RadioGalaxyNET Dataset - Extended Radio Galaxies

Automating the creation of catalogues for radio galaxies in next-generation deep surveys necessitates the identification of components within extended sources and their respective infrared hosts. We present RadioGalaxyNET, a multimodal dataset, tailored for machine learning tasks to streamline the automated detection and localization of multi-component extended radio galaxies and their associated infrared hosts. The dataset encompasses 4,155 instances of galaxies across 2,800 images, incorporating both radio and infrared channels. Each instance furnishes details about the extended radio galaxy class, a bounding box covering all components, a pixel-level segmentation mask, and the keypoint position of the corresponding infrared host galaxy. RadioGalaxyNET is the first dataset to include images from the highly sensitive Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio telescope, corresponding infrared images, and instance-level annotations for galaxy detection. For more details, see the RadioGalaxyNET paper in the PASA journal and the NeurIPS 2023 conference workshop.