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Modern pulsar surveys produce many millions of candidate pulsars, far more than can be individually inspected. Traditional methods for filtering these candidates, based upon the signal-to-noise ratio of the detection, cannot easily…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Keith , R. P. Eatough , A. G. Lyne , M. Kramer , A. Possenti , F. Camilo , R. N. Manchester

In this work, we explore the possibility of using probabilistic learning to identify pulsar candidates. We make use of Deep Gaussian Process (DGP) and Deep Kernel Learning (DKL). Trained on a balanced training set in order to avoid the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Sambatra Andrianomena

Modern radio pulsar surveys produce a large volume of prospective candidates, the majority of which are polluted by human-created radio frequency interference or other forms of noise. Typically, large numbers of candidates need to be…

Pulsars have been primarily detected by their narrow pulses or periodicity in time domain data. Interferometric surveys for pulsars are challenging due to the trade-off between beam sensitivity and beam size and the corresponding tradeoff…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-26 Jitendra Salal , Shriharsh P. Tendulkar , Visweshwar Ram Marthi

We present 75 pulsars discovered in the mid-latitude portion of the High Time Resolution Universe survey, 54 of which have full timing solutions. All the pulsars have spin periods greater than 100 ms, and none of those with timing solutions…

We consider a machine learning algorithm to detect and identify strong gravitational lenses on sky images. First, we simulate different artificial but very close to reality images of galaxies, stars and strong lenses, using six different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 H. G. Khachatryan

In this paper, three ensemble methods: Random Forest, XGBoost, and a Hybrid Ensemble method were implemented to classify imbalanced pulsar candidates. To assist these methods, tree models were used to select features among 30 features of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-24 Yuanchao Wang , Zhichen Pan , Jianhua Zheng , Lei Qian , Mingtao Li

Pulse shape discriminating scintillator materials in many cases allow the user to identify two basic kinds of pulses arising from two kinds of particles: neutrons and gammas. An uncomplicated solution for building a classifier consists of a…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-02-03 Andrew Glenn , Qi Cheng , Alan D. Kaplan , Ron Wurtz

Matching two images while estimating their relative geometry is a key step in many computer vision applications. For decades, a well-established pipeline, consisting of SIFT, RANSAC, and 8-point algorithm, has been used for this task.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Jia-Wang Bian , Yu-Huan Wu , Ji Zhao , Yun Liu , Le Zhang , Ming-Ming Cheng , Ian Reid

This work brings together some of the most common machine learning (ML) algorithms, and the objective is to make a comparison at the level of obtained results from a set of unbalanced data. This dataset is composed of almost 17 thousand…

Many pulsar folding algorithms are currently deployed to generate strong SNRs for the total intensity profiles. But they require large observation times to improve the SNR effectively. New approaches to de-noise the pulsar total intensity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-03 Amitesh Singh , Kamlesh N Pathak

We present a method by using the phase characteristics of radio observation data for pulsar search and candidate identification. The phase characteristics are relations between the pulsar signal and the phase correction in the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Bo Peng , Qian-Chen Hu , Qiang Li , Lei Qian , Xiao-Bo Dong , Shi-Lin Peng , Ze-Lin Wang

In searching for continuous gravitational waves over very many ($\approx 10^{17}$) templates , clustering is a powerful tool which increases the search sensitivity by identifying and bundling together candidates that are due to the same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-11 Banafsheh Beheshtipour , Maria Alessandra Papa

We have performed a new search for radio pulsars in archival data of the intermediate and high Galactic latitude parts of the Southern High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey. This is the first time the entire dataset has been searched…

The application of supervised artificial neural networks (ANNs) for quasar selection from combined radio and optical surveys with photometric and morphological data is investigated, using the list of candidates and their classification from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Carballo , A. S. Cofino , J. I. Gonzalez-Serrano

Machine learning can be a powerful tool to discover new signal types in astronomical data. We here apply it to search for long-duration transient gravitational waves triggered by pulsar glitches, which could yield physical insight into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Luana M. Modafferi , Rodrigo Tenorio , David Keitel

The selection of datasets in recommender systems research lacks a systematic methodology. Researchers often select datasets based on popularity rather than empirical suitability. We developed the APS Explorer, a web application that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Abdullah Abbas , Michael Heep , Theodor Sperle

This paper presents an efficient object detection method from satellite imagery. Among a number of machine learning algorithms, we proposed a combination of two convolutional neural networks (CNN) aimed at high precision and high recall,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-10 Hiroki Miyamoto , Kazuki Uehara , Masahiro Murakawa , Hidenori Sakanashi , Hirokazu Nosato , Toru Kouyama , Ryosuke Nakamura

Searching for extraterrestrial, transient signals in astronomical data sets is an active area of current research. However, machine learning techniques are lacking in the literature concerning single-pulse detection. This paper presents a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-20 Thomas Devine , Katerina Goseva-Popstojanova , Maura McLaughlin

In this work, we propose a novel framework named Region-Aware Network (RANet), which learns the ability of anti-confusing in case of heavy occlusion, nearby person and symmetric appearance, for human pose estimation. Specifically, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Xuan Cao , Yanhao Ge , Ying Tai , Wei Zhang , Jian Li , Chengjie Wang , Jilin Li , Feiyue Huang