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Encoded within the morphological structure of galaxies are clues related to their formation and evolutionary history. Recent advances pertaining to the statistics of galaxy morphology include sophisticated measures of concentration (C),…

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Galaxy morphology reflects structural properties which contribute to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. Deep convolutional networks have proven to be very successful in learning hidden features that allow for unprecedented…

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We develop a novel statistical strong lensing approach to probe the cosmological parameters by exploiting multiple redshift image systems behind galaxies or galaxy clusters. The method relies on free-form mass inversion of strong lenses and…

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Galaxy mergers are crucial for understanding galaxy evolution, and with large upcoming datasets, automated methods such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are essential for efficient detection. It is understood that CNNs classify…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 D. M. Chudy , W. J. Pearson , A. Pollo , L. E. Suelves , B. Margalef-Bentabol , L. Wang , V. Rodriguez-Gomez , A. La Marca

Past few years have witnessed exponential growth of interest in deep learning methodologies with rapidly improving accuracies and reduced computational complexity. In particular, architectures using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Sai Samarth R Phaye , Apoorva Sikka , Abhinav Dhall , Deepti Bathula

Obtaining well-calibrated photometric redshift probability densities for galaxies without a spectroscopic measurement remains a challenge. Deep learning discriminative models, typically fed with multi-band galaxy images, can produce outputs…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-27 Qiufan Lin , Hengxin Ruan , Dominique Fouchez , Shupei Chen , Rui Li , Paulo Montero-Camacho , Nicola R. Napolitano , Yuan-Sen Ting , Wei Zhang

Galaxy surveys are crucial for studying large-scale structure (LSS) and cosmology, yet they face limitations--imaging surveys provide extensive sky coverage but suffer from photo-$z$ uncertainties, while spectroscopic surveys yield precise…

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With the onset of large-scale astronomical surveys capturing millions of images, there is an increasing need to develop fast and accurate deconvolution algorithms that generalize well to different images. A powerful and accessible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Utsav Akhaury , Jean-Luc Starck , Pascale Jablonka , Frédéric Courbin , Kevin Michalewicz

Deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have become the most common solution for automatic image annotation due to their non-parametric nature, good performance, and their accessibility through libraries such as TensorFlow. Among other…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-11 Sanchari Dhar , Lior Shamir

Wide-field slitless spectroscopic galaxy surveys, such as the one performed by the upcoming Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST), are crucial for precision cosmology but present formidable data analysis challenges. Because spectra…

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We train a deep residual convolutional neural network (CNN) to predict the gas-phase metallicity ($Z$) of galaxies derived from spectroscopic information ($Z \equiv 12 + \log(\rm O/H)$) using only three-band $gri$ images from the Sloan…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-04 John F. Wu , Steven Boada

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have recently been shown to generate promising results for aesthetics assessment. However, the performance of these deep CNN methods is often compromised by the constraint that the neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Shuang Ma , Jing Liu , Chang Wen Chen

Spectroscopic redshift surveys are key tools to trace the large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe and test the $\Lambda$CDM model. However, using redshifts as distance proxies introduces distortions in the 3D galaxy distribution. If…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-09 Edoardo Maragliano , Punyakoti Ganeshaiah Veena , Giulia Degni , Enzo Franco Branchini

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have had a huge success in many areas of computer vision and medical image analysis. However, there is still an immense potential for performance improvement in mammogram breast cancer detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Yeman Brhane Hagos , Albert Gubern Merida , Jonas Teuwen

We present Mantis Shrimp, a multi-survey deep learning model for photometric redshift estimation that fuses ultra-violet (GALEX), optical (PanSTARRS), and infrared (UnWISE) imagery. Machine learning is now an established approach for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 Andrew Engel , Nell Byler , Adam Tsou , Gautham Narayan , Emmanuel Bonilla , Ian Smith

The goal of this paper is to present a non-iterative and more importantly an extremely fast algorithm to reconstruct images from compressively sensed (CS) random measurements. To this end, we propose a novel convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-09 Kuldeep Kulkarni , Suhas Lohit , Pavan Turaga , Ronan Kerviche , Amit Ashok

We study methods for reconstructing Bayesian uncertainties on dynamical mass estimates of galaxy clusters using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We discuss the statistical background of approximate Bayesian neural networks and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-16 Matthew Ho , Arya Farahi , Markus Michael Rau , Hy Trac

The large supercluster structures obvious in recent galaxy redshift surveys are quantified using an one-dimensional cluster analysis (core sampling) and a three-dimensional cluster analysis based on the minimal spanning tree. The comparison…

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Deep artificial neural networks have made remarkable progress in different tasks in the field of computer vision. However, the empirical analysis of these models and investigation of their failure cases has received attention recently. In…

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