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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…

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Big data has become the norm in astronomy, making it an ideal domain for computer science research. Astronomers typically classify galaxies based on their morphologies, a practice that dates back to Hubble (1936). With small datasets,…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) serve as the workhorse of deep learning, finding applications in various fields that rely on images. Given sufficient data, they exhibit the capacity to learn a wide range of concepts across diverse…

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We present a novel graph-based machine learning classifier for identifying the dark matter cosmic web environments of galaxies. Large galaxy surveys offer comprehensive statistical views of how galaxy properties are shaped by large-scale…

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Data augmentation is an essential technique for improving generalization ability of deep learning models. Recently, AutoAugment has been proposed as an algorithm to automatically search for augmentation policies from a dataset and has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-09 Sungbin Lim , Ildoo Kim , Taesup Kim , Chiheon Kim , Sungwoong Kim

Determining the radial positions of galaxies up to a high accuracy depends on the correct identification of salient features in their spectra. Classical techniques for spectroscopic redshift estimation make use of template matching with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Joana Frontera-Pons , Florent Sureau , Bruno Moraes , Jérôme Bobin , Filipe Abdalla

Distinguishing active galaxies from star-forming galaxies is essential for understanding galaxy evolution. Diagnostic methods like the BPT (Baldwin, Phillips, and Terlevich) diagram use optical emission-line ratios to separate galaxies.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-26 Farideh Mazoochi , Reihaneh Karimi , Mohammad Hossein Zhoolideh Haghighi , Fatemeh Tabatabaei

We explore the capability of deep learning to classify cosmic structures. In cosmological simulations, cosmic volumes are segmented into voids, sheets, filaments and knots, according to the distribution and kinematics of dark matter (DM),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-03 Shigeki Inoue , Xiaotian Si , Takashi Okamoto , Moka Nishigaki

Object Detection has been a significant topic in computer vision. As the continuous development of Deep Learning, many advanced academic and industrial outcomes are established on localising and classifying the target objects, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Yingwei Zhou

Low surface brightness substructures around galaxies, known as tidal features, are a valuable tool in the detection of past or ongoing galaxy mergers, and their properties can answer questions about the progenitor galaxies involved in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-06 Alice Desmons , Sarah Brough , Francois Lanusse

Aims. We present the application of a fully connected neural network (NN) for galaxy merger identification using exclusively photometric information. Our purpose is not only to test the method's efficiency, but also to understand what…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 L. E. Suelves , W. J. Pearson , A. Pollo

The sensitivity and wide area reached by ongoing and future wide-field optical surveys allows for the detection of an increasing number of galaxy clusters uniquely through their weak lensing (WL) signal. This motivates the development of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-18 G. Leroy , S. Pires , G. W. Pratt , C. Giocoli

Machine learning techniques have been increasingly useful in astronomical applications over the last few years, for example in the morphological classification of galaxies. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be highly effective in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , J. K. Banfield , O. I. Wong , L. Rudnick , R. P. Norris , B. Simmons

Large scale image dataset and deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) are two primary driving forces for the rapid progress made in generic object recognition tasks in recent years. While lots of network architectures have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Yalong Bai , Kuiyuan Yang , Tao Mei , Wei-Ying Ma , Tiejun Zhao

Galaxy-galaxy strong lensing provides a powerful probe of galaxy formation, evolution, and the properties of dark matter and dark energy. However, conventional lens-modeling approaches are computationally expensive and require fine-tuning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-07 Xiaoyue Cao , Ran Li , Nan Li , Yun Chen , Rui Li , Huanyuan Shan , Tian Li

Strong gravitational lenses are a rare and instructive type of astronomical object. Identification has long relied on serendipity, but different strategies -- such as mixed spectroscopy of multiple galaxies along the line of sight, machine…

Real-time gas classification is an essential issue and challenge in applications such as food and beverage quality control, accident prevention in industrial environments, for instance. In recent years, the Deep Learning (DL) models have…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-05 Juan C. Rodriguez Gamboa , Adenilton J. da Silva , Ismael C. S. Araujo , Eva Susana Albarracin E. , Cristhian M. Duran A

With large numbers of transients discovered by current and future imaging surveys, machine learning is increasingly applied to light curve and host galaxy properties to select events for follow-up. However, finding rare types of transients…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-17 Xinyue Sheng , Tuan Dung Pham , Zichi Zhang , Matt Nicholl , Thai Son Mai

Creating radio galaxy catalogues from next-generation deep surveys requires automated identification of associated components of extended sources and their corresponding infrared hosts. In this paper, we introduce RadioGalaxyNET, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-04 Nikhel Gupta , Zeeshan Hayder , Ray P. Norris , Minh Huynh , Lars Petersson

Various galaxy merger detection methods have been applied to diverse datasets. However, it is difficult to understand how they compare. We aim to benchmark the relative performance of machine learning (ML) merger detection methods. We…