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Estimating a dense and accurate depth map is the key requirement for autonomous driving and robotics. Recent advances in deep learning have allowed depth estimation in full resolution from a single image. Despite this impressive result,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Sungho Yoon , Ayoung Kim

We study the problem of searching for and tracking a collection of moving targets using a robot with a limited Field-Of-View (FOV) sensor. The actual number of targets present in the environment is not known a priori. We propose a search…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yoonchang Sung , Pratap Tokekar

3D single-photon LiDAR imaging has an important role in many applications. However, full deployment of this modality will require the analysis of low signal to noise ratio target returns and a very high volume of data. This is particularly…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Mohamed Amir Alaa Belmekki , Jonathan Leach , Rachael Tobin , Gerald S. Buller , Stephen Mclaughlin , Abderrahim Halimi

In this article we consider Bayesian estimation of static parameters for a class of partially observed McKean-Vlasov diffusion processes with discrete-time observations over a fixed time interval. This problem features several obstacles to…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-23 Ajay Jasra , Amin Wu

This paper discusses new methods for processing images in the photon-limited regime where the number of photons per pixel is binary. We present a new Bayesian denoising method for binary, single-photon images. Each pixel measurement is…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-09-19 Yoann Altmann , Reuben Aspden , Miles Padgett , Steve McLaughlin

This paper introduces a new method for learning and inferring sparse representations of depth (disparity) maps. The proposed algorithm relaxes the usual assumption of the stationary noise model in sparse coding. This enables learning from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Ivana Tosic , Bruno A. Olshausen , Benjamin J. Culpepper

Bayesian models have become very popular over the last years in several fields such as signal processing, statistics, and machine learning. Bayesian inference requires the approximation of complicated integrals involving posterior…

Computation · Statistics 2021-07-20 Luca Martino , Víctor Elvira

In this paper we propose a method for estimating depth from a single image using a coarse to fine approach. We argue that modeling the fine depth details is easier after a coarse depth map has been computed. We express a global (coarse)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Mohammad Haris Baig , Lorenzo Torresani

Motivated by single-particle cryo-electron microscopy, we study the sample complexity of the multi-target detection (MTD) problem, in which an unknown signal appears multiple times at unknown locations within a long, noisy observation. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Kweku Abraham , Amnon Balanov , Tamir Bendory , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe

This paper addresses the synthesis of slow-time coded waveforms for single target tracking in a radar network operating under colored Gaussian interference. Based on the Posterior Cram\'er Rao Lower Bound (PCRLB), which characterizes the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Tao Fan , Augusto Aubry , Antonio De Maio , Luca Pallotta , Xianxiang Yu , Guolong Cui

Recently, sparsity-based algorithms are proposed for super-resolution spectrum estimation. However, to achieve adequately high resolution in real-world signal analysis, the dictionary atoms have to be close to each other in frequency,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-06-05 Yiyuan She , Huanghuang Li , Jiangping Wang , Dapeng Wu

We present a Bayesian algorithm to combine optical imaging of unresolved objects from distinct epochs and observation platforms for orbit determination and tracking. By propagating the non-Gaussian uncertainties we are able to optimally…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-26 Michael D. Schneider , William A. Dawson

Hyperspectral target detection is a pixel-level recognition problem. Given a few target samples, it aims to identify the specific target pixels such as airplane, vehicle, ship, from the entire hyperspectral image. In general, the background…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Can Yao , Yuan Yuan , Zhiyu Jiang

Bayesian inference promises to ground and improve the performance of deep neural networks. It promises to be robust to overfitting, to simplify the training procedure and the space of hyperparameters, and to provide a calibrated measure of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Jonathan Heek , Nal Kalchbrenner

Sensor noise sources cause differences in the signal recorded across pixels in a single image and across multiple images. This paper presents a Bayesian approach to decomposing and characterizing the sensor noise sources involved in imaging…

We analyse the performance of a recursive Monte Carlo method for the Bayesian estimation of the static parameters of a discrete--time state--space Markov model. The algorithm employs two layers of particle filters to approximate the…

Computation · Statistics 2016-03-31 Dan Crisan , Joaquin Miguez

Metric depth estimation from visual sensors is crucial for robots to perceive, navigate, and interact with their environment. Traditional range imaging setups, such as stereo or structured light cameras, face hassles including calibration,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Blanca Lasheras-Hernandez , Klaus H. Strobl , Sergio Izquierdo , Tim Bodenmüller , Rudolph Triebel , Javier Civera

Finite element model updating is challenging because 1) the problem is oftentimes underdetermined while the measurements are limited and/or incomplete; 2) many combinations of parameters may yield responses that are similar with respect to…

Applications · Statistics 2021-07-28 Kai Zhou , Jiong Tang

We present a novel algorithm that is based on a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) technique for performing robust profile analysis of a data cube from either single-dish or interferometric radio telescopes. It fits a set of models…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-22 Se-Heon Oh , Lister Staveley-Smith , Bi-Qing For

In this work we investigate the problem of uncertainty estimation for image-guided depth completion. We extend Deep Basis Fitting (DBF) for depth completion within a Bayesian evidence framework to provide calibrated per-pixel variance. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Chao Qu , Wenxin Liu , Camillo J. Taylor