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A few months ago I posted about the first use of Generative AI in space to denoise grainy images onboard the OPS-SAT-1 spacecraft and how I applied it to uplink The Pale Blue Dot back into space for some poetic denoising.

Since then, I worked with the Mission Control Team to run the experiment a few more times and ended up with prettier results:

Original Image 1 Noised Image 1 Denoised Image 1
Original.
Noised.
Denoised.

I also presented our findings at IEEE AeroConf 2024 as part of a peer-reviewed paper that will soon be published. Here’s a glimpse of the action:

Presenting at IEEE AeroConf 2024: The first use of Generative AI in space onboard the OPS-SAT-1 spacecraft
Presenting at IEEE AeroConf 2024: The first use of Generative AI in space onboard the OPS-SAT-1 spacecraft.

Check out the project’s GitHub repo and read the pre-print on ResearchGate.

A huge thanks to the OPS-SAT-1 Mission Control Team as well as to my co-experimenters / co-authors Cesar Guzman and Sam Bammens!


Update 2024-06-13: Our paper has been published! Check it out:

G. Labrèche, C. Guzman and S. Bammens, “Generative AI… in Space! Adversarial Networks to Denoise Images Onboard the OPS-SAT-1 Spacecraft,” 2024 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, 2024, pp. 1-17, doi: 10.1109/AERO58975.2024.10521090.