Image Recognition
Many of our imagined sci-fi futures pit humans and machines against each other — but what if they collaborated instead? "This work shows the benefits of using machine learning with humans in the loop," Shreshth Malik, a physicist at the University of Oxford in the U.K. and lead author of the publication, told Space.com. Finding exoplanets is tricky work — they're tiny and faint compared to the massive stars they orbit. Zink thinks partnerships with machine learning "could significantly improve our ability to detect exoplanets" in this kind of real-world, noisy data. This work has the potential to go far beyond exoplanets, as machine learning is quickly becoming a popular technique across many aspects of astronomy, Malik said.