===================================================== Session S4: Feature Recognition: Needs and Techniques ===================================================== Thursday, Jan 16 3:15-4:45 pm Organizers: M.Aschwanden, R.Bush Program: -------- 3:15 10 min Presentation Serge Zharkov: - automated detection of sunspots in WL and - magnetic field inversion lines and filaments - solar feature catalogue EGSO 10 min Discussion 3:35 10 min Presentation Greg Slater: - active Region Boundary Determination From Soft X-ray Images - application to SXI images 10 min Discussion 3:55 10 min Presentation Andrzej Fludra: - automated detection of small-scale variability events - examples from analysis of CDS database 10 min Discussion 4:15 10 min Presentation Markus Aschwanden: - tracing and automated detection of coronal loops in EUV - examples from TRACE data, application to STEREO/EUVI mission 10 min Discussion 4:35 10 min Presentation and Discussion Rock Bush: - Questionnaire about Need and Demands of Feature Event Catalogs 4:45 Break Related topics (by conference participants) ------------------------------------------- Sami Solanki (& Wiegelmann): - Magnetic field modeling constrained by EUV loop tracing [? presentation in Session C2/M7, Tue morning] Andrzej Fludra: - automated CME detection algorithms [presentation in Session C1] Session S4 (DeRosa, Gurman, Bush) - The Sun Today, events, logs, real-time data Need for feature catalogs Haimin Wang: - automated solar filament detection, disappearance, Ha/BBSO [cancelled meeting ?] Andrei Zhukov: - automated detection of EIT waves, EUV dimmings Hochedez, Jean-Francois: - Image compression (with Poisson recoding) wavelet analysis of EIT images Scott McIntosh, Joe Gurman: - EUV bright point statistics Other topics on pattern recognition for scientific data analysis: - wavelet techniques, Trous wave filtering - fractal dimension, multi-fractal - segmentation techniques - automated filament detection - neural network techniques - difference image enhancing