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In observational astronomy, noise obscures signals of interest. Large-scale astronomical surveys are growing in size and complexity, which will produce more data and increase the workload of data processing. Developing automated tools, such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-16 Yunchong Zhang , Brian Nord , Amanda Pagul , Michael Lepori

In astronomical imaging, the low photon count of exposures necessitates extensive post-processing steps, including contamination removal and denoising. This paper evaluates deep-learning denoising methods that can be trained without clean…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-21 Omid Vaheb , Sebastien Fabbro , Stark Draper

Image denoising based on deep learning has witnessed significant advancements in recent years. However, existing deep learning methods lack quantitative control of the deviation or error on denoised images. The neural networks Self2Self is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Tie Liu , Yuhui Quan , Yingna Su , Yang Guo , Shu Liu , Haisheng Ji , Qi Hao , Yulong Gao , Yuxia Liu , Yikang Wang , Wenqing Sun , Mingde Ding

Recovering high-fidelity images of the night sky from blurred observations is a fundamental problem in astronomy, where traditional methods typically fall short. In ground-based astronomy, combining multiple exposures to enhance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Yashil Sukurdeep , Fausto Navarro , Tamás Budavári

AI-enhanced approaches are becoming common in astronomical data analysis, including in the galaxy morphological classification. In this study we develop an approach that enhances galaxy classification by incorporating an image denoising…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-25 Sergey Mirzoyan

Aims: This study investigates whether a U-Net architecture can perform standalone end-to-end blind deconvolution of astronomical images without any prior knowledge of the Point Spread Function (PSF) or noise characteristics. Our goal is to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Jean-Eric Campagne

The detection limit of astronomical imaging observations is limited by several noise sources. Some of that noise is correlated between neighbouring image pixels and exposures, so in principle could be learned and corrected. We present an…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-04 Yuduo Guo , Hao Zhang , Mingyu Li , Fujiang Yu , Yunjing Wu , Yuhan Hao , Song Huang , Yongming Liang , Xiaojing Lin , Xinyang Li , Jiamin Wu , Zheng Cai , Qionghai Dai

A deep convolutional neural network has been developed to denoise atomic-resolution TEM image datasets of nanoparticles acquired using direct electron counting detectors, for applications where the image signal is severely limited by shot…

We apply a Machine Learning technique known as Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder to denoise synthetic images of state-of-the-art radio telescopes, with the goal of detecting the faint, diffused radio sources predicted to characterise the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-03 Claudio Gheller , Franco Vazza

We investigated the use of a U-Net convolutional neural network for denoising simulated medium-resolution spectroscopic observations of stars. Simulated spectra were generated under realistic observational conditions resembling the Subaru…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-04 Balázs Pál , László Dobos

Astronomical images suffer a constant presence of multiple defects that are consequences of the intrinsic properties of the acquisition equipments, and atmospheric conditions. One of the most frequent defects in astronomical imaging is the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Simon Beckouche , Jean-Luc Starck , Jalal Fadili

This paper proposes a deep learning architecture that attains statistically significant improvements over traditional algorithms in Poisson image denoising espically when the noise is strong. Poisson noise commonly occurs in low-light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Po-Yu Liu , Edmund Y. Lam

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

Remote sensing image (RSI) denoising is an important topic in the field of remote sensing. Despite the impressive denoising performance of RSI denoising methods, most current deep learning-based approaches function as black boxes and lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Jingjing Liu , Jiashun Jin , Xianchao Xiu , Jianhua Zhang , Wanquan Liu

During the acquisition of an image from its source, noise always becomes an integral part of it. Various algorithms have been used in past to denoise the images. Image denoising still has scope for improvement. Visual information…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-17 Santosh Paudel , Ajay Kumar Shrestha , Pradip Singh Maharjan , Rameshwar Rijal

As a hybrid imaging technology, photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) imaging suffers from noise due to the maximum permissible exposure of laser intensity, attenuation of ultrasound in the tissue, and the inherent noise of the transducer.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Da He , Jiasheng Zhou , Xiaoyu Shang , Jiajia Luo , Sung-Liang Chen

Image denoising is an essential tool in computational photography. Standard denoising techniques, which use deep neural networks at their core, require pairs of clean and noisy images for its training. If we do not possess the clean…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-26 David Honzátko , Siavash A. Bigdeli , Engin Türetken , L. Andrea Dunbar

Radio astronomical observations have very poor signal to noise ratios, unlike in other disciplines. On the other hand, it is possible to observe the object of interest for long time intervals as well as using a wider bandwidth.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-02 Sarod Yatawatta

Poisson distribution is used for modeling noise in photon-limited imaging. While canonical examples include relatively exotic types of sensing like spectral imaging or astronomy, the problem is relevant to regular photography now more than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-09 Tal Remez , Or Litany , Raja Giryes , Alex M. Bronstein

State of the art methods in astronomical image reconstruction rely on the resolution of a regularized or constrained optimization problem. Solving this problem can be computationally intensive and usually leads to a quadratic or at least…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Rémi Flamary
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