As we enter the era of large-scale imaging surveys with the up-coming telescopes such as LSST and SKA, it is envisaged that the number of known strong gravitational lensing systems will increase dramatically. However, these events are still very rare and require the efficient processing of millions of images. In order to tackle this image processing problem, we present Machine Learning techniques and apply them to the Gravitational Lens Finding Challenge. The Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) presented here have been re-implemented within a new, modular, and extendable framework, LEXACTUM. We report an Area Under the Curve (AUC) of 0.9343 and 0.9870, and an execution time of 0.0061s and 0.0594s per image, for the Space and Ground datasets respectively, showing that the results obtained by CNNs are very competitive with conventional methods (such as visual inspection and arc finders) for detecting gravitational lenses.
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