Comparison of Optical Sparse Aperture Image Restoration with Experimental PSF and Designed PSF

Zhiwei Zhou (Beijing University of Technology), Dayong Wang (Beijing University of Technology), Juan Zhao (Beijing University of Technology), Yuhong Wan (Beijing University of Technology), Zhuqing Jiang (Beijing University of Technology), Shiquan Tao (Beijing University of Technology)

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The digital post-processing is needed to restore the image of high quality from the blurring image output directly from optical sparse aperture imaging systems. The common method for post-processing is the Wiener filter, where the important parameter is the point spread function (PSF). The Wiener filter will deconvolve the convolution effect if the PSF is the precise impulse response of the optical sparse aperture system. Usually it is hard to measure the PSF experimentally; on the contrary, it is easy to calculate the PSF based on telescope array configuration, which is given by design. In order to evaluate whether the calculated PSF is adaptable to the image restoration, a comparison of the image restoration has been done by using these two kinds of PSFs. The results show that the calculated PSF works well in the case that the co-phasing error is small, while the measured PSF is ineffective.

Date of Conference: September 1-4. 2009

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