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We explore the use of Swin Transformer V2, a pre-trained vision Transformer, for photometric classification in a multi-survey setting by leveraging light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact…

The success of automatic classification of variable stars strongly depends on the lightcurve representation. Usually, lightcurves are represented as a vector of many statistical descriptors designed by astronomers called features. These…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Cristóbal Mackenzie , Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas

The exponential growth of astronomical data from large-scale surveys has created both opportunities and challenges for the astrophysics community. This paper explores the possibilities offered by transfer learning techniques in addressing…

In real-world applications, it is often expensive and time-consuming to obtain labeled examples. In such cases, knowledge transfer from related domains, where labels are abundant, could greatly reduce the need for extensive labeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Marouan Belhaj , Pavlos Protopapas , Weiwei Pan

Hyperspectral imaging is a rich source of data, allowing for multitude of effective applications. However, such imaging remains challenging because of large data dimension and, typically, small pool of available training examples. While…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Wojciech Masarczyk , Przemysław Głomb , Bartosz Grabowski , Mateusz Ostaszewski

This paper pioneers the use of neural networks to provide a fast and automatic way to classify lightcurves in massive photometric datasets. As an example, we provide a working neural network that can distinguish microlensing lightcurves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Vasily Belokurov , N. Wyn Evans , Yann Le Du

Transfer learning is a promising method for AOI applications since it can significantly shorten sample collection time and improve efficiency in today's smart manufacturing. However, related research enhanced the network models by applying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Erik Isai Valle Salgado , Haoxin Yan , Yue Hong , Peiyuan Zhu , Shidong Zhu , Chengwei Liao , Yanxiang Wen , Xiu Li , Xiang Qian , Xiaohao Wang , Xinghui Li

The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) provides long baseline (${\sim}4$ yrs) light curves for sources brighter than V$\lesssim17$ mag across the whole sky. As part of our effort to characterize the variability of all the…

Multi-label image classification allows predicting a set of labels from a given image. Unlike multiclass classification, where only one label per image is assigned, such a setup is applicable for a broader range of applications. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Kirill Prokofiev , Vladislav Sovrasov

The classification of large-scale high-resolution SAR land cover images acquired by satellites is a challenging task, facing several difficulties such as semantic annotation with expertise, changing data characteristics due to varying…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-09 Zhongling Huang , Corneliu Octavian Dumitru , Zongxu Pan , Bin Lei , Mihai Datcu

Transfer learning is a machine learning technique that uses previously acquired knowledge from a source domain to enhance learning in a target domain by reusing learned weights. This technique is ubiquitous because of its great advantages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Nermeen Abou Baker , Nico Zengeler , Uwe Handmann

With the arrival of a number of wide-field snapshot image-plane radio transient surveys, there will be a huge influx of images in the coming years making it impossible to manually analyse the datasets. Automated pipelines to process the…

Despite the great promise of machine-learning algorithms to classify and predict astrophysical parameters for the vast numbers of astrophysical sources and transients observed in large-scale surveys, the peculiarities of the training data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Joseph W. Richards , Dan L. Starr , Henrik Brink , Adam A. Miller , Joshua S. Bloom , Nathaniel R. Butler , J. Berian James , James P. Long , John Rice

Over the last two decades, machine learning models have been widely applied and have proven effective in classifying variable stars, particularly with the adoption of deep learning architectures such as convolutional neural networks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Francisco Pérez-Galarce , Jorge Martínez-Palomera , Karim Pichara , Pablo Huijse , Márcio Catelan

This paper takes a problem-oriented perspective and presents a comprehensive review of transfer learning methods, both shallow and deep, for cross-dataset visual recognition. Specifically, it categorises the cross-dataset recognition into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Jing Zhang , Wanqing Li , Philip Ogunbona , Dong Xu

Sign language recognition (SLR) has recently achieved a breakthrough in performance thanks to deep neural networks trained on large annotated sign datasets. Of the many different sign languages, these annotated datasets are only available…

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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

Deep neural networks have dramatically transformed machine learning, but their memory and energy demands are substantial. The requirements of real biological neural networks are rather modest in comparison, and one feature that might…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Tianlin Liu , Friedemann Zenke

We propose a transfer learning-based solution for the problem of multiple class novelty detection. In particular, we propose an end-to-end deep-learning based approach in which we investigate how the knowledge contained in an external,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Pramuditha Perera , Vishal M. Patel

Variable stars play a very important role in our understanding of the Milky Way and the universe. In recent years, many survey projects have generated a large amount of photometric data, necessitating classifiers that can quickly identify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Xiao-Hui Xu , Qing-Feng Zhu , Xu-Zhi Li , Hang Zheng , Jin-Sheng Qiu