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The observation of the transient sky through a multitude of astrophysical messengers hasled to several scientific breakthroughs these last two decades thanks to the fast evolution ofthe observational techniques and strategies employed by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Damien Turpin , M. Ganet , S. Antier , E. Bertin , L. P. Xin , N. Leroy , C. Wu , Y. Xu , X. H. Han , H. B. Cai , H. L. Li , X. M. Lu , J. Y. Wei

Recently, CNN object detectors have achieved high accuracy on remote sensing images but require huge labor and time costs on annotation. In this paper, we propose a new uncertainty-based active learning which can select images with more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Zhenshen Qu , Jingda Du , Yong Cao , Qiuyu Guan , Pengbo Zhao

We present the first set of trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) observed on multiple nights in data taken from the DECam Ecliptic Exploration Project (DEEP). Of these 110 TNOs, 105 do not coincide with previously known TNOs and appear to be new…

A new golden age in astronomy is upon us, dominated by data. Large astronomical surveys are broadcasting unprecedented rates of information, demanding machine learning as a critical component in modern scientific pipelines to handle the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-17 Tarek Allam , Julien Peloton , Jason D. McEwen

Computer vision-based deep learning object detection algorithms have been developed sufficiently powerful to support the ability to recognize various objects. Although there are currently general datasets for object detection, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Rui Duan , Hui Deng , Mao Tian , Yichuan Deng , Jiarui Lin

In this work, we propose a deep learning-based classification model of astronomical objects using alerts reported by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. The model takes as inputs sequences of stamp images and metadata contained in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 Daniel Neira O. , Pablo A. Estévez , Francisco Förster

Deep learning (DL) models are gaining popularity in forest variable prediction using Earth Observation images. However, in practical forest inventories, reference datasets are often represented by plot- or stand-level measurements, while…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-10 Shaojia Ge , Oleg Antropov , Tuomas Häme , Ronald E. McRoberts , Jukka Miettinen

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

Upcoming astronomical surveys such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will rely on photometric classification to identify the majority of the transients and variables that they discover. We present a set of techniques for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Kyle Boone

Substantial efforts have been devoted more recently to presenting various methods for object detection in optical remote sensing images. However, the current survey of datasets and deep learning based methods for object detection in optical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Ke Li , Gang Wan , Gong Cheng , Liqiu Meng , Junwei Han

In the identification of new planetary candidates in transit surveys, the employment of Deep Learning models proved to be essential to efficiently analyse a continuously growing volume of photometric observations. To further improve the…

Missions to small celestial bodies rely heavily on optical feature tracking for characterization of and relative navigation around the target body. While deep learning has led to great advancements in feature detection and description,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-16 Travis Driver , Katherine Skinner , Mehregan Dor , Panagiotis Tsiotras

Visual object tracking has focused predominantly on opaque objects, while transparent object tracking received very little attention. Motivated by the uniqueness of transparent objects in that their appearance is directly affected by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Alan Lukezic , Ziga Trojer , Jiri Matas , Matej Kristan

We present DELIGHT, or Deep Learning Identification of Galaxy Hosts of Transients, a new algorithm designed to automatically and in real-time identify the host galaxies of extragalactic transients. The proposed algorithm receives as input…

We present AiTLAS: Benchmark Arena -- an open-source benchmark suite for evaluating state-of-the-art deep learning approaches for image classification in Earth Observation (EO). To this end, we present a comprehensive comparative analysis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Ivica Dimitrovski , Ivan Kitanovski , Dragi Kocev , Nikola Simidjievski

Deep learning methods for computer vision tasks show promise for automating the data analysis of camera trap images. Ecological camera traps are a common approach for monitoring an ecosystem's animal population, as they provide continual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Stefan Schneider , Graham W. Taylor , Stefan C. Kremer

The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) currently covers 33,000 deg^2 of the sky in search of transient astrophysical events, with time baselines ranging from 10 minutes to ~7 years. Data provided by the Catalina Sky Survey provides…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 A. J. Drake , S. G. Djorgovski , A. Mahabal , J. L. Prieto , E. Beshore , M. J. Graham , M. Catalan , S. Larson , E. Christensen , C. Donalek , R. Williams

The nature of scientific and technological data collection is evolving rapidly: data volumes and rates grow exponentially, with increasing complexity and information content, and there has been a transition from static data sets to data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-17 S. G. Djorgovski , A. A. Mahabal , C. Donalek , M. J. Graham , A. J. Drake , M. Turmon , T. Fuchs

Object detection models are typically trained on datasets like ImageNet, COCO, and PASCAL VOC, which focus on everyday objects. However, these lack signal sparsity found in non-commercial domains. MobilTelesco, a smartphone-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Shantanusinh Parmar

In 2012, AlexNet established deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) as the state-of-the-art in CV, as these networks soon led in visual tasks for many domains, including remote sensing. With the publication of Visual Transformers, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 J. Alex Hurt , Trevor M. Bajkowski , Grant J. Scott , Curt H. Davis