PROCEEDINGS ARTICLE | September 21, 1994
Proc. SPIE. 2298, Applications of Digital Image Processing XVII
KEYWORDS: Astronomy, Super resolution, Detection and tracking algorithms, Synthetic aperture radar, Image restoration, Fourier transforms, Distance measurement, Reconstruction algorithms, Astronomical imaging, Radio astronomy
An information divergence, such as Shannon mutual information, measures the `distance' between two probability density functions (or images). A wide class of such measures, called (alpha) -divergences, with desirable properties such as convexity over all space, has been defined by Amari. Renyi's information D(alpha ) is an (alpha) -divergence. Because of its convexity property, minimization of D(alpha ) is easily attained. Minimization accomplishes minimum distance (maximum resemblance) between an unknown image and a known, reference image. Such a biasing effect permits complex images, such as occur in ISAR imaging, to be well reconstructed. There, the bias image may be constructed as a smooth version of the linear. Fourier reconstruction of the data. Examples on simulated complex image data, with and without noise, indicate that the Renyi reconstruction approach permits super-resolution in low-noise cases, and higher fidelity over ordinary, linear reconstructions in higher-noise cases.
