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The success of convolutional networks in learning problems involving planar signals such as images is due to their ability to exploit the translation symmetry of the data distribution through weight sharing. Many areas of science and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Taco Cohen , Mario Geiger , Jonas Köhler , Max Welling

Covariance representations are developed for the uniform distributions on the Euclidean spheres in terms of spherical gradients and Hessians. They are applied to derive a number of Sobolev type inequalities and to recover and refine the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-03-29 Sergey G. Bobkov , Devraj Duggal

The paper introduces new sufficient conditions of strict positive definiteness for kernels on d-dimensional spheres which are not radially symmetric but possess specific coefficient structures. The results use the series expansion of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-07 Martin Buhmann , Janin Jäger

The construction of valid and flexible cross-covariance functions is a fundamental task for modeling multivariate space-time data arising from climatological and oceanographical phenomena. Indeed, a suitable specification of the covariance…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-11-23 Alfredo Alegría , Emilio Porcu , Reinhard Furrer , Jorge Mateu

The use of covariance kernels is ubiquitous in the field of spatial statistics. Kernels allow data to be mapped into high-dimensional feature spaces and can thus extend simple linear additive methods to nonlinear methods with higher order…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-16 Jean-Francois Ton , Seth Flaxman , Dino Sejdinovic , Samir Bhatt

Multivariate spatial-statistical models are often used when modeling environmental and socio-demographic processes. The most commonly used models for multivariate spatial covariances assume both stationarity and symmetry for the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-11 Quan Vu , Andrew Zammit-Mangion , Noel Cressie

Analyzing scalar and vector fields on the sphere, such as temperature or wind speed and direction on Earth, is a difficult task. Models should respect both the rotational symmetries of the sphere and the inherent symmetries of the vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Francesco Ballerin , Nello Blaser , Erlend Grong

Spatial prediction problems often use Gaussian process models, which can be computationally burdensome in high dimensions. Specification of an appropriate covariance function for the model can be challenging when complex non-stationarities…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-09-13 Qi Wang , Paul A. Parker , Robert B. Lund

Existing ultrasound deconvolution approaches unrealistically assume, primarily for computational reasons, that the convolution model relies on a spatially invariant kernel and circulant boundary conditions. We discard both restrictions and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Mihai I. Florea , Adrian Basarab , Denis Kouamé , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

We propose and study a new quasi-interpolation method on spheres featuring the following two-phase construction and analysis. In Phase I, we analyze and characterize a large family of zonal kernels (e.g., the spherical version of Poisson…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Zhengjie Sun , Wenwu Gao , Xingping Sun

Spatial models for areal data are often constructed such that all pairs of adjacent regions are assumed to have near-identical spatial autocorrelation. In practice, data can exhibit dependence structures more complicated than can be…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-04 Michael F. Christensen , Peter D. Hoff

We propose fast, exact and efficient algorithms for the convolution of two arbitrary functions on the sphere which speed up computations by a factor \order{\sqrt{N}} compared to present methods where $N$ is the number of pixels. No…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benjamin D. Wandelt , Krzysztof M. Gorski

We introduce a nonstationary spatio-temporal statistical model for gridded data on the sphere. The model specifies a computationally convenient covariance structure that depends on heterogeneous geography. Widely used statistical models on…

Applications · Statistics 2016-02-25 Stefano Castruccio , Joseph Guinness

The Mat{\'e}rn family of isotropic covariance functions has been central to the theoretical development and application of statistical models for geospatial data. For global data defined over the whole sphere representing planet Earth, the…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-01-15 Alfredo Alegría , Francisco Cuevas-Pacheco , Peter Diggle , Emilio Porcu

Image convolution with complex kernels is a fundamental operation in photography, scientific imaging, and animation effects, yet direct dense convolution is computationally prohibitive on resource-limited devices. Existing approximations,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhizhen Wu , Zhe Cao , Yuchi Huo

The prevalence of spatially referenced multivariate data has impelled researchers to develop a procedure for the joint modeling of multiple spatial processes. This ordinarily involves modeling marginal and cross-process dependence for any…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-10 Ghulam A. Qadir , Ying Sun

Wind direction plays an important role in the spread of pollutant levels over a geographical region. We discuss how to include wind directional information in the covariance function of spatial models. We follow the spatial convolution…

Applications · Statistics 2012-09-27 Joaquim H. Vianna Neto , Alexandra Mello Schmidt , Peter Guttorp

This work describes a new version of the Fast Multipole Method for summing pairwise particle interactions that arise from discretizing integral transforms and convolutions on the sphere. The kernel approximations use barycentric Lagrange…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Anthony Chen , Robert Krasny

Kernel smoothing is a highly flexible and popular approach for estimation of probability density and intensity functions of continuous spatial data. In this role it also forms an integral part of estimation of functionals such as the…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-07-24 Tilman M. Davies , Jonathan C. Marshall , Martin L. Hazelton

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) constructed natively on the sphere have been developed recently and shown to be highly effective for the analysis of spherical data. While an efficient framework has been formulated, spherical CNNs are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Jason D. McEwen , Christopher G. R. Wallis , Augustine N. Mavor-Parker