Astronomical Image Noise Reduction

This project implements an A-Trous wavelet transform to reduce noise in astronomical images.

Features

• Takes an astronomical image as input.
• Applies a multi-scale noise reduction process using A-Trous wavelet transform.
• Outputs a noise-reduced version of the image.

Requirements

• Rust: Make sure you have Rust installed on your system. You can download it here.
• Image: You need an astronomical image in a supported format (e.g., .jpg, .png) as input.

How to Use

1. Prepare Your Image:

   • Use an astronomical image (e.g., m33-noise-lum.jpg).
   • Move the image to the root directory of this project.

2. Reference the Image in main.rs: In src/main.rs, update the file name in the image::open() function to match your input file name:

   fn main() {
       // Open our noisy image
       let image = image::open("m33-noise-lum.jpg").unwrap();
   }

3. Run the Program: Open a terminal in the root directory of the project and execute:

   cargo run --release

After the program finishes, a new file noise-reduced.jpg will be created in the root directory. This file contains the noise-reduced version of your input image.