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3D point clouds of natural environments relevant to problems in geomorphology often require classification of the data into elementary relevant classes. A typical example is the separation of riparian vegetation from ground in fluvial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-25 Nicolas Brodu , Dimitri Lague

We introduce the NEXUS algorithm for the identification of Cosmic Web environments: clusters, filaments, walls and voids. This is a multiscale and automatic morphological analysis tool that identifies all the cosmic structures in a scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marius Cautun , Rien van de Weygaert , Bernard J. T. Jones

Three dimensional (3D) object recognition is becoming a key desired capability for many computer vision systems such as autonomous vehicles, service robots and surveillance drones to operate more effectively in unstructured environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Chenxi Xiao , Juan Wachs

We have studied the filaments extracted from the column density maps of the nearby Lupus 1, 3, and 4 molecular clouds, derived from photometric maps observed with the Herschel satellite. Filaments in the Lupus clouds have quite low column…

Kernel density estimation is a popular method for estimating unseen probability distributions. However, the convergence of these classical estimators to the true density slows down in high dimensions. Moreover, they do not define meaningful…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Jack Kendrick

We present a new method of analysing and quantifying velocity structure in star forming regions suitable for the rapidly increasing quantity and quality of stellar position-velocity data. The method can be applied to data in any number of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-26 Becky Arnold , Simon Goodwin

Coresets have emerged as a powerful tool to summarize data by selecting a small subset of the original observations while retaining most of its information. This approach has led to significant computational speedups but the performance of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Paxton Turner , Jingbo Liu , Philippe Rigollet

Reconstruction of sets from a random sample of points intimately related to them is the goal of set estimation theory. Within this context, a particular problem is the one related with the reconstruction of density level sets and…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-06 Paula Saavedra-Nieves , Rosa María Crujeiras

We consider the problem of fitting a probability density function when it is constrained to have a given number of modal intervals. We propose a dynamic programming approach to solving this problem numerically. When this number is not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-25 Ery Arias-Castro , He Jiang

Radio propagation modeling is essential in telecommunication research, as radio channels result from complex interactions with environmental objects. Recently, Machine Learning has been attracting attention as a potential alternative to…

Point clouds are often sparse and incomplete. Existing shape completion methods are incapable of generating details of objects or learning the complex point distributions. To this end, we propose a cascaded refinement network together with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Xiaogang Wang , Marcelo H Ang , Gim Hee Lee

Accurate characterization of filamentary structures in star-forming clouds is essential for understanding star formation. Traditional methods fit observed surface density profiles $\Sigma(r)$ with slope $\gamma$ and width $H$ using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-15 Alexander Men'shchikov , Guo-Yin Zhang

Graph kernels methods are based on an implicit embedding of graphs within a vector space of large dimension. This implicit embedding allows to apply to graphs methods which where until recently solely reserved to numerical data. Within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2008-10-21 François-Xavier Dupé , Luc Brun

Dealing with land cover classification of the new image sources has also turned to be a complex problem requiring large amount of memory and processing time. In order to cope with these problems, statistical learning has greatly helped in…

A method enabling automatic detection and tracking of large amounts of individual dust particles in plasmas is presented. Individual trajectories can be found with a good spatiotemporal resolution, even without applying any external light…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2010-10-19 Y. Zayachuk , F. Brochard , S. Bardin , J-L. Briançon , R. Hugon , J. Bougdira

In this work, we consider a method of searching of the direction of a wireless network development (the places of new access points or base stations etc.) optimized with criteria of coverage of important territories and minimum cost of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Lev Kazakovtsev

In the past decade filaments have been recognised as a major structural element of the interstellar medium, the densest of these filaments hosting the formation of most stars. In some star-forming molecular clouds converging networks of…

Detection of curvilinear structures in images has long been of interest. One of the most challenging aspects of this problem is inferring the graph representation of the curvilinear network. Most existing delineation approaches first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Agata Mosinska , Mateusz Kozinski , Pascal Fua

The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Rajat Sharma , Tobias Schwandt , Christian Kunert , Steffen Urban , Wolfgang Broll

Point clouds produced by 3D scanning are often sparse, non-uniform, and noisy. Recent upsampling approaches aim to generate a dense point set, while achieving both distribution uniformity and proximity-to-surface, and possibly amending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ruihui Li , Xianzhi Li , Pheng-Ann Heng , Chi-Wing Fu