Datasets › LOFAR RFI Detection

LOFAR RFI Detection (Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) Radio Frequency Interference Detection)

Introduced in Learning to detect RFI in radio astronomy without seeing it24 Jun 2022 archive 2025-07-28

This dataset contains simulated and expert-labelled spectrograms from two radio telescopes: the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array (HERA) in South Africa and the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) in the Netherlands. These datasets are intended to test radio-frequency interference (RFI) detection schemes. This entry pertains to the LOFAR dataset specifically.

The LOFAR dataset is comprised of: - 7609 Spectrograms and accompanying binary mask information.

This dataset has been preprocessed into 512 x 512 x 1 images. The low number of target pixels (RFI) proportional to the total data volume makes this dataset a useful test for RFI detection schemes in radio astronomy and, more generally, anomaly detection or semantic segmentation methods.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

All 1 leaderboard whose dataset resolves to this page shown (sort by any header). "First row" is the archive's own first row at snapshot, in the archive's row order; nothing here re-ranks and metric direction is not asserted.

First row (archive order)PaperCode
Semantic Segmentation LOFAR RFI Detection Nearest Latent Neighbours AUPRC 0.414 RFI Detection with Spiking Neural Networks pritchardn/snn-nln 2 Compare

Papers archive 2025-07-28

1 shown of 1 paper with a leaderboard row on this dataset's benchmarks, newest first. The archive's own "papers using this dataset" list was never published, so this is the benchmark-backed subset; the archive's count for this dataset is 2. The Syntology column is from Syntology's graph (read 2026-09-24), stated per sample; it is not part of any archive number.

DateSamples run Syntology
RFI Detection with Spiking Neural Networks 1 2 24 Nov 2023 not harvested

Dataset loaders archive 2025-07-28

No loader listed in the archive.

Tasks archive 2025-07-28

License archive 2025-07-28

CC BY 4.0

Modalities archive 2025-07-28

Languages archive 2025-07-28

Variants archive 2025-07-28

  • LOFAR RFI Detection

1 variant name, as the archive lists them.

Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections