Vol 23, No 6

Transverse Velocity Field Measurements in High-resolution Solar Images Based on Deep Learning

Zhen-Hong Shang, Si-Yu Mu, Kai-Fan Ji and Zhen-Ping Qiang

Abstract

To address the problem of the low accuracy of transverse velocity field measurements for small targets in high-resolution solar images, we proposed a novel velocity field measurement method for high-resolution solar images based on PWCNet. This method transforms the transverse velocity field measurements into an optical flow field prediction problem. We evaluated the performance of the proposed method using the Hα and TiO data sets obtained from New Vacuum Solar Telescope observations. The experimental results show that our method effectively predicts the optical flow of small targets in images compared with several typical machine- and deep-learning methods. On the Hα data set, the proposed method improves the image structure similarity from 0.9182 to 0.9587 and reduces the mean of residuals from 24.9931 to 15.2818; on the TiO data set, the proposed method improves the image structure similarity from 0.9289 to 0.9628 and reduces the mean of residuals from 25.9908 to 17.0194. The optical flow predicted using the proposed method can provide accurate data for the atmospheric motion information of solar images. The code implementing the proposed method is available on https://github.com/lygmsy123/transverse-velocity-field-measurement.

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