Related papers: Stable approximation schemes for optimal filters
It is known that Kalman-Bucy filter is stable with respect to initial conditions under the conditions of uniform complete controllability and uniform complete observability (Bishop et. al 2017, Ocone et. al 1996). In this paper, we prove…
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Data assimilation algorithms integrate prior information from numerical model simulations with observed data. Ensemble-based filters, regarded as state-of-the-art, are widely employed for large-scale estimation tasks in disciplines such as…
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The discovery of particle filtering methods has enabled the use of nonlinear filtering in a wide array of applications. Unfortunately, the approximation error of particle filters typically grows exponentially in the dimension of the…
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Input estimation is a signal processing technique associated with deconvolution of measured signals after filtering through a known dynamic system. Kitanidis and others extended this to the simultaneous estimation of the input signal and…
We say that an algorithm is stable if small changes in the input result in small changes in the output. This kind of algorithm stability is particularly relevant when analyzing and visualizing time-varying data. Stability in general plays…
A Wiener filter can be interpreted as a cascade of a whitening- and an estimation filter. This paper gives a detailed investigates of the properties of these two filters. Then the practical consequences for the overall Wiener filter are…
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