FluxFlow: Conservative Flow-Matching for Astronomical Image Super-Resolution

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Main Authors: Liu, Shuhong, Ge, Xining, Cui, Ziteng, Li, Liuzhuozheng, Chang, Gengjia, Liu, Jun, Gu, Ziying, Li, Dong, Chu, Xuangeng, Gu, Lin, Harada, Tatsuya
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author Liu, Shuhong
Ge, Xining
Cui, Ziteng
Li, Liuzhuozheng
Chang, Gengjia
Liu, Jun
Gu, Ziying
Li, Dong
Chu, Xuangeng
Gu, Lin
Harada, Tatsuya
author_facet Liu, Shuhong
Ge, Xining
Cui, Ziteng
Li, Liuzhuozheng
Chang, Gengjia
Liu, Jun
Gu, Ziying
Li, Dong
Chu, Xuangeng
Gu, Lin
Harada, Tatsuya
contents Ground-to-space astronomical super-resolution requires recovering space-quality images from ground-based observations that are simultaneously limited by pixel sampling resolution and atmospheric seeing, which imposes a stochastic, spatially varying PSF that cannot be resolved through upsampling alone. Existing methods rely on synthetic training pairs that fail to capture real atmospheric statistics and are prone to either over-smoothed reconstructions or hallucination sources with no physical counterpart in the observed sky. We propose FluxFlow, a conservative pixel-space flow-matching framework that incorporates observation uncertainty and source-region importance weights during training, and a training-free Wiener-regularized test-time correction to suppress hallucination sources while preserving recovered detail. We further construct the DESI--HST Dataset, the large-scale real-world benchmark comprising 19,500 real co-registered ground-to-space image pairs with real atmospheric PSF variation. Experiments demonstrate that FluxFlow consistently outperforms existing baseline methods in both photometric and scientific accuracy.
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spellingShingle FluxFlow: Conservative Flow-Matching for Astronomical Image Super-Resolution
Liu, Shuhong
Ge, Xining
Cui, Ziteng
Li, Liuzhuozheng
Chang, Gengjia
Liu, Jun
Gu, Ziying
Li, Dong
Chu, Xuangeng
Gu, Lin
Harada, Tatsuya
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Ground-to-space astronomical super-resolution requires recovering space-quality images from ground-based observations that are simultaneously limited by pixel sampling resolution and atmospheric seeing, which imposes a stochastic, spatially varying PSF that cannot be resolved through upsampling alone. Existing methods rely on synthetic training pairs that fail to capture real atmospheric statistics and are prone to either over-smoothed reconstructions or hallucination sources with no physical counterpart in the observed sky. We propose FluxFlow, a conservative pixel-space flow-matching framework that incorporates observation uncertainty and source-region importance weights during training, and a training-free Wiener-regularized test-time correction to suppress hallucination sources while preserving recovered detail. We further construct the DESI--HST Dataset, the large-scale real-world benchmark comprising 19,500 real co-registered ground-to-space image pairs with real atmospheric PSF variation. Experiments demonstrate that FluxFlow consistently outperforms existing baseline methods in both photometric and scientific accuracy.
title FluxFlow: Conservative Flow-Matching for Astronomical Image Super-Resolution
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03749