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With the upcoming Vera C.~Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), it is expected that only $\sim 0.1\%$ of all transients will be classified spectroscopically. To conduct studies of rare transients, such as Type I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Brian Hsu , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , V. Ashley Villar , Edo Berger

This study investigates the classification of aerial images depicting transmission towers, forests, farmland, and mountains. To complete the classification job, features are extracted from input photos using a Convolutional Neural Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Mustafa Majeed Abd Zaid , Ahmed Abed Mohammed , Putra Sumari

In the context of radio galaxy classification, most state-of-the-art neural network algorithms have been focused on single survey data. The question of whether these trained algorithms have cross-survey identification ability or can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Hongming Tang , Anna M. M. Scaife , J. P. Leahy

Future surveys such as the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will observe an order of magnitude more astrophysical transient events than any previous survey before. With this deluge of photometric data,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-06 Tarek Allam , Jason D. McEwen

This study applied representation learning algorithms to satellite images and evaluated the learned latent spaces with classifications of various weather events. The algorithms investigated include the classical linear transformation, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Ting-Shuo Yo , Shih-Hao Su , Chien-Ming Wu , Wei-Ting Chen , Jung-Lien Chu , Chiao-Wei Chang , Hung-Chi Kuo

Supervised classification of temporal sequences of astronomical images into meaningful transient astrophysical phenomena has been considered a hard problem because it requires the intervention of human experts. The classifier uses the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Catalina Gómez , Mauricio Neira , Marcela Hernández Hoyos , Pablo Arbeláez , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

Prior work on plant species classification predominantly focuses on building models from isolated plant attributes. Hence, there is a need for tools that can assist in species identification in the natural world. We present a novel and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Dewald Homan , Johan A. du Preez

We present an application of machine-learning (ML) techniques to source selection in the optical transient survey data with Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) on the Subaru telescope. Our goal is to select real transient events accurately and in a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Mikio Morii , Shiro Ikeda , Nozomu Tominaga , Masaomi Tanaka , Tomoki Morokuma , Katsuhiko Ishiguro , Junji Yamato , Naonori Ueda , Naotaka Suzuki , Naoki Yasuda , Naoki Yoshida

Machine learning and quantum computing are being progressively explored to shed light on possible computational approaches to deal with hitherto unsolvable problems. Classical methods for machine learning are ubiquitous in pattern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Papri Saha

We present morphological classifications obtained using machine learning for objects in SDSS DR6 that have been classified by Galaxy Zoo into three classes, namely early types, spirals and point sources/artifacts. An artificial neural…

Decades of psychological research have been aimed at modeling how people learn features and categories. The empirical validation of these theories is often based on artificial stimuli with simple representations. Recently, deep neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Joshua C. Peterson , Joshua T. Abbott , Thomas L. Griffiths

Underwater surveys conducted using divers or robots equipped with customized camera payloads can generate a large number of images. Manual review of these images to extract ecological data is prohibitive in terms of time and cost, thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Scarlett Raine , Ross Marchant , Peyman Moghadam , Frederic Maire , Brett Kettle , Brano Kusy

In preparation for photometric classification of transients from the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) we run tests with different training data sets. Using estimates of the depth to which the 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-27 Jonathan E. Carrick , Isobel M. Hook , Elizabeth Swann , Kyle Boone , Chris Frohmaier , Alex G. Kim , Mark Sullivan

In this paper, the fourth version the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-4), Data Release 16 dataset was used to classify the SDSS dataset into galaxies, stars, and quasars using machine learning and deep learning architectures. We efficiently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Sabeesh Ethiraj , Bharath Kumar Bolla

Machine learning has become essential for automated classification of astronomical transients, but current approaches face significant limitations: classifiers trained on simulations struggle with real data, models developed for one survey…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-10 Rithwik Gupta , Daniel Muthukrishna , Nabeel Rehemtulla , Ved Shah

In this work we explore the applicability of unsupervised machine learning algorithms to finding radio transients. Facilities such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will provide huge volumes of data in which to detect rare transients; the…

Large-scale sky surveys have played a transformative role in our understanding of astrophysical transients, only made possible by increasingly powerful machine learning-based filtering to accurately sift through the vast quantities of…

Automated photometric supernova classification has become an active area of research in recent years in light of current and upcoming imaging surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, given that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 Michelle Lochner , Jason D. McEwen , Hiranya V. Peiris , Ofer Lahav , Max K. Winter