AI-Powered Deconvolution with Russell Croman | 2023-05-07

Russell Croman's AI-powered tools, such as BlurXterminator, have taken the astrophotography world by storm. Hear from the creator himself on what it does and how it works!

AI for amateur astrophotography has arrived. Though AI is perhaps best known for fabricating text and images, Russ will go into detail about how neural networks can also be trained to do difficult mathematical operations like deconvolution. Recovery of fine detail with minimal artifacts clearly surpasses traditional methods, as does speed and ease of use, but how do we know that this detail is real? What are the limitations of this approach, and what does it mean for fundamental concepts like the diffraction limit? Russ will dive into these topics and more, boiling down the advanced mathematics into a form that is easily understood and can be applied to your own imaging efforts.

Russell Croman is the developer of the popular AI-based tools StarXTerminator, NoiseXTerminator, and BlurXTerminator. He was previously Vice President of R&D Engineering at Silicon Laboratories, an Austin, Texas semiconductor company, and is the inventor or co-inventor of 29 patents. He currently works full time on solutions for amateur astronomy. Though trained as an engineer, Russ is an artist at heart, and enjoys leveraging the technical knowledge from his professional career to create beautiful astrophotos of his own, and tools to help others do the same.

Russell's website: https://www.rc-astro.com/index.php


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