To clean or not to clean? Influence of pixel removal on event reconstruction using deep learning in CTAO

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Autori principali: François, Tom, Talpaert, Justine, Vuillaume, Thomas
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author François, Tom
Talpaert, Justine
Vuillaume, Thomas
author_facet François, Tom
Talpaert, Justine
Vuillaume, Thomas
contents The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is the next generation of ground-based observatories employing the imaging air Cherenkov technique for the study of very high energy gamma rays. The software Gammalearn proposes to apply Deep Learning as a part of the CTAO data analysis to reconstruct event parameters directly from images captured by the telescopes with minimal pre-processing to maximize the information conserved. In CTAO, the data analysis will include a data volume reduction that will definitely remove pixels. This step is necessary for data transfer and storage but could also involve information loss that could be used by sensitive algorithms such as neural networks (NN). In this work, we evaluate the performance of the gamma-PhysNet when applying different cleaning masks on images from Monte-Carlo simulations from the first Large-Sized Telescope. This study is critical to assess the impact of pixel removal in the data processing, mainly motivated by data compression.
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spellingShingle To clean or not to clean? Influence of pixel removal on event reconstruction using deep learning in CTAO
François, Tom
Talpaert, Justine
Vuillaume, Thomas
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) is the next generation of ground-based observatories employing the imaging air Cherenkov technique for the study of very high energy gamma rays. The software Gammalearn proposes to apply Deep Learning as a part of the CTAO data analysis to reconstruct event parameters directly from images captured by the telescopes with minimal pre-processing to maximize the information conserved. In CTAO, the data analysis will include a data volume reduction that will definitely remove pixels. This step is necessary for data transfer and storage but could also involve information loss that could be used by sensitive algorithms such as neural networks (NN). In this work, we evaluate the performance of the gamma-PhysNet when applying different cleaning masks on images from Monte-Carlo simulations from the first Large-Sized Telescope. This study is critical to assess the impact of pixel removal in the data processing, mainly motivated by data compression.
title To clean or not to clean? Influence of pixel removal on event reconstruction using deep learning in CTAO
topic Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07643