NIFTY - Numerical Information Field Theory - a versatile Python library for signal inference

DOI10.1051/0004-6361/201321236arXiv1301.4499WikidataQ69053901 ScholiaQ69053901MaRDI QIDQ6238863FDOQ6238863

Authors: Marco Selig, M. R. Bell, Henrik Junklewitz, Niels Oppermann, Martin Reinecke, Carlos Pachajoa 

Publication date: 18 January 2013

Abstract: NIFTY, "Numerical Information Field Theory", is a software package designed to enable the development of signal inference algorithms that operate regardless of the underlying spatial grid and its resolution. Its object-oriented framework is written in Python, although it accesses libraries written in Cython, C++, and C for efficiency. NIFTY offers a toolkit that abstracts discretized representations of continuous spaces, fields in these spaces, and operators acting on fields into classes. Thereby, the correct normalization of operations on fields is taken care of automatically without concerning the user. This allows for an abstract formulation and programming of inference algorithms, including those derived within information field theory. Thus, NIFTY permits its user to rapidly prototype algorithms in 1D, and then apply the developed code in higher-dimensional settings of real world problems. The set of spaces on which NIFTY operates comprises point sets, n-dimensional regular grids, spherical spaces, their harmonic counterparts, and product spaces constructed as combinations of those. The functionality and diversity of the package is demonstrated by a Wiener filter code example that successfully runs without modification regardless of the space on which the inference problem is defined.

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