Computational Imaging for VLBI Image Reconstruction
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Bouman, Katherine L.
Johnson, Michael D.
Zoran, Daniel
Fish, Vincent L.
Doeleman, Sheperd Samuel
Freeman, William T.
Date Issued
June 2016
Journal
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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Bouman, Katherine L., Michael D. Johnson, Daniel Zoran, Vincent L. Fish, Sheperd S. Doeleman, and William T. Freeman. "Computational Imaging for VLBI Image Reconstruction." 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (June 2016).
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Abstract
Very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) is a technique for imaging celestial radio emissions by simultaneously observing a source from telescopes distributed across Earth. The challenges in reconstructing images from fine angular resolution VLBI data are immense. The data is extremely sparse and noisy, thus requiring statistical image models such as those designed in the computer vision community. In this paper we present a novel Bayesian approach for VLBI image reconstruction. While other methods often require careful tuning and parameter selection for different types of data, our method (CHIRP) produces good results under different settings such as low SNR or extended emission. The success of our method is demonstrated on realistic synthetic experiments as well as publicly available real data. We present this problem in a way that is accessible to members of the community, and provide a dataset website (vlbiimaging.csail.mit.edu) that facilitates controlled comparisons across algorithm.
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Haystack Observatory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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