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Image recognition is the need of the hour. In order to be able to recognize an image, it is of immense importance that the image should be distinguishable from the background. In the present work, an approach is presented for automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-08 Vivek Kumar , Sumit Pandey , Amrindra Pal , Sandeep Sharma

In high-dimensional Bayesian statistics, various methods have been developed, including prior distributions that induce parameter sparsity to handle many parameters. Yet, these approaches often overlook the rich spectral structure of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Tomoya Wakayama , Masaaki Imaizumi

We describe an image compression method, consisting of a nonlinear analysis transformation, a uniform quantizer, and a nonlinear synthesis transformation. The transforms are constructed in three successive stages of convolutional linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Johannes Ballé , Valero Laparra , Eero P. Simoncelli

Bayesian coresets have emerged as a promising approach for implementing scalable Bayesian inference. The Bayesian coreset problem involves selecting a (weighted) subset of the data samples, such that the posterior inference using the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-01 Jacky Y. Zhang , Rajiv Khanna , Anastasios Kyrillidis , Oluwasanmi Koyejo

Bayesian Neural Networks provide a principled framework for uncertainty quantification by modeling the posterior distribution of network parameters. However, exact posterior inference is computationally intractable, and widely used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Alfredo Reichlin , Miguel Vasco , Danica Kragic

Spatial perception is a key task in several machine intelligence applications such as robotics and computer vision. In general, it involves the nonlinear estimation of hidden variables that represent the system's state. However, in the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Aamir Hussain Chughtai , Muhammad Tahir , Momin Uppal

We present a progressive image decomposition method based on a novel non-linear filter named Sub-window Variance filter. Our method is specifically designed for image detail enhancement purpose; this application requires extraction of image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Kin-Ming Wong

In this paper we present a new methodology for edge detection in digital images. The first originality of the proposed method is to consider image content as a parametric surface. Then, an original parametric local model of this surface…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-24 Rémi Cogranne , Rémi Slysz , Laurence Moreau , Houman Borouchaki

Edge detection in images is the foundation of many complex tasks in computer graphics. Due to the feature loss caused by multi-layer convolution and pooling architectures, learning-based edge detection models often produce thick edges and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Qinghui Hong , Haoyou Jiang , Pingdan Xiao , Sichun Du , Tao Li

Divide-and-conquer Bayesian methods consist of three steps: dividing the data into smaller computationally manageable subsets, running a sampling algorithm in parallel on all the subsets, and combining parameter draws from all the subsets.…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-01 Chunlei Wang , Sanvesh Srivastava

We consider the problem of estimating convex boundaries from blurred and noisy observations. In our model, the convolution of an intensity function $f$ is observed with additive Gaussian white noise. The function $f$ is assumed to have…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Alexander Goldenshluger , Assaf Zeevi

Image segmentation is a complex mathematical problem, especially for images that contain intensity inhomogeneity and tightly packed objects with missing boundaries in between. For instance, Magnetic Resonance (MR) muscle images often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Paramjyoti Mohapatra , Richard Lartey , Weihong Guo , Michael Judkovich , Xiaojuan Li

This paper concerns the problem of 1-bit compressed sensing, where the goal is to estimate a sparse signal from a few of its binary measurements. We study a non-convex sparsity-constrained program and present a novel and concise analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Jie Shen

Uncertainty quantification is essential when dealing with ill-conditioned inverse problems due to the inherent nonuniqueness of the solution. Bayesian approaches allow us to determine how likely an estimation of the unknown parameters is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-16 Ali Siahkoohi , Gabrio Rizzuti , Felix J. Herrmann

This paper considers the posterior contraction of non-parametric Bayesian inference on non-homogeneous Poisson processes. We consider the quality of inference on a rate function $\lambda$, given non-identically distributed realisations,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-26 James A. Grant , David S. Leslie

We provide a complete framework for performing infinite-dimensional Bayesian inference and uncertainty quantification for image reconstruction with Poisson data. In particular, we address the following issues to make the Bayesian framework…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Qingping Zhou , Tengchao Yu , Xiaoqun Zhang , Jinglai Li

Existing detection methods commonly use a parameterized bounding box (BBox) to model and detect (horizontal) objects and an additional rotation angle parameter is used for rotated objects. We argue that such a mechanism has fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Xue Yang , Gefan Zhang , Xiaojiang Yang , Yue Zhou , Wentao Wang , Jin Tang , Tao He , Junchi Yan

Previous work has shown that the problem of learning the optimal structure of a Bayesian network can be formulated as a shortest path finding problem in a graph and solved using A* search. In this paper, we improve the scalability of this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Brandon Malone , Changhe Yuan , Eric A. Hansen , Susan Bridges

Recent advances in novel view synthesis have enabled real-time rendering speeds with high reconstruction accuracy. 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS), a foundational point-based parametric 3D scene representation, models scenes as large sets of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Alex Hanson , Allen Tu , Vasu Singla , Mayuka Jayawardhana , Matthias Zwicker , Tom Goldstein

We present a principled Bayesian framework for signal reconstruction, in which the signal is modelled by basis functions whose number (and form, if required) is determined by the data themselves. This approach is based on a Bayesian…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Edward Higson , Will Handley , Michael Hobson , Anthony Lasenby