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We proposed a machine learning approach to identify and distinguish dusty stellar sources employing supervised and unsupervised methods and categorizing point sources, mainly evolved stars, using photometric and spectroscopic data collected…

Near-future large galaxy surveys will encounter blended galaxy images at a fraction of up to 50% in the densest regions of the universe. Current deblending techniques may segment the foreground galaxy while leaving missing pixel intensities…

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Point source detection at low signal-to-noise is challenging for astronomical surveys, particularly in radio interferometry images where the noise is correlated. Machine learning is a promising solution, allowing the development of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 A. Vafaei Sadr , Etienne. E. Vos , Bruce A. Bassett , Zafiirah Hosenie , N. Oozeer , Michelle Lochner

Optical astronomical images are strongly affected by the point spread function (PSF) of the optical system and the atmosphere (seeing) which blurs the observed image. The amount of blurring depends both on the observed band, and on the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Hong Wang , Sreevarsha Sreejith , Yuewei Lin , Nesar Ramachandra , Anže Slosar , Shinjae Yoo

Coadded astronomical images are created by stacking multiple single-exposure images. Because coadded images are smaller in terms of data size than the single-exposure images they summarize, loading and processing them is less…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Mallory Wang , Ismael Mendoza , Cheng Wang , Camille Avestruz , Jeffrey Regier

Deep optical images are often crowded with overlapping objects. This is especially true in the cores of galaxy clusters, where images of dozens of galaxies may lie atop one another. Accurate measurements of cluster properties require…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-03 Yuanyuan Zhang , Timothy A. McKay , Emmanuel Bertin , Tesla Jeltema , Christopher J. Miller , Eli Rykoff , Jeeseon Song

Image denoising based on deep learning has witnessed significant advancements in recent years. However, existing deep learning methods lack quantitative control of the deviation or error on denoised images. The neural networks Self2Self is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Tie Liu , Yuhui Quan , Yingna Su , Yang Guo , Shu Liu , Haisheng Ji , Qi Hao , Yulong Gao , Yuxia Liu , Yikang Wang , Wenqing Sun , Mingde Ding

We present a two-component Machine Learning (ML) based approach for classifying astronomical images by data-quality via an examination of sources detected in the images and image pixel values from representative sources within those images.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-01 Hossen Teimoorinia , J. J. Kavelaars , Stephen Gwyn , Daniel Durand , Kennedy Rolston , Alexander Ouellette

In Astronomy, a huge amount of image data is generated daily by photometric surveys, which scan the sky to collect data from stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. In this paper, we propose a technique to leverage unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Ana Martinazzo , Mateus Espadoto , Nina S. T. Hirata

Encoder-Decoder networks such as U-Nets have been applied successfully in a wide range of computer vision tasks, especially for image segmentation of different flavours across different fields. Nevertheless, most applications lack of a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-07 Hubert Bretonnière , Alexandre Boucaud , Marc Huertas-Company

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of wide-field sky surveys to search for a variety of transient objects. Using relatively short focal lengths, the optics of these systems produce undersampled stellar images often marred by a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fang Yuan , Carl W. Akerlof

Astronomical images are essential for exploring and understanding the universe. Optical telescopes capable of deep observations, such as the Hubble Space Telescope, are heavily oversubscribed in the Astronomical Community. Images also often…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Antonia Vojtekova , Maggie Lieu , Ivan Valtchanov , Bruno Altieri , Lyndsay Old , Qifeng Chen , Filip Hroch

Image segmentation plays a crucial role in extracting objects of interest and identifying their boundaries within an image. However, accurate segmentation becomes challenging when dealing with occlusions, obscurities, or noise in corrupted…

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Astrophysics and cosmology are rich with data. The advent of wide-area digital cameras on large aperture telescopes has led to ever more ambitious surveys of the sky. Data volumes of entire surveys a decade ago can now be acquired in a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-18 Jan Kremer , Kristoffer Stensbo-Smidt , Fabian Gieseke , Kim Steenstrup Pedersen , Christian Igel

Modern cosmological surveys such as the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) survey produce a huge volume of low-resolution images of both distant galaxies and dim stars in our own galaxy. Being able to automatically classify these images is a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Imène R. Goumiri , Amanda L. Muyskens , Michael D. Schneider , Benjamin W. Priest , Robert E. Armstrong

Instance segmentation of overlapping objects in biomedical images remains a largely unsolved problem. We take up this challenge and present MultiStar, an extension to the popular instance segmentation method StarDist. The key novelty of our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Florin C. Walter , Sebastian Damrich , Fred A. Hamprecht

This project outlines the complete development of a variable star classification algorithm methodology. With the advent of Big-Data in astronomy, professional astronomers are left with the problem of how to manage large amounts of data, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-01 Kyle Burton Johnston

We have developed a method that maps large astronomical images onto a two-dimensional map and clusters them. A combination of various state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) algorithms is used to develop a fully unsupervised image quality…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Hossen Teimoorinia , Sara Shishehchi , Ahnaf Tazwar , Ping Lin , Finn Archinuk , Stephen D. J. Gwyn , J. J. Kavelaars

We propose a new method for solving an important problem of astronomy that arises in observations with ultrahigh-angular-resolution interferometers. This method is based on the application of the theory of artificial neural networks. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-26 Alexander Shatskiy , Ivan Evgeniev

Temporal and spectral information extracted from a stream of photons received from astronomical sources is the foundation on which we build understanding of various objects and processes in the Universe. Typically astronomers fit a number…

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