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We demonstrate that sub-wavelength optical images borne on partially-spatially-incoherent light can be recovered, from their far-field or from the blurred image, given the prior knowledge that the image is sparse, and only that. The…

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We present a simple method to accurately infer line of sight (LOS) integrated lensing effects for galaxy scale strong lens systems through image reconstruction. Our approach enables us to separate weak lensing LOS effects from the main…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Simon Birrer , Cyril Welschen , Adam Amara , Alexandre Refregier

Weak gravitational lensing has the potential to place tight constraints on the equation of the state of dark energy. However, this will only be possible if shear measurement methods can reach the required level of accuracy. We present a new…

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We describe a novel end-to-end approach using Machine Learning to reconstruct the power spectrum of cosmological density perturbations at high redshift from observed quasar spectra. State-of-the-art cosmological simulations of structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Maria Han Veiga , Xi Meng , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Nickolay Y. Gnedin , Xun Huan

We study the prospects for three-dimensional mapping of the dark matter to high redshift through the shearing of faint galaxies images at multiple distances by gravitational lensing. Such maps could provide invaluable information on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-12 Wayne Hu , Charles R. Keeton

Weak gravitational lensing is considered to be one of the most powerful tools to study the mass and the mass distribution of galaxy clusters. However, weak lensing mass reconstructions are plagued by the so-called mass-sheet degeneracy--the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Bradac , M. Lombardi , P. Schneider

Precise reconstruction of the cosmic microwave background lensing potential can be achieved with deep polarization surveys by iteratively removing lensing-induced $B$ modes. We introduce a lensing spectrum estimator and its likelihood for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-13 Louis Legrand , Julien Carron

Recently, a number of methods have emerged to detect galaxy clusters solely through their weak lensing signal. Using the recently-introduced wavelet multi-scale detection method, we focus here on the potential for the use of tomographic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 L. Chappuis , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , G. Leroy , A. Daurelle , C. Giocoli , C. Carbone

Field-level inference is emerging as a promising technique for optimally extracting information from cosmological datasets. Indeed, previous analyses have shown field-based inference produces tighter parameter constraints than power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-04 Supranta S. Boruah , Eduardo Rozo

Accurate measurement of light wavelength is critical for applications in spectroscopy, optical communication, and semiconductor manufacturing, ensuring precision and consistency of sensing, high-speed data transmission and device…

Compression at low bitrates in modern codecs often introduces banding artifacts, especially in smooth regions such as skies. These artifacts degrade visual quality and are common in user-generated content due to repeated transcoding. We…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Xinyi Wang , Smaranda Tasmoc , Nantheera Anantrasirichai , Angeliki Katsenou

This paper investigates the shape reconstructions of sub-wavelength objects from near-field measurements in transverse electromagnetic scattering. This geometric inverse problem is notoriously ill-posed and challenging. We develop a novel…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 M. H. Ding , H. Y. Liu , G. H. Zheng

We study the reliability of dark matter (DM) profile determinations for rich clusters of galaxies based on weak gravitational lensing measurements. We consider three functional forms for the mass distribution: a softened isothermal sphere…

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Limited-angle computed tomography (CT) is often used in clinical applications such as C-arm CT for interventional imaging. However, CT images from limited angles suffers from heavy artifacts due to incomplete projection data. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Jawook Gu , Jong Chul Ye

Latest diffusion-based methods for many image restoration tasks outperform traditional models, but they encounter the long-time inference problem. To tackle it, this paper proposes a Wavelet-Based Diffusion Model (WaveDM). WaveDM learns the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yi Huang , Jiancheng Huang , Jianzhuang Liu , Mingfu Yan , Yu Dong , Jiaxi Lv , Chaoqi Chen , Shifeng Chen

Combining redshift and galaxy shape information offers new exciting ways of exploiting the gravitational lensing effect for studying the large scales of the cosmos. One application is the three-dimensional reconstruction of the matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Patrick Simon , Andy Taylor , Jan Hartlap

Image inpainting is the process of regenerating lost parts of the image. Supervised algorithm-based methods have shown excellent results but have two significant drawbacks. They do not perform well when tested with unseen data. They fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Shubham Gupta , Rahul Kunigal Ravishankar , Madhoolika Gangaraju , Poojasree Dwarkanath , Natarajan Subramanyam

We present the results of a weak lensing survey of six high-redshift (z > 0.5), X-ray selected clusters of galaxies. We have obtained ultra-deep R-band images of each cluster with the Keck Telescope, and have measured a weak lensing signal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Clowe , G. Luppino , N. Kaiser , I. Gioia

Wavelet frame systems are known to be effective in capturing singularities from noisy and degraded images. In this paper, we introduce a new edge driven wavelet frame model for image restoration by approximating images as piecewise smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Jae Kyu Choi , Bin Dong , Xiaoqun Zhang

We present a comprehensive full-sky 3-dimensional analysis of the weak-lensing fields and their corresponding power spectra. Using the formalism of spin-weight spherical harmonics and spherical Bessel functions, we relate the two-point…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Castro , A. F. Heavens , T. D. Kitching