[A new automatic quasars recognition technique based on PCA and Hough transform].
Lingyun Huang, Zhanyi Hu · PubMed · 2003
The main purpose of quasar recognition is to determine the observed quasar spectrum's redshift value. Previously the template of quasar rest frame in the literature was basically constructed based on astronomers' hypotheses. Due to the inaccuracy of such a template, it is hard to determine the redshift value by matching the observed quasar spectrum with the template directly. This paper's main contributions are two-fold: Firstly, the template in our paper is constructed by the principal component analysis (PCA) method from some selected spectra with known redshift values, hence the obtained template is more realistic. Secondly, a 2D standard Hough transform, rather than a 1D Hough transform, is used. This is because although only redshift needs to be determined in our system, based on our observations, the magnitude of emission peak is also changed, hence a new parameter, namely scale parameter, is also introduced to the Hough transform to enhance the reliability of the recognition. The experiments show that the proposed technique is workable and the correct recognition rate can reach about as high as 90%.