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Data depths are score functions that quantify in an unsupervised fashion how central is a point inside a distribution, with numerous applications such as anomaly detection, multivariate or functional data analysis, arising across various…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-14 Arturo Castellanos , Pavlo Mozharovskyi

Functional depth is the functional data analysis technique that orders a functional data set. Unlike the case of data on the real line, defining this order is non-trivial, and particularly, with functional data, there are a number of…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-29 Alicia Nieto-Reyes , John A. D. Aston

Statistical depth functions order the elements of a space with respect to their centrality in a probability distribution or dataset. Since many depth functions are maximized in the real line by the median, they provide a natural approach to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-05-26 Luis González-De La Fuente , Alicia Nieto-Reyes , Pedro Terán

We describe and study geometric properties of discrete circular and spherical means of directional derivatives of functions, as well as discrete approximations of higher order differential operators. For an arbitrary dimension we present a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Alexander Belyaev , Boris Khesin , Serge Tabachnikov

Data depth functions are a generalization of one-dimensional order statistics and medians to real spaces of dimension greater than one; in particular, a data depth function quantifies the centrality of a point with respect to a data set or…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Michael Burr , Robert Fabrizio

We propose new small-sphere distributional families for modeling multivariate directional data on $(\mathbb{S}^{p-1})^K$ for $p \ge 3$ and $K \ge 1$. In a special case of univariate directions in $\Re^3$, the new densities model random…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-06-29 Byungwon Kim , Stephan Huckemann , Jörn Schulz , Sungkyu Jung

Statistical depth functions are a standard tool in nonparametric statistics to extend order-based univariate methods to the multivariate setting. Since there is no universally accepted total order for fuzzy data (even in the univariate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-01-05 Luis González-De La Fuente , Alicia Nieto-Reyes , Pedro Terán

Many variants of the Wasserstein distance have been introduced to reduce its original computational burden. In particular the Sliced-Wasserstein distance (SW), which leverages one-dimensional projections for which a closed-form solution of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-31 Clément Bonet , Paul Berg , Nicolas Courty , François Septier , Lucas Drumetz , Minh-Tan Pham

The main focus of this work is on providing a formal definition of statistical depth for functional data on the basis of six properties, recognising topological features such as continuity, smoothness and contiguity. Amongst our depth…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-15 Alicia Nieto-Reyes , Heather Battey

We introduce a novel projection depth for data lying in a general Hilbert space, called the regularized projection depth, with a focus on functional data. By regularizing projection directions, the proposed depth does not suffer from the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-24 Filip Bočinec , Stanislav Nagy , Hyemin Yeon

Constructing a differentially private (DP) estimator requires deriving the maximum influence of an observation, which can be difficult in the absence of exogenous bounds on the input data or the estimator, especially in high dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-27 Ryan Cumings-Menon

The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is challenging because of the need to resolve spatiotemporal features over wide length and timescales. Often, it is computationally intractable to resolve the finest features…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-08-22 Yohai Bar-Sinai , Stephan Hoyer , Jason Hickey , Michael P. Brenner

Spatial approximations have been traditionally used in spatial databases to accelerate the processing of complex geometric operations. However, approximations are typically only used in a first filtering step to determine a set of candidate…

This paper is a companion paper to [Lipman and Daubechies 2011]. We provide numerical procedures and algorithms for computing the alignment of and distance between two disk type surfaces. We provide a convergence analysis of the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Yaron Lipman , Jesus Puente , Ingrid Daubechies

During the past two decades there has been a lot of interest in developing statistical depth notions that generalize the univariate concept of ranking to multivariate data. The notion of depth has also been extended to regression models and…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-18 Peter J. Rousseeuw , Mia Hubert

Recent work on depth estimation up to now has only focused on projective images ignoring 360 content which is now increasingly and more easily produced. We show that monocular depth estimation models trained on traditional images produce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Nikolaos Zioulis , Antonis Karakottas , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

Estimating the distance to objects is crucial for autonomous vehicles when using depth sensors is not possible. In this case, the distance has to be estimated from on-board mounted RGB cameras, which is a complex task especially in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Michaël Fonder , Damien Ernst , Marc Van Droogenbroeck

Zonoid depth, as a well-known ordering tool, has been widely used in multivariate analysis. However, since its depth value vanishes outside the convex hull of the data cloud, it suffers from the so-called `outside problem', which…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-24 Xiaohui Liu , Yuanyuan Li , Qing Liu

In algorithms for finite metric spaces, it is common to assume that the distance between two points can be computed in constant time, and complexity bounds are expressed only in terms of the number of points of the metric space. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Michael Kerber , Arnur Nigmetov

Existing approaches to depth or disparity estimation output a distribution over a set of pre-defined discrete values. This leads to inaccurate results when the true depth or disparity does not match any of these values. The fact that this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Divyansh Garg , Yan Wang , Bharath Hariharan , Mark Campbell , Kilian Q. Weinberger , Wei-Lun Chao