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Radio astronomical images object detection and segmentation: A benchmark on deep learning methods

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In recent years, deep learning has been successfully applied in various scientific domains. Following these promising results and performances, it has recently also started being evaluated in the domain of radio astronomy. In particular, since radio astronomy is entering the Big Data era, with the advent of the largest telescope in the world - the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the task of automatic object detection and instance segmentation is crucial for source finding and analysis. In this work, we explore the performance of the most affirmed deep learning approaches, applied to astronomical images obtained by radio interferometric instrumentation, to solve the task of automatic source detection. This is carried out by applying models designed to accomplish two different kinds of tasks: object detection and semantic segmentation. The goal is to provide an overview of existing techniques, in terms of prediction performance and computational efficiency, to scientists in the astrophysics community who would like to employ machine learning in their research.

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2024 1

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  • Detection and classification of radio sources with deep learning astro-ph.IM · 2024-11-13 · conditional · none · ref 12 · internal anchor

    Deep learning models, including an upgraded Mask R-CNN, a LightGBM/CNN classifier, and a SimCLR self-supervised encoder, are applied to detect and classify radio sources in large survey images.