Multiscale Super-Resolution Remote Imaging via Deep Conditional Normalizing Flows

AM Heintz, M Peck, I Mackey�- Journal of Aerospace Information�…, 2023 - arc.aiaa.org
AM Heintz, M Peck, I Mackey
Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, 2023arc.aiaa.org
Many onboard vision tasks for spacecraft navigation require high-quality remote-sensing
images with clearly decipherable features. However, design constraints and the operational
and environmental conditions limit their quality. Enhancing images through postprocessing
is a cost-efficient solution. Current deep learning methods that enhance low-resolution
images through super-resolution do not quantify network uncertainty of predictions and are
trained at a single scale, which hinders practical integration in image-acquisition pipelines�…
Many onboard vision tasks for spacecraft navigation require high-quality remote-sensing images with clearly decipherable features. However, design constraints and the operational and environmental conditions limit their quality. Enhancing images through postprocessing is a cost-efficient solution. Current deep learning methods that enhance low-resolution images through super-resolution do not quantify network uncertainty of predictions and are trained at a single scale, which hinders practical integration in image-acquisition pipelines. This work proposes performing multiscale super-resolution using a deep normalizing flow network for uncertainty-quantified and Monte Carlo estimates so that image enhancement for spacecraft vision tasks may be more robust and predictable. The proposed network architecture outperforms state-of-the-art super-resolution models on in-orbit lunar imagery data. Simulations demonstrate its viability on task-based evaluations for landmark identification.
AIAA Aerospace Research Center
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