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One of the most relevant problems in the extraction of scientifically useful information from wide field astronomical images (both photographic plates and CCD frames) is the recognition of the objects against a noisy background and their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. Andreon , G. Gargiulo , G. Longo , R. Tagliaferri , N. Capuano

In Astronomy, a huge amount of image data is generated daily by photometric surveys, which scan the sky to collect data from stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. In this paper, we propose a technique to leverage unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Ana Martinazzo , Mateus Espadoto , Nina S. T. Hirata

Denoising extreme low light images is a challenging task due to the high noise level. When the illumination is low, digital cameras increase the ISO (electronic gain) to amplify the brightness of captured data. However, this in turn…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Hao Guan , Liu Liu , Sean Moran , Fenglong Song , Gregory Slabaugh

With the onset of large-scale astronomical surveys capturing millions of images, there is an increasing need to develop fast and accurate deconvolution algorithms that generalize well to different images. A powerful and accessible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Utsav Akhaury , Jean-Luc Starck , Pascale Jablonka , Frédéric Courbin , Kevin Michalewicz

We introduce a novel technique to mitigate the adverse effects of atmospheric turbulence on astronomical imaging. Utilizing a video-to-image neural network trained on simulated data, our method processes a sliding sequence of short-exposure…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Spencer Bialek , Emmanuel Bertin , Sébastien Fabbro , Hervé Bouy , Jean-Pierre Rivet , Olivier Lai , Jean-Charles Cuillandre

The development of neural networks has greatly improved the performance in various computer vision tasks. In the filed of image denoising, convolutional neural network based methods such as DnCNN break through the limits of classical…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-26 Xiaoqi Ma

Image denoising is an important pre-processing step in medical image analysis. Different algorithms have been proposed in past three decades with varying denoising performances. More recently, having outperformed all conventional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Lovedeep Gondara

Optical neural networks are emerging as powerful machine learning and information processing tools because of their potential advantages in speed and energy efficiency. The training methods of these physical models, however, remain…

Optics · Physics 2026-05-11 Xudong Lv , Yuxiang Sun , Shuo Wang , Nanxing Chen , Jun Guan , Jingtian Hu

Noisy images processing is a fundamental task of computer vision. The first example is the detection of faint edges in noisy images, a challenging problem studied in the last decades. A recent study introduced a fast method to detect faint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Nati Ofir , Yosi Keller

Deep learning had already demonstrated its power in medical images, including denoising, classification, segmentation, etc. All these applications are proposed to automatically analyze medical images beforehand, which brings more…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-05 Shao-Cheng Wen , Yu-Jen Chen , Zihao Liu , Wujie Wen , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi , Tsung-Yi Ho , Qianjun Jia , Meiping Huang , Jian Zhuang

We trained denoiser autoencoding neural networks on medium resolution simulated optical spectra of late-type stars to demonstrate that the reconstruction of the original flux is possible at a typical relative error of a fraction of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-19 Balázs Pál , László Dobos

Since time immemorial, noise has been a constant source of disturbance to the various entities known to mankind. Noise models of different kinds have been developed to study noise in more detailed fashion over the years. Image processing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Arjun Chaudhuri

Astronomical imaging remains noise-limited under practical observing conditions. Standard calibration pipelines remove structured artifacts but largely leave stochastic noise unresolved. Although learning-based denoising has shown strong…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Shuhong Liu , Xining Ge , Ziying Gu , Quanfeng Xu , Lin Gu , Ziteng Cui , Xuangeng Chu , Jun Liu , Dong Li , Tatsuya Harada

With the inexorable digitalisation of the modern world, every subset in the field of technology goes through major advancements constantly. One such subset is digital images which are ever so popular. Images can not always be as visually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Prashanth Venkataraman

Recovering sharper images from blurred observations, referred to as deconvolution, is an ill-posed problem where classical approaches often produce unsatisfactory results. In ground-based astronomy, combining multiple exposures to achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Fausto Navarro , Daniel Hall , Tamas Budavari , Yashil Sukurdeep

Currently, many blind deblurring methods assume blurred images are noise-free and perform unsatisfactorily on the blurry images with noise. Unfortunately, noise is quite common in real scenes. A straightforward solution is to denoise images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Si Miao , Yongxin Zhu

We present a novel deep learning method to separately extract the two-dimensional flux information of the foreground galaxy (deflector) and background system (source) of Galaxy-Galaxy Strong Lensing events using U-Net (GGSL-Unet for short).…

In the imaging process of an astronomical telescope, the deconvolution of its beam or Point Spread Function (PSF) is a crucial task. However, deconvolution presents a classical and challenging inverse computation problem. In scenarios where…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-05 Shulei Ni , Yisheng Qiu , Yunchun Chen , Zihao Song , Hao Chen , Xuejian Jiang , Huaxi Chen

Astronomical images are of crucial importance for astronomers since they contain a lot of information about celestial bodies that can not be directly accessible. Most of the information available for the analysis of these objects starts…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-10 Silvia Tozza , Maurizio Falcone

In the past years modern mathematical methods for image analysis have led to a revolution in many fields, from computer vision to scientific imaging. However, some recently developed image processing techniques successfully exploited by…

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