1. Science Jamboree
Santiago, October 2016
The Role of ComputerVision
in Astronomy
Roberto González (PUC)
Felipe San Martín (Universidad de Chile)
Alejandro Sazo (UTFSM)
Roberto Muñoz
Instituto de Astrofísica
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
github.com/rpmunoz
2. The advent of large and rich
surveys
Roberto Muñoz
Time span: 15 years
Area: 14,555 deg2
# sources: 469,053,874
Time span: 10 years
Area: 25,000 deg2
# sources: 37,000,000,000
3. Computer Vision
Roberto Muñoz
Interdisciplinary field: Math, AI, Image process
Computers gain high-level understanding
Automatic detection, segmentation and
classification
Training datasets
Galaxy Zoo: SDSS, Hubble ACS
and WFC3
>1 million galaxies
Visual classification
Large but shallow
NGVS and NGFS
>10 thousands galaxies
Small but deep NGFS survey
Muñoz et al. 2015