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Anomaly detection is a field of intense research. Identifying low probability events in data/images is a challenging problem given the high-dimensionality of the data, especially when no (or little) information about the anomaly is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 José A. Padrón-Hidalgo , Valero Laparra , Gustau Camps-Valls

We investigate the errors in modeling the redshift-space distortion (RSD) effect at large linear scales, using data from the Millennium simulation. While standard theoretical templates, such as the Kaiser formula and the TNS method, could…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-29 Hongxiang Chen , Jie Wang , Baojiu Li

Compressive sensing has become a powerful addition to uncertainty quantification when only limited data is available. In this paper we provide a general framework to enhance the sparsity of the representation of uncertainty in the form of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Xiu Yang , Xiaoliang Wan , Lin Lin , Huan Lei

Uncertainty quantification of the photogrammetry process is essential for providing per-point accuracy credentials of the point clouds. Unlike airborne LiDAR, whose accuracy generally remains consistent with objects with varying geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Debao Huang , Rongjun Qin

Diffusion posterior sampling solves inverse problems by combining a pretrained diffusion prior with measurement-consistency guidance, but it often fails to recover fine details because measurement terms are applied in a manner that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Feng Tian , Yixuan Li , Weili Zeng , Weitian Zhang , Yichao Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Suppose $X_1,\dots, X_n$ is a random sample from a bounded and decreasing density $f_0$ on $[0,\infty)$. We are interested in estimating such $f_0$, with special interest in $f_0(0)$. This problem is encountered in various statistical…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-09-14 Geurt Jongbloed , Frank van der Meulen , Lixue Pang

The paper studies an imaging problem in the diffusive ultrasound-modulated bioluminescence tomography with partial boundary measurement in an anisotropic medium. Assuming plane-wave modulation, we transform the imaging problem to an inverse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-05 Tianyu Yang , Yang Yang

This work considers a problem of estimating a mixing probability density $f$ in the setting of discrete mixture models. The paper consists of three parts. The first part focuses on the construction of an $L_1$ consistent estimator of $f$.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Luc Devroye , Alex Dytso

Establishing dense correspondences between a pair of images is an important and general problem. However, dense flow estimation is often inaccurate in the case of large displacements or homogeneous regions. For most applications and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Prune Truong , Martin Danelljan , Luc Van Gool , Radu Timofte

A density estimation method in a Bayesian nonparametric framework is presented when recorded data are not coming directly from the distribution of interest, but from a length biased version. From a Bayesian perspective, efforts to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-23 Spyridon J. Hatjispyros , Theodoros Nicoleris , Stephen G. Walker

Numerical models based on partial differential equations (PDE), or integro-differential equations, are ubiquitous in engineering and science, making it possible to understand or design systems for which physical experiments would be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Julien Bect , Souleymane Zio , Guillaume Perrin , Claire Cannamela , Emmanuel Vazquez

Computing polarised intensities from noisy data in Stokes U and Q suffers from a positive bias that should be suppressed. To develop a correction method that, when applied to maps, should provide a distribution of polarised intensity that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-05 Peter Müller , Rainer Beck , Marita Krause

Uncertainties from model parameters and model discrepancy from small-scale models impact the accuracy and reliability of predictions of large-scale systems. Inadequate representation of these uncertainties may result in inaccurate and…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-12-18 K. Sham Bhat , David S. Mebane , Curtis B. Storlie , Priyadarshi Mahapatra

A key factor in ensuring the accuracy of computer simulations that model physical systems is the proper calibration of their parameters based on real-world observations or experimental data. Inevitably, uncertainties arise, and Bayesian…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Daniel Andrés Arcones , Martin Weiser , Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis , Jörg F. Unger

We propose a method for variable selection in the intensity function of spatial point processes that combines sparsity-promoting estimation with noise-robust model selection. As high-resolution spatial data becomes increasingly available…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-30 Dominik Sturm , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

In this paper, we consider the problem of propagating an uncertain distribution by a possibly non-linear function and quantifying the resulting uncertainty. We measure the uncertainty using the Wasserstein distance, and for a given input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-13 Eduardo Figueiredo , Steven Adams , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani , Luca Laurenti

Uncertainty quantification for image data is dominated by complex deep learning methods, yet the field lacks an interpretable, mathematically grounded baseline. We propose Bayesian scattering to fill this gap, serving as a first-step…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Bernardo Fichera , Zarko Ivkovic , Kjell Jorner , Philipp Hennig , Viacheslav Borovitskiy

The use of photometric redshifts in cosmology is increasing. Often, however these photo-zs are treated like spectroscopic observations, in that the peak of the photometric redshift, rather than the full probability density function (PDF),…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Adam D Myers , Martin White , Nicholas M. Ball

The fusion of multiple sensor modalities, especially through deep learning architectures, has been an active area of study. However, an under-explored aspect of such work is whether the methods can be robust to degradations across their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Junjiao Tian , Wesley Cheung , Nathan Glaser , Yen-Cheng Liu , Zsolt Kira

Recent advances in deep learning have led to its widespread adoption across diverse domains, including medical imaging. This progress is driven by increasingly sophisticated model architectures, such as ResNets, Vision Transformers, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Akshat Dubey , Aleksandar Anžel , Bahar İlgen , Georges Hattab