"... This approach will discover new asteroids and improve our model of the solar system. It also opens opportunities for interesting algorithmic challenges, and the chance for a normal person to discover an asteroid.
"As a programmer, I’m particularly interested in how we’ll improve algorithms to spot asteroids. I am sure that there are conventional ML techniques and even simpler image processing approaches that are not being sufficiently exploited." [1]
That's Ian Webster talking about Asterank [2], which might be relevant background here since this NASA project is in partnership with Planetary Resources, which acquired Asterank.
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"... This approach will discover new asteroids and improve our model of the solar system. It also opens opportunities for interesting algorithmic challenges, and the chance for a normal person to discover an asteroid.
"As a programmer, I’m particularly interested in how we’ll improve algorithms to spot asteroids. I am sure that there are conventional ML techniques and even simpler image processing approaches that are not being sufficiently exploited." [1]
That's Ian Webster talking about Asterank [2], which might be relevant background here since this NASA project is in partnership with Planetary Resources, which acquired Asterank.
1. http://www.ianww.com/blog/2013/11/26/asterank-discover-revie...
2. http://www.asterank.com/discover