Super-Resolution of Solar Active Region Patches Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Rasha Alshehhi

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Abstract

Monitoring solar active region patches from Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) instruments is essential for space weather forecasting. However, recovering small bipolar details in HMI patches requires additional pre-processing steps to obtain better quality. This work uses a generative adversarial network, with transposed convolution and super-pixel convolution up-sampling layers, to generate the higher quality of HMI patches. It trains and validates the network based on binary cross-entropy, mean absolute error and multi-scale dice-coefficient functions. It illustrates the performance of the generative method in two image types (magnetogram and continuum intensity patches) from two instruments (SDO/HMI and SOT/NET). It also compares its performance with state-of-the-art methods. The results demonstrate that the generative method produces high-quality images by increasing polarity contrast and retrieving smaller structures.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationImage Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2022 - 21st International Conference, 2022, Proceedings
EditorsStan Sclaroff, Cosimo Distante, Marco Leo, Giovanni M. Farinella, Federico Tombari
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages451-462
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783031064265
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022 - Lecce, Italy
Duration: May 23 2022May 27 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13231 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2022
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityLecce
Period5/23/225/27/22

Keywords

  • Generative adversarial network
  • Multi-scale dice-coefficient
  • Solar active region patches
  • Space weather

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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