Publications related to Astrophotography

Deep learning-based galaxy image deconvolution

Frédéric Courbin, Pascale Jablonka, Jean-Luc Starck, Utsav Akhaury, Kevin Michalewicz

With the onset of large-scale astronomical surveys capturing millions of images, there is an increasing need to develop fast and accurate deconvolution algorithms that generalize well to different images. A powerful and accessible deconvolution method woul ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Method and apparatus for volumetric additive manufacturing with digital distortion compensation

Christophe Moser, Paul Delrot, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie

The present invention is related to a method of digitally compensating distortions of rays of a light beam in tomography- based additive manufacturing, wherein said tomography-based additive manufacturing involves projecting light patterns from multiple an ...

2021

Learning convergence prediction of astrobots in multi-object spectrographs

Denis Gillet, Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Matin Macktoobian, Francesco Basciani

Astrobot swarms are used to capture astronomical signals to generate the map of the observable universe for the purpose of dark energy studies. The convergence of each swarm in the course of its coordination has to surpass a particular threshold to yield a ...

2021

Compression and visual quality assessment for light field contents

Irene Viola

Since its invention in the 19th century, photography has allowed to create durable images of the world around us by capturing the intensity of light that flows through a scene, first analogically by using light-sensitive material, and then, with the advent ...

EPFL2019

The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA-derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools, and Stellar Library

Anand Stéphane Raichoor, Zheng Zheng, Johan Comparat, David Schlegel, John Wilson, Amy Jones, Yuguang Chen, Cheng Li, Guillaume Blanc, Jiayi Sun, Meng Yang

Twenty years have passed since first light for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Here, we release data taken by the fourth phase of SDSS (SDSS-IV) across its first three years of operation (2014 July-2017 July). This is the third data release for SDSS-I ...

2019

Extracting High Resolution Snow Distribution Information with Inexpensive Autonomous Cameras

Wolf Hendrik Huwald, Steven Vincent Weijs

This study details a procedure to derive high resolution snow cover information using low-cost autonomous cameras. Images from time lapse photography of target areas are used to obtain temporally resolved binary snow-covered area information. Various image ...

EasyChair2018

Geometry-Consistent Light Field Super-Resolution via Graph-Based Regularization

Pascal Frossard, Mattia Rossi

Light field cameras capture the 3D information in a scene with a single exposure. This special feature makes light field cameras very appealing for a variety of applications: from post-capture refocus, to depth estimation and image-based rendering. However ...

2018

Testing parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars

Stephan Morgenthaler, Mikaël Martino, Shuangqing Liao

Context. Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids, and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the HIPPARCOS and Tycho-2 catalogues are published in Gaia Data Release 1 (DR1) as part of the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). Ai ...

Edp Sciences S A2017

Multi-band morpho-Spectral Component Analysis Deblending Tool (MuSCADeT): Deblending colourful objects

Frédéric Courbin, Rémy Elie Joseph

We introduce a new algorithm for colour separation and deblending of multi-band astronomical images called MuSCADeT which is based on Morpho-spectral Component Analysis of multi-band images. The MuSCADeT algorithm takes advantage of the sparsity of astrono ...

Edp Sciences S A2016

The Eleventh And Twelfth Data Releases Of The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data From Sdss-Iii

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Timothée Guy Olivier Delubac, Zheng Zheng, Johan Comparat, David Schlegel, Jian Liu, Yuguang Chen, Yue Shen, Pierre Laurent

The third generation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III) took data from 2008 to 2014 using the original SDSS wide-field imager, the original and an upgraded multi-object fiber-fed optical spectrograph, a new near-infrared high-resolution spectrograp ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Multiscale guided deblurring: Chromatic aberration correction in color and near-infrared imaging

Sabine Süsstrunk, Yue Lu, Zahra Sadeghipoor Kermani

Chromatic aberration, caused by photographic lens imperfections, results in the image of only one spectral channel being sharp, while the other channels are blurred depending on their wavelengths difference with the sharp channel. We study chromatic aberra ...

2015

Large Micromirror Array Based on a Scalable Technology for Astronomical Instrumentation

Michael David Canonica

Understanding the formation of galaxies and studying the expansion of the Universe, need the spectral characterization of faint astronomical objects such as stars or galaxies. From these spectra, the distance, the velocity and the chemical composition of t ...

EPFL2012

Quantitative Comparison of Commercial CCD and Custom-Designed CMOS Camera for Biological Applications

Giovanni De Micheli, Sandro Carrara, René Beuchat, Yusuf Leblebici, Gözen Köklü, Julien Michel Ghaye

In biological applications and systems where even the smallest details have a meaning, CCD cameras are mostly preferred and they hold most of the market share despite their high costs. In this paper, we propose a custom-designed CMOS camera to compete with ...

2012

Compressed sensing for radio interferometric imaging: review and future

Yves Wiaux, Jason Douglas McEwen

Radio interferometry is a powerful technique for astronomical imaging. The theory of compressed sensing (CS) has been applied recently to the ill-posed inverse problem of recovering images from the measurements taken by radio interferometric telescopes. We ...

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Revisiting Radiometric Calibration for Color Computer Vision

Sabine Süsstrunk, Seungryong Kim, Matthew Brown

We present a study of radiometric calibration and the in-camera imaging process through an extensive analysis of more than 10,000 images from over 30 cameras. The goal is to investigate if image values can be transformed to physically meaningful values and ...

2011

Image Reconstruction in the Gigavision Camera

Martin Vetterli, Edoardo Charbon, Sabine Süsstrunk, Luciano Sbaiz, Feng Yang

Recently we have proposed a new image device called the gigavision camera. The main feature of this camera is that the pixels have a binary response. The response function of a gigavision sensor is non-linear and similar to a logarithmic function, which ma ...

2009

Automated Digital Image Processing for Volume Change Measurement in Triaxial Cells

Lyesse Laloui, Laurent Vulliet

An automated digital image processing technique is presented for the measurement of specimen volume change during triaxial testing. A digital camera is fixed at a constant distance from the triaxial cell. Pictures taken at various intervals are processed ( ...

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