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Measuring the morphological parameters of galaxies is a key requirement for studying their formation and evolution. Surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have resulted in the availability of very large collections of images,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-25 Sander Dieleman , Kyle W. Willett , Joni Dambre

The classification of galaxies as spirals or ellipticals is a crucial task in understanding their formation and evolution. With the arrival of large-scale astronomical surveys, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), astronomers now…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Anusha Guruprasad

Understanding morphological types of galaxies is a key parameter for studying their formation and evolution. Neural networks that have been used previously for galaxy morphology classification have some disadvantages, such as not being…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Reza Katebi , Yadi Zhou , Ryan Chornock , Razvan Bunescu

The classification of galaxy morphology plays a crucial role in understanding galaxy formation and evolution. Traditionally, this process is done manually. The emergence of deep learning techniques has given room for the automation of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Ezra Fielding , Clement N. Nyirenda , Mattia Vaccari

Big data has become the norm in astronomy, making it an ideal domain for computer science research. Astronomers typically classify galaxies based on their morphologies, a practice that dates back to Hubble (1936). With small datasets,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-02 Yevonnael Andrew

Galaxy morphology reflects structural properties which contribute to understand the formation and evolution of galaxies. Deep convolutional networks have proven to be very successful in learning hidden features that allow for unprecedented…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-07 Shoulin Wei , Yadi Li , Wei Lu , Nan Li , Bo Liang , Wei Dai , Zhijian Zhang

The universe is composed of galaxies that have diverse shapes. Once the structure of a galaxy is determined, it is possible to obtain important information about its formation and evolution. Morphologically classifying galaxies means…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-23 N. M. Cardoso , G. B. O. Schwarz , L. O. Dias , C. R. Bom , L. Sodré , C. Mendes de Oliveira

The morphological classification of galaxies provides vital physical information about the orbital motions of stars in galaxies, and correlates in interesting ways with star formation history, and other physical properties. Galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-14 Karen Masters

Medical ultrasound (US) imaging has become a prominent modality for breast cancer imaging due to its ease-of-use, low-cost and safety. In the past decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have emerged as the method of choice in vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Behnaz Gheflati , Hassan Rivaz

The morphological classification of radio sources is important to gain a full understanding of galaxy evolution processes and their relation with local environmental properties. Furthermore, the complex nature of the problem, its appeal for…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-09 Burger Becker , Mattia Vaccari , Matthew Prescott , Trienko Lups Grobler

Machine learning techniques have been increasingly useful in astronomical applications over the last few years, for example in the morphological classification of galaxies. Convolutional neural networks have proven to be highly effective in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-07 V. Lukic , M. Brüggen , J. K. Banfield , O. I. Wong , L. Rudnick , R. P. Norris , B. Simmons

Classifying the morphologies of galaxies is an important step in understanding their physical properties and evolutionary histories. The advent of large-scale surveys has hastened the need to develop techniques for automated morphological…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-28 Mitchell K. Cavanagh , Kenji Bekki , Brent A. Groves

Galaxy morphology is a fundamental quantity, that is essential not only for the full spectrum of galaxy-evolution studies, but also for a plethora of science in observational cosmology. While a rich literature exists on…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Garreth Martin , Sugata Kaviraj , Alex Hocking , Shaun C. Read , James E. Geach

Morphological classification is a key piece of information to define samples of galaxies aiming to study the large-scale structure of the universe. In essence, the challenge is to build up a robust methodology to perform a reliable…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 P. H. Barchi , R. R. de Carvalho , R. R. Rosa , R. Sautter , M. Soares-Santos , B. A. D. Marques , E. Clua , T. S. Gonçalves , C. de Sá-Freitas , T. C. Moura

In order to understand the formation and subsequent evolution of galaxies one must first distinguish between the two main morphological classes of massive systems: spirals and early-type systems. This paper introduces a project, Galaxy Zoo,…

In our previous works, we proposed a machine learning framework named \texttt{USmorph} for efficiently classifying galaxy morphology. In this study, we propose a self-supervised method called contrastive learning to upgrade the unsupervised…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-19 Shiwei Zhu , Guanwen Fang , Chichun Zhou , Jie Song , Zesen Lin , Yao Dai , Xu Kong

The growth in the number of galaxy images is much faster than the speed at which these galaxies can be labelled by humans. However, by leveraging the information present in the ever growing set of unlabelled images, semi-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-18 Mizu Nishikawa-Toomey , Lewis Smith , Yarin Gal

Existing computer vision research in categorization struggles with fine-grained attributes recognition due to the inherently high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances. SOTA methods tackle this challenge by locating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Marcos V. Conde , Kerem Turgutlu

In this work, decision tree learning algorithms and fuzzy inferencing systems are applied for galaxy morphology classification. In particular, the CART, the C4.5, the Random Forest and fuzzy logic algorithms are studied and reliable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-06-02 Adam Gauci , Kristian Zarb Adami , John Abela

Recent advancements in areas such as natural language processing and computer vision rely on intricate and massive models that have been trained using vast amounts of unlabelled or partly labeled data and training or deploying these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Rishit Dagli
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