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Credible forecasting and representation learning of dynamical systems are of ever-increasing importance for reliable decision-making. To that end, we propose a family of Gaussian processes (GP) for dynamical systems with linear…

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This paper investigates the problem of informative path planning for a mobile robotic sensor network in spatially temporally distributed mapping. The robots are able to gather noisy measurements from an area of interest during their…

This study presents a reconstruction of the Gaussian Beam Tracing solution using CUDA, with a particular focus on the utilisation of GPU acceleration as a means of overcoming the performance limitations of traditional CPU algorithms in…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zhang Sheng , Lishu Duan , Hanbo Jiang

Simultaneous trajectory estimation and mapping (STEAM) offers an efficient approach to continuous-time trajectory estimation, by representing the trajectory as a Gaussian process (GP). Previous formulations of the STEAM framework use a GP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Tim Y. Tang , David J. Yoon , Timothy D. Barfoot

In this paper, we demonstrate our work on Gaussian Process Occupancy Mapping (GPOM). We concentrate on the inefficiency of the frame computation of the classical GPOM approaches. In robotics, most of the algorithms are required to run in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Yijun Yuan , Haofei Kuang , Sören Schwertfeger

This paper presents a 3D lidar SLAM system based on improved regionalized Gaussian process (GP) map reconstruction to provide both low-drift state estimation and mapping in real-time for robotics applications. We utilize spatial GP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jianyuan Ruan , Bo Li , Yinqiang Wang , Zhou Fang

We introduce a new scalable approximation for Gaussian processes with provable guarantees which hold simultaneously over its entire parameter space. Our approximation is obtained from an improved sample complexity analysis for sparse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-18 Quang Minh Hoang , Trong Nghia Hoang , Hai Pham , David P. Woodruff

This extended abstract introduces a novel method for continuous state estimation of continuum robots. We formulate the estimation problem as a factor-graph optimization problem using a novel Gaussian-process prior that is parameterized over…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Spencer Teetaert , Sven Lilge , Jessica Burgner-Kahrs , Timothy D. Barfoot

Perception is one of the key abilities of autonomous mobile robotic systems, which often relies on fusion of heterogeneous sensors. Although this heterogeneity presents a challenge for sensor calibration, it is also the main prospect for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Juraj Peršić , Luka Petrović , Ivan Marković , Ivan Petrović

We study the problem of estimating from data, a sparse approximation to the inverse covariance matrix. Estimating a sparsity constrained inverse covariance matrix is a key component in Gaussian graphical model learning, but one that is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-06-28 Suvrit Sra , Dongmin Kim

We present a novel sparsity-based space-time adaptive processing (STAP) technique based on the alternating direction method to overcome the severe performance degradation caused by array gain/phase (GP) errors. The proposed algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Zhaocheng Yang , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Weijian Liu

We introduce Latent Gaussian Process Regression which is a latent variable extension allowing modelling of non-stationary multi-modal processes using GPs. The approach is built on extending the input space of a regression problem with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-19 Erik Bodin , Neill D. F. Campbell , Carl Henrik Ek

We present a novel Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) method that employs Gaussian Process (GP) based landmark (object) representations. Instead of conventional grid maps or point cloud registration, we model the environment on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ali Emre Balcı , Erhan Ege Keyvan , Emre Özkan

We introduce a new interpretation of sparse variational approximations for Gaussian processes using inducing points, which can lead to more scalable algorithms than previous methods. It is based on decomposing a Gaussian process as a sum of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-27 Jiaxin Shi , Michalis K. Titsias , Andriy Mnih

This paper explores potential improvements to the Spatial-Temporal Matching algorithm for aligning the GPS trajectories to road networks. While this algorithm is effective, it presents some limitations in computational efficiency and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Ali Yousefian , Arianna Burzacchi , Simone Vantini

Generalized additive models (GAMs) are a widely used class of models of interest to statisticians as they provide a flexible way to design interpretable models of data beyond linear models. We here propose a scalable and well-calibrated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Vincent Adam , Nicolas Durrande , ST John

For compressive sensing of dynamic sparse signals, we develop an iterative pursuit algorithm. A dynamic sparse signal process is characterized by varying sparsity patterns over time/space. For such signals, the developed algorithm is able…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-10-15 Dave Zachariah , Saikat Chatterjee , Magnus Jansson

Gaussian processes are a flexible Bayesian nonparametric modelling approach that has been widely applied but poses computational challenges. To address the poor scaling of exact inference methods, approximation methods based on sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-01 Rui Meng , Herbert Lee , Soper Braden , Priyadip Ray

A practical approach to evaluate performance of a Gaussian process regression models (GPR) for irregularly sampled sparse time-series is introduced. The approach entails construction of a secondary autoregressive model using the fine scale…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-11-10 Mehmet Süzen , Abed Ajraou

We propose a new formulation of optimal motion planning (OMP) algorithm for robots operating in a hazardous environment, called adaptive Gaussian-process based stochastic trajectory optimization (AGP-STO). It first restarts the accelerated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Feng Yichang , Zhang Haiyun , Wang Jin , Lu Guodong