APEX blind deconvolution of color Hubble space telescope imagery and other astronomical data

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Carasso, Alfred S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Andromeda galaxy; APEX method; Blind deconvolution; Color imagery; Heavy tailed point spread functions; Hubble space telescope; Inverse diffusion equations; Slow evolution from continuation boundary method; Whirlpool galaxy

Indexed keywords

BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ADVANCED CAMERA FOR SURVEYS; BLIND DECONVOLUTION TECHNIQUE; INVERSE DIFFUSION EQUATIONS;

SPACE TELESCOPES;

EID: 33846071700     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2362579     Document Type: Article

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