Looking for Volunteers to Find Faint Fuzzies in the Fornax Deep Survey

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

In my work I am involved in the SUNDIAL ITN, an EU-funded consortium of astronomers and computer scientists looking for better ways to extract useful information from the huge amounts of data produced in moderns surveys like the Fornax Deep Survey, KiDS, and the upcoming LSST and other telescopes. As a computer scientist I have been working on methods for faint object detection, which should combine sensitivity and low number of false positives. The problem is we need better ground truths for objects we detect in the survey. We are therefore setting up a Zooniverse Labs citizen science project to classify the stuff our methods find. Before releasing the final project we need  volunteers to test drive the current version of "Space Fluff", before the official acceptance test by Zooniverse Labs. Here is the link:

http://sundial-itn.com/index.php/2020/05/24/space-fluff-help-needed/

I will of course keep everyone posted when the final project is released.

[Swoop1]

Done

[michael8554]

Well I failed at the first hurdle.

Couldn't find Space Fluff on the Zooniverse link :-<

Michael

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

7 hours ago, michael8554 said:

Well I failed at the first hurdle.

Couldn't find Space Fluff on the Zooniverse link :-<

Michael

The first Zooniverse link is just to get an account. Because this project is still not officially released, no link to Space Fluff appears on the site. There is another link on the SUNDIAL blog just a little further down the page I admit, slightly hidden under the Space Fluff icon (not my design). The direct link to our project is this:

https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/sundial-itn/space-fluff