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BlendingToolKit: Tools to create blend catalogs, produce training samples, and implement blending metrics
Mendoza, Ismael;
Torchylo, Andrii;
Sainrat, Thomas;
Guinot, Axel;
Boucaud, Alexandre;
Paillassa, Maxime;
Avestruz, Camille;
Adari, Prakruth;
Aubourg, Eric;
Biswas, Biswajit;
Buchanan, James;
Burchat, Patricia;
Doux, Cyrille;
Joseph, Remy;
Kamath, Sowmya;
Malz, Alex I.;
Merz, Grant;
Miyatake, Hironao;
Roucelle, Cécile;
Zhang, Tianqing;
LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration
BlendingToolKit (BTK) generates images of blended objects and evaluate performance metrics on various detection, deblending and measurement algorithms. The toolkit is a convenient way to produce multi-band postage stamp images of blend scenes and evaluate the performance of deblending algorithms, as well as train samples for machine learning algorithms.