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We apply four statistical learning methods to a sample of $7941$ galaxies ($z<0.06$) from the Galaxy and Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey to test the feasibility of using automated algorithms to classify galaxies. Using $10$ features measured…

We train Artificial Neural Networks to classify galaxies based solely on the morphology of the galaxy images as they appear on blue survey plates. The images are reduced and morphological features such as bulge size and the number of arms…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 A. Naim , O. Lahav , L. Sodre , M. C. Storrie-Lombardi

In this work we explore the possibility of applying machine learning methods designed for one-dimensional problems to the task of galaxy image classification. The algorithms used for image classification typically rely on multiple costly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 F. Tarsitano , C. Bruderer , K. Schawinski , W. G. Hartley

Machine learning (ML) is a standard approach for estimating the redshifts of galaxies when only photometric information is available. ML photo-z solutions have traditionally ignored the morphological information available in galaxy images…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Kristen Menou

The task of morphological classification is complex for simple parameterization, but important for research in the galaxy evolution field. Future galaxy surveys (e.g. EUCLID) will collect data about more than a $10^9$ galaxies. To obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Andrey Soroka , Alex Meshcheryakov , Sergey Gerasimov

We train three convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify galaxies with Galaxy Zoo 2 dataset and extract the activations from the last fully connected layer or the last average pooling layer of CNNs to study the high-dimensional…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-07-17 Jia-Ming Dai , Jizhou Tong

We present a novel multimodal neural network (MNN) for classifying astronomical sources in multiband ground-based observations, from optical to near infrared, to separate sources in stars, galaxies and quasars. Our approach combines a…

We present a morphological catalogue for $\sim$ 670,000 galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey in two flavours: T-Type, related to the Hubble sequence, and Galaxy Zoo 2 (GZ2 hereafter) classification scheme. By combining accurate existing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 H. Domínguez Sánchez , M. Huertas-Company , M. Bernardi , D. Tuccillo , J. L. Fischer

We use automated surface photometry and pattern classification techniques to morphologically classify galaxies. The two-dimensional light distribution of a galaxy is reconstructed using Fourier series fits to azimuthal profiles computed in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. C. Odewahn , S. H. Cohen , R. A. Windhorst , N. S. Philip

The Euclid mission is expected to image millions of galaxies with high resolution, providing an extensive dataset to study galaxy evolution. We investigate the application of deep learning to predict the detailed morphologies of galaxies in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-23 Euclid Collaboration , B. Aussel , S. Kruk , M. Walmsley , M. Huertas-Company , M. Castellano , C. J. Conselice , M. Delli Veneri , H. Domínguez Sánchez , P. -A. Duc , U. Kuchner , A. La Marca , B. Margalef-Bentabol , F. R. Marleau , G. Stevens , Y. Toba , C. Tortora , L. Wang , N. Aghanim , B. Altieri , A. Amara , S. Andreon , N. Auricchio , M. Baldi , S. Bardelli , R. Bender , C. Bodendorf , D. Bonino , E. Branchini , M. Brescia , J. Brinchmann , S. Camera , V. Capobianco , C. Carbone , J. Carretero , S. Casas , S. Cavuoti , A. Cimatti , G. Congedo , L. Conversi , Y. Copin , F. Courbin , H. M. Courtois , M. Cropper , A. Da Silva , H. Degaudenzi , A. M. Di Giorgio , J. Dinis , F. Dubath , X. Dupac , S. Dusini , M. Farina , S. Farrens , S. Ferriol , S. Fotopoulou , M. Frailis , E. Franceschi , P. Franzetti , M. Fumana , S. Galeotta , B. Garilli , B. Gillis , C. Giocoli , A. Grazian , F. Grupp , S. V. H. Haugan , W. Holmes , I. Hook , F. Hormuth , A. Hornstrup , P. Hudelot , K. Jahnke , E. Keihänen , S. Kermiche , A. Kiessling , M. Kilbinger , B. Kubik , M. Kümmel , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , R. Laureijs , S. Ligori , P. B. Lilje , V. Lindholm , I. Lloro , E. Maiorano , O. Mansutti , O. Marggraf , K. Markovic , N. Martinet , F. Marulli , R. Massey , S. Maurogordato , E. Medinaceli , S. Mei , Y. Mellier , M. Meneghetti , E. Merlin , G. Meylan , M. Moresco , L. Moscardini , E. Munari , S. -M. Niemi , C. Padilla , S. Paltani , F. Pasian , K. Pedersen , W. J. Percival , V. Pettorino , S. Pires , G. Polenta , M. Poncet , L. A. Popa , L. Pozzetti , F. Raison , R. Rebolo , A. Renzi , J. Rhodes , G. Riccio , E. Romelli , M. Roncarelli , E. Rossetti , R. Saglia , D. Sapone , B. Sartoris , M. Schirmer , P. Schneider , A. Secroun , G. Seidel , S. Serrano , C. Sirignano , G. Sirri , L. Stanco , J. -L. Starck , P. Tallada-Crespí , A. N. Taylor , H. I. Teplitz , I. Tereno , R. Toledo-Moreo , F. Torradeflot , I. Tutusaus , E. A. Valentijn , L. Valenziano , T. Vassallo , A. Veropalumbo , Y. Wang , J. Weller , A. Zacchei , G. Zamorani , J. Zoubian , E. Zucca , A. Biviano , M. Bolzonella , A. Boucaud , E. Bozzo , C. Burigana , C. Colodro-Conde , D. Di Ferdinando , R. Farinelli , J. Graciá-Carpio , G. Mainetti , S. Marcin , N. Mauri , C. Neissner , A. A. Nucita , Z. Sakr , V. Scottez , M. Tenti , M. Viel , M. Wiesmann , Y. Akrami , V. Allevato , S. Anselmi , C. Baccigalupi , M. Ballardini , S. Borgani , A. S. Borlaff , H. Bretonnière , S. Bruton , R. Cabanac , A. Calabro , A. Cappi , C. S. Carvalho , G. Castignani , T. Castro , G. Cañas-Herrera , K. C. Chambers , J. Coupon , O. Cucciati , S. Davini , G. De Lucia , G. Desprez , S. Di Domizio , H. Dole , A. Díaz-Sánchez , J. A. Escartin Vigo , S. Escoffier , I. Ferrero , F. Finelli , L. Gabarra , K. Ganga , J. García-Bellido , E. Gaztanaga , K. George , F. Giacomini , G. Gozaliasl , A. Gregorio , D. Guinet , A. Hall , H. Hildebrandt , A. Jimenez Munoz , J. J. E. Kajava , V. Kansal , D. Karagiannis , C. C. Kirkpatrick , L. Legrand , A. Loureiro , J. Macias-Perez , M. Magliocchetti , R. Maoli , M. Martinelli , C. J. A. P. Martins , S. Matthew , M. Maturi , L. Maurin , R. B. Metcalf , M. Migliaccio , P. Monaco , G. Morgante , S. Nadathur , Nicholas A. Walton , A. Peel , A. Pezzotta , V. Popa , C. Porciani , D. Potter , M. Pöntinen , P. Reimberg , P. -F. Rocci , A. G. Sánchez , A. Schneider , E. Sefusatti , M. Sereno , P. Simon , A. Spurio Mancini , S. A. Stanford , J. Steinwagner , G. Testera , M. Tewes , R. Teyssier , S. Toft , S. Tosi , A. Troja , M. Tucci , C. Valieri , J. Valiviita , D. Vergani , I. A. Zinchenko

Classification and quantitative characterization of neuronal morphologies from histological neuronal reconstruction is challenging since it is still unclear how to delineate a neuronal cell class and which are the best features to define…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-05 Xavier Vasques , Laurent Vanel , Guillaume Villette , Laura Cif

Galaxy groups are essential for studying the distribution of matter on a large scale in redshift surveys and for deciphering the link between galaxy traits and their associated halos. In this work, we propose a widely applicable method for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-03 Juntao Ma , Jie Wang , Tianxiang Mao , Hongxiang Chen , Yuxi Meng , Xiaohu Yang , Qingyang Li

Classification of galaxy morphology is a challenging but meaningful task for the enormous amount of data produced by the next-generation telescope. By introducing the adaptive polar coordinate transformation, we develop a rotationally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-11 G. W. Fang , S. Ba , Y. Z. Gu , Z. S. Lin , Y. J. Hou , C. X. Qin , C. C. Zhou , J. Xu , Y. Dai , J. Song , X. Kong

State-of-the-art radio observatories produce large amounts of data which can be used to study the properties of radio galaxies. However, with this rapid increase in data volume, it has become unrealistic to manually process all of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 Kevin Brand , Trienko L. Grobler , Waldo Kleynhans , Mattia Vaccari , Matthew Prescott , Burger Becker

We study the usage of EfficientNets and their applications to Galaxy Morphology Classification. We explore the usage of EfficientNets into predicting the vote fractions of the 79,975 testing images from the Galaxy Zoo 2 challenge on Kaggle.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Shreyas Kalvankar , Hrushikesh Pandit , Pranav Parwate

We consider the problem of determining the host galaxies of radio sources by cross-identification. This has traditionally been done manually, which will be intractable for wide-area radio surveys like the Evolutionary Map of the Universe…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-18 M. J. Alger , J. K. Banfield , C. S. Ong , L. Rudnick , O. I. Wong , C. Wolf , H. Andernach , R. P. Norris , S. S. Shabala

We present the largest, most homogeneous catalogue of merging galaxies in the nearby universe obtained through the Galaxy Zoo project - an interface on the world-wide web enabling large-scale morphological classification of galaxies through…

Classifying galaxies is an essential step for studying their structures and dynamics. Using GalaxyZoo2 (GZ2) fractions thresholds, we collect 545 and 11,735 samples in non-galaxy and galaxy classes, respectively. We compute the Zernike…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-20 Hamed Ghaderi , Nasibe Alipour , Hossein Safari

The rapid increase in data on galaxy images at low and high redshift calls for re-examination of the classification schemes and for new automatic objective methods. Here we present a classification method by Artificial Neural Networks. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ofer Lahav

We provide classifications for all 143 million non-repeat photometric objects in the Third Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using decision trees trained on 477,068 objects with SDSS spectroscopic data. We demonstrate that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicholas M. Ball , Robert J. Brunner , Adam D. Myers , David Tcheng