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At my university's astronomy dept we've developed gpu software and used it to discover many new objects in the kuiper belt. It's robust enough that it can also

At my university's astronomy dept we've developed gpu software and used it to discover many new objects in the kuiper belt. It's robust enough that it can also be used to detect airplanes. https://github.com/DiracInstitute/kbmod https://github.com/DiracInstitute/kbmod

calebh 8y ago
That's really neat! What do you use for training data?
- twtw 8y ago
  GPUs can do things besides machine learning. It uses a maximum likelihood estimator, so no training data.