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In this paper, the authors make the first attempt to employ the deep learning method for the representation learning of the solar radio spectrums. The original solar radio spectrums are pre-processed, including normalization, enhancement and etc., to generate new images for the next processing. With the expertise of solar radio astronomy for identifying solar radio activity, we build a solar radio activity database, which contains solar radio spectrums as well as their labels indicating the types of solar radio bursts. The employed deep learning network is firstly pre-trained based on the available massive of unlabeled radio solar images. Afterwards, the weights of the network are further fined-tuned based on the labeled data. Experimental results have demonstrated that the employed network can effectively classify the solar radio image into the labeled categories. Moreover, the pre-training process can help improve the classification accuracy.
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This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61202242, 100-Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. Y434061V01).
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Chen, Z., Ma, L., Xu, L. et al. Imaging and representation learning of solar radio spectrums for classification. Multimed Tools Appl 75, 2859–2875 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-015-2528-2
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