The familiar tools of Fourier analysis and Fisher matrices are applied to derive the uncertainties on photometric, astrometric, and weak-lensing measurements of stars and galaxies in real astronomical images. Many effects or functions that are ignored in basic exposure-time calculators can be included in this framework: pixels of size comparable to the stellar image; undersampled and dithered e...

Feedback systems are essential for stable operation of a linear collider, providing a cost-effective method for relaxing tight tolerances. In the Stanford Linear Collider (SLC), feedback controls beam parameters such as trajectory, energy, and intensity throughout the accelerator. A novel dithering optimization system which adjusts final focus parameters to maximize luminosity contributed to ac...

Flow cytometers are powerful high-throughput devices that capture spectroscopic information from individual particles or cells. These instruments provide a means of multi-parametric analyses for various cellular biomarkers or labeled organelles and cellular proteins. However, the spectral overlap of fluorophores limits the number of fluorophores that can be used simultaneously during experiment...

Octave subband coding has been used as an efficient image coding approach for various well-known standards such as MPEG-4 and JPEG-2000. Although the sub-images in the octave subband representation have low statistical correlation, the visual similarity among the sub-images indicates that there exists some unexploited perceptual redundancy between sibling bands in addition to the parent–child r...

The performance of speech recognition systems can be significantly degraded if the speech spectrum is distorted. This includes situations such as the usage of an improper recording device, enhancement technique or speech coder. This paper presents a front-end compensation method called spectrally selective dithering aimed at reconstructing the spectral characteristics of nonlinearly distorted s...