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We present a fully convolutional network(FCN) based approach for color image restoration. FCNs have recently shown remarkable performance for high-level vision problem like semantic segmentation. In this paper, we investigate if FCN models…

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Weak lensing mass-mapping is a useful tool to access the full distribution of dark matter on the sky, but because of intrinsic galaxy ellipticies and finite fields/missing data, the recovery of dark matter maps constitutes a challenging…

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A simple, fully connected neural network with a single hidden layer is used to estimate stellar masses for star-forming galaxies. The model is trained on broad-band photometry - from far-ultraviolet to mid-infrared wavelengths - generated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-15 E. Elson

We present a novel multimodal neural network (MNN) for classifying astronomical sources in multiband ground-based observations, from optical to near infrared, to separate sources in stars, galaxies and quasars. Our approach combines a…

Full spectrum fitting is the prevailing method for extracting stellar kinematic and population measurements from 1D galaxy spectra. 3D methods refer to analysis of Integral Field Spectroscopy (IFS) data where spatial and spectral dimensions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-06 Prashin Jethwa , Simon Hubmer , Ronny Ramlau , Glenn Van de Ven

Similarity analysis using neural networks has emerged as a powerful technique for understanding and categorizing complex patterns in various domains. By leveraging the latent representations learned by neural networks, data objects such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Cyril Juliani

We report on the method developed by Zibetti, Charlot and Rix (2009) to construct resolved stellar mass maps of galaxies from optical and NIR imaging. Accurate pixel-by-pixel colour information (specifically g-i and i-H) is converted into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Stefano Zibetti , Stephane Charlot , Hans-Walter Rix

Planetary nebulae (PNe) provide tests of stellar evolution, can serve as tracers of chemical evolution in the Milky Way and other galaxies, and are also used as a calibrator of the cosmological distance ladder. Current and upcoming large…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 George Vejar , Rodolfo Montez , Margaret Morris , Keivan G. Stassun

We present a novel convolutional neural network architecture for photometric stereo (Woodham, 1980), a problem of recovering 3D object surface normals from multiple images observed under varying illuminations. Despite its long history in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Tatsunori Taniai , Takanori Maehara

Reconstructing an image from noisy and incomplete measurements is a central task in several image processing applications. In recent years, state-of-the-art reconstruction methods have been developed based on recent advances in deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Christoph Angermann , Simon Göppel , Markus Haltmeier

Classification of stars and galaxies is a well-known astronomical problem that has been treated using different approaches, most of them relying on morphological information. In this paper, we tackle this issue using the low-resolution…

Reconstructing the 3D shape of an object using several images under different light sources is a very challenging task, especially when realistic assumptions such as light propagation and attenuation, perspective viewing geometry and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Fotios Logothetis , Ignas Budvytis , Roberto Mecca , Roberto Cipolla

We use a well-known deep neural network framework, called Mask R-CNN, for identification of solar filaments in full-disk H-alpha images from Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). The image data, collected from BBSO's archive, are integrated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-06 Azim Ahmadzadeh , Sushant S. Mahajan , Dustin J. Kempton , Rafal A. Angryk , Shihao Ji

Stars exhibit a range of variability periods that depend on their mass, age, and evolutionary stage. For space-based photometric data, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated success in recovering and measuring periodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-24 Meir E. Schochet , Penelope Planet , Zachary R. Claytor , Jamie Tayar , Adina D. Feinstein

The remarkable performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) currently makes them the method of choice for solving linear inverse problems. They have been applied to super-resolve and restore images, as well as to reconstruct MR and CT images.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-01 Marija Vella , João F. C. Mota

We present a novel way of using neural networks (NN) to estimate the redshift distribution of a galaxy sample. We are able to obtain a probability density function (PDF) for each galaxy using a classification neural network. The method is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-08 Christopher Bonnett

Aims. We present the application of a fully connected neural network (NN) for galaxy merger identification using exclusively photometric information. Our purpose is not only to test the method's efficiency, but also to understand what…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-25 L. E. Suelves , W. J. Pearson , A. Pollo

Large-scale astronomical surveys can capture numerous images of celestial objects, including galaxies and nebulae. Analysing and processing these images can reveal intricate internal structures of these objects, allowing researchers to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-02 Peng Jia , Jiameng Lv , Runyu Ning , Yu Song , Nan Li , Kaifan Ji , Chenzhou Cui , Shanshan Li

Context. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proven to perform fast classification and detection on natural images and have potential to infer astrophysical parameters on the exponentially increasing amount of sky survey imaging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Bialopetravičius , D. Narbutis , V. Vansevičius

We apply a new deep learning technique to detect, classify, and deblend sources in multi-band astronomical images. We train and evaluate the performance of an artificial neural network built on the Mask R-CNN image processing framework, a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-22 Colin J. Burke , Patrick D. Aleo , Yu-Ching Chen , Xin Liu , John R. Peterson , Glenn H. Sembroski , Joshua Yao-Yu Lin