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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…

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Galaxy appearances reveal the physics of how they formed and evolved. Machine learning models can now exploit galaxies' information-rich morphologies to predict physical properties directly from image cutouts. Learning the relationship…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-03 John F. Wu

We present an enhanced unsupervised machine learning (UML) module within our previous \texttt{USmorph} classification framework featuring two components: (1) hierarchical feature extraction via a pre-trained ConvNeXt convolutional neural…

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

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in computer vision by supervisedly learning strong visual feature representations. However, training CNNs relies heavily on the availability of exhaustive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Jiabo Huang , Qi Dong , Shaogang Gong , Xiatian Zhu

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

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

We present a novel approach for the dimensionality reduction of galaxy images by leveraging a combination of variational auto-encoders (VAE) and domain adaptation (DA). We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach using a sample of low…

We present morphological classifications obtained using machine learning for objects in SDSS DR6 that have been classified by Galaxy Zoo into three classes, namely early types, spirals and point sources/artifacts. An artificial neural…

Mergers are an important aspect of galaxy formation and evolution. We aim to test whether deep learning techniques can be used to reproduce visual classification of observations, physical classification of simulations and highlight any…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-12 W. J. Pearson , L. Wang , J. W. Trayford , C. E. Petrillo , F. F. S. van der Tak

We demonstrate that generative deep learning can translate galaxy observations across ultraviolet, visible, and infrared photometric bands. Leveraging mock observations from the Illustris simulations, we develop and validate a supervised…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Youssef Zaazou , Alex Bihlo , Terrence S. Tricco

Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a potent tool for building meaningful latent representations of galaxy properties across a broad spectrum of wavelengths, ranging from optical and infrared to radio frequencies. These representations…

Recent advancements in Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in improving graph representations. However, relying on predefined augmentations (e.g., node dropping, edge perturbation, attribute masking)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Khaled Mohammed Saifuddin , Shihao Ji , Esra Akbas

Graph representation learning nowadays becomes fundamental in analyzing graph-structured data. Inspired by recent success of contrastive methods, in this paper, we propose a novel framework for unsupervised graph representation learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Yanqiao Zhu , Yichen Xu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Galaxy morphologies and their relation with physical properties have been a relevant subject of study in the past. Most galaxy morphology catalogs have been labelled by human annotators or by machine learning models trained on human…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-23 Esteban Medina-Rosales , Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Christopher J. Miller

Deconvolution of large survey images with millions of galaxies requires to develop a new generation of methods which can take into account a space variant Point Spread Function (PSF) and have to be at the same time accurate and fast. We…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-16 Florent Sureau , Alexis Lechat , Jean-Luc Starck

We present an unsupervised machine learning technique that automatically segments and labels galaxies in astronomical imaging surveys using only pixel data. Distinct from previous unsupervised machine learning approaches used in astronomy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Alex Hocking , James E. Geach , Yi Sun , Neil Davey

Medical image analysis using supervised deep learning methods remains problematic because of the reliance of deep learning methods on large amounts of labelled training data. Although medical imaging data repositories continue to expand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Euijoon Ahn , Ashnil Kumar , Dagan Feng , Michael Fulham , Jinman Kim

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,…

With the development of deep learning, supervised learning has frequently been adopted to classify remotely sensed images using convolutional networks (CNNs). However, due to the limited amount of labeled data available, supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Daoyu Lin , Kun Fu , Yang Wang , Guangluan Xu , Xian Sun

While unsupervised change detection using contrastive learning has been significantly improved the performance of literature techniques, at present, it only focuses on the bi-temporal change detection scenario. Previous state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yuxing Chen , Lorenzo Bruzzone