TransiNet0 was the original implementation of TransiNet: an end-to-end image-generating astronomical transient detection which performs de-noising, PSF-matching, localization and detection all in a single go.
In this work the task of detection, and in particular detection of astronomical transients is looked at from a different angle. In the computer vision community, the term detection has almost always been equal to regressing bounding boxes around a potential target. In the astronomy community though it has usually meant classification of the potential targets which have already been localized which entails several pre-steps, including de-noising, PSF-matching, etc.
In TransiNet, the whole task is redefined as one of generating images which are blank everywhere except where the target is located — similar to a heat-map. TransiNet gave state-of-the-art results with extremely high degrees of purity and completeness.
Please refer to the paper for more details and illustrations.
Newer variants of TransiNet are being used as official packages of the LSST telescope.
