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Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

In single molecule orientation localization microscopy, valuable information about the orientation and longitudinal position of each molecule is often encoded in the shape of the point spread function (PSF). This shape, though, can be…

Four different applications of spectral proper orthogonal decomposition (SPOD): low-rank reconstruction, denoising, frequency-time analysis, and prewhitening are demonstrated on large-eddy simulation data of a turbulent jet. SPOD-based…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-22 Akhil Nekkanti , Oliver T. Schmidt

Time-delay error is a significant error source in adaptive optics (AO) systems. It arises from the latency between sensing the wavefront and applying the correction. Predictive control algorithms reduce the time-delay error, providing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-27 Jalo Nousiainen , Juha-Pekka Puska , Tapio Helin , Nuutti Hyvönen , Markus Kasper

This paper tackles the optimization of the point spread function (PSF) of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-borne multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) tomography systems. A swarm of UAV-borne SAR systems is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Pouya Fakharizadeh , Mohamed-Amine Lahmeri , Gerhard Krieger , Robert Schober

The shear measurement is a crucial task in the current and the future weak lensing survey projects. And the reconstruction of the point spread function(PSF) is one of the essential steps. In this work, we present three different methods,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-28 Baishun Li , Guoliang Li , Jun Cheng , John Peterson , Wei Cui

Knowledge of the atmospheric turbulence in the telescope line-of-sight is crucial for wide-field observations assisted by adaptive optics (AO), for which the Point Spread Function (PSF) becomes strongly elongated due to the anisoplanatism…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 O. Beltramo-Martin , C. M. Correia , B. Neichel , T. Fusco

Noninvasive X-ray imaging of nanoscale three-dimensional objects, e.g. integrated circuits (ICs), generally requires two types of scanning: ptychographic, which is translational and returns estimates of complex electromagnetic field through…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Iksung Kang , Ziling Wu , Yi Jiang , Yudong Yao , Junjing Deng , Jeffrey Klug , Stefan Vogt , George Barbastathis

Instrumental aberrations strongly limit high-contrast imaging of exoplanets, especially when they produce quasistatic speckles in the science images. With the help of recent advances in deep learning, we have developed in previous works an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-14 Maxime Quesnel , Gilles Orban de Xivry , Olivier Absil , Gilles Louppe

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) offer energy efficiency over artificial neural networks (ANNs) but suffer from high latency and computational overhead due to their multi-timestep operational nature. While various dynamic computation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Donghwa Kang , Doohyun Kim , Sang-Ki Ko , Jinkyu Lee , Brent ByungHoon Kang , Hyeongboo Baek

A critical analysis and comparison of different methods for obtaining point spread function (PSF) photometry are carried out. Deep ACS observations of NGC3370 were reduced using four distinct approaches. These reductions explore a number of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-08 In Sung Jang

We present a detailed analysis of the point spread function (PSF) of JWST NIRCam imaging in eight filters: F070W, F115W, F150W, F200W, F277W, F356W, F444W, and F480M, using publicly available data. Spatial variations in the PSF FWHM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-04-28 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Yue Shen

The in-flight calibration and performance of the Solar Disk Imager (SDI), which is a pivotal instrument of the Lyman-alpha Solar Telescope (LST) onboard the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S) mission, suggested a much lower…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-03 Hui Liu , Hui Li , Sizhong Zou , Kaifan Ji , Zhenyu Jin , Jiahui Shan , Jingwei Li , Guanglu Shi , Yu Huang , Li Feng , Jianchao Xue , Qiao Li , Dechao Song , Ying Li

The development of adaptive optics (AO) played a major role in modern astronomy over the last three decades. By compensating for the atmospheric turbulence, these systems enable to reach the diffraction limit on large telescopes. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-05 Julien Milli , Dimitri Mawet , David Mouillet , Markus Kasper , Julien H. Girard

We report a novel generalized optical measurement system and computational approach to determine and correct aberrations in optical systems. We developed a computational imaging method capable of reconstructing an optical system's…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-10 Jaebum Chung , Gloria W. Martinez , Karen Lencioni , Srinivas Sadda , Changhuei Yang

In the recent Astro2020 Decadal Report, ''Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s'' Adaptive Optics (AO) was identified as a crucial technology for a variety of reasons. These included an emphasis on high-contrast…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Julian Christou , Mark Chun , Richard Dekany , Philip Hinz , Jessica Lu , Jared Males , Peter Wizinowich

We propose a direct reconstruction algorithm for Computed Tomography, based on a local fusion of a few preliminary image estimates by means of a non-linear fusion rule. One such rule is based on a signal denoising technique which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Joseph Shtok , Michael Zibulevsky , Michael Elad

We propose a method to restore and to segment simultaneously images degraded by a known point spread function (PSF) and additive white noise. For this purpose, we propose a joint Bayesian estimation framework, where a family of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-13 Hacheme Ayasso , Ali Mohammad-Djafari

A series of modified cognitive-only particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithms effectively mitigate premature convergence by constructing distinct vectors for different particles. However, the underutilization of these constructed vectors…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhenxing Zhang , Tianxian Zhang , Xiangliang Xu

Purpose: To develop an algorithm for robust partial Fourier (PF) reconstruction applicable to diffusion-weighted (DW) images with non-smooth phase variations. Methods: Based on an unrolled proximal splitting algorithm, a neural network…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Fasil Gadjimuradov , Thomas Benkert , Marcel Dominik Nickel , Andreas Maier