A high performance image reconstruction method developed by two founders of Pixon LLC while at UCSD in 1992/93 and accelerated in computational speed by Yahil and Puetter in 1996/97. Pixon LLC was established by the inventors of the powerful Pixon method - representing a new and innovative way of modeling an image in terms of its information content. This technique allows remarkable new capabilities in the fields of image reconstruction and data compressionIn extensive tests it has been shown to consistently to outperform all methods, being both (1) superior in image reconstruction performance (better resolution and faint source sensitivity) and (2) being computationally much faster - order of magnitude faster than other non-linear methods. Pixon management have developed a "Quick Pixon" method which has performance rivaling the full Pixon method for many applications. The Quick Pixon method is very fast, having computational times in the same class as linear methods -- e.g. Wiener Filtered Fourier deconvolution. With special purpose hardware, the Quick Pixon method will be able to perform Pixon method reconstructions of modest sized images (512x512 pixels) at video rates (30 Hz). The University of California patented (US Patent No. 5,912,993) and additional aspects of the Pixon method. The University licensed the Pixon technology exclusively to Pixon LLC - actively sought companies interested in licensing this technology. Sample images, SUN compressed and PC PK-Zipped version of most of the Pixon method papers are also available. Related web sites dealing with the Pixon method deal primarily with application to Yohkoh satellite hard X-ray imaging, and at UC, Riverside at the High Energy Astrophysics Research group. Pixon method has been applied to the analysis of high energy astrophysics imaging data.Of interest is the San Diego Supercomputer Center Pixon code download site. At this location, interested parties can download free Pixon method software for private, non-commercial scientific use.
