@article{adcdd41f637a42888e8f3c93d012f4de,
title = "Automatic detection of prominence eruption using consecutive solar images",
abstract = "Prominences are clouds of relatively cool and dense gas in the solar atmosphere. In this paper, we present a new method to detect and characterize the prominence eruptions. The input is a sequence of consecutive H α solar images, and the output is a list of prominence eruption events detected. We extract the limb events and measure their associated properties by applying image processing techniques. First, we perform image normalization and noise removal. Then, we isolate the limb objects and identify the prominence features. Finally, we apply pattern recognition techniques to classify the eruptive prominences. The characteristics of prominence eruptions, such as brightness, angular width, radial height and velocity are measured. The method presented can lead to automatic monitoring and characterization of solar events.",
keywords = "Automatic detection, Image segmentation, Prominence eruption, Solar features",
author = "Gang Fu and Frank Shih and Haimin Wang",
note = "Funding Information: Manuscript received March 14, 2006; revised August 4, 2006. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grants IIS 03-24816 and ATM 05-36921. This paper was recommended by Associate Editor C. N. Taylor. Funding Information: Dr. Shih was the recipient of the Research Initiation Award from the National Science Foundation in 1991. He won the Honorable Mention Award from the International Pattern Recognition Society for Outstanding Paper and also won the Best Paper Award in the International Symposium on Multimedia Information Processing. He has received several awards for distinguished research at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He holds the research fellow for the American Biographical Institute. Funding Information: Haimin Wang received the B.S. degree in astronomy from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, in 1982, and the Ph.D. degree in astrophysics from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, in 1988. He is presently a Distinguished Professor in physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark. He is the Associate Director of Big Bear Solar Observatory, and the Center for Solar-Terres-trial Research of NJIT. He is leading the project of six-station international Halpha network, that moni-tors solar activity round-the-clock. He has served on a number of funding review panels, including a NASA Senior Review in 2006. He has published over 150 papers in refereed journals. His current research interest includes solar instrumentation, solar magnetic fields, solar flares and coronal mass ejections, and application of information technology in solar feature detections. Dr. Wang received a CAREER award from National Science Foundation in 1996. He is a current member of Science Advisory Board for the 4 meter Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST). He is the recipient of Harlan J. Perlis Research Award of NJIT in 2003.",
year = "2007",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1109/TCSVT.2006.887084",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "17",
pages = "79--85",
journal = "IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology",
issn = "1051-8215",
publisher = "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.",
number = "1",
}