arXiv AI

Amplifying the imaging power of digital sky surveys with space telescopes data and generative AI

The paper presents a generative AI approach that enhances galaxy images from ground‑based sky surveys to match the detail level of space‑based telescopes. By training on space‑based data, the model converts weak signals into clear, detailed galaxy images, enabling the combination of high survey throughput with superior image quality. The authors provide source code, training data, a catalog of 63,202 enhanced galaxy images, and a software tool that encapsulates the entire pipeline.

arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Improving Faint Object Detection for Space Situational Awareness with Variational Autoencoders

The paper introduces a deep‑learning pipeline that improves detection of faint moving objects in optical space situational awareness imagery. It combines a Tiny‑U‑Net segmentation network to mask stars with a partial‑convolution variational autoencoder (astro‑VAE) that learns background statistics and performs context‑aware inpainting. The reconstructed, star‑free backgrounds are used as a preprocessing step before detection, and when integrated with a shift‑and‑stack scheme, the method shows high‑fidelity background reconstruction and significant enhancement of moving‑target detectability in real ground‑based telescope data.

By Angela Cratere, Luca Ghilardi, Vishnu Reddy, Francesco Dell'Olio, Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos, Roberto Furfaro
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Genesis: A Generative Engine for Hierarchical Satellite Image Synthesis

Genesis is a generative engine that produces fully consistent multi‑scale satellite image pyramids by combining a vertical super‑resolution model with a horizontal mask‑based outpainting model. It addresses the lack of existing methods that can synthesize a complete quadtree from sparse seed tiles at arbitrary zoom levels and positions, ensuring coherence across both scale and space. The authors also release dense500, a comprehensive multi‑scale dataset and evaluation suite, to benchmark this new task.

By Subash Khanal, Yangzhi Cui, Daniel Cher, Eric Xing, Brian Wei, Srikumar Sastry, Nathan Jacobs
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 7

Building Rome from a Single Image

arXiv:2610.08790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Single-image scene generation aims to produce a complete 3D scene mesh from a single image, including surfaces the camera did not observe. While pretra...

By Jiraphon Yenphraphai, Fang Li, Tianshuo Xu, Depu Meng, Quentin Herau, Yihan Hu, Raymond A. Yeh, Wei Zhan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 25

SatSplatDiff: Geometry-preserving generative refinement for high-fidelity satellite Gaussian Splatting

Gaussian Splatting has been recently explored for satellite 3D reconstruction, demonstrating flexibility and efficiency in representing radiometrically diverse satellite scenes. However, the limited top viewpoint of satellite imagery results in insufficient supervision on building facades, leaving surface holes and degraded visual fidelity.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Oct 6

Building Rome from a Single Image

Single-image scene generation aims to produce a complete 3D scene mesh from a single image, including surfaces the camera did not observe. While pretrained 3D object generators encode a strong shape p...