Feature recognition in solar images

Artificial Intelligence Review

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 209-266

  Zharkova, Valentina ^a   Ipson, Stanley ^a   Benkhalil, Ali ^a   Zharkov, Sergei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Bayesian inference; Digital solar image; Edge detection; Image segmentation; Morphological operations; Noise smoothing; Pattern recognition; Region growing; Shape correction

Indexed keywords

EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; SATELLITES; SUN;

BAYESIAN INTERFERENCE; DIGITAL SOLAR IMAGES; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; NOISE SMOOTHING; REGION GROWING; SHAPE CORRECTION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 17144424270     PISSN: 02692821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10462-004-4104-4     Document Type: Article

References (77)

1. Aboudarham, J. & Fuller, N. (2004). Automatic vs. Manual Detection of Solar Filaments. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, University of Wellington, NZ, Springer (LNAI 3215, Vol. 3: 467-475).
2. C. W. Allen 1973 Astrophysical Quantities Athlone New York
3. P. Ambroz A. Schroll 2002 Proper Motion of Solar Filaments Astronomy and Astrophysics 381 300 310
4. Aschwanden J. Markus 2002 Particle Acceleration and Kinematics in Solar Flares - A Synthesis of Recent Observations and Theoretical Concepts (Invited Review) Space Science Reviews 101 1 1 227
5. H. V. Babcock H. D. Babcock 1955 The Sun's Magnetic Field, 1952-1954 Astrophysical Journal 121 349 366
6. Benkhalil, A., Zharkova, V. V., Ipson, S. S. & Zharkov, S. (2003). Automatic Identification of Active Regions (Plages) in the Full-Disk Solar Images Using Local Thresholding and Region Growing Techniques, Proceedings of the AISB'03 Symposium on Biologically inspired Machine Vision, Theory and Application, 66-73. Aberystwyth: University of Wales.
7. Benkhalil, A. K., Zharkova, V., Ipson, S. & Zharkov S. (2005). An Automated Recognition of Active Regions on the Full Disk Solar Spectroheliograms using Ha, Ca II K3 and Fe XII 195 Å Lines. The International Journal Of Computer And Their Applications, ISCA, paper ID #3303AP.
8. Bentley, R. D. (2002). EGSO - the Next Step in Data Analysis. Proceedings of the Second Solar Cycle and Space Weather Euro-conference, Vico Equense, Italy, Edited by Huguette Sawaya-Lacoste, ESA Publication SP-477.
9. A. O. Benz 2002 Particle acceleration in cosmic plasmas D.Reidel. Publ. Co. Dordrecht Holland
10. Berghmans, D., Foing, B.H. & Fleck, B. (2002). Automated Detection of CMEs in LASCO Data. In Proceedings of The SOHO-11 Workshop, From Solar Min to Max: Half a Solar Cycle with SOHO. Switzerland: Davos.
11. M. Bichsel 1998 Analysing a Scene's Picture Set Under Varying Lighting Computer Vision and Image Understanding 71 3 271 280
12. C.M. Bishop 1995 Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition Oxford University Press Oxford
13. P. L. Bornmann D. Speich J. Hirman 1996a The GOES Solar X-ray Imager: Overview and Operational Goals SPIE Proceedings GOES 8 and Beyond 813 309 319
14. Bornmann, P. L., Winkelman, D. & Kohl, T. (1996b). Automated Solar Image Processing for Flare Forecasting. In Proceedings of The Solar Terrestrial Predictions Workshop, 23-27. Japan: Hitachi.
15. P. N. Brandt M. Steinegger 1998 On the Determination of the Quiet-Sun Centre to Limb Variation in Ca II K Spectroheliograms Solar Physics 177 287 294
16. E. Bratsolis M. Sigelle 1998 Solar Image Segmentation by Use of Mean Field Fast Annealing Astronomy Astrophysics Suppl. Servies 131 371 375
17. J. R. Burns A. R. Hanson E. M. Riseman 1986 Extracting Straight Lines IEEE Transations Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 8 425 455
18. J. Canny 1986 A Computational Approach to Edge Detection IEEE Transations Pattern Analytical Machine Intelligent 8 679 698
19. A. Csillaghy 1996 Extracting, Selecting and Visualizing Information from Digital Astronomical Images Vistas in Astronomy 40 4 503 510
20. A. Csillaghy A. O. Benz 1999 Interactive Image Retrieval in Large Astronomical Archives: The ASPECT system Solar Physics 188 203 216
21. Cuisenaire, O. & Macq B. (1999). Fast and Exact Signed Euclidean Distance Transformation with Linear Complexity, In Proceedings of international IEEE Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ICCASSP-99, 6: 3293-3296 AZ:Arizona, Phoenix
22. C. Denker A. Johannesson W. Marquette P. R. Goode H. Wang H. Zirin 1999 Synoptic H Full-Disk Observations of the Sun From Big Bear Solar Observatory Solar Physics 184 87 102
23. R. O. Duda P. E. Hart 1973 Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis Wiley New York
24. C. J. Durrant 2002 Polar Magnetic Fields - Filaments and the Zero-Flux Contour Solar Physics 211 83 102
25. D. A. Falconer R. L. Moore J. G. Porter G. A. Gary 1997 Neutral-Line Magnetic Shear and Enhanced Coronal Heating in Solar Active Regions Astrophysical Journal 482 519 534
26. K. S. Fu J. K. Mui 1981 A Survey of Image Segmentation Pattern Recognition 13 1 3 16
27. Gao, J., Zhou, M. & Wang, H. (2001). A Threshold and Region Growing Combined Method for Filament Disappearance Area Detection in Solar Images, In Proceedings of The Conference on Information Sciences and Systems. The John Hopkins University
28. S. Geman D. Geman 1984 Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distribution and the Bayesian Restoration of Images IEEE Transations Pattern Analytical and Machine Intelligent 6 721 741
29. E.G. Gibson 1973 The Quiet Sun NASA Washington
30. R. C. Gonzalez R. E. Woods 2001 Digital Image Processing Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River New Jersey
31. M. J. Hagyard N. P. Cumings E. A. West J. E. Smith 1982 The MSFC Vector Magnetograph Solar Physics 80 33 51
32. M. J. Hagyard J. E. Smith D. Teuber E. A. West 1984 A Quantitative Study Relating to Observed Shear in Photospheric Magnetic Fields to Repeated Flaring Solar Physics 91 115 126
33. Hill, F., Csillaghy, A., Bentley, Robert D., Aboudarham, Jean, Antonucci, Ester, Finkelstein, Anthony, Ciminiera, Luigi, Gurman, Joseph, B., Scholl, Isabelle, Pike, Dave, & Zharkova, V. (2002). EGSO in Need for A Global Schema. In Proceedings of the SPIE, Virtual Observatories. Edited by Szalay, Alexander S., 4846: 35-42
34. Hill, M., Castelli, V., Chung-Sheng, L., Yuan-Chi, C., Bergman, L., Smith, J. R. & Thompson, B. (2001). Solarspire: Querying Temporal Solar Imagery by Content. In Proceedings of The International Conference on Image Processing, 834-837. Greece: Thessaloniki
35. A. Huertas G. Medioni 1986 Detection of Intensity Changes with Sub-Pixel Accuracy using Laplacian-Gaussian Masks IEEE Transactions Pattern Recognition Machine Intelligent 8 5 651 664
36. Ipson, S. S. Zharkova, V. V., Benkhalil, A. K., Zharkov, S. I. & Aboudarham, J. (2002). Automated Image Standardization of the Synoptic Solar Observations at the Meudon observatory. In Proceedings of The SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, Astronomical Data Analysis II (AS14) Conference. USA: Hawaii
37. A. Irbah M. Bouzaria L. Lakhal R. Moussaoui J. Borgnino F. Laclare C. Delmas 1999 Feature Extraction from Solar Images Using Wavelet Transform: Image Cleaning for Applications to Solar Astrolabe Experiment Solar Physics 185 255 273
38. B. Jahne 1997 Digital Image Processing Springer Berlin
39. R. Kippenhahn A. Schluter 1957 Eine Theorie der Solaren Filamente Zeitschrift für Astrophysik 43 36 62
40. Kohl, C. A., Lerner, R. A., Hough, A. A. & Loiselle, C. L. (1994). A Stellar Application of the IUE: Solar Feature Extraction. In Proceedings of The DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, Section IV Image Understanding Environment (IUE), 13-16. CA: Monterey
41. Krejci, R., Flusser, J. & Simberova, S. A. (1998). New Multichannel Blind Deconvolution Method and its Application to Solar Images. In Proceedings of The 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Vol. 2: 1765-1767. Australia: Brisbane
42. M. Kuperus M. A. Raadu 1974 The Support of Prominences Formed in Neutral Sheets Astronomy and Astrophysics 31 189 193
43. Li, C. S., Yu, P. S. & Castelli, V. (1998). MALM a Framework for Mining Sequence Databases at Multiple Abstraction Levels. In Proceedings of The 7th International Conference Information Knowledge Management CIKM'98, 267-272. MD, USA: Bethsaida
44. R. Lin S. Krucker G. J. Hurford D.M. Smith 2003 RHESSI Observations of Particle Acceleration and Energy Release in an Intense Solar Gamma-Ray Line Flare The Astrophysical Journal 595 69 76
45. S. U. Lee S. Y. Chung R. H. Park 1990 A Comparative Performance Study of Several Global Thresholding Techniques for Segmentation Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing 52 2 171 190
46. I. Lerche B. C. Low 1980 Cylindrical Prominences and the Magnetic Influence of the Photospheric Boundary Solar Physics 66 285 303
47. D. Marr E. Hildreth 1980 Theory of Edge Detection Proceedings of the Royal Society London B207 187 217
48. N. Metropolis A. Rosenbluth M. Rosenbluth A. Teller E. Teller 1953 Journal of Chemical Physics 21 1087 1092
49. F. O'Gorman M. B. Clowes 1976 Finding Picture Edges Through Collinearity of Feature Points IEEE Transactions Computer C-25 449 454
50. E. N. Parker 1988 Dynamical Oscillation and Propulsion of Magnetic Fields in the Convective Zone of a Star. V - Instability and Propulsion of Flux Bundles Astrophysical Journal 326 1 395 406
51. T. Pettauer P. N. Brandt 1997 On Novel Methods to Determine Areas of Sunspots from Photoheliograms Solar Physics 175 197 203
52. E. R. Priest 1984 Solar Magneto-Hydrodynamics. Geophysics and Astrophysical Monographs Reidel Dordrecht
53. E. R. Priest T. Forbes 2000 Book Review: Magnetic reconnection Cambridge Unversity Press Cambridge
54. D. G. Preminger S. R. Walton G. Chapman 2001 Solar Feature Identification using Contrasts and Contiguity Solar Physics 202 1 53 62
55. Scherrer, P. H., Bogart, R. S., Bush, R. I., Hoeksema, J. T., Kosovichev, A. G., Schou, J., Rosenberg, W., Springer, L., Tarbell, T. D., Title, A. & 3 co-authors (1995). The Solar Oscillations Investigation - Michelson Doppler Imager. Solar Physics 162: 129-188
56. J. A. Shrauner P. H. Scherrer 1994 East-West Inclination of Large-Scale Photospheric Magnetic Fields Solar Physics 153 131 141
57. B.V. Somov 2000 Cosmic Plasma Physics, Astrophysics and Space Science Library Kluwer Academic Publishers The Netherlands Vol.251
58. M. Steinegger J. A. Bonet M. Vazquez 1997 Simulation of Seeing Influences on the Photometric Determination of Sunspot Areas Solar Physics 171 303 330
59. M. Steinegger J. A. Bonet M. Vázquez A. Jiménez 1998 On the Intensity Thresholds of the Network and Plage Regions Solar Physics 177 279 286
60. P. A. Sturrock M. Jardin 1994 Book Review: Plasma physics Cambridge University Press Cambridge
61. D. Teuber E. Tandberg-Hanssen M. J. Hagyard 1977 Computer Solutions for Studying Correlations Between Solar Magnetic Fields and Skylab X-ray Observations Solar Physics 53 97 110
62. Turmon, M. J. (1996). Identification of Solar Features via Markov Random Fields. In Proceedings of The Second Meeting of International Association for Statistical Computing, IASC-2
63. Turmon, M., Mukhtar, S. & Pap. J. (1997). Bayesian Inference for Identifying Solar Active Regions. In Proceedings of The Third Conf. on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
64. Turmon, M. J. & Mukhtar, S. (1998). Representing Solar Active Regions with Triangulations. In Proceedings of The Compstat-98. England: Bristol
65. M. Turmon J. M. Pap S. Mukhtar 2002 Statistical Pattern Recognition for Labelling Solar Active Regions: Applications to SOHO/MDI Imagery Astrophysical Journal 568 396 407
66. R. K. Ulrich S. Evens J. E. Boyden L. Webster 2002 Mount Wilson Synoptic Magnetic Fields: Improved Instrumentation, Calibration and Analysis Applied to the 2000 July 14 flare and to the Evolution of the Dipole Field Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 139 1 259 279
67. A. Veronig M. Steinegger A. Otruba A. Hanslmeier M. Messerotti M. Temmer S. Gonzi G. Brunner 2001 Automatic Image Processing in the Frame of a Solar Flare Alerting System Hvar Obs. Bulletin 24 1 195 205
68. S. R. Walton G. A. Chapman A. M. Cookson J. J. Dobias D. G. Preminger 1998 Processing Photometric Full-Disk Solar Images Solar Physics 179 31 42
69. S. R. Walton D. G. Preminger 1999 Restoration and Photometry of Full-Disk Solar Images Astropysical Journal 514 959 971
70. H. Wang C. Denker T. Spirock P. R. Goode S. Yang W. Marquette J. Varsik R. J. Fear J. Nenow D. D. Dingley 1998 New Digital Magnetograph At Big Bear Solar Observatory Solar Physics 183 1 1 13
71. Zharkov, S. I., Zharkova, V. V., Ipson, S. S. & Benkhalil, A. (2003). An Automated Recognition of Sunspots from the Ca K1 and White Light Solar Images and Corresponding Magnetic Structures from the SOHO/MDI Magnetograms. Proceedings of the AISB'03 Symposium on Biologically-inspired Machine Vision, Theory and Application, 74-84. Aberystwyth: University of Wales
72. Zharkov, S. I., Zharkova, V. V., Ipson, S. S. & Benkhalil, A. (2004). An Automated Recognition of Sunspots on the SOHO/MDI White Light Solar Images. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. University of Wellington, NZ: Springer, (LNAI 3215, Vol. 3: 446-452)
73. Zharkova, V. V., Ipson, S. S., Zharkov, S. I., Benkhalil, A. K. & Aboudarha, J. (2002). A Full Disk Image Standardisation of the Synoptic Solar Observations at the Meudon Observatory. In Proceedings of The 10th European Solar Physics Meeting. Czech Republic: Prague
74. Zharkova, V. V., Ipson, S. S., Zharkov, S. I., Benkhalil, A. K., Aboudarham, J., Bentley, R. D. (2003). A Full Disk Image Standardisation of the Synoptic Solar Observations at the Meudon observatory. Solar Physics Journal 214(1): 89-105
75. Zharkova, V. V. & Schetinin, V. (2003a). The Recognition of Filaments in Solar Images with an Artificial Neural Network. In Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, ESANN-2003, 521-526. Belgium: Bruges
76. Zharkova, V. V. & Schetinin, V. (2003b). A Neural Network Technique for Recognition of Filaments in Solar Images. The Proc. Seventh International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 148-154. University of Oxford, UK: Springer.
77. Zharkova, V. V. & Schetinin, V. (2004). A Neural Network Technique for Filaments Recognition in Solar Images. Neurocomputing Edited by D. Sanchez (in press).