jiang , Chengfei Guo , Patrick Hu , Derek Hu , Pengming Song , Tianbo Wang , Zichao Bian , Zibang Zhang , Guoan Zheng

The Richardson-Lucy method is the most popular deconvolution method in astronomy because it preserves the number of counts and the non-negativity of the original object. Regularization is, in general, obtained by an early stopping of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-10 M. Prato , R. Cavicchioli , L. Zanni , P. Boccacci , M. Bertero

Telescopes often modify the input polarization of a source so that the measured circular or linear output state of the optical signal can be signficantly different from the input. This mixing, or polarization "cross-talk", is defined by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. M. Harrington , J. R. Kuhn , S. Hall

An extended aperture has the potential to greatly improve ultrasound imaging performance. This work extends the effective aperture size by coherently compounding the received radio frequency data from multiple transducers. A framework is…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-11-12 Laura Peralta , Alberto Gomez , Ying Luan , Baehyung Kim , Joseph V. Hajnal , Robert J. Eckersley

Deep learning methods for pansharpening have advanced rapidly, yet models pretrained on data from a specific sensor often generalize poorly to data from other sensors. Existing methods to tackle such cross-sensor degradation include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Tianyu Xin , Jin-Liang Xiao , Zeyu Xia , Shan Yin , Liang-Jian Deng

Increasing the resolution of image sensors has been a never ending struggle since many years. In this paper, we propose a novel image sensor layout which allows for the acquisition of images at a higher resolution and improved quality. For…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Jürgen Seiler , Markus Jonscher , Thomas Ussmueller , André Kaup

Accurate and fast 3D imaging of specular surfaces still poses major challenges for state-of-the-art optical measurement principles. Frequently used methods, such as phase-measuring deflectometry (PMD) or shape-from-polarization (SfP), rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jiazhang Wang , Oliver Cossairt , Florian Willomitzer

In radio astronomy, holography is a commonly used technique to create an image of the electric field distribution in the aperture of a dish antenna. The image is used to detect imperfections in the reflector surface. Similarly, holography…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-09 U. Kiefner , R. B. Wayth , D. B. Davidson , M. Sokolowski

The Two Photon Absorption - Transient Current Technique (TPA-TCT) was used to investigate a silicon strip detector with illumination from the top. Measurement and analysis techniques for the TPA-TCT of segmented devices are presented and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-11-21 Sebastian Pape , Esteban Curras , Marcos Fernandez Garcia , Michael Moll

In four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D STEM) a focused beam is scanned over a specimen and a diffraction pattern is recorded at each position using a pixelated detector. During the experiment, it must be ensured…