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| Paper: |
MaxiMask: Identifying Contaminants in Astronomical Images using Convolutional Neural Networks |
| Volume: |
523, Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVIII |
| Page: |
99 |
| Authors: |
Paillassa, M.; Bertin, E.; Bouy, H. |
| Abstract: |
We present MaxiMask, a contaminant detector for ground-based astronomical images based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Once trained, Maxi-Mask is able to detect cosmic rays, hot pixels, bad pixels, saturated pixels, diffraction spikes, nebulous features, persistence effects, satellite trails and residual fringe patterns in ground based images, encompassing a broad range of ambient conditions, PSF sampling, detectors, optics and stellar density. Individual image pixels can be flagged through semantic segmentation, based on high-resolution probability maps generated by MaxiMask for each contaminant, except for the tracking error probability which is assigned by another dedicated CNN. Training and testing data have been gathered from a large dataset of simulated and real data originating from various modern CCD and near-IR cameras. |
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