Jean-Luc Starck

SparseAstro project

Goal of the projects

This project is supported by the European Research Council grant SparseAstro (ERC-228261) for a period of five years, starting October 1st, 2009. The goals of this project are:

Develop tools for analyzing multi-valued astronomical data using sparsity.
Create software packages which include these tools.
Use these tools in the framework of different astronomical international projects (PLANCK, FERMI, EUCLID).

The CEA SparseAstro team

Jerome Bobin (CEA), Soumem Basak (postdoc), Adrienne Leonard (postdoc), Daniel Machado (PhD), Paniez Paykari (postdoc), Sandrine Pires (CEA), Simon Beckouche (PhD), Jean-Luc Starck (CEA, P.I.), Florent Sureau (CEA), Martin Kilbinger (CEA), Francois Lanusse (PhD), Fred Ngole-Mboula (PhD)

Book

Sparse Image and Signal Processing: Wavelets, Curvelets, Morphological Diversity

Chapters in Books

A. Leonard, J.-L. Starck, S. Pires , F.-X Dupe, Exploring the Components of the Universe Through Higher-Order Weak Lensing Statistics, Open Questions in Cosmology, Gonzalo J. Olmo (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-51-0880-1, InTech, DOI: 10.5772/51871, 2012.
J. Schmitt, J.-L. Starck, J. Fadili, S. Digel, Poisson Noise Removal in Spherical Multichannel Images: Application to Fermi Data "Poisson Noise Removal in Spherical Multichannel Images: Application to FERMI Data", in Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Eds.: Michael J. Way, Jeffrey D. Scargle, Kamal M. Ali, Ashok N. Srivastava, p. 183-209, 2012.
S. Pires, J.-L. Starck, A. Leonard, and A. Refregier, "Weak Graviational Lensing", in Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Eds.: Michael J. Way, Jeffrey D. Scargle, Kamal M. Ali, Ashok N. Srivastava, p. 287-321, 2012.
P. Paykari and J.-L. Starck, "Cosmic Microwave Background Data Analysis", in Advances in Machine Learning and Data Mining for Astronomy, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Eds.: Michael J. Way, Jeffrey D. Scargle, Kamal M. Ali, Ashok N. Srivastava, p. 55-87, 2012.
A. Labatie, J.-L. Starck and M. Lachieze-Rey, "Statistical Study of the Galaxy Distribution", Advances in Modern Cosmology, Adnan Ghribi (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-423-8, InTech, 2011.
J.-L. Starck, F. Murtagh, and M. Bertero, "The Starlet Transform in Astronomical Data Processing: Application to Source Detection and Image Deconvolution", Springer, Handbook of Mathematical Methods in Imaging, pp 1489-1531, 2011.

Conference/Tutorial Organization

Special Session on Sparsity, Tour of Inverse Problems, ICIP'09, Cairo , November 7-11, 2009.
International Conference Organization on Astronomical Data Analysis, + Tutorial on Sparsity, Monastir, Tunisia, 3-7 May, 2010.
Minisymposia on Inverse Problems in Astronomy, Applied Inverse Problems Conference, May 23-27, 2011
International Workshop on Cosmology and Sparsity , May 30 - June 1, 2011 Nice, France
Special Session on Sparsity, Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy V, June 15, State College, Pennsylvania, USA, 2011.
Special Session on Sparsity and Inverse Problems in Image Processing , Inverse Problems, Control and Shape Optimization , April 2 - 4 , Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 2012.
Astronomical Data Analysis Tutorial , 7-11 May 2012, Cargese, Corsica
Astronomical Data Analysis VII (ADA7), 14-18 May 2012, Cargese, Corsica
Session on Astrophysical signal processing highlights, international biomedical and astronomical signal processing (BASP) Frontiers workshop , Jan 27 - Feb 1, 2013, Versoix, Swiss.
Workshop on weak gravitational lensing - beyond the ordinary , 3-5 June 2013, Nice, France.
Astrostatistic School, Oct 21 - 25, 2013.
Statistical Challenges in 21st Century Cosmology, Lisbon, Portugal, May 25 - 29, 2014.
International Workshop on Cosmology and Sparsity 2, Nice, France, Sep 7 - 11, 2014.

Publications

F. Lanusse, P. Paykari, J-L. Starck, F. Sureau, and J. Bobin, "PRISM: Recovery of the primordial spectrum from Planck data", Astronomy and Astrophysics , in press.
A. Leonard, F. Lanusse and J.-L. Starck, "Weak lensing reconstructions in 2D & 3D: implications for cluster studies", submitted.
F.M. Mboula , J.-L. Starck, S. Ronayette, K. Okumura and J. Amiaux, "Super-resolution method using sparse regularization for point-spread function recovery", Astronomy and Astrophysics , in press.
H. Garsden, J. Girard, J.-L. Starck, S. Corbel, C. Tasse et al, "LOFAR Sparse Image Reconstruction", Astronomy and Astrophysics , submitted.
F. Lanusse, A. Rassat and J-L. Starck, "3D Galaxy Clustering with Future Wide-Field Surveys: Advantages of a Spherical Fourier-Bessel analysis", Astronomy and Astrophysics , submitted.
A. Rassat, J-L. Starck, P. Paykari, F. Sureau and J. Bobin, "Planck CMB Anomalies: Astrophysical and Cosmological Foregrounds and the Curse of Masking", Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics , 08, id. 006, 2014.
F. Sureau, J. -L. Starck, J. Bobin, P. Paykari and A. Rassat, "Sparse point source removal for full sky CMB experiments: application to WMAP 9-year", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 566, id.A100, 2014.
P. Paykari, F. Lanusse and J.-L. Starck, "PRISM: Sparse recovery of the primordial spectrum", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 566, id.A77, 2014.
J. Bobin, F. Sureau, J.-L. Starck, A. Rassat and P. Paykari, "Joint Planck and WMAP CMB Map Reconstruction", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 563, id.A105, 2014.
A. Leonard, F. Lanusse and J.-L. Starck, "GLIMPSE: Accurate 3D weak lensing reconstructions using sparsity", MNRAS , 440, 2, 2014.
D. Machado, A. Leonard, J-L. Starck, and F. Abdalla, "Darth Fader: Using wavelets to obtain accurate redshifts of spectra at very low signal-to-noise", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 560, id.A83, pp 20, 2013.
A. Rassat and J-L. Starck, "On Preferred Axes in WMAP Cosmic Microwave Background Data after Subtraction of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 557, id.L1, pp 7, 2013.
A. Rassat, J-L. Starck, and F.X. Dupe, "Removal of two large scale Cosmic Microwave Background anomalies after subtraction of the Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 557, id.A32, pp 15, 2013.
J. Bobin, F. Sureau, P. Paykari, A. Rassat, S. Basak and J.-L. Starck, "WMAP 9-year CMB estimation using sparsity", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 553, L4, pp 10, 2013.
D. Machado, A. Leonard, J-L. Starck, and F. Abdalla, "Darth Fader: Using wavelets to obtain accurate redshifts of spectra at very low signal-to-noise", Astronomy and Astrophysics , submitted.
J.-L. Starck, D.L. Donoho, M.J. Fadili and A. Rassat, "Sparsity and the Bayesian Perspective", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 552, A133, 2013.
S. Beckouche, J.-L. Starck, G. Peyre and J. Fadili, "Astronomical Image Denoising using Dictionary Learning", Astronomy and Astrophysics , in press.
E. Chapman et al , "The Scale of the Problem : Recovering Images of Reionization with GMCA", MNRAS, 429, pp 165-176, 2013
J. Bobin, J.-L. Starck, F. Sureau and S. Basak, "Sparse component separation for accurate CMB map estimation" , Astronomy and Astrophysics , 550, A73, 2013.
J.-L. Starck, A. Rassat, and M.J. Fadili, "Low-l CMB Analysis and Inpainting", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 550, A15, 2013
A. Labatie, J.-L. Starck, and M. Lachieze-Rey, "Effect of model-dependent covariance matrix for studying Baryon Acoustic Oscillations", Astrophycical Journal , 760, 2, id. 97, pp. 13, 2012.
A. Labatie, J.-L. Starck, and M. Lachieze-Rey, "Detecting Baryon Acoustic Oscillations", Astrophycical Journal , 746, 2, id172, 2012.
P. Arnalte-Mur, A. Labatie, N. Clerc, V.J. Martinez, J.-L. Starck, M. Lachieze-Rey, E. Saar and S. Paredes, "Wavelet detection of Baryon Acoustic Structures in the galaxy distribution" , Astronomy and Astrophysics , 542, id.A34, pp 11, 2012
S. Pires, A. Leonard, J.-L. Starck, "Cosmological Parameters Constraint from Weak Lensing Data", MNRAS, 423, pp 983-992, 2012.
A. Leonard, S. Pires, J.-L. Starck, "Fast Calculation of the Weak Lensing Aperture Mass Statistic", MNRAS, 423, pp 3405-3412, 2012.
P. Paykari, J.L. Starck, and J. Fadili, "True CMB Power Spectrum Estimation", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 541, A74, 2012.
S. Plaszczynski, A. Lavabre, L. Perotto, J-L Starck, "An hybrid approach to CMB lensing reconstruction on all-sky intensity maps", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 544, A27, 2012.
J.B. Melin et al, "A comparison of algorithms for the construction of SZ cluster catalogues", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 548, A51, pp 13, 2012.
F. Lanusse,A. Rassat,and J.-L. Starck, "Spherical 3D Isotropic Wavelets", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 540, A92, 2012.
B. Leistedt, A. Rassat, A. Refregier, and J.-L. Starck, "3DEX: a code for Fast Fourier-Bessel Decomposition of Spherical 3D Surveys", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 540, A60, 2012.
J. Bobin, J.-L. Starck, F. Sureau, and J. Fadili, "CMB map restoration", Advances in Astronomy , 2012, Id703217, 2012.
J. Schmitt, J.L. Starck, J.M. Casandjian, J. Fadili, I. Grenier, "Multichannel Poisson Denoising and Deconvolution on the Sphere : Application to the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope, Astronomy and Astrophysics , 546, id.A114, pp10, 2012.
A. Leonard, F.X. Dupe, and J.-L. Starck, "A Compressed Sensing Approach to 3D Weak Lensing", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 539, A85, 2012.
E. Deriaz, J.-L. Starck, and S. Pires, "Wavelet Helmholtz decomposition for Weak Lensing mass map reconstruction" , Astronomy and Astrophysics , 534, A34, 2012.
D.-L. Donoho, Y. Tsaig, I. Drori, J.-L. Starck: "Sparse Solution of Underdetermined Systems of Linear Equations by Stagewise Orthogonal Matching Pursuit" , IEEE Transactions on Information Theory , 58(2): 1094-1121, 2012.
A. Labatie, J.-L. Starck, M. Lachieze-Rey, P. Arnalte-Mur, "Uncertainty in 2-point correlation function estimators and BAO detection in SDSS DR7", Statistical Methodology, 9, 85--100, 2012.
F.-X. Dupe, M.J. Fadili, and J.-L. Starck, "Deconvolution under Poisson noise using exact data fidelity and synthesis or analysis priors", Statistical Methodology, 9, 85--100, 2012.
F. -X Dupe, A. Rassat, A., J.-L. Starck, M.J. Fadili, "Measuring the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe Effect", Astronomy and Astrophysics , 534, A51+, 2011.
L. Perotto, J. Bobin, S. Plaszczynski, J.-L. Starck and A. Lavabre "Reconstruction of the CMB lensing for Planck" , Astronomy and Astrophysics , 5109 A4, 2010.
S. Pires, J.-L. Starck and A. Refregier, "Light on Dark Matter with Weak Gravitational Lensing", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 27, 1, pp 76--85, 2010.
J.-L. Starck and J. Bobin, "Astronomical Data Analysis and Sparsity: from Wavelets to Compressed Sensing" , Proceedings of the IEEE Special Issue on: Applications of Sparse Representation and Compressive Sensing, Vol. 98, No. 6, pp 1021-1030, 2010.
M.J. Fadili and J.-L. Starck, "Image decomposition and separation using sparse representations: an overview" , Proceedings of the IEEE Special Issue on: Applications of Sparse Representation and Compressive Sensing, Vol. 98, No. 6, pp. 983?994, 2010.
J. Schmitt, J.L. Starck, J.M. Casandjian, M.J. Fadili, I. Grenier, "Poisson Denoising on the Sphere: Application to the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope", Astronomy and Astrophysics, 517, A26, 2010.

Software

SparsePol Version 1.0: SparsePol is based on three packages, IDL , Healpix, and MR/S. SparsePol can be used only if these three packages have been installed. SparsePol contains IDL routines for polarized wavelet, polarized ridgelet and polarized curvelet transform on the sphere, and applications such denoising on the sphere using wavelets and/or curvelets, Gaussianity tests and blind source separation on the Sphere. SparsePol has been designed for the PLANCK project.
The documentation of the SparsePol software is available in PDF format.

The code and more information are available at this web page.
Fast 3D Curvelet
3D Spherical Wavelet Transform on the Sphere
3DEX: a code for Fast Fourier-Bessel Decomposition of Spherical 3D Survey
BAOlab: IDL and C++ code for BAO studies.