dennisgorelik | Extracting a black hole image from "sparse telescope matrix"

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Katie Bouman is a human face of the team that produced a black hole image that hit the news today:

2 years ago Katie delivered a TED talk about that image extraction efforts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIvezCVcsYs

It is an interesting presentation, but I do NOT understand Katie's explanation about how they were going to minimize the bias [to "see" already predicted black hole visualization] while creatively interpreting inputs from sparsely placed telescopes around the earth.

Do you understand Katie's explanation?

Katie Bouman resume

How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole

Update:
Calibration Free Imaging

Update:
This posting is from ~2019-04-13
But I do not know how to set it back to that older date...

Crossposts: https://dennisgorelik.livejournal.com/171854.html

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symbioid

I watched it and am with you - her limited explanation of the algorithm didn't seem very clear. I kinda get what she's hinting at, but I feel maybe she dumbed it down for the audience or could have explained that part a little better.

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dennisgorelik

I suspect that they forged this Black Hole image.
Pretty much took the noisy signal from these telescopes and adjusted it until they got the picture they wanted.