Pietro asked to speak briefly about how computer vision is being used in astronomy.
Now these are two areas which we don’t think of as being closely related. But its worth realizing that the vast majority of our knowledge of the universe comes from looking at images of the sky. Correspondingly, astronomers spend serious money to capture the best images – space-based telescopes >$1Bn. But the interesting thing from our point of view is that they just don’t have the same emphasis on software. However, this is changing as we can discuss later. As a community, they are just discovering methods from vision and ML and so there is a lot of low-hanging fruit from our perspective.
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Low signal to noise regime is typicalAlready use Bayesian modeling for high-level cosmological modelsData is far simpler than natural images
