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Forthcoming cosmological imaging surveys, such as the Rubin Observatory LSST, require large-scale simulations encompassing realistic galaxy populations for a variety of scientific applications. Of particular concern is the phenomenon of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-30 Yesukhei Jagvaral , Francois Lanusse , Rachel Mandelbaum

The circum-galactic medium (CGM) can feasibly be mapped by multiwavelength surveys covering broad swaths of the sky. With multiple large datasets becoming available in the near future, we develop a likelihood-free Deep Learning technique…

Understanding and mitigating measurement systematics in weak lensing (WL) analysis requires large datasets of realistic galaxies with diverse morphologies and colors. Missions like Euclid, the Nancy Roman Space Telescope, and Vera C. Rubin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-09 Diana Scognamiglio , Jake H. Lee , Eric Huff , Sergi R. Hildebrandt , Shoubaneh Hemmati

Galaxy morphologies and their relation with physical properties have been a relevant subject of study in the past. Most galaxy morphology catalogs have been labelled by human annotators or by machine learning models trained on human…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-23 Esteban Medina-Rosales , Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Christopher J. Miller

We demonstrate the use of deep learning for fast spectral deconstruction of speckle patterns. The artificial neural network can be effectively trained using numerically constructed multispectral datasets taken from a measured spectral…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-16 Ulas Kürüm , P. R. Wiecha , Rebecca French , Otto L. Muskens

The prediction of salient areas in images has been traditionally addressed with hand-crafted features based on neuroscience principles. This paper, however, addresses the problem with a completely data-driven approach by training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-03 Junting Pan , Kevin McGuinness , Elisa Sayrol , Noel O'Connor , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Countless low-surface brightness objects - including spiral galaxies, dwarf galaxies, and noise patterns - have been detected in recent large surveys. Classically, astronomers visually inspect those detections to distinguish between real…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-25 Oliver Müller , Eva Schnider

Deformable shapes provide important and complex geometric features of objects presented in images. However, such information is oftentimes missing or underutilized as implicit knowledge in many image analysis tasks. This paper presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Jian Wang , Miaomiao Zhang

In the era of exploding survey volumes, traditional methods of spectroscopic analysis are being pushed to their limits. In response, we develop deep-REMAP, a novel deep learning framework that utilizes a regularized, multi-task approach to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-13 Sankalp Gilda

Geometric deep learning (GDL) deals with supervised learning on data domains that go beyond Euclidean structure, such as data with graph or manifold structure. Due to the demand that arises from application-related data, there is a need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Tim Mangliers , Bernhard Mössner , Benjamin Himpel

Since upcoming telescopes will observe thousands of strong lensing systems, creating fully-automated analysis pipelines for these images becomes increasingly important. In this work, we make a step towards that direction by developing the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Marco Chianese , Adam Coogan , Paul Hofma , Sydney Otten , Christoph Weniger

New and forthcoming deep-wide surveys, from instruments like the HSC, LSST and EUCLID, are poised to revolutionize our understanding of galaxy evolution, by revealing aspects of galaxies that are largely invisible in past wide-area…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Sugata Kaviraj

Dense prediction tasks typically employ encoder-decoder architectures, but the prevalent convolutions in the decoder are not image-adaptive and can lead to boundary artifacts. Different generalized convolution operations have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Anne S. Wannenwetsch , Martin Kiefel , Peter V. Gehler , Stefan Roth

The Transformer architecture has revolutionized the field of deep learning over the past several years in diverse areas, including natural language processing, code generation, image recognition, time series forecasting, etc. We propose to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Hyosun Park , Yongsik Jo , Seokun Kang , Taehwan Kim , M. James Jee

The taxonomy of galaxy morphology is critical in astrophysics as the morphological properties are powerful tracers of galaxy evolution. With the upcoming Large-scale Imaging Surveys, billions of galaxy images challenge astronomers to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Zhirui Zhang , Zhiqiang Zou , Nan Li , Yanli Chen

Next-generation surveys will provide photometric and spectroscopic data of millions to billions of galaxies with unprecedented precision. This offers a unique chance to improve our understanding of the galaxy evolution and the unresolved…

We demonstrate the potential of Deep Learning methods for measurements of cosmological parameters from density fields, focusing on the extraction of non-Gaussian information. We consider weak lensing mass maps as our dataset. We aim for our…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-19 Jorit Schmelzle , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Adam Amara , Raphael Sgier , Alexandre Réfrégier , Thomas Hofmann

The Zone of Avoidance makes it difficult for astronomers to catalogue galaxies at low latitudes to our galactic plane due to high star densities and extinction. However, having a complete sky map of galaxies is important in a number of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-21 David Jones , Anja Schroeder , Geoff Nitschke

Deep learning (DL) models have achieved paradigm-changing performance in many fields with high dimensional data, such as images, audio, and text. However, the black-box nature of deep neural networks is a barrier not just to adoption in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Parmita Mehta , Stephen Portillo , Magdalena Balazinska , Andrew Connolly

We introduce a novel approach to the three-dimensional reconstruction of superfluid vortex filaments using deep convolutional neural networks. Superfluid vortices, quantum mechanical phenomena of immense scientific interest, are challenging…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-25 Nick Keepfer , Thomas Flynn , Nick Parker , Thomas Billam