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Deformable image registration aims to find a dense non-linear spatial correspondence between a pair of images, which is a crucial step for many medical tasks such as tumor growth monitoring and population analysis. Recently, Deep Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-09 Mingyuan Meng , Michael Fulham , Dagan Feng , Lei Bi , Jinman Kim

In the Wireless Localization Matching Problem (WLMP) the challenge is to match pieces of equipment with a set of candidate locations based on wireless signal measurements taken by the pieces of equipment. This challenge is complicated by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-15 Amin Ghafourian , Orestis Georgiou , Edmund Barter , Thilo Gross

We present an optimal mass transport framework on the space of Gaussian mixture models, which are widely used in statistical inference. Our method leads to a natural way to compare, interpolate and average Gaussian mixture models.…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Yongxin Chen , Tryphon T. Georgiou , Allen Tannenbaum

Flow Matching has recently gained attention in generative modeling as a simple and flexible alternative to diffusion models. While existing statistical guarantees adapt tools from the analysis of diffusion models, we take a different…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-18 Lea Kunkel , Mathias Trabs

State-of-the-art image-set matching techniques typically implicitly model each image-set with a Gaussian distribution. Here, we propose to go beyond these representations and model image-sets as probability distribution functions (PDFs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Mehrtash Harandi , Mathieu Salzmann , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh

When dealing with a parametric statistical model, a Riemannian manifold can naturally appear by endowing the parameter space with the Fisher information metric. The geometry induced on the parameters by this metric is then referred to as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-03 Florent Bouchard , Arnaud Breloy , Antoine Collas , Alexandre Renaux , Guillaume Ginolhac

Color plays an important role in human visual perception, reflecting the spectrum of objects. However, the existing infrared and visible image fusion methods rarely explore how to handle multi-spectral/channel data directly and achieve high…

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Anatomical variabilities seen in longitudinal data or inter-subject data is usually described by the underlying deformation, captured by non-rigid registration of these images. Stationary Velocity Field (SVF) based non-rigid registration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Alphin J. Thottupattu , Jayanthi Sivaswamy , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan

Mesh deformation plays a pivotal role in many 3D vision tasks including dynamic simulations, rendering, and reconstruction. However, defining an efficient discrepancy between predicted and target meshes remains an open problem. A prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Tung Le , Khai Nguyen , Shanlin Sun , Kun Han , Nhat Ho , Xiaohui Xie

We propose a segmentation framework that uses deep neural networks and introduce two innovations. First, we describe a biophysics-based domain adaptation method. Second, we propose an automatic method to segment white and gray matter, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Amir Gholami , Shashank Subramanian , Varun Shenoy , Naveen Himthani , Xiangyu Yue , Sicheng Zhao , Peter Jin , George Biros , Kurt Keutzer

The inverse problem of Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) is often solved in an effort to benchmark and design approximate exchange-correlation potentials. The forward and inverse problems of DFT rely on the same equations but the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Daniel Jensen , Adam Wasserman

We propose a novel method for large-scale image stitching that is robust against repetitive patterns and featureless regions in the imagery. In such cases, state-of-the-art image stitching methods easily produce image alignment artifacts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Matti Pellikka , Valtteri Lahtinen

Diffeomorphic registration is a widely used technique for finding a smooth and invertible transformation between two coordinate systems, which are measured using template and reference images. The point-wise volume-preserving constraint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yanyan Li , Ke Chen , Chong Chen , Jianping Zhang

Accurate tracking of an anatomical landmark over time has been of high interests for disease assessment such as minimally invasive surgery and tumor radiation therapy. Ultrasound imaging is a promising modality benefiting from low-cost and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Zhihua Liu , Bin Yang , Yan Shen , Xuejun Ni , Huiyu Zhou

Object rearrangement is a widely-applicable and challenging task for robots. Geometric constraints must be carefully examined to avoid collisions and combinatorial issues arise as the number of objects increases. This work studies the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Rui Wang , Kai Gao , Daniel Nakhimovich , Jingjin Yu , Kostas E. Bekris

Density ratio estimation serves as an important technique in the unsupervised machine learning toolbox. However, such ratios are difficult to estimate for complex, high-dimensional data, particularly when the densities of interest are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Kristy Choi , Madeline Liao , Stefano Ermon

The Wasserstein-Fisher-Rao (WFR) metric extends dynamic optimal transport (OT) by coupling displacement with change of mass, providing a principled geometry for modeling unbalanced snapshot dynamics. Existing WFR solvers, however, are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Qiangwei Peng , Zihan Wang , Junda Ying , Yuhao Sun , Qing Nie , Lei Zhang , Tiejun Li , Peijie Zhou

The simulation of physical phenomena with computer models relies on the estimation of physical and/or numerical parameters calibrated to fit experimental data. The approximations within the computer model and the errors in the measurements…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Paul Lartaud , Gwenaël Salin

We consider a semiparametric mixture of two univariate density functions where one of them is known while the weight and the other function are unknown. Such mixtures have a history of application to the problem of detecting differentially…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Zhou Shen , Michael Levine , Zuofeng Shang