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Distribution estimation for noisy data via density deconvolution is a notoriously difficult problem for typical noise distributions like Gaussian. We develop a density deconvolution estimator based on quadratic programming (QP) that can…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-12-06 Ran Yang , Daniel Apley , Jeremy Staum , David Ruppert

We present a statistic for the detection of stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWBs) using radiometry with a network of multiple baselines. We also quantitatively compare the sensitivities of existing baselines and their network to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Dipongkar Talukder , Sanjit Mitra , Sukanta Bose

Improving the quality of positron emission tomography (PET) images, affected by low resolution and high level of noise, is a challenging task in nuclear medicine and radiotherapy. This work proposes a restoration method, achieved after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Stéphanie Guérit , Laurent Jacques , Benoît Macq , John A. Lee

The stability of spike deconvolution, which aims at recovering point sources from their convolution with a point spread function (PSF), is known to be related to the separation between those sources. When the observations are noisy, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Maxime Ferreira Da Costa , Yuejie Chi

Numerous regularization methods for deformable image registration aim at enforcing smooth transformations, but are difficult to tune-in a priori and lack a clear physical basis. Physically inspired strategies have emerged, offering a sound…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Pablo Alvarez , Stéphane Cotin

Gravity inversion is a commonly applied data analysis technique in the field of geophysics. While machine learning methods have previously been explored for the problem of gravity inversion, these are deterministic approaches returning a…

Regularization is a well studied problem in the context of neural networks. It is usually used to improve the generalization performance when the number of input samples is relatively small or heavily contaminated with noise. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-04-19 Salah Rifai , Xavier Glorot , Yoshua Bengio , Pascal Vincent

In this paper we investigate the application of optimisation techniques in the deconvolution of mineral fractionation data obtained from a mathematical model for the operation of a fluidised bed with a set of inclined parallel channels…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Jeffrey A. Hogan , Simon Iveson , Jason Mackellar , Kevin Galvin

We develop a method to perform an untargeted Bayesian search for anisotropic gravitational-wave backgrounds that can efficiently and accurately reconstruct the background intensity map. Our method employs an analytic marginalization of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-06 Adrian Ka-Wai Chung , Nicolas Yunes

With strong evidence of a common-spectrum stochastic process in the most recent datasets from the NANOGrav Collaboration, the European Pulsar Timing Array (PTA), Parkes PTA, and the International PTA, it is crucial to assess the effects of…

A central theme in classical algorithms for the reconstruction of discontinuous functions from observational data is perimeter regularization via the use of the total variation. On the other hand, sparse or noisy data often demands a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-13 Oliver R. A. Dunbar , Matthew M. Dunlop , Charles M. Elliott , Viet Ha Hoang , Andrew M. Stuart

Spherical deconvolution (SD) methods are widely used to estimate the intra-voxel white-matter fiber orientations from diffusion MRI data. However, while some of these methods assume a zero-mean Gaussian distribution for the underlying…

Lens modeling of resolved image data has advanced rapidly over the past two decades. More recently pixel-based approaches, wherein the source is reconstructed on an irregular or adaptive grid, have become popular. Generally, the source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Amitpal S. Tagore , Neal Jackson

A stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected from the superposition of a wide variety of independent and unresolved astrophysical and cosmological sources from different stages in the evolution of the Universe. Radiometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Anirban Ain , Jishnu Suresh , Sanjit Mitra

Unresolved sources of gravitational waves can create a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) which may have intrinsic or extrinsic anisotropies. The angular power spectrum is a well-suited estimator for characterizing diffuse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-27 Deepali Agarwal , Jishnu Suresh , Sanjit Mitra , Anirban Ain

Density deconvolution is the task of estimating a probability density function given only noise-corrupted samples. We can fit a Gaussian mixture model to the underlying density by maximum likelihood if the noise is normally distributed, but…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-07-14 Tim Dockhorn , James A. Ritchie , Yaoliang Yu , Iain Murray

With the advent of gravitational-wave astronomy and the discovery of more compact binary coalescences, data quality improvement techniques are desired to handle the complex and overwhelming noise in gravitational wave (GW) observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-21 He Wang , Yue Zhou , Zhoujian Cao , Zong-Kuan Guo , Zhixiang Ren

As ground-based all-sky astronomical surveys will gather millions of images in the coming years, a critical requirement emerges for the development of fast deconvolution algorithms capable of efficiently improving the spatial resolution of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Utsav Akhaury , Pascale Jablonka , Jean-Luc Starck , Frédéric Courbin

The recent detection of nanohertz stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) by pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) promises unique insights into astrophysical and cosmological origins. However, traditional Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-12 Junrong Lai , Changhong Li

We present a perturbative reconstruction method to make a skymap of gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) observed via space-based interferometer. In the presence of anisotropies in GWBs, the cross-correlated signals of observed GWBs are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Atsushi Taruya , Hideaki Kudoh