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Smoothing a signal based on local neighborhoods is a core operation in machine learning and geometry processing. On well-structured domains such as vector spaces and manifolds, the Laplace operator derived from differential geometry offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Nathan Kessler , Robin Magnet , Jean Feydy

Consider estimating a structured signal $\mathbf{x}_0$ from linear, underdetermined and noisy measurements $\mathbf{y}=\mathbf{A}\mathbf{x}_0+\mathbf{z}$, via solving a variant of the lasso algorithm: $\hat{\mathbf{x}}=\arg\min_\mathbf{x}\{…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-28 Christos Thrampoulidis , Samet Oymak , Babak Hassibi

In the blind deconvolution problem, we observe the convolution of an unknown filter and unknown signal and attempt to reconstruct the filter and signal. The problem seems impossible in general, since there are seemingly many more unknowns…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Qingyun Sun , David Donoho

We present a statistical framework to benchmark the performance of reconstruction algorithms for linear inverse problems, in particular, neural-network-based methods that require large quantities of training data. We generate synthetic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-05 Pakshal Bohra , Pol del Aguila Pla , Jean-François Giovannelli , Michael Unser

The objective of this work is to quantify the reconstruction error in sparse inverse problems with measures and stochastic noise, motivated by optimal sensor placement. To be useful in this context, the error quantities must be explicit in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Phuoc-Truong Huynh , Konstantin Pieper , Daniel Walter

Learning kernels in operators from data lies at the intersection of inverse problems and statistical learning, providing a powerful framework for capturing non-local dependencies in function spaces and high-dimensional settings. In contrast…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Sichong Zhang , Xiong Wang , Fei Lu

We focus on the estimation of the intensity of a Poisson process in the presence of a uniform noise. We propose a kernel-based procedure fully calibrated in theory and practice. We show that our adaptive estimator is optimal from the oracle…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-29 Anna Bonnet , Claire Lacour , Franck Picard , Vincent Rivoirard

Shuffled regression and unlinked regression represent intriguing challenges that have garnered considerable attention in many fields, including but not limited to ecological regression, multi-target tracking problems, image denoising, etc.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Cecile Durot , Debarghya Mukherjee

In this paper we study how the choice of loss functions of non-convex optimization problems affects their robustness and optimization landscape, through the study of noisy matrix sensing. In traditional regression tasks, mean squared error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Xinyuan Song , Ziye Ma

A new image denoising algorithm to deal with the additive Gaussian white noise model is given. Like the non-local means method, the filter is based on the weighted average of the observations in a neighborhood, with weights depending on the…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2011-11-04 Qiyu Jin , Ion Grama , Quansheng Liu

This work is focussed on the inversion task of inferring the distribution over parameters of interest leading to multiple sets of observations. The potential to solve such distributional inversion problems is driven by increasing…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-06 Arnaud Vadeboncoeur , Mark Girolami , Andrew M. Stuart

In this paper, we propose a novel design of image deblurring in the form of one-shot convolution filtering that can directly convolve with naturally blurred images for restoration. The problem of optical blurring is a common disadvantage to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Mahdi S. Hosseini , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

Blind deconvolution problems are severely ill-posed because neither the underlying signal nor the forward operator are not known exactly. Conventionally, these problems are solved by alternating between estimation of the image and kernel…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Yash Sanghvi , Yiheng Chi , Stanley H. Chan

The density deconvolution problem involves recovering a target density g from a sample that has been corrupted by noise. From the perspective of Le Cam's local asymptotic normality theory, we show that non-parametric density deconvolution…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Stefan Wager

In this paper we consider the kernel estimators of a distribution function defined by the stochastic approximation algorithm when the observation are contamined by measurement errors. It is well known that this estimators depends heavily on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Yousri Slaoui

The paper deals with the nonparametric estimation problem at a given fixed point for an autoregressive model with unknown distributed noise. Kernel estimate modifications are proposed. Asymptotic minimax and efficiency properties for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-06-19 Ouerdia Arkoun , Serguei Pergamenchtchikov

Consistent in-focus input imagery is an essential precondition for machine vision systems to perceive the dynamic environment. A defocus blur severely degrades the performance of vision systems. To tackle this problem, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-11 Jisheng Li , Qi Dai , Jiangtao Wen

Reconstruction fidelity of sparse signals contaminated by sparse noise is considered. Statistical mechanics inspired tools are used to show that the l1-norm based convex optimization algorithm exhibits a phase transition between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-17 Mikko Vehkapera , Yoshiyuki Kabashima , Saikat Chatterjee

Blind deconvolution is a ubiquitous problem of recovering two unknown signals from their convolution. Unfortunately, this is an ill-posed problem in general. This paper focuses on the {\em short and sparse} blind deconvolution problem,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-23 Yuqian Zhang , Han-Wen Kuo , John Wright

In this paper, we consider a partial deconvolution kernel estimator for nonparametric regression when some covariates are measured with error while others are observed without error. We focus on a general and realistic setting in which the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Baba Thiam