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Machine learning techniques and image processing have been successfully applied in many research fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics are some of these areas. In this work, we apply machine learning techniques in a new approach to classify and characterize solar spots which appear on the solar photosphere which express intense magnetic fields, and these magnetic fields present significant effects on Earth. In our experiments we consider images from Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) in IntensitygramFlat format. We apply pre-processing techniques to recognize and count the groups of sunspots for further classification. Besides, we investigate the performance of the CNN AlexNet layer input in comparison with the Radial Basis Function Network (RBF) using different levels and combining both networks approaches. The results show that when the CNN uses the RBF to identify and classify sunspots from image processing, its performance is higher than when only CNN is used.
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The images can be downloaded from http://hmi.stanford.edu/.
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Camargo, T.O. et al. (2019). Solar Spots Classification Using Pre-processing and Deep Learning Image Techniques. In: Orjuela-Cañón, A., Figueroa-García, J., Arias-Londoño, J. (eds) Applications of Computational Intelligence. ColCACI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1096. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36211-9_19
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