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Searches for low-surface-brightness galaxies (LSBGs) in galaxy surveys are plagued by the presence of a large number of artifacts (e.g., objects blended in the diffuse light from stars and galaxies, Galactic cirrus, star-forming regions in…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) currently achieve state-of-the-art accuracy in image classification. With a growing number of classes, the accuracy usually drops as the possibilities of confusion increase. Interestingly, the class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Bilal Alsallakh , Amin Jourabloo , Mao Ye , Xiaoming Liu , Liu Ren

We use standard deep neural networks to classify univariate time series generated by discrete and continuous dynamical systems based on their chaotic or non-chaotic behaviour. Our approach to circumvent the lack of precise models for some…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-26 Nicolas Boullé , Vassilios Dallas , Yuji Nakatsukasa , D. Samaddar

Trajectories can be regarded as time-series of coordinates, typically arising from motile objects. Methods for trajectory classification are particularly important to detect different movement patterns, while methods for regression to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Mariaclaudia Nicolai , Raffaella Fiamma Cabini , Diego Ulisse Pizzagalli

The efficient classification of different types of supernova is one of the most important problems for observational cosmology. However, spectroscopic confirmation of most objects in upcoming photometric surveys, such as the The Rubin…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-17 Marcelo Vargas dos Santos , Miguel Quartin , Ribamar R. R. Reis

The ability to automatically and robustly self-verify periodicity present in time-series astronomical data is becoming more important as data sets rapidly increase in size. The age of large astronomical surveys has rendered manual…

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Gravitational lensing is the relativistic effect generated by massive bodies, which bend the space-time surrounding them. It is a deeply investigated topic in astrophysics and allows validating theoretical relativistic results and studying…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-26 Nicolò Oreste Pinciroli Vago , Piero Fraternali

Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses are valuable objects for a variety of astrophysical and cosmological applications. Strong lensing galaxies are rare, so efficient search methods, such as convolutional neural networks, are often used…

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Characterizing the geometry of an object orbiting around a star from its transit light curve is a powerful tool to uncover various complex phenomena. This problem is inherently ill-posed, since similar or identical light curves can be…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ushasi Bhowmick , Shivam Kumaran

Land Cover (LC) image classification has become increasingly significant in understanding environmental changes, urban planning, and disaster management. However, traditional LC methods are often labor-intensive and prone to human error.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Antonio Rangel , Juan Terven , Diana M. Cordova-Esparza , E. A. Chavez-Urbiola

In this project we use data obtained by Zwicky Transient Facility to develop and test a neural-network-based, multiband classification algorithm to classify periodic variable stars (i.e. pulsating variable stars and eclipsing binaries). The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-25 Tamás Szklenár , Attila Bódi , Róbert Szabó

Compared to abstract features, significant objects, so-called landmarks, are a more natural means for vehicle localization and navigation, especially in challenging unstructured environments. The major challenge is to recognize landmarks in…

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Research into light curves from stars (temporal variation of brightness) has completely changed how exoplanets are discovered or characterised. This study including star light curves from the Kepler dataset as a way to discover exoplanets…

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Object detection is a fundamental task in computer vision and image understanding, with the goal of identifying and localizing objects of interest within an image while assigning them corresponding class labels. Traditional methods, which…

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Images are an important data source for diagnosis and treatment of oral diseases. The manual classification of images may lead to misdiagnosis or mistreatment due to subjective errors. In this paper an image classification model based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Sultan Imangaliyev , Monique H. van der Veen , Catherine M. C. Volgenant , Bruno G. Loos , Bart J. F. Keijser , Wim Crielaard , Evgeni Levin

Recent developments in computational power and machine learning techniques motivate their use in many different astrophysical research areas. Consequently, many machine learning models have been trained to classify exoplanet transit signals…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Ayan Bin Rafaih , Zachary Murray

Inspired by a growing interest in analyzing network data, we study the problem of node classification on graphs, focusing on approaches based on kernel machines. Conventionally, kernel machines are linear classifiers in the implicit feature…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-01-25 Xiao Tang , Mu Zhu

In the context of classification problems, Deep Learning (DL) approaches represent state of art. Many DL approaches are based on variations of standard multi-layer feed-forward neural networks. These are also referred to as deep networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

In this letter, we propose a method for period estimation in light curves from periodic variable stars using correntropy. Light curves are astronomical time series of stellar brightness over time, and are characterized as being noisy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Pablo Huijse , Pablo A. Estévez , Pablo Zegers , José Príncipe , Pavlos Protopapas

In recent years, there has been considerable innovation in the world of predictive methodologies. This is evident by the relative domination of machine learning approaches in various classification competitions. While these algorithms have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-12 Barinder Thind , Kevin Multani , Jiguo Cao