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Ongoing or upcoming surveys such as Gaia, ZTF, or LSST will observe light-curves of billons or more astronomical sources. This presents new challenges for identifying interesting and important types of variability. Collecting a sufficient…

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Image classifiers for domain-specific tasks like Synthetic Aperture Radar Automatic Target Recognition (SAR ATR) and chest X-ray classification often rely on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These networks, while powerful, experience…

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Magnetic activity in stars manifests as dark spots on their surfaces that modulate the brightness observed by telescopes. These light curves contain important information on stellar rotation. However, the accurate estimation of rotation…

We focus on the automated classification of eclipsing binary stars using deep learning methods to handle the vast data generated by large-scale photometric sky surveys. These surveys produce extensive datasets that are impractical for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Bedri Keskin , Özgür Baştürk

The rapid increase in data on galaxy images at low and high redshift calls for re-examination of the classification schemes and for new automatic objective methods. Here we present a classification method by Artificial Neural Networks. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

Neural networks (NNs) have been shown to be competitive against state-of-the-art feature engineering and random forest (RF) classification of periodic variable stars. Although previous work utilising NNs has made use of periodicity by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Keming Zhang , Joshua S. Bloom

We describe a methodology to classify periodic variable stars identified using photometric time-series measurements constructed from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) full-mission single-exposure Source Databases. This will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Frank J. Masci , Douglas I. Hoffman , Carl J. Grillmair , Roc M. Cutri

Galaxies can be described by features of their optical spectra such as oxygen emission lines, or morphological features such as spiral arms. Although spectroscopy provides a rich description of the physical processes that govern galaxy…

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We present a systematic search for wide-separation (Einstein radius >1.5"), galaxy-scale strong lenses in the 30 000 sq.deg of the Pan-STARRS 3pi survey on the Northern sky. With long time delays of a few days to weeks, such systems are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-08 R. Canameras , S. Schuldt , S. H. Suyu , S. Taubenberger , T. Meinhardt , L. Leal-Taixe , C. Lemon , K. Rojas , E. Savary

Machine learning is a field that has been growing in importance since the early 2010s due to the increasing accuracy of classification models and hardware advances that have enabled faster training on large datasets. In the field of…

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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

Many synoptic surveys are observing large parts of the sky multiple times. The resulting lightcurves provide a wonderful window to the dynamic nature of the universe. However, there are many significant challenges in analyzing these light…

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We present the results of a proof-of-concept experiment which demonstrates that deep learning can successfully be used for production-scale classification of compact star clusters detected in HST UV-optical imaging of nearby spiral galaxies…

[Abriged] Astronomical Wide Field Imaging performed with new large format CCD detectors poses data reduction problems of unprecedented scale which are difficult to deal with traditional interactive tools. We present here NExt (Neural…

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), have intrigued different people from all walks of life, because of their pervasive computing capabilities. UAV equipped with vision techniques, could be leveraged to establish navigation autonomous control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Xiaoliang Wang , Peng Cheng , Xinchuan Liu , Benedict Uzochukwu

Aims. The treatment of astronomical image time series has won increasing attention in recent years. Indeed, numerous surveys following up on transient objects are in progress or under construction, such as the Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 Anass Bairouk , Marc Chaumont , Dominique Fouchez , Jerome Paquet , Frédéric Comby , Julian Bautista

Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) are one of the most promising methods for identifying strong gravitational lens candidates in survey data. We present two ConvNet lens-finders which we have trained with a dataset composed of real…

With the availability of large-scale surveys like Kepler and TESS, there is a pressing need for automated methods to classify light curves according to known classes of variable stars. We introduce a new algorithm for classifying light…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Nicholas H. Barbara , Timothy R. Bedding , Ben D. Fulcher , Simon J. Murphy , Timothy Van Reeth

Classifying variable stars is key for understanding stellar evolution and galactic dynamics. With the demands of large astronomical surveys, machine learning models, especially attention-based neural networks, have become the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-09 Martina Cádiz-Leyton , Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Pavlos Protopapas , Daniel Moreno-Cartagena , Cristobal Donoso-Oliva , Ignacio Becker

In this paper, a deep convolutional neural network architecture for galaxies classification is presented. The galaxy can be classified based on its features into main three categories Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular. The proposed deep…

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