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Wide-field, multi-band surveys now detect millions of unresolved sources in nearby galaxy clusters, yet separating globular clusters (GCs) from foreground stars and background galaxies remains challenging. Scalable, automated classification…

The next generation of data-intensive surveys are bound to produce a vast amount of data, which can be dealt with using machine-learning methods to explore possible correlations within the multi-dimensional parameter space. We explore the…

In this paper we develop a new unsupervised machine learning technique comprised of a feature extractor, a convolutional autoencoder (CAE), and a clustering algorithm consisting of a Bayesian Gaussian mixture model (BGM). We apply this…

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In this paper, we introduce VoteCut, an innovative method for unsupervised object discovery that leverages feature representations from multiple self-supervised models. VoteCut employs normalized-cut based graph partitioning, clustering and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shahaf Arica , Or Rubin , Sapir Gershov , Shlomi Laufer

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

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

We present a metric to quantify systematic labeling bias in galaxy morphology data sets stemming from the quality of the labeled data. This labeling bias is independent from labeling errors and requires knowledge about the intrinsic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-05 Guillermo Cabrera-Vives , Christopher J. Miller , Jeff Schneider

In many applications of X-ray computed tomography, an unsupervised segmentation of the reconstructed 3D volumes forms an important step in the image processing chain for further investigation of the digitized object. Therefore, the goal is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Thomas Lang

Unlike common cancers, such as those of the prostate and breast, tumor grading in rare cancers is difficult and largely undefined because of small sample sizes, the sheer volume of time needed to undertake on such a task, and the inherent…

The task of labeling data for training deep neural networks is daunting and tedious, requiring millions of labels to achieve the current state-of-the-art results. Such reliance on large amounts of labeled data can be relaxed by exploiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-17 Aysegul Dundar , Jonghoon Jin , Eugenio Culurciello

Classification will be an important first step for upcoming surveys that will detect billions of new sources such as LSST and Euclid, as well as DESI, 4MOST and MOONS. The application of traditional methods of model fitting and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Crispin Logan , Sotiria Fotopoulou

Unsupervised image classification, or image clustering, aims to group unlabeled images into semantically meaningful categories. Early methods integrated representation learning and clustering within an iterative framework. However, the rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Melih Baydar , Emre Akbas

The evolutionary classification of molecular clumps, crucial for understanding star formation, is commonly based on human-assigned categories derived from infrared (IR) emission and well-established morphological criteria. However, due to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-27 K. V. Plakitina , M. S. Kirsanova , A. B. Ostrovskii , A. D. Gimalieva , S. V. Salii , A. V. Meshcheryakov

We have developed a method that maps large astronomical images onto a two-dimensional map and clusters them. A combination of various state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) algorithms is used to develop a fully unsupervised image quality…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Hossen Teimoorinia , Sara Shishehchi , Ahnaf Tazwar , Ping Lin , Finn Archinuk , Stephen D. J. Gwyn , J. J. Kavelaars

Although large-scale labeled data are essential for deep convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) to learn high-level semantic visual representations, it is time-consuming and impractical to collect and annotate large-scale datasets. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Huili Huang , M. Mahdi Roozbahani

Clustering is a class of unsupervised learning methods that has been extensively applied and studied in computer vision. Little work has been done to adapt it to the end-to-end training of visual features on large scale datasets. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mathilde Caron , Piotr Bojanowski , Armand Joulin , Matthijs Douze

We employ unsupervised machine learning to enhance the accuracy of our recently presented scaling method for wave confinement analysis [1]. We employ the standard k-means++ algorithm as well as our own model-based algorithm. We investigate…

The taxonomy of galaxy morphology is critical in astrophysics as the morphological properties are powerful tracers of galaxy evolution. With the upcoming Large-scale Imaging Surveys, billions of galaxy images challenge astronomers to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-04 Zhirui Zhang , Zhiqiang Zou , Nan Li , Yanli Chen

[abridged] New near-infrared surveys, using the HST, offer an unprecedented opportunity to study rest-frame optical galaxy morphologies at z>1 and to calibrate automated morphological parameters that will play a key role in classifying…

With the onset of large-scale astronomical surveys capturing millions of images, there is an increasing need to develop fast and accurate deconvolution algorithms that generalize well to different images. A powerful and accessible…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-18 Utsav Akhaury , Jean-Luc Starck , Pascale Jablonka , Frédéric Courbin , Kevin Michalewicz