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A spectral mean for point sampled closed curves

Statistics Theory 2013-10-30 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We propose a spectral mean for closed curves described by sample points on its boundary subject to mis-alignment and noise. First, we ignore mis-alignment and derive maximum likelihood estimators of the model and noise parameters in the Fourier domain. We estimate the unknown curve by back-transformation and derive the distribution of the integrated squared error. Then, we model mis-alignment by means of a shifted parametric diffeomorphism and minimise a suitable objective function simultaneously over the unknown curve and the mis-alignment parameters. Finally, the method is illustrated on simulated data as well as on photographs of Lake Tana taken by astronauts during a Shuttle mission.

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@article{arxiv.1310.7838,
  title  = {A spectral mean for point sampled closed curves},
  author = {M. N. M. van Lieshout},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.7838},
  year   = {2013}
}
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