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We consider the problem of active learning in the context of spatial sampling for level set estimation (LSE), where the goal is to localize all regions where a function of interest lies above/below a given threshold as quickly as possible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Phillip Kearns , Bruno Jedynak , John Lipor

Projections onto sets are used in a wide variety of methods in optimization theory but not every method that uses projections really belongs to the class of projection methods as we mean it here. Here projection methods are iterative…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-08 Yair Censor , Andrzej Cegielski

In this paper, a parametric level set method for reconstruction of obstacles in general inverse problems is considered. General evolution equations for the reconstruction of unknown obstacles are derived in terms of the underlying level set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-10-07 Alireza Aghasi , Misha Kilmer , Eric L. Miller

Many interfacial phenomena in physical and biological systems are dominated by high order geometric quantities such as curvature. Here a semi-implicit method is combined with a level set jet scheme to handle stiff nonlinear advection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Guhan Velmurugan , Ebrahim M. Kolahdouz , David Salac

We present a method for selecting valuable projections in computed tomography (CT) scans to enhance image reconstruction and diagnosis. The approach integrates two important factors, projection-based detectability and data completeness,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Linda-Sophie Schneider , Mareike Thies , Christopher Syben , Richard Schielein , Mathias Unberath , Andreas Maier

Object pose estimation enables a variety of tasks in computer vision and robotics, including scene understanding and robotic grasping. The complexity of a pose estimation task depends on the unknown variables related to the target object.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Peter Hönig , Matthias Hirschmanner , Markus Vincze

Predictive process monitoring is a subfield of process mining that aims to estimate case or event features for running process instances. Such predictions are of significant interest to the process stakeholders. However, most of the…

With appropriately chosen sampling probabilities, sampling-based random projection can be used to implement large-scale statistical methods, substantially reducing computational cost while maintaining low statistical error. However,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Yifan Chen , Yun Yang

This paper investigates projection-free algorithms for stochastic constrained multi-level optimization. In this context, the objective function is a nested composition of several smooth functions, and the decision set is closed and convex.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-07 Wei Jiang , Sifan Yang , Wenhao Yang , Yibo Wang , Yuanyu Wan , Lijun Zhang

3D motion tracking is a critical task in many computer vision applications. Existing 3D motion tracking techniques require either a great amount of knowledge on the target object or specific hardware. These requirements discourage the wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-11-21 Luis Quesada , Alejandro J. León

Computational photography involves sophisticated capture methods. A new trend is to capture projection of higher dimensional visual signals such as videos, multi-spectral data and lightfields on lower dimensional sensors. Carefully designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-09-12 Rohit Pandharkar , Ashok Veeraraghavan , Ramesh Raskar

Recent advances in deep pose estimation models have proven to be effective in a wide range of applications such as health monitoring, sports, animations, and robotics. However, pose estimation models fail to generalize when facing images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Vandad Davoodnia , Saeed Ghorbani , Ali Etemad

A new approach of obtaining stratified random samples from statistically dependent random variables is described. The proposed method can be used to obtain samples from the input space of a computer forward model in estimating expectations…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-11-25 Anirban Mondal , Abhijit Mandal

To facilitate widespread adoption of automated engineering design techniques, existing methods must become more efficient and generalizable. In the field of topology optimization, this requires the coupling of modern optimization methods…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Connor N. Mallon , Aaron W. Thornton , Matthew R. Hill , Santiago Badia

Projection predictive inference is a decision theoretic Bayesian approach that decouples model estimation from decision making. Given a reference model previously built including all variables present in the data, projection predictive…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-15 Alejandro Catalina , Paul-Christian Bürkner , Aki Vehtari

We present a novel two-view geometry estimation framework which is based on a differentiable robust loss function fitting. We propose to treat the robust fundamental matrix estimation as an implicit layer, which allows us to avoid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Vladislav Pyatov , Iaroslav Koshelev , Stamatis Lefkimmiatis

We study the problem of approximating the level set of an unknown function by sequentially querying its values. We introduce a family of algorithms called Bisect and Approximate through which we reduce the level set approximation problem to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-24 François Bachoc , Tommaso Cesari , Sébastien Gerchinovitz

Random projection is a common technique for designing algorithms in a variety of areas, including information retrieval, compressive sensing and measuring of outlyingness. In this work, the original random projection outlyingness measure is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-02 Martin Bauw , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo , Claude Adnet , Olivier Airiau

In this work we propose an adaptive multilevel version of subset simulation to estimate the probability of rare events for complex physical systems. Given a sequence of nested failure domains of increasing size, the rare event probability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Daniel Elfverson , Robert Scheichl , Simon Weissmann , F. Alejandro DiazDelaO

Level set estimation (LSE), the problem of identifying the set of input points where a function takes value above (or below) a given threshold, is important in practical applications. When the function is expensive-to-evaluate and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-02 Yu Inatsu , Shion Takeno , Kentaro Kutsukake , Ichiro Takeuchi