Gravity Spy Training Set

We present an updated version of the training set used in the Gravity Spy citizen science project. This training set, curated further from the one discussed in detail here and available here 10.5281/zenodo.1476156, was utilized to train the convolutional neural network employed in the Gravity Spy project. We anticipate moving forward to release more labelled Gravity Spy data sets, including a data set containing the annotations provided by our citizen science volunteers.

Data Set Information

There are three files provided in this data set

• trainingset_v1d1_metadata.csv
  • This file has many columns, gravityspy_id, label, and sample_type. gravityspy_id is the unique 10 character hash given to every Gravity Spy sample. label is the string label of the sample. sample_type indicates whether this sample was used in the paper for testing training or validating the models. This is provided for those who would like to do direct comparisons to the network described in the paper.
  • Additional columns contain some metadata information about the glitch
    • event_time,ifo,peak_time,peak_time_ns,start_time,start_time_ns,duration,search,process_id,event_id,peak_frequency,central_freq,bandwidth,channel,amplitude,snr,confidence,chisq,chisq_dof,param_one_name,param_one_value,
• trainingsetv1d1.h5
  • This file contains the exact arrays used in the paper for every Gravity Spy sample. Each Gravity Spy sample is defined by four different images with varying temporal duration, 0.5, 1.0, 2.0, and 4.0 second, respectively. This also determines the naming conventions of the PNGs: interferometer_gravityspyid_spectrogram_duration.png (e.g. H1_Fv3p6eROvA_spectrogram_0.5.png, H1_Fv3p6eROvA_spectrogram_1.0.png, H1_Fv3p6eROvA_spectrogram_2.0.png, H1_Fv3p6eROvA_spectrogram_4.0.png).
  • This file contains all the information needed for each sample in the Gravity Spy dataset (i.e. the label, the sample type of the sample, the unique id of the sample, and the image data for that sample.
    • /1080Lines/validation/xUEyaWr34c Group
      /1080Lines/validation/xUEyaWr34c/0.5.png Dataset {1, 140, 170}
      /1080Lines/validation/xUEyaWr34c/1.0.png Dataset {1, 140, 170}
      /1080Lines/validation/xUEyaWr34c/2.0.png Dataset {1, 140, 170}
      /1080Lines/validation/xUEyaWr34c/4.0.png Dataset {1, 140, 170}
• trainingsetv1d1.tar.gz
  • Contains the raw PNGs of the Gravity Spy training set.
  • The structure of the folder is /"label"/"sample_type"/"pngs"

Data Set Parsing Information

To read and crop out the plot axis and labels of the provided PNGs, the following small python code using scikit-image should work.

from skimage import io

image_data = io.imread("filename_of_image")

x=[66, 532]; y=[105, 671]

image_data = image_data[x[0]:x[1], y[0]:y[1], :3]