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In this paper, we describe an algorithm for fitting an analytic and bandlimited closed or open curve to interpolate an arbitrary collection of points in $\mathbb{R}^{2}$. The main idea is to smooth the parametrization of the curve by…

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Diffusion maps is a manifold learning algorithm widely used for dimensionality reduction. Using a sample from a distribution, it approximates the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of associated Laplace-Beltrami operators. Theoretical bounds on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Caroline L. Wormell , Sebastian Reich

Optimal error estimation is key to achieve accurate photometry and astrometry. Stellar fluxes and positions in high angular resolution images are typically measured with PSF fitting routines, such as StarFinder. However, the formal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-12 E. Gallego-Cano , R. Schödel , A. T. Gallego-Calvente , A. M. Ghez

We propose a technique for determination of the spectral parameters of the cosmological signal and pixel noise using observational data on CMB polarization without any additional assumptions. We introduce the notion of so called crossing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Naselsky , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , J. Silk

This paper studies sensor calibration in spectral estimation where the true frequencies are located on a continuous domain. We consider a uniform array of sensors that collects measurements whose spectrum is composed of a finite number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Yonina C. Eldar , Wenjing Liao , Sui Tang

We address the problem of estimating the spherical-harmonic power spectrum of a statistically isotropic scalar signal from noise-contaminated data on a region of the unit sphere. Three different methods of spectral estimation are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. A. Dahlen , Frederik J Simons

When there are many observations of an astronomical source - many images with different dithers, or many spectra taken at different barycentric velocities - it is standard practice to shift and stack the data, to (for example) make a high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-19 David W. Hogg , Andrew R. Casey

Optimal estimation of signal amplitude, background level, and photocentre location is crucial to the combined extraction of astrometric and photometric information from focal plane images, and in particular from the one-dimensional…

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We develop a fully intrinsic Bayesian framework for nonparametric regression on the unit sphere based on isotropic Gaussian field priors and the harmonic structure induced by the Laplace-Beltrami operator. Under uniform random design, the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Claudio Durastanti

The analysis of curves has been routinely dealt with using tools from functional data analysis. However its extension to multi-dimensional curves poses a new challenge due to its inherent geometric features that are difficult to capture…

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We introduce a continuous domain framework for the recovery of a planar curve from a few samples. We model the curve as the zero level set of a trigonometric polynomial. We show that the exponential feature maps of the points on the curve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Qing Zou , Sunrita Poddar , Mathews Jacob

We consider the inverse source problem in the parabolic equation, where the unknown source possesses the semi-discrete formulation. Theoretically, we prove that the flux data from any nonempty open subset of the boundary can uniquely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Guang Lin , Zecheng Zhang , Zhidong Zhang

Earth observing satellites carrying multi-spectral sensors are widely used to monitor the physical and biological states of the atmosphere, land, and oceans. These satellites have different vantage points above the earth and different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Thomas Vandal , Daniel McDuff , Weile Wang , Andrew Michaelis , Ramakrishna Nemani

In this work, we are devoted to the reconstruction of an unknown initial value from the terminal data. The asymptotic and root-distribution properties of Mittag-Leffler functions are used to establish stability of the backward problem.…

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We present a flexible framework for uncertainty principles in spectral graph theory. In this framework, general filter functions modeling the spatial and spectral localization of a graph signal can be incorporated. It merges several…

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We study the basic task of mean estimation in the presence of mean-shift contamination. In the mean-shift contamination model, an adversary is allowed to replace a small constant fraction of the clean samples by samples drawn from…

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We develop two algorithms, based on maximum likelihood (ML) inference, for estimating the parameters of polarized radio sources which emit at a single rotation measure (RM), e.g., pulsars. These algorithms incorporate the flux density…

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Nonparametric modeling approaches show very promising results in the area of system identification and control. A naturally provided model confidence is highly relevant for system-theoretical considerations to provide guarantees for…

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Markov chain Monte Carlo samplers produce dependent streams of variates drawn from the limiting distribution of the Markov chain. With this as motivation, we introduce novel univariate kernel density estimators which are appropriate for the…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-07-29 Hang J. Kim , Steven N. MacEachern , Yoonsuh Jung

Extremely large antenna array (ELAA) is key to enhancing spectral efficiency in 6G networks. Leveraging the distributed nature of multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems enables the formation of distributed ELAA, which often operate in…

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