Machine learning and galaxy morphology: for what purpose?

D Fraix-Burnet - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Classification of galaxies is traditionally associated with their morphologies through visual
inspection of images. The amount of data to come render this task, inhuman and Machine …

Galaxy And Mass Assembly: automatic morphological classification of galaxies using statistical learning

S Sreejith, S Pereverzyev Jr, LS Kelvin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of 7941 galaxies (z< 0.06) from the
Galaxy And Mass Assembly survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to …

Beyond the hubble sequence–exploring galaxy morphology with unsupervised machine learning

TY Cheng, M Huertas-Company… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We explore unsupervised machine learning for galaxy morphology analyses using a
combination of feature extraction with a vector-quantized variational autoencoder (VQ-VAE) …

Soft clustering analysis of galaxy morphologies: a worked example with SDSS

R Andrae, P Melchior, M Bartelmann - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2010 - aanda.org
Context. The huge and still rapidly growing amount of galaxies in modern sky surveys raises
the need for an automated and objective classification method. Unsupervised learning …

Integrating human and machine intelligence in galaxy morphology classification tasks

MR Beck, C Scarlata, LF Fortson… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Quantifying galaxy morphology is a challenging yet scientifically rewarding task. As the
scale of data continues to increase with upcoming surveys, traditional classification methods …

Unveiling galaxy morphology through an unsupervised-supervised hybrid approach

I Kolesnikov, VM Sampaio… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Galaxy morphology offers significant insights into the evolutionary pathways and underlying
physics of galaxies. As astronomical data grow with surveys such as Euclid and Vera C …

An automatic taxonomy of galaxy morphology using unsupervised machine learning

A Hocking, JE Geach, Y Sun… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present an unsupervised machine learning technique that automatically segments and
labels galaxies in astronomical imaging surveys using only pixel data. Distinct from previous …

Parametrizing arbitrary galaxy morphologies: potentials and pitfalls

R Andrae, K Jahnke, P Melchior - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Given the enormous galaxy data bases of modern sky surveys, parametrizing galaxy
morphologies is a very challenging task due to the huge number and variety of objects. We …

Machine learning and image analysis for morphological galaxy classification

J De La Calleja, O Fuentes - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
In this paper we present an experimental study of machine learning and image analysis for
performing automated morphological galaxy classification. We used a neural network, and a …

Galaxy morphological classification in deep-wide surveys via unsupervised machine learning

G Martin, S Kaviraj, A Hocking… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Galaxy morphology is a fundamental quantity, which is essential not only for the full
spectrum of galaxy-evolution studies, but also for a plethora of science in observational …