Search for High Energy Photons with the IceAct Telescope at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the South Pole, is a multi-component detector array capable of observing astro-particles on the TeV to EeV scale. It consists of both a one square kilometer surface array called IceTop and one cubic kilometer deep in-ice component called IceCube. Since 2019 additionally two Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes, called IceAct, were added to measure the electro-magnetic component of air showers in the atmosphere above the IceCube detector. By applying modern machine-learning and statistical methods to reconstruct cosmic-ray air showers passing through both arrays, and the telescopes, high-energetic photons can be distinguished from cosmic ray background. In tandem, various image cleaning techniques are implemented to improve the quality of the image for improved model performance. This contribution will provide a comparison for various machine learning algorithms to provide an outlook on energy resolution and gamma-hadron separation.