Ming Jiang

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | EPFL · Institute of Electrical Engineering

In a companion paper, a faceted wideband imaging technique for radio interferometry, dubbed Faceted HyperSARA, has been introduced and validated on synthetic data. Building on the recent HyperSARA approach, Faceted HyperSARA leverages the splitting functionality inherent to the underlying primal-dual forward-backward algorithm to decompose the imag...

In a companion paper, a faceted wideband imaging technique for radio interferometry, dubbed Faceted HyperSARA, has been introduced and validated on synthetic data. Building on the recent HyperSARA approach, Faceted HyperSARA leverages the splitting functionality inherent to the underlying primal-dual forward-backward algorithm to decompose the imag...

Upcoming radio interferometers are aiming to image the sky at new levels of resolution and sensitivity, with wide-band image cubes reaching close to the Petabyte scale for SKA. Modern proximal optimization algorithms have shown a potential to significantly outperform CLEAN thanks to their ability to inject complex image models to regularize the inv...

Variational-based methods are the state-of-the-art in sparse image deconvolution. Yet, this class of methods might not scale to large dimensions of interest in current high resolution imaging applications. To overcome this limitation, we propose to solve the sparse deconvo-lution problem through a two-step approach consisting in first solving (appr...

Wideband radio-interferometric (RI) imaging consists in estimating images of the sky across a whole frequency band from incomplete Fourier data. Powerful prior information is needed to regularize the inverse imaging problem. At the extreme resolution and dynamic range of interest to modern telescopes, image cubes will far exceed Terabyte sizes, wit...

Hyperspectral images exhibit strong spectral correlations, which can be exploited via a low-rankness and joint-sparsity prior when reconstructed from incomplete and noisy measurements. A state-of-the-art solution consists in using a regularization term based on both the 2,1 and the nuclear norms, which however does not scale well with large numbers...

The new generation of radio interferometer instruments, such as LOFAR and SKA, will allow us to build radio images with very high angular resolution and sensitivity. One of the major problems in interferometry imaging is that it involves an ill-posed inverse problem, because only a few Fourier components (visibility points) can be acquired by a rad...

The next-generation radio telescopes such as LOFAR and SKA will give access to high time-resolution and high instantaneous sensitivity that can be exploited to study slow and fast transients over the whole radio window. The search for radio transients in large datasets also represents a new signal-processing challenge requiring efficient and robust...

In the real world, current Blind Source Separation (BSS) methods are limited since extra instrumental effects like blurring have not been taken into account. Therefore, a more rigorous BSS has to be solved jointly with a deconvolution problem, yielding a new inverse problem: deconvolution BSS (DBSS). We introduce an innovative DBSS approach, called...

Blind Source Separation (BSS) is a challenging matrix factorization problem that plays a central role in multichannel imaging science. In a large number of applications, such as astrophysics, current unmixing methods are limited since real-world mixtures are generally affected by extra instrumental effects like blurring. Therefore, BSS has to be so...

Imaging by aperture synthesis from interferometric data is a well-known, but is a strong ill-posed inverse problem. Strong and faint radio sources can be imaged unambiguously using time and frequency integration to gather more Fourier samples of the sky. However, these imagers assumes a steady sky and the complexity of the problem increases when tr...