{"id":15382,"date":"2015-07-08T11:47:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15382"},"modified":"2015-07-08T11:47:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:47:58","slug":"analysing-galaxy-images-with-artificial-intelligence-astronomers-teach-a-machine-how-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15382","title":{"rendered":"Analysing galaxy images with artificial intelligence: astronomers teach a machine how to \u2018see\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mr Hocking, who led the new work, commented: \u201cThe important thing about our algorithm is that we have not told the machine what to look for in the images, but instead taught it how to &#8216;see&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ras.org.uk\/news-and-press\/2659-analysing-galaxy-images-with-artificial-intelligence-astronomers-teach-a-machine-how-to-see\">Analysing galaxy images with artificial intelligence: astronomers teach a machine how to \u2018see\u2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The new work appears in \u201cTeaching a machine to see: unsupervised image segmentation and categorisation using growing neural gas and hierarchical clustering\u201d, A. Hocking, J. E. Geach, N. Davey &amp; Y. Sun. The <a href=\"http:\/\/star.herts.ac.uk\/%7Ejgeach\/machine-learning\/Hocking_GNG_HC_paper.pdf\">paper<\/a> has been submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Hocking, who led the new work, commented: \u201cThe important thing about our algorithm is that we have not told the machine what to look for in the images, but instead taught it how to &#8216;see&#8217;.&#8221; Source: Analysing galaxy images &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=15382\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[670,543,855,1354],"class_list":["post-15382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-algorithms","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-astronomy","tag-image-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15383,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15382\/revisions\/15383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}