Learning morphological maps of galaxies with unsupervised regression

Oliver Kramer, Fabian Gieseke, Kai Lars Polsterer

2 Citationer (Scopus)

Abstract

Hubble's morphological classification of galaxies has found broad acceptance in astronomy since decades. Numerous extensions have been proposed in the past, mostly based on galaxy prototypes. In this work, we automatically learn morphological maps of galaxies with unsupervised machine learning methods that preserve neighborhood relations and data space distances. For this sake, we focus on a stochastic variant of unsupervised nearest neighbors (UNN) for arranging galaxy prototypes on a two-dimensional map. UNN regression is the unsupervised counterpart of nearest neighbor regression for dimensionally reduction. In the experimental part of this article, we visualize the embeddings and compare the learning results achieved by various UNN parameterizations and related dimensionality reduction methods.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftExpert Systems with Applications
Vol/bind40
Udgave nummer8
Sider (fra-til)2841-2844
Antal sider4
ISSN0957-4174
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 15 jun. 2013
Udgivet eksterntJa

Fingeraftryk

Dyk ned i forskningsemnerne om 'Learning morphological maps of galaxies with unsupervised regression'. Sammen danner de et unikt fingeraftryk.

Citationsformater