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Occultations of stars by asteroids have been observed since 1961, increasing from a very small number to now over 500 annually. We have created and regularly maintain a growing data-set of more than 5,000 observed asteroidal occultations.…

We apply convolutional neural networks (CNN) to the problem of image orientation detection in the context of determining the correct orientation (from 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees) of a consumer photo. The problem is especially important for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Ujash Joshi , Michael Guerzhoy

We present a novel method for extracting moving objects from TESS data using machine learning. Our approach uses two stacked 3D U-Nets with skip connections, which we call a W-Net, to filter background and identify pixels containing moving…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Brian P. Powell , Jorge Martinez-Palomera , Amy Tuson , Christina Hedges , Jessie Dotson , Jordan Caraballo-Vega

Context: Observation of star occultations is a powerful tool to determine shapes and sizes of asteroids. This is key information necessary for studying the evolution of the asteroid belt and to calibrate indirect methods of size…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 P. Tanga , M. Delbo

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) are widely used to face challenging tasks like speech recognition, natural language processing or computer vision. As CNN architectures get larger and more complex, their computational requirements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Luis Balderas , Miguel Lastra , José M. Benítez

We present a machine learning (ML) pipeline to identify star clusters in the multi{color images of nearby galaxies, from observations obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Treasury Project LEGUS (Legacy ExtraGalactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-10 Gustavo Perez , Matteo Messa , Daniela Calzetti , Subhransu Maji , Dooseok Jung , Angela Adamo , Mattia Siressi

Asteroid sizes can be directly measured by observing occultations of stars by asteroids. When there are enough observations across the path of the shadow, the asteroid's projected silhouette can be reconstructed. Asteroid shape models…

Asteroids are an indelible part of most astronomical surveys though only a few surveys are dedicated to their detection. Over the years, high cadence microlensing surveys have amassed several terabytes of data while scanning primarily the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-03 Preeti Cowan , Ian A. Bond , Napoleon H. Reyes

Binary stars are prevalent yet challenging to detect. We present a novel approach using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to identify binary stars from low-resolution spectra obtained by the LAMOST survey. The CNN is trained on a dataset…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-25 Yingjie Jing , Tian-Xiang Mao , Jie Wang , Chao Liu , Xiaodian Chen

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are the state-of-the-art technique for identifying strong gravitational lenses. Although they are highly successful in recovering genuine lens systems with a high true-positive rate, the unbalanced…

In this work, six convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been trained based on %different feature images and arrays from the database including 15,638 superflare candidates on solar-type stars, which are collected from the three-years…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Zuo-Lin Tu , Qin Wu , Wenbo Wang , G. Q. Zhang , Zi-Ke Liu , F. Y. Wang

Convolutional neural network (CNN) has drawn increasing interest in visual tracking owing to its powerfulness in feature extraction. Most existing CNN-based trackers treat tracking as a classification problem. However, these trackers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Heng Fan , Haibin Ling

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are used in many areas of computer vision, such as object tracking and recognition, security, military, and biomedical image analysis. This review presents the application of convolutional neural…

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) have been proven to be effective for various computer vision problems. In this work, we demonstrate its effectiveness on a continuous object orientation estimation task, which requires prediction of…

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This paper shows the application of autonomous Crater Detection using the U-Net, a Fully-Convolutional Neural Network, on Ceres. The U-Net is trained on optical images of the Moon Global Morphology Mosaic based on data collected by the LRO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Francesco Latorre , Dario Spiller , Fabio Curti

Real-time, accurate, and robust pupil detection is an essential prerequisite for pervasive video-based eye-tracking. However, automated pupil detection in realworld scenarios has proven to be an intricate challenge due to fast illumination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Wolfgang Fuhl , Thiago Santini , Gjergji Kasneci , Wolfgang Rosenstiel , Enkelejda Kasneci

Various convolutional neural networks (CNNs) were developed recently that achieved accuracy comparable with that of human beings in computer vision tasks such as image recognition, object detection and tracking, etc. Most of these networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Tianchen Wang , Jinjun Xiong , Xiaowei Xu , Yiyu Shi

The ability to discover new transients via image differencing without direct human intervention is an important task in observational astronomy. For these kind of image classification problems, machine Learning techniques such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-09 Venkitesh Ayyar , Robert Knop , Autumn Awbrey , Alexis Andersen , Peter Nugent

In terms of scientific output, the best way to study solar system bodies is sending spacecraft to make in-situ measurements or to observe at close distance. Probably, the second best means to learn about important physical properties of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-14 J. L. Ortiz , B. Sicardy , J. I. B. Camargo , P. Santos-Sanz , F. Braga-Ribas

Exoplanet observations are currently analysed with Bayesian retrieval techniques. Due to the computational load of the models used, a compromise is needed between model complexity and computing time. Analysis of data from future facilities,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Francisco Ardevol Martinez , Michiel Min , Inga Kamp , Paul I. Palmer