DynamicDetectionTask¶

class lsst.meas.algorithms.DynamicDetectionTask(*args, **kwargs)¶

Bases: lsst.meas.algorithms.SourceDetectionTask

Detection of sources on an image with a dynamic threshold

We first detect sources using a lower threshold than normal (see config parameter prelimThresholdFactor) in order to identify good sky regions (configurable skyObjects). Then we perform forced PSF photometry on those sky regions. Using those PSF flux measurements and estimated errors, we set the threshold so that the stdev of the measurements matches the median estimated error.

Besides the usual initialisation of configurables, we also set up the forced measurement which is deliberately not represented in this Task’s configuration parameters because we’re using it as part of the algorithm and we don’t want to allow it to be modified.

Methods Summary

`applyTempLocalBackground`(exposure, middle, …)	Apply a temporary local background subtraction
`applyThreshold`(middle, bbox[, factor])	Apply thresholds to the convolved image
`calculateKernelSize`(sigma)	Calculate size of smoothing kernel
`calculateThreshold`(exposure, seed[, sigma])	Calculate new threshold
`clearMask`(mask)	Clear the DETECTED and DETECTED_NEGATIVE mask planes
`clearUnwantedResults`(mask, results)	Clear unwanted results from the Struct of results
`convolveImage`(maskedImage, psf[, doSmooth])	Convolve the image with the PSF
`detectFootprints`(exposure[, doSmooth, …])	Detect footprints with a dynamic threshold
`display`(exposure, results[, convolvedImage])	Display detections if so configured
`emptyMetadata`()	Empty (clear) the metadata for this Task and all sub-Tasks.
`finalizeFootprints`(mask, results, sigma[, …])	Finalize the detected footprints
`getFullMetadata`()	Get metadata for all tasks.
`getFullName`()	Get the task name as a hierarchical name including parent task names.
`getName`()	Get the name of the task.
`getPsf`(exposure[, sigma])	Retrieve the PSF for an exposure
`getTaskDict`()	Get a dictionary of all tasks as a shallow copy.
`makeField`(doc)	Make a `lsst.pex.config.ConfigurableField` for this task.
`makeSubtask`(name, **keyArgs)	Create a subtask as a new instance as the `name` attribute of this task.
`makeThreshold`(image, thresholdParity[, factor])	Make an afw.detection.Threshold object corresponding to the task’s configuration and the statistics of the given image.
`reEstimateBackground`(maskedImage, backgrounds)	Estimate the background after detection
`run`(table, exposure[, doSmooth, sigma, …])	Run source detection and create a SourceCatalog of detections.
`setEdgeBits`(maskedImage, goodBBox, edgeBitmask)	Set the edgeBitmask bits for all of maskedImage outside goodBBox
`setPeakSignificance`(exposure, footprints, …)	Set the significance of each detected peak to the pixel value divided by the appropriate standard-deviation for `config.thresholdType`.
`tempWideBackgroundContext`(exposure)	Context manager for removing wide (large-scale) background
`timer`(name, logLevel)	Context manager to log performance data for an arbitrary block of code.
`tweakBackground`(exposure, bgLevel[, bgList])	Modify the background by a constant value
`updatePeaks`(fpSet, image, threshold)	Update the Peaks in a FootprintSet by detecting new Footprints and Peaks in an image and using the new Peaks instead of the old ones.

Methods Documentation

applyTempLocalBackground(exposure, middle, results)¶

Apply a temporary local background subtraction

This temporary local background serves to suppress noise fluctuations in the wings of bright objects.

Peaks in the footprints will be updated.

Parameters:

exposure : lsst.afw.image.Exposure: Exposure for which to fit local background.
middle : lsst.afw.image.MaskedImage: Convolved image on which detection will be performed (typically smaller than exposure because the half-kernel has been removed around the edges).
results : lsst.pipe.base.Struct: Results of the ‘detectFootprints’ method, containing positive and negative footprints (which contain the peak positions that we will plot). This is a Struct with positive and negative elements that are of type lsst.afw.detection.FootprintSet.

applyThreshold(middle, bbox, factor=1.0)¶

Apply thresholds to the convolved image

Identifies Footprints, both positive and negative.

The threshold can be modified by the provided multiplication factor.

Parameters:	middle : `lsst.afw.image.MaskedImage` Convolved image to threshold. bbox : `lsst.geom.Box2I` Bounding box of unconvolved image. factor : `float` Multiplier for the configured threshold.
Returns:	results : `lsst.pipe.base.Struct` The `Struct` contains: `positive` Positive detection footprints, if configured. (`lsst.afw.detection.FootprintSet` or `None`) `negative` Negative detection footprints, if configured. (`lsst.afw.detection.FootprintSet` or `None`) `factor` Multiplier for the configured threshold. (`float`)

calculateKernelSize(sigma)¶

Calculate size of smoothing kernel

Uses the nSigmaForKernel configuration parameter. Note that that is the full width of the kernel bounding box (so a value of 7 means 3.5 sigma on either side of center). The value will be rounded up to the nearest odd integer.

Parameters:	sigma : `float` Gaussian sigma of smoothing kernel.
Returns:	size : `int` Size of the smoothing kernel.

calculateThreshold(exposure, seed, sigma=None)¶

Calculate new threshold

This is the main functional addition to the vanilla SourceDetectionTask.

We identify sky objects and perform forced PSF photometry on them. Using those PSF flux measurements and estimated errors, we set the threshold so that the stdev of the measurements matches the median estimated error.

Parameters:	exposureOrig : `lsst.afw.image.Exposure` Exposure on which we’re detecting sources. seed : `int` RNG seed to use for finding sky objects. sigma : `float`, optional Gaussian sigma of smoothing kernel; if not provided, will be deduced from the exposure’s PSF.
Returns:	result : `lsst.pipe.base.Struct` Result struct with components: `multiplicative` Multiplicative factor to be applied to the configured detection threshold (`float`). `additive` Additive factor to be applied to the background level (`float`).

clearMask(mask)¶

Clear the DETECTED and DETECTED_NEGATIVE mask planes

Removes any previous detection mask in preparation for a new detection pass.

Parameters:	mask : `lsst.afw.image.Mask` Mask to be cleared.

clearUnwantedResults(mask, results)¶

Clear unwanted results from the Struct of results

If we specifically want only positive or only negative detections, drop the ones we don’t want, and its associated mask plane.

Parameters:	mask : `lsst.afw.image.Mask` Mask image. results : `lsst.pipe.base.Struct` Detection results, with `positive` and `negative` elements; modified.

convolveImage(maskedImage, psf, doSmooth=True)¶

Convolve the image with the PSF

We convolve the image with a Gaussian approximation to the PSF, because this is separable and therefore fast. It’s technically a correlation rather than a convolution, but since we use a symmetric Gaussian there’s no difference.

The convolution can be disabled with doSmooth=False. If we do convolve, we mask the edges as EDGE and return the convolved image with the edges removed. This is because we can’t convolve the edges because the kernel would extend off the image.

Parameters:	maskedImage : `lsst.afw.image.MaskedImage` Image to convolve. psf : `lsst.afw.detection.Psf` PSF to convolve with (actually with a Gaussian approximation to it). doSmooth : `bool` Actually do the convolution? Set to False when running on e.g. a pre-convolved image, or a mask plane.
Returns:	results : `lsst.pipe.base.Struct` The `Struct` contains: `middle` Convolved image, without the edges. (`lsst.afw.image.MaskedImage`) `sigma` Gaussian sigma used for the convolution. (`float`)

detectFootprints(exposure, doSmooth=True, sigma=None, clearMask=True, expId=None)¶

Detect footprints with a dynamic threshold

This varies from the vanilla detectFootprints method because we do detection twice: one with a low threshold so that we can find sky uncontaminated by objects, then one more with the new calculated threshold.

Parameters:

exposure : lsst.afw.image.Exposure: Exposure to process; DETECTED{,_NEGATIVE} mask plane will be set in-place.
doSmooth : bool, optional: If True, smooth the image before detection using a Gaussian of width sigma.
sigma : float, optional: Gaussian Sigma of PSF (pixels); used for smoothing and to grow detections; if None then measure the sigma of the PSF of the exposure.
clearMask : bool, optional: Clear both DETECTED and DETECTED_NEGATIVE planes before running detection.
expId : int, optional: Exposure identifier, used as a seed for the random number generator. If absent, the seed will be the sum of the image.

Returns:

resutls : lsst.pipe.base.Struct

The results Struct contains:

positive: Positive polarity footprints. (lsst.afw.detection.FootprintSet or None)
negative: Negative polarity footprints. (lsst.afw.detection.FootprintSet or None)
numPos: Number of footprints in positive or 0 if detection polarity was negative. (int)
numNeg: Number of footprints in negative or 0 if detection polarity was positive. (int)
background: Re-estimated background. None if reEstimateBackground==False. (lsst.afw.math.BackgroundList)
factor: Multiplication factor applied to the configured detection threshold. (float)
prelim: Results from preliminary detection pass. (lsst.pipe.base.Struct)

display(exposure, results, convolvedImage=None)¶

Display detections if so configured

Displays the exposure in frame 0, overlays the detection peaks.

Requires that lsstDebug has been set up correctly, so that lsstDebug.Info("lsst.meas.algorithms.detection") evaluates True.

If the convolvedImage is non-None and lsstDebug.Info("lsst.meas.algorithms.detection") > 1, the convolvedImage will be displayed in frame 1.

Parameters:

exposure : lsst.afw.image.Exposure: Exposure to display, on which will be plotted the detections.
results : lsst.pipe.base.Struct: Results of the ‘detectFootprints’ method, containing positive and negative footprints (which contain the peak positions that we will plot). This is a Struct with positive and negative elements that are of type lsst.afw.detection.FootprintSet.
convolvedImage : lsst.afw.image.Image, optional: Convolved image used for thresholding.

emptyMetadata() → None¶: Empty (clear) the metadata for this Task and all sub-Tasks.

finalizeFootprints(mask, results, sigma, factor=1.0)¶

Finalize the detected footprints

Grows the footprints, sets the DETECTED and DETECTED_NEGATIVE mask planes, and logs the results.

numPos (number of positive footprints), numPosPeaks (number of positive peaks), numNeg (number of negative footprints), numNegPeaks (number of negative peaks) entries are added to the detection results.

Parameters:	mask : `lsst.afw.image.Mask` Mask image on which to flag detected pixels. results : `lsst.pipe.base.Struct` Struct of detection results, including `positive` and `negative` entries; modified. sigma : `float` Gaussian sigma of PSF. factor : `float` Multiplier for the configured threshold.

getFullMetadata() → lsst.pipe.base._task_metadata.TaskMetadata¶

Get metadata for all tasks.

Returns:	metadata : `TaskMetadata` The keys are the full task name. Values are metadata for the top-level task and all subtasks, sub-subtasks, etc.

Notes

The returned metadata includes timing information (if @timer.timeMethod is used) and any metadata set by the task. The name of each item consists of the full task name with . replaced by :, followed by . and the name of the item, e.g.:

topLevelTaskName:subtaskName:subsubtaskName.itemName

using : in the full task name disambiguates the rare situation that a task has a subtask and a metadata item with the same name.

getFullName() → str¶

Get the task name as a hierarchical name including parent task names.

Returns:	fullName : `str` The full name consists of the name of the parent task and each subtask separated by periods. For example: The full name of top-level task “top” is simply “top”. The full name of subtask “sub” of top-level task “top” is “top.sub”. The full name of subtask “sub2” of subtask “sub” of top-level task “top” is “top.sub.sub2”.

getName() → str¶

Get the name of the task.

Returns:	taskName : `str` Name of the task.

See also

getFullName

getPsf(exposure, sigma=None)¶

Retrieve the PSF for an exposure

If sigma is provided, we make a GaussianPsf with that, otherwise use the one from the exposure.

Parameters:	exposure : `lsst.afw.image.Exposure` Exposure from which to retrieve the PSF. sigma : `float`, optional Gaussian sigma to use if provided.
Returns:	psf : `lsst.afw.detection.Psf` PSF to use for detection.

getTaskDict() → Dict[str, weakref.ReferenceType[lsst.pipe.base.task.Task]]¶

Get a dictionary of all tasks as a shallow copy.

Returns:	taskDict : `dict` Dictionary containing full task name: task object for the top-level task and all subtasks, sub-subtasks, etc.

classmethod makeField(doc: str) → lsst.pex.config.configurableField.ConfigurableField¶

Make a lsst.pex.config.ConfigurableField for this task.

Parameters:	doc : `str` Help text for the field.
Returns:	configurableField : `lsst.pex.config.ConfigurableField` A `ConfigurableField` for this task.

Examples

Provides a convenient way to specify this task is a subtask of another task.

Here is an example of use:

class OtherTaskConfig(lsst.pex.config.Config):
    aSubtask = ATaskClass.makeField("brief description of task")

makeSubtask(name: str, **keyArgs) → None¶

Create a subtask as a new instance as the name attribute of this task.

Parameters:	name : `str` Brief name of the subtask. keyArgs Extra keyword arguments used to construct the task. The following arguments are automatically provided and cannot be overridden: “config”. “parentTask”.

Notes

The subtask must be defined by Task.config.name, an instance of ConfigurableField or RegistryField.

makeThreshold(image, thresholdParity, factor=1.0)¶

Make an afw.detection.Threshold object corresponding to the task’s configuration and the statistics of the given image.

Parameters:	image : `afw.image.MaskedImage` Image to measure noise statistics from if needed. thresholdParity: `str` One of “positive” or “negative”, to set the kind of fluctuations the Threshold will detect. factor : `float` Factor by which to multiply the configured detection threshold. This is useful for tweaking the detection threshold slightly.
Returns:	threshold : `lsst.afw.detection.Threshold` Detection threshold.

reEstimateBackground(maskedImage, backgrounds)¶

Estimate the background after detection

Parameters:	maskedImage : `lsst.afw.image.MaskedImage` Image on which to estimate the background. backgrounds : `lsst.afw.math.BackgroundList` List of backgrounds; modified.
Returns:	bg : `lsst.afw.math.backgroundMI` Empirical background model.

run(table, exposure, doSmooth=True, sigma=None, clearMask=True, expId=None)¶

Run source detection and create a SourceCatalog of detections.

Parameters:	table : `lsst.afw.table.SourceTable` Table object that will be used to create the SourceCatalog. exposure : `lsst.afw.image.Exposure` Exposure to process; DETECTED mask plane will be set in-place. doSmooth : `bool` If True, smooth the image before detection using a Gaussian of width `sigma`, or the measured PSF width. Set to False when running on e.g. a pre-convolved image, or a mask plane. sigma : `float` Sigma of PSF (pixels); used for smoothing and to grow detections; if None then measure the sigma of the PSF of the exposure clearMask : `bool` Clear DETECTED{,_NEGATIVE} planes before running detection. expId : `int` Exposure identifier; unused by this implementation, but used for RNG seed by subclasses.
Returns:	result : `lsst.pipe.base.Struct` The `Struct` contains: `sources` The detected sources (`lsst.afw.table.SourceCatalog`) `fpSets` The result returned by `detectFootprints()` (`lsst.pipe.base.Struct`).
Raises:	ValueError Raised if flags.negative is needed, but isn’t in table’s schema. lsst.pipe.base.TaskError Raised if sigma=None, doSmooth=True and the exposure has no PSF.

Notes

If you want to avoid dealing with Sources and Tables, you can use detectFootprints() to just get the lsst.afw.detection.FootprintSets.

static setEdgeBits(maskedImage, goodBBox, edgeBitmask)¶

Set the edgeBitmask bits for all of maskedImage outside goodBBox

Parameters:	maskedImage : `lsst.afw.image.MaskedImage` Image on which to set edge bits in the mask. goodBBox : `lsst.geom.Box2I` Bounding box of good pixels, in `LOCAL` coordinates. edgeBitmask : `lsst.afw.image.MaskPixel` Bit mask to OR with the existing mask bits in the region outside `goodBBox`.

setPeakSignificance(exposure, footprints, threshold, negative=False)¶

Set the significance of each detected peak to the pixel value divided by the appropriate standard-deviation for config.thresholdType.

Only sets significance for “stdev” and “pixel_stdev” thresholdTypes; we leave it undefined for “value” and “variance” as it does not have a well-defined meaning in those cases.

Parameters:	exposure : `lsst.afw.image.Exposure` Exposure that footprints were detected on, likely the convolved, local background-subtracted image. footprints : `lsst.afw.detection.FootprintSet` Footprints detected on the image. threshold : `lsst.afw.detection.Threshold` Threshold used to find footprints. negative : `bool`, optional Are we calculating for negative sources?

tempWideBackgroundContext(exposure)¶

Context manager for removing wide (large-scale) background

Removing a wide (large-scale) background helps to suppress the detection of large footprints that may overwhelm the deblender. It does, however, set a limit on the maximum scale of objects.

The background that we remove will be restored upon exit from the context manager.

Parameters:	exposure : `lsst.afw.image.Exposure` Exposure on which to remove large-scale background.
Returns:	context : context manager Context manager that will ensure the temporary wide background is restored.

timer(name: str, logLevel: int = 10) → Iterator[None]¶

Context manager to log performance data for an arbitrary block of code.

Parameters:	name : `str` Name of code being timed; data will be logged using item name: `Start` and `End`. logLevel A `logging` level constant.

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