基于卷积神经网络的射电源搜寻算法研究
Radio Source Detection Algorithms Based on Convolutional Neural Networks
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摘要: 近年来, 随着平方公里阵列射电望远镜(Square Kilometre Array, SKA)、500 m口径球面射电望远镜(Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, FAST)、下一代超大阵列(next generation Very Large Array, ngVLA)等射电望远镜的建设和运行, 天文观测进入大数据时代. 提出了一种基于卷积神经网络的射电源搜寻方法, 以应对海量数据处理需求, 针对射电图像中信号微弱、尺度结构变化范围大这两个特征, 构建了双通道降噪模型与特征金字塔网络相结合的深度学习框架, 先通过扩张卷积和残差学习提升图像信噪比, 再利用多尺度特征融合实现对点源和扩展源的精准定位. 实验基于第一届科学数据挑战(SKA Science Data Challenge 1, SDC1)数据集, 结果表明, 该方法在1000 h、100 h和8 h积分时间图像上的检测精度分别达到了97.7%、94.6%和93.8%, 尤其在8 h的弱源探测能力方面较表现最好的研究结果提升了53.2%, 同时在噪声水平以上的搜寻结果在可靠性和完备性两方面均超过90%, 解决了高噪声环境中弱信号探测的问题.Abstract: In recent years, the construction and operation of large-scale radio telescopes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), and the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) have ushered radio astronomy into the era of big data. A radio source detection method based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) is proposed to address the demands of processing massive amounts of data. Targeting the characteristics of weak signal recognition and large range of scale structure changes in radio images, a deep learning framework combining a dual-channel denoising model with a feature pyramid network is constructed. First, dilated convolutions and residual learning are employed to enhance the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the images. Then, multi-scale feature fusion is utilized to achieve precise localization of both point sources and extended sources. The experiments were conducted using the dataset from the first edition of the Scientific Data Challenge (SDC1). The results demonstrate that the proposed method achieved detection accuracies of 97.7%, 94.6%, and 93.8% for images with integration times of 1000 hours, 100 hours, and 8 hours, respectively. Notably, the method's ability to detect weak sources in the 8-hour images showed a significant improvement of 53.2% compared to the best-performing team. Furthermore, the search results above the noise level achieved both reliability and completeness exceeding 90%, effectively addressing the challenge of detecting weak signals in high-noise environments.
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