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STARLINC: Satellite Trail Artifact Removal using Inter-Frame Correlation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 29, 2026 · UTC

The rapid expansion of low Earth orbit satellites such as Starlink is increasingly contaminating astronomical surveys. In practice, contaminated images are often identified through inspection. However, modern surveys generate terabytes of data each night, making manual screening infeasible and necessitating reliable automated methods for satellite trail removal. Unfortunately, existing general-domain line detection methods fail to generalize to astronomical images due to domain mismatch, which are mostly grayscale with sparse bright stars and have a low signal-to-noise ratio. Moreover, trainin

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