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The Bright Transient Survey (BTS) relies on visual inspection ("scanning") to select sources for accomplishing its mission of spectroscopically classifying all bright extragalactic transients found by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-05 Nabeel Rehemtulla , Adam A. Miller , Michael W. Coughlin , Theophile Jegou du Laz

The proliferation of sensors brings an immense volume of spatio-temporal (ST) data in many domains, including monitoring, diagnostics, and prognostics applications. Data curation is a time-consuming process for a large volume of data,…

Transient, star-like point sources that appear and vanish over short timescales are described in astronomical images prior to launch of Sputnik. We have reported that transient numbers diminish significantly in Earth's shadow (shadow…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-23 Stephen Bruehl , Brian Doherty , Alina Streblyanska , Beatriz Villarroel

For transient sources with timescales of 1-100 seconds, standardized imaging for all observations at each time step become impossible as large modern interferometers produce significantly large data volumes in this observation time frame.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-06 Xia Zhang , Foivos I. Diakogiannis , Richard Dodson , Andreas Wicenec

Deep-learning-based methods have been favored in astrophysics owing to their adaptability and remarkable performance and have been applied to the task of the classification of real and bogus transients. Different from most existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-15 Yating Liu , Lulu Fan , Lei Hu , Junqiang Lu , Yan Lu , Zelin Xu , Jiazheng Zhu , Haochen Wang , Xu Kong

With the upcoming Vera C.~Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), it is expected that only $\sim 0.1\%$ of all transients will be classified spectroscopically. To conduct studies of rare transients, such as Type I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Brian Hsu , Griffin Hosseinzadeh , V. Ashley Villar , Edo Berger

Recent advancements in the NLP field showed that transfer learning helps with achieving state-of-the-art results for new tasks by tuning pre-trained models instead of starting from scratch. Transformers have made a significant improvement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Aysu Ezen-Can

Machine Learning (ML)-based network models provide fast and accurate predictions for complex network behaviors but require substantial training data. Collecting such data from real networks is often costly and limited, especially for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Carlos Güemes-Palau , Miquel Ferriol-Galmés , Jordi Paillisse-Vilanova , Albert López-Brescó , Pere Barlet-Ros , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio

Large-scale sky surveys have played a transformative role in our understanding of astrophysical transients, only made possible by increasingly powerful machine learning-based filtering to accurately sift through the vast quantities of…

How can we reuse existing knowledge, in the form of available datasets, when solving a new and apparently unrelated target task from a set of unlabeled data? In this work we make a first contribution to answer this question in the context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-07 Efstratios Gavves , Thomas Mensink , Tatiana Tommasi , Cees G. M. Snoek , Tinne Tuytelaars

Transfer learning enables to re-use knowledge learned on a source task to help learning a target task. A simple form of transfer learning is common in current state-of-the-art computer vision models, i.e. pre-training a model for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Thomas Mensink , Jasper Uijlings , Alina Kuznetsova , Michael Gygli , Vittorio Ferrari

Finding effective representations for time series data is a useful but challenging task. Several works utilize self-supervised or unsupervised learning methods to address this. However, there still remains the open question of how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yuansan Liu , Sudanthi Wijewickrema , Christofer Bester , Stephen O'Leary , James Bailey

Sign language recognition (SLR) has recently achieved a breakthrough in performance thanks to deep neural networks trained on large annotated sign datasets. Of the many different sign languages, these annotated datasets are only available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ahmet Alp Kindiroglu , Ozgur Kara , Ogulcan Ozdemir , Lale Akarun

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will discover tens of thousands of astrophysical transients per night, far outpacing available spectroscopic follow-up capabilities. Carefully prioritising candidates for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Aidan Sedgewick , Christa Gall , Luca Izzo , Adriano Agnello , Charlotte R. Angus , Jens Hjorth , Arthur Kadela

For driver observation frameworks, clean datasets collected in controlled simulated environments often serve as the initial training ground. Yet, when deployed under real driving conditions, such simulator-trained models quickly face the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Walter Morales-Alvarez , Novel Certad , Alina Roitberg , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Cristina Olaverri-Monreal

In this work we explore the applicability of unsupervised machine learning algorithms to finding radio transients. Facilities such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will provide huge volumes of data in which to detect rare transients; the…

Currently, under supervised learning, a model pretrained by a large-scale nature scene dataset and then fine-tuned on a few specific task labeling data is the paradigm that has dominated the knowledge transfer learning. It has reached the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Tong Zhang , Peng Gao , Hao Dong , Yin Zhuang , Guanqun Wang , Wei Zhang , He Chen

Transfer learning is a standard technique to improve performance on tasks with limited data. However, for medical imaging, the value of transfer learning is less clear. This is likely due to the large domain mismatch between the usual…

In deep learning, transfer learning (TL) has become the de facto approach when dealing with image related tasks. Visual features learnt for one task have been shown to be reusable for other tasks, improving performance significantly. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Adrian Tormos , Dario Garcia-Gasulla , Victor Gimenez-Abalos , Sergio Alvarez-Napagao

Lattice thermal conductivity (TC) of semiconductors is crucial for various applications, ranging from microelectronics to thermoelectrics. Data-driven approach can potentially establish the critical composition-property relationship needed…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-30 Zeyu Liu , Meng Jiang , Tengfei Luo