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Identifying stars belonging to different classes is vital in order to build up statistical samples of different phases and pathways of stellar evolution. In the era of surveys covering billions of stars, an automated method of identifying…

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Multi-view classification (MVC) generally focuses on improving classification accuracy by using information from different views, typically integrating them into a unified comprehensive representation for downstream tasks. However, it is…

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Despite the great promise of machine-learning algorithms to classify and predict astrophysical parameters for the vast numbers of astrophysical sources and transients observed in large-scale surveys, the peculiarities of the training data…

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Multi-view multi-label classification (MvMLC) has recently garnered significant research attention due to its wide range of real-world applications. However, incompleteness in views and labels is a common challenge, often resulting from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wulin Xie , Lian Zhao , Jiang Long , Xiaohuan Lu , Bingyan Nie

The accurate automated classification of variable stars into their respective sub-types is difficult. Machine learning based solutions often fall foul of the imbalanced learning problem, which causes poor generalisation performance in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Zafiirah Hosenie , Robert Lyon , Benjamin Stappers , Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo , Vanessa McBride

Most existing star-galaxy classifiers use the reduced summary information from catalogs, requiring careful feature extraction and selection. The latest advances in machine learning that use deep convolutional neural networks allow a machine…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner

The need for the development of automatic tools to explore astronomical databases has been recognized since the inception of CCDs and modern computers. Astronomers already have developed solutions to tackle several science problems, such as…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-01 Karim Pichara , Pavlos Protopapas , Daniel León

We investigate star-galaxy classification for astronomical surveys in the context of four methods enabling the interpretation of black-box machine learning systems. The first is outputting and exploring the decision boundaries as given by…

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This extended abstract presents a visualization system, which is designed for domain scientists to visually understand their deep learning model of extracting multiple attributes in x-ray scattering images. The system focuses on studying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Xinyi Huang , Suphanut Jamonnak , Ye Zhao , Boyu Wang , Minh Hoai , Kevin Yager , Wei Xu

We propose a new method for learning with multi-field categorical data. Multi-field categorical data are usually collected over many heterogeneous groups. These groups can reflect in the categories under a field. The existing methods try to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Zhibin Li , Jian Zhang , Yongshun Gong , Yazhou Yao , Qiang Wu

Vast amounts of astronomical photometric data are generated from various projects, requiring significant effort to identify variable stars and other object classes. In light of this, a general, widely applicable classification framework…

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Information on the spectral types of stars is of great interest in view of the exploitation of space-based imaging surveys. In this article, we investigate the classification of stars into spectral types using only the shape of their…

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Multiview clustering (MVC) aims to reveal the underlying structure of multiview data by categorizing data samples into clusters. Deep learning-based methods exhibit strong feature learning capabilities on large-scale datasets. For most…

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We proposed a machine learning approach to identify and distinguish dusty stellar sources employing supervised and unsupervised methods and categorizing point sources, mainly evolved stars, using photometric and spectroscopic data collected…

Machine Learning is an efficient method for analyzing and interpreting the increasing amount of astronomical data that is available. In this study, we show, a pedagogical approach that should benefit anyone willing to experiment with Deep…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-01 Marwan Gebran , Kathleen Connick , Hikmat Farhat , Frédéric Paletou , Ian Bentley

Photometric variability detection is often considered as a hypothesis testing problem: an object is variable if the null-hypothesis that its brightness is constant can be ruled out given the measurements and their uncertainties. Uncorrected…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-25 Ilya N. Pashchenko , Kirill V. Sokolovsky , Panagiotis Gavras

Variable stars play a very important role in our understanding of the Milky Way and the universe. In recent years, many survey projects have generated a large amount of photometric data, necessitating classifiers that can quickly identify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-27 Xiao-Hui Xu , Qing-Feng Zhu , Xu-Zhi Li , Hang Zheng , Jin-Sheng Qiu

We developed software for detection of variable stars using CCD photometry. It works with "varfind data" that could be exported after processing CCD frames using C-Munipack. Our goals were maximum automation and support of large fields of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-18 Vitalii Breus

There exist a variety of star-galaxy classification techniques, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. In this paper, we present a novel meta-classification framework that combines and fully exploits different techniques to produce a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-20 Edward J. Kim , Robert J. Brunner , Matias Carrasco Kind

Multi-view clustering has become a significant area of research, with numerous methods proposed over the past decades to enhance clustering accuracy. However, in many real-world applications, it is crucial to demonstrate a clear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Mudi Jiang , Lianyu Hu , Zengyou He , Zhikui Chen