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A new algorithm is developed that automatically detects filaments on the solar disc in H-alpha images. Preprocessing of H-alpha images include corrections for limb darkening and foreshortening. Further, by applying suitable intensity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Anand D. Joshi , Nandita Srivastava , Shibu K. Mathew

With the rapid development of telescopes, both temporal cadence and the spatial resolution of observations are increasing. This in turn generates vast amount of data, which can be efficiently searched only with automated detections in order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Q. Hao , P. F. Chen , C. Fang

The paper presents a reliable method using deep learning to recognize solar filaments in H-alpha full-disk solar images automatically. This method cannot only identify filaments accurately but also minimize the effects of noise points of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 GaoFei Zhu , GangHua Lin , DongGuang Wang , Suo Liu , Xiao Yang

Filaments are omnipresent features in the solar atmosphere. Their location, properties and time evolution can provide information about changes in solar activity and assist the operational space weather forecast. Therefore, filaments have…

An application of active contours without edges is presented as an efficient and effective means of extracting and characterizing coronal holes. Coronal holes are regions of low-density plasma on the Sun with open magnetic field lines. As…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 L. E. Boucheron , M. Valluri , R. T. J. McAteer

We describe a new neural-network technique developed for an automated recognition of solar filaments visible in the hydrogen H-alpha line full disk spectroheliograms. This technique allows neural networks learn from a few image fragments…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 V. V. Zharkova , V. Schetinin

Coronal Holes (CHs) are regions of open magnetic field lines, resulting in high speed solar wind. Accurate detection of CHs is vital for space weather prediction. This paper presents an intramethod ensemble for coronal hole detection based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Jeremy A. Grajeda , Laura E. Boucheron , Michael S. Kirk , Andrew Leisner , C. Nick Arge

Solar storms can have a major impact on the infrastructure of the earth. Some of the causing events are observable from ground in the H{\alpha} spectral line. In this paper we propose a new method for the simultaneous detection of flares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Gernot Riegler , Thomas Pock , Werner Pötzi , Astrid Veronig

Studies on the dynamics of solar filaments have significant implications for understanding their formation, evolution, and eruption, which are of great importance for space weather warning and forecasting. The H$\alpha$ Imaging Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Z. Zheng , Q. Hao , Y. Qiu , J. Hong , C. Li , M. D. Ding

We developed a method to automatically detect and trace solar filaments in H\alpha\ full-disk images. The program is able not only to recognize filaments and determine their properties, such as the position, the area, the spine, and other…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Qi Hao , Cheng Fang , P. F. Chen

Electroluminescence (EL) imaging is a powerful and established technique for assessing the quality of photovoltaic (PV) modules, which consist of many electrically connected solar cells arranged in a grid. The analysis of imperfect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Evgenii Sovetkin , Ansgar Steland

Filaments are very common physical phenomena on the Sun and are often taken as important proxies of solar magnetic activities. The study of filaments has become a hot topic in the space weather research. For a more comprehensive…

Topological alignments and snakes are used in image processing, particularly in locating object boundaries. Both of them have their own advantages and limitations. To improve the overall image boundary detection system, we focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-06-03 Ashraf A. Aly , Safaai Bin Deris , Nazar Zaki

Many edge and contour detection algorithms give a soft-value as an output and the final binary map is commonly obtained by applying an optimal threshold. In this paper, we propose a novel method to detect image contours from the extracted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zahra Mousavi Kouzehkanan , Reshad Hosseini , Babak Nadjar Araabi

In this paper, we propose a novel variational active contour model based on Aubert-Aujol (AA) denoising model, which hybrides geodesic active contour (GAC) model with active contours without edges (ACWE) model and can be used to segment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Guangming Liu

Since the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) began recording ~ 1 TB of data per day, there has been an increased need to automatically extract features and events for further analysis. Here we compare the overall detection performance,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-05 Cis Verbeeck , Paul A. Higgins , Tufan Colak , Fraser T. Watson , Veronique Delouille , Benjamin Mampaey , Rami Qahwaji

This paper proposes a novel zero-shot edge detection with SCESAME, which stands for Spectral Clustering-based Ensemble for Segment Anything Model Estimation, based on the recently proposed Segment Anything Model (SAM). SAM is a foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Hiroaki Yamagiwa , Yusuke Takase , Hiroyuki Kambe , Ryosuke Nakamoto

Edge detection is widely and fundamental feature used in various algorithms in computer vision to determine the edges in an image. The edge detection algorithm is used to determine the edges in an image which are further used by various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-02 Victor Bogdan , Cosmin Bonchiş , Ciprian Orhei

Pixel intensity is a widely used feature for clustering and segmentation algorithms, the resulting segmentation using only intensity values might suffer from noises and lack of spatial context information. Wavelet transform is often used…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-09 Junyu Chen , Eric C. Frey

This study proposes an enhancement to the existing method for detecting Solar Active Regions (ARs). Our technique tracks ARs using images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It involves a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Irewola Aaron Oludehinwa , Andrei Velichko , Maksim Belyaev , Olasunkanmi I. Olusola
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