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Visual Classification: add refs for "complex [morphology] proxies", and also for their failure #32

Closed drphilmarshall closed 10 years ago

chrislintott commented 10 years ago

Done - but should we add a few lines about systems of morphological proxies like CAS?

drphilmarshall commented 10 years ago

I think it might be OK to leave them out. Can you provide a citation for this statement, please?

"In particularly for galaxies which do not fit the general trends, such as spirals with dominant bulges or star-forming ellipticals, automated classifiers, whether using these simple measures or more complex proxies for morphology such as texture, fail to match the performance of expert classifiers."

Citing studies that show that complex proxies fail, as well as citing the papers that introduce those proxies, will be fine. Is CAS just such a proxy?