vol_richardson_lucy — 3D restoration op

Data kinds: voxel × voxelvoxel

Call: import fullseye as fs; fs.ledger.vol_richardson_lucy(vol, psf, iterations=10, clip_tiny=1e-12) (to call the implementation directly, import volrestore; volrestore.vol_richardson_lucy(vol, psf, iterations=10, clip_tiny=1e-12); from the registry, ops3d.get("vol_richardson_lucy"))

Usage

Richardson–Lucy deconvolution of a non-negative volume by a known PSF.

*psf* is a 3-D non-negative kernel (any odd/even size smaller than the

volume; it is normalised to sum 1 internally so overall intensity is

preserved). *iterations* trades sharpness against noise amplification —

5-30 is the practical range (see the module notes on semi-convergence).

Negative voxels are refused (RL is a Poisson model) — except *rounding

dust*: values no lower than `-NEGATIVE_DUST_TOL * max|vol|` (1e-9

relative; an FFT-blurred observation typically carries -1e-16) are clipped

to 0 instead of rejected, so the module's own forward model feeds back in.

Returns the deblurred `(D, H, W)` float64 volume (non-negative).

Measured on the test scene (binary sphere pair blurred by a sigma-2

Gaussian): the RMSE to ground truth falls to 0.81x the blurred

observation's at 10 iterations and 0.68x at 50 — genuine but *gradual*,

because the residual is dominated by the spheres' hard edges, which RL

recovers slowly. What converges fast is the *forward consistency*:

re-blurring the estimate reproduces the observation almost exactly (that

is the quantity the RL update actually optimises).

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

deconv_fft_restorepy -3.11 examples_3d/deconv_fft_restore.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept voxel as input)

voxel_to_mips · voxel_to_mesh · signed_distance_field · to_points · sobel3d · hessian3d · curvature_maps · edt_jfa

Same category (restoration)

vol_gaussian_psf


*Provenance: volrestore.py — 3D operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

© 2026 Kazufumi Furuse — Fullseye operator documentation. Licensed under Apache-2.0.