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In magnetospheric missions, burst mode data sampling should be triggered in the presence of processes of scientific or operational interest. We present an unsupervised classification method for magnetospheric regions, that could constitute…

Texture is one of the most important properties of visual surface that helps in discriminating one object from another or an object from background. The self-organizing map (SOM) is an excellent tool in exploratory phase of data mining. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-20 Marghny H. Mohamed , Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

Self-Organizing Maps are commonly used for unsupervised learning purposes. This paper is dedicated to the certain modification of SOM called SOMN (Self-Organizing Mixture Networks) used as a mechanism for representing grayscale digital…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-08-19 Patryk Filipiak

We present an automatic, fast, accurate and robust method of classifying astronomical objects. The Self Organizing Map (SOM) as an unsupervised Artificial Neural Network (ANN) algorithm is used for classification of stellar spectra of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-08-03 Bazarghan Mahdi

We present a method for radical linear compression of datasets where the data are dependent on some number $M$ of parameters. We show that, if the noise in the data is independent of the parameters, we can form $M$ linear combinations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alan Heavens , Raul Jimenez , Ofer Lahav

We use the Galaxy Morphology Posterior Estimation Network (GaMPEN) to estimate morphological parameters and associated uncertainties for $\sim 8$ million galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC) Wide survey with $z \leq 0.75$ and $m \leq…

We describe the application of Semantic Segmentation by using the Self Organizing Map technique to an high spatial and spectral resolution dataset acquired along the H$\alpha$ line at 656.28 nm by the Interferometric Bi-dimensional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-21 Schillirò Francesco , Romano Paolo

The matter density is an important knowledge for today cosmology as many phenomena are linked to matter fluctuations. However, this density is not directly available, but estimated through lensing maps or galaxy surveys. In this article, we…

Applications · Statistics 2011-03-14 François-Xavier Dupé , Jalal Fadili , Jean-Luc Starck

We propose a method to substantially increase the flexibility and power of template fitting-based photometric redshifts by transforming a large numbers of galaxy spectral templates into a corrresponding collection of "fuzzy archetypes"…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-29 Joshua S. Speagle , Daniel J. Eisenstein

Aims. A new method is applied to the segmentation, and further analysis of the outliers resulting from the classification of astronomical objects in large databases is discussed. The method is being used in the framework of the Gaia…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-11 D. Fustes , M. Manteiga , C. Dafonte , B. Arcay , A. Ulla , K. Smith , R. Borrachero , R. Sordo

Sky surveys are the largest data generators in astronomy, making automated tools for extracting meaningful scientific information an absolute necessity. We show that, without the need for labels, self-supervised learning recovers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-30 Md Abul Hayat , George Stein , Peter Harrington , Zarija Lukić , Mustafa Mustafa

The interpretation of ligand-target interactions at atomistic resolution is central to most efforts in computational drug discovery and optimization. However, the highly dynamic nature of protein targets, as well as possible induced fit…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-04 Lara Callea , Camilla Caprai , Laura Bonati , Toni Giorgino , Stefano Motta

Kohonen Maps, aka. Self-organizing maps (SOMs) are neural networks that visualize a high-dimensional feature space on a low-dimensional map. While SOMs are an excellent tool for data examination and exploration, they inherently cause a loss…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Simon Linke , Tim Ziemer

Galaxy surveys provide a large-scale view of the universe that typically has a limited line-of-sight or redshift resolution. The lack of radial accuracy in these surveys can be modelled by picturing the universe as a set of concentric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga , F. Castander , M. Manera

The ability to obtain reliable point estimates of model parameters is of crucial importance in many fields of physics. This is often a difficult task given that the observed data can have a very high number of dimensions. In order to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Janis Fluri , Aurelien Lucchi , Tomasz Kacprzak , Alexandre Refregier , Thomas Hofmann

Semi-analytic models are a widely used approach to simulate galaxy properties within a cosmological framework, relying on simplified yet physically motivated prescriptions. They have also proven to be an efficient alternative for generating…

Sustainable water quality underpins ecological balance and water security. Assessing and managing lakes and reservoirs is difficult due to data sparsity, heterogeneity, and nonlinear relationships among parameters. This review examines how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Oraib Almegdadi , João Marcelino , Sarah Fakhreddine , João Manso , Nuno C. Marques

SOM is a type of unsupervised learning where the goal is to discover some underlying structure of the data. In this paper, a new extraction method based on the main idea of Concurrent Self-Organizing Maps (CSOM), representing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-08-21 Mohammed M. Abdelsamea

There has been an increasing interest in semi-supervised learning in the recent years because of the great number of datasets with a large number of unlabeled data but only a few labeled samples. Semi-supervised learning algorithms can work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-26 Pedro H. M. Braga , Hansenclever F. Bassani

We believe that a wide range of physical processes conspire to shape the observed galaxy population but we remain unsure of their detailed interactions. The semi-analytic model (SAM) of galaxy formation uses multi-dimensional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-07 Yu Lu , H. J. Mo , Martin D. Weinberg , Neal Katz