From digitized images to online catalogs: Data mining a sky survey

AI Magazine

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 51-66

  Fayyad, Usama M ^a   Djorgovski, S G ^b   Weir, Nicholas ^c  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Goldman Sachs Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA REDUCTION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; NATURAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

CLASSIFICATION LEARNING; DIGITAL IMAGE LIBRARIES; ONLINE CATALOGS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030170289     PISSN: 07384602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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