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NASA Science · September 8, 2026

Galaxies SIG Seminar, 8 Sept 2026

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THE AI ANGLE
Super-resolving and deblending astronomical survey data using specialized deep learning architectures

At a NASA Galaxies Science Interest Group seminar, Shoubaneh Hemmati presented deep learning approaches to overcome the trade-offs in coverage, depth, and resolution where classical deconvolution methods plateau. The talk highlights how neural architectures—including generative, diffusion, shape-preserving residual, and physics-informed models—use survey overlaps as empirical priors to super-resolve images and unblend spectral lines. For faculty, this demonstrates how tailoring specialized machine learning architectures to specific physical measurements can scale data enhancement across wide-area astronomical surveys.

THE TEACHING ANGLE
Students can examine why classical deconvolution plateaus on ill-posed inverse problems and analyze how domain-specific requirements dictate whether to deploy generative, residual, or physics-informed neural architectures.

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