Denoising the Deep Sky: Physics-Based CCD Noise Formation for Astronomical Imaging
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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.
ASTRA-SR is a blind single‑frame restoration framework designed for ground‑based planetary imaging, addressing atmospheric turbulence, sensor noise, and limited sampling. It is trained on a physics‑grounded synthetic dataset that uses high‑dynamic‑range spacecraft RAW observations as clean sources and synthesizes low‑resolution inputs with realistic turbulence, PSFs, and noise. The method first produces a noise‑suppressed but blur‑retaining low‑resolution image, then restores spatial structure via multiscale processing and refines high‑resolution detail with serial spatial‑amplitude refinement, achieving a 0.49 dB PSNR gain over the strongest baseline approaches.
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