Title
From FATS to feets: Further improvements to an astronomical feature extraction tool based on machine learning.
Abstract
Machine learning algorithms are highly useful for the classification of time series data in astronomy in this era of peta-scale public survey data releases. These methods can facilitate the discovery of new unknown events in most astrophysical areas, as well as improving the analysis of samples of known phenomena. Machine learning algorithms use features extracted from collected data as input predictive variables. A public tool called Feature Analysis for Time Series (FATS) has proved an excellent workhorse for feature extraction, particularly light curve classification for variable objects. In this study, we present a major improvement to FATS, which corrects inconvenient design choices, minor details, and documentation for the re-engineering process. This improvement comprises a new Python package called feets, which is important for future code-refactoring for astronomical software tools.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.ascom.2018.09.005
Astronomy and Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Astroinformatics,Machine learning algorithm,Feature selection,Software and its engineering,Software post-development issue
Time series,Predictive variables,Feature extraction,Software,Artificial intelligence,Documentation,Sextant (astronomical),Python (programming language),Pattern recognition (psychology),Machine learning,Physics
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
25
2213-1337
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
5
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan B. Cabral120.92
Bruno Sánchez220.92
F. Ramos310.48
Sebastián Gurovich420.92
Pablo M. Granitto517617.75
Jake Vanderplas63979167.73