CAMEL. II. A 3D Coronal Mass Ejection Catalog Based on Coronal Mass Ejection Automatic Detection with Deep Learning

TL;DR

This paper presents a novel 3D coronal mass ejection detection system using deep learning, which automates classification, segmentation, tracking, and 3D reconstruction to improve space weather prediction accuracy.

Contribution

The authors develop the first single-view 3D CME catalog combining deep learning and polarization data, enhancing detection precision and physical parameter estimation.

Findings

Achieved state-of-the-art CME segmentation accuracy.

Developed a reliable 3D CME catalog without manual masks.

Improved tracking of multiple CMEs in coronagraph images.

Abstract

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are major drivers of geomagnetic storms, which may cause severe space weather effects. Automating the detection, tracking, and three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of CMEs is important for operational predictions of CME arrivals. The COR1 coronagraphs on board the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft have facilitated extensive polarization observations, which are very suitable for the establishment of a 3D CME system. We have developed such a 3D system comprising four modules: classification, segmentation, tracking, and 3D reconstructions. We generalize our previously pretrained classification model to classify COR1 coronagraph images. Subsequently, as there are no publicly available CME segmentation data sets, we manually annotate the structural regions of CMEs using Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph C2 observations. Leveraging transformer-based models, we achieve state-of-the-art results in CME segmentation. Furthermore, we improve the tracking algorithm to solve the difficult separation task of multiple CMEs. In the final module, tracking results, combined with the polarization ratio technique are used to develop the first single-view 3D CME catalog without requiring manual mask annotation. Our method provides higher precision in automatic 2D CME catalog and more reliable physical parameters of CMEs, including 3D propagation direction and speed. The aforementioned 3D CME system can be applied to any coronagraph data with the capability of polarization measurements.