Blind deconvolution is the problem of image deblurring when both the original object and the blur are unknown. In this work, we show a particular astronomical imaging problem, in which p images of the same astronomical object are acquired and convolved with p different Point Spread Functions (PSFs). According to the maximum likelihood approach, this becomes a constrained minimization problem with p+1 blocks of variables, whose objective function is globally non convex. Thanks to the separable structure of the constraints, the problem can be treated by means of an inexact alternating minimization method whose limit points are stationary for the function. This method has been tested on some realistic datasets and the numerical results are hereby reported to show its effectiveness on both sparse and diffuse astronomical objects.

An alternating minimization method for blind deconvolution in astronomy / Rebegoldi, Simone; Bonettini, Silvia; A., La Camera; Prato, Marco. - (2014).

An alternating minimization method for blind deconvolution in astronomy

REBEGOLDI, SIMONE;BONETTINI, Silvia;PRATO, Marco
2014

Abstract

Blind deconvolution is the problem of image deblurring when both the original object and the blur are unknown. In this work, we show a particular astronomical imaging problem, in which p images of the same astronomical object are acquired and convolved with p different Point Spread Functions (PSFs). According to the maximum likelihood approach, this becomes a constrained minimization problem with p+1 blocks of variables, whose objective function is globally non convex. Thanks to the separable structure of the constraints, the problem can be treated by means of an inexact alternating minimization method whose limit points are stationary for the function. This method has been tested on some realistic datasets and the numerical results are hereby reported to show its effectiveness on both sparse and diffuse astronomical objects.
2014
Marsiglia
20-24 ottobre 2014
Rebegoldi, Simone; Bonettini, Silvia; A., La Camera; Prato, Marco
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