Statistics – Methodology
Scientific paper
Jul 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008stmet...5..361j&link_type=abstract
Statistical Methodology, Volume 5, Issue 4, p. 361-372.
Statistics
Methodology
Scientific paper
Virtual observatories give us access to huge amounts of image data that are often redundant. Our goal is to take advantage of this redundancy by combining images of the same field of view into a single model. To achieve this goal, we propose to develop a multi-source data fusion method that relies on probability and band-limited signal theory. The target object is an image to be inferred from a number of blurred and noisy sources, possibly from different sensors under various conditions (i.e. resolution, shift, orientation, blur, noise...). We aim at the recovery of a compound model “image + uncertainties” that best relates to the observations and contains a maximum of useful information from the initial data set. Thus, in some cases, spatial super-resolution may be required in order to preserve the information. We propose to use a Bayesian inference scheme to invert a forward model, which describes the image formation process for each observation and takes into account some a priori knowledge (e.g. stars as point sources). This involves both automatic registration and spatial resampling, which are ill-posed inverse problems that are addressed within a rigorous Bayesian framework. The originality of the work is in devising a new technique of multi-image data fusion that provides us with super-resolution, self-calibration and possibly model selection capabilities. This approach should outperform existing methods such as resample-and-add or drizzling since it can handle different instrument characteristics for each input image and compute uncertainty estimates as well. Moreover, it is designed to also work in a recursive way, so that the model can be updated when new data become available.
Gutiérrez J. A.
Jalobeanu Andre
Slezak Eric
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