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In this paper, a novel statistical metric learning is developed for spectral-spatial classification of the hyperspectral image. First, the standard variance of the samples of each class in each batch is used to decrease the intra-class…

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Machine Learning has attracted considerable attention throughout the past decade due to its potential to solve far-reaching tasks, such as image classification, object recognition, anomaly detection, and data forecasting. A standard…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Gustavo Henrique de Rosa , Mateus Roder , João Paulo Papa

Handling big data has largely been a major bottleneck in traditional statistical models. Consequently, when accurate point prediction is the primary target, machine learning models are often preferred over their statistical counterparts for…

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Astronomy has entered the multi-messenger data era and Machine Learning has found widespread use in a large variety of applications. The exploitation of synoptic (multi-band and multi-epoch) surveys, like LSST (Legacy Survey of Space and…

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Recent developments in computational power and machine learning techniques motivate their use in many different astrophysical research areas. Consequently, many machine learning models have been trained to classify exoplanet transit signals…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Ayan Bin Rafaih , Zachary Murray

The goal of this paper is to classify objects mapped by LiDAR sensor into different classes such as vehicles, pedestrians and bikers. Utilizing a LiDAR-based object detector and Neural Networks-based classifier, a novel real-time object…

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We present a novel method for detecting outliers in astronomical time series based on the combination of a deep neural network and a k-nearest neighbor algorithm with the aim of identifying and removing problematic epochs in the light…

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We propose a new method to count objects of specific categories that are significantly smaller than the ground sampling distance of a satellite image. This task is hard due to the cluttered nature of scenes where different object categories…

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We present the results of applying new object classification techniques to difference images in the context of the Nearby Supernova Factory supernova search. Most current supernova searches subtract reference images from new images,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 S. Bailey , C. Aragon , R. Romano , R. C. Thomas , B. A. Weaver , D. Wong

We present the first analysis of results from the SuperWASP Variable Stars Zooniverse project, which is aiming to classify 1.6 million phase-folded light curves of candidate stellar variables observed by the SuperWASP all sky survey with…

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The widespread dissemination of machine learning tools in science, particularly in astronomy, has revealed the limitation of working with simple single-task scenarios in which any task in need of a predictive model is looked in isolation,…

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The production of photometric light curves from astronomical images is a very time-consuming task. Larger data sets improve the resolution of the light curve, however, the time requirement scales with data volume. The data analysis is often…

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The classification of variable objects provides insight into a wide variety of astrophysics ranging from stellar interiors to galactic nuclei. The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) provides time series observations that record the variability…

Time-domain surveys have advanced astronomical research by revealing diverse variable phenomena, from stellar flares to transient events. The scale and complexity of survey data, along with the demand for rapid classification, present…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Xiaoxiong Zuo , Yihan Tao , Yang Huang , Zhixuan Kang , Huaxi Chen , Chenzhou Cui , Jiashu Pan , Xiao Kong , Xiaoyu Tang , Henggeng Han , Haiyang Mu , Yunfei Xu , Dongwei Fan , Guirong Xue , Ali Luo , Jifeng Liu

Strong lensing systems, expected to be abundantly discovered by next-generation surveys, offer a powerful tool for studying cosmology and galaxy evolution. The connection between galaxy structure and cosmology through distance ratios…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Shuaibo Geng , Margherita Grespan , Hareesh Thuruthipilly , Sreekanth Harikumar , Agnieszka Pollo , Marek Biesiada

Classification of high-dimensional low sample size (HDLSS) data poses a challenge in a variety of real-world situations, such as gene expression studies, cancer research, and medical imaging. This article presents the development and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-27 Jyotishka Ray Choudhury , Aytijhya Saha , Sarbojit Roy , Subhajit Dutta

Redshift measures the distance to galaxies and underlies our understanding of the origin of the Universe and galaxy evolution. Spectroscopic redshift is the gold-standard method for measuring redshift, but it requires about $1000$ times…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-19 Andrew Lizarraga , Eric Hanchen Jiang , Jacob Nowack , Yun Qi Li , Ying Nian Wu , Bernie Boscoe , Tuan Do

An appropriate distance metric is crucial for categorical data clustering, as the distance between categorical data cannot be directly calculated. However, the distances between attribute values usually vary in different clusters induced by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Taixi Chen , Yiu-ming Cheung , Yiqun Zhang

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has been observing the entire northern sky since the start of 2018 down to a magnitude of 20.5 ($5 \sigma$ for 30s exposure) in $g$, $r$, and $i$ filters. Over the course of two years, ZTF has obtained…