SourceDetectionTask¶

class lsst.meas.algorithms.SourceDetectionTask(schema=None, **kwds)¶

Bases: Task

Detect peaks and footprints of sources in an image.

This task convolves the image with a Gaussian approximation to the PSF, matched to the sigma of the input exposure, because this is separable and fast. The PSF would have to be very non-Gaussian or non-circular for this approximation to have a significant impact on the signal-to-noise of the detected sources.

Parameters:

schemalsst.afw.table.Schema: Schema object used to create the output lsst.afw.table.SourceCatalog
**kwds: Keyword arguments passed to lsst.pipe.base.Task.__init__
If schema is not None and configured for ‘both’ detections,
a ‘flags.negative’ field will be added to label detections made with a
negative threshold.

Notes

This task can add fields to the schema, so any code calling this task must ensure that these columns are indeed present in the input match list.

Methods Summary

`applyTempLocalBackground`(exposure, middle, ...)	Apply a temporary local background subtraction
`applyThreshold`(middle, bbox[, factor, factorNeg])	Apply thresholds to the convolved image
`calculateKernelSize`(sigma)	Calculate the size of the smoothing kernel.
`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 on an exposure.
`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])	Create a single Gaussian 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
`removeBadPixels`(middle)	Set the significance of flagged pixels to zero.
`run`(table, exposure[, doSmooth, sigma, ...])	Detect sources and return catalog(s) 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.
`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:

exposurelsst.afw.image.Exposure: Exposure for which to fit local background.
middlelsst.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).
resultslsst.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, factorNeg=None)¶

Apply thresholds to the convolved image

Identifies Footprints, both positive and negative. The threshold can be modified by the provided multiplication factor.

Parameters:

middlelsst.afw.image.MaskedImage: Convolved image to threshold.
bboxlsst.geom.Box2I: Bounding box of unconvolved image.
factorfloat: Multiplier for the configured threshold.
factorNegfloat or None: Multiplier for the configured threshold for negative detection polarity. If None, will be set equal to factor (i.e. equal to the factor used for positive detection polarity).

Returns:

resultslsst.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)
factorNeg: Multiplier for the configured threshold for negative detection polarity. (float)

calculateKernelSize(sigma)¶

Calculate the size of the 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:

sigmafloat: Gaussian sigma of smoothing kernel.

Returns:

sizeint: Size of the smoothing kernel.

clearMask(mask)¶

Clear the DETECTED and DETECTED_NEGATIVE mask planes.

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

Parameters:

masklsst.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:

masklsst.afw.image.Mask: Mask image.
resultslsst.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:

maskedImagelsst.afw.image.MaskedImage: Image to convolve.
psflsst.afw.detection.Psf: PSF to convolve with (actually with a Gaussian approximation to it).
doSmoothbool: Actually do the convolution? Set to False when running on e.g. a pre-convolved image, or a mask plane.

Returns:

resultslsst.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 on an exposure.

Parameters:

exposurelsst.afw.image.Exposure: Exposure to process; DETECTED{,_NEGATIVE} mask plane will be set in-place.
doSmoothbool, optional: If True, smooth the image before detection using a Gaussian of width sigma, or the measured PSF width of exposure. Set to False when running on e.g. a pre-convolved image, or a mask plane.
sigmafloat, 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.
clearMaskbool, optional: Clear both DETECTED and DETECTED_NEGATIVE planes before running detection.
expIddict, optional: Exposure identifier; unused by this implementation, but used for RNG seed by subclasses.

Returns:

resultslsst.pipe.base.Struct

A Struct containing:

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)

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:

exposurelsst.afw.image.Exposure: Exposure to display, on which will be plotted the detections.
resultslsst.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.
convolvedImagelsst.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, factorNeg=None)¶

Finalize the detected footprints.

Grow the footprints, set the DETECTED and DETECTED_NEGATIVE mask planes, and log 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 results struct.

Parameters:

masklsst.afw.image.Mask: Mask image on which to flag detected pixels.
resultslsst.pipe.base.Struct: Struct of detection results, including positive and negative entries; modified.
sigmafloat: Gaussian sigma of PSF.
factorfloat: Multiplier for the configured threshold. Note that this is only used here for logging purposes.
factorNegfloat or None: Multiplier used for the negative detection polarity threshold. If None, a factor equal to factor (i.e. equal to the one used for positive detection polarity) is assumed. Note that this is only used here for logging purposes.

getFullMetadata() → TaskMetadata¶

Get metadata for all tasks.

Returns:

metadataTaskMetadata: 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:

fullNamestr

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:

taskNamestr: Name of the task.

See also

getFullName

getPsf(exposure, sigma=None)¶

Create a single Gaussian PSF for an exposure.

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

Parameters:

exposurelsst.afw.image.Exposure: Exposure from which to retrieve the PSF.
sigmafloat, optional: Gaussian sigma to use if provided.

Returns:

psflsst.afw.detection.GaussianPsf: PSF to use for detection.

Raises:

RuntimeError: Raised if sigma is not provided and exposure does not contain a Psf object.

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

Get a dictionary of all tasks as a shallow copy.

Returns:

taskDictdict: Dictionary containing full task name: task object for the top-level task and all subtasks, sub-subtasks, etc.

classmethod makeField(doc: str) → ConfigurableField¶

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

Parameters:

docstr: Help text for the field.

Returns:

configurableFieldlsst.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: Any) → None¶

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

Parameters:

namestr

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:

imageafw.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.
factorfloat: Factor by which to multiply the configured detection threshold. This is useful for tweaking the detection threshold slightly.

Returns:

thresholdlsst.afw.detection.Threshold: Detection threshold.

reEstimateBackground(maskedImage, backgrounds)¶

Estimate the background after detection

Parameters:

maskedImagelsst.afw.image.MaskedImage: Image on which to estimate the background.
backgroundslsst.afw.math.BackgroundList: List of backgrounds; modified.

Returns:

bglsst.afw.math.backgroundMI: Empirical background model.

removeBadPixels(middle)¶

Set the significance of flagged pixels to zero.

Parameters:

middlelsst.afw.image.ExposureF: Score or maximum likelihood difference image. The image plane will be modified in place.

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

Detect sources and return catalog(s) of detections.

Parameters:

tablelsst.afw.table.SourceTable: Table object that will be used to create the SourceCatalog.
exposurelsst.afw.image.Exposure: Exposure to process; DETECTED mask plane will be set in-place.
doSmoothbool: 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.
sigmafloat: Sigma of PSF (pixels); used for smoothing and to grow detections; if None then measure the sigma of the PSF of the exposure
clearMaskbool: Clear DETECTED{,_NEGATIVE} planes before running detection.
expIdint: Exposure identifier; unused by this implementation, but used for RNG seed by subclasses.

Returns:

resultlsst.pipe.base.Struct

The Struct contains:

sources: Detected sources on the exposure. (lsst.afw.table.SourceCatalog)
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)

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 FootprintSets.

static setEdgeBits(maskedImage, goodBBox, edgeBitmask)¶

Set the edgeBitmask bits for all of maskedImage outside goodBBox

Parameters:

maskedImagelsst.afw.image.MaskedImage: Image on which to set edge bits in the mask.
goodBBoxlsst.geom.Box2I: Bounding box of good pixels, in LOCAL coordinates.
edgeBitmasklsst.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:

exposurelsst.afw.image.Exposure: Exposure that footprints were detected on, likely the convolved, local background-subtracted image.
footprintslsst.afw.detection.FootprintSet: Footprints detected on the image.
thresholdlsst.afw.detection.Threshold: Threshold used to find footprints.
negativebool, 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:

exposurelsst.afw.image.Exposure: Exposure on which to remove large-scale background.

Returns:

contextcontext 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:

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

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