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This paper introduces a high efficient local spatiotemporal descriptor, called gradient boundary histograms (GBH). The proposed GBH descriptor is built on simple spatio-temporal gradients, which are fast to compute. We demonstrate that it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Feng Shi , Robert Laganiere , Emil Petriu

We consider a crucial aspect of self-organization of a sensor network consisting of a large set of simple sensor nodes with no location hardware and only very limited communication range. After having been distributed randomly in a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Alexander Kroeller , Dennis Pfisterer , Stefan Fischer , Carsten Buschmann

The aim of this paper is to investigate the well-posedness of a class of boundary control and observation systems on a one dimensional spatial domain. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition characterizing the well-posedness of these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-06 Bouchra Elghazi , Birgit Jacob , Hans Zwart

As data-driven methods are deployed in real-world settings, the processes that generate the observed data will often react to the decisions of the learner. For example, a data source may have some incentive for the algorithm to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Roy Dong , Heling Zhang , Lillian J. Ratliff

The quantification of controllability and observability has recently received new interest in the context of large, complex networks of dynamical systems. A fundamental but computationally difficult problem is the placement or selection of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-15 Fabrizio L. Cortesi , Tyler H. Summers , John Lygeros

This study investigates leveraging stochastic gradient descent (SGD) to learn operators between general Hilbert spaces. We propose weak and strong regularity conditions for the target operator to depict its intrinsic structure and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-13 Lei Shi , Jia-Qi Yang

Regional data analysis is concerned with the analysis and modeling of measurements that are spatially separated by specifically accounting for typical features of such data. Namely, measurements in close proximity tend to be more similar…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-15 Christoph Muehlmann , François Bachoc , Klaus Nordhausen

Environmental monitoring is a task that requires to surrogate system-wide information with limited sensor readings. Under the proximity principle, an environmental monitoring system can be based on the virtual sensing logic and then rely on…

Applications · Statistics 2022-06-17 M. Lambardi di San Miniato , R. Bellio , L. Grassetti , P. Vidoni

In this paper, we are concerned with the regional boundary controllability of the Riemann-Liouville time fractional diffusion systems of order $\alpha\in (0,1]$. The characterizations of strategic actuators are established when the systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-13 Fudong Ge , YangQuan Chen , Chunhai Kou

We define several new models for how to define anomalous regions among enormous sets of trajectories. These are based on spatial scan statistics, and identify a geometric region which captures a subset of trajectories which are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Michael Matheny , Dong Xie , Jeff M. Phillips

We consider the problem where a network of sensors has to detect the presence of targets at any of $n$ possible locations in a finite region. All such locations may not be occupied by a target. The data from sensors is fused to determine…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-11-20 B. Santhana Krishnan , Animesh Kumar , D. Manjunath , Bikash K. Dey

Implicit regularization refers to the tendency of local search algorithms to converge to low-dimensional solutions, even when such structures are not explicitly enforced. Despite its ubiquity, the mechanism underlying this behavior remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jianhao Ma , Geyu Liang , Salar Fattahi

Domain generalization (DG) aims to learn predictive models that can generalize to unseen domains. Most existing DG approaches focus on learning domain-invariant representations under the assumption of conditional distribution shift (i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jewon Yeom , Kyubyung Chae , Hyunggyu Lim , Yoonna Oh , Dongyoon Yang , Taesup Kim

In this paper, we study robust distributed sub-optimal coordination of linear agents subject to input nonlinearities. Inspired by the robust agreement literature, we formulate a bounded distributed sub-optimal coordination problem, in which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Takumi Namba

If a robotic agent wants to exploit symbolic planning techniques to achieve some goal, it must be able to properly ground an abstract planning domain in the environment in which it operates. However, if the environment is initially unknown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Leonardo Lamanna , Luciano Serafini , Alessandro Saetti , Alfonso Gerevini , Paolo Traverso

Legged robots are popular candidates for missions in challenging terrains due to the wide variety of locomotion strategies they can employ. Terrain classification is a key enabling technology for autonomous legged robots, as it allows the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Ahmadreza Ahmadi , Tønnes Nygaard , Navinda Kottege , David Howard , Nicolas Hudson

Many eukaryotic cells are able to sense chemical gradients by directly measuring spatial concentration differences. The precision of such gradient sensing is limited by fluctuations in the binding of diffusing particles to specific…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2010-06-04 Bo Hu , Wen Chen , Wouter-Jan Rappel , Herbert Levine

We propose two novel algorithms for distributed and location-free boundary recognition in wireless sensor networks. Both approaches enable a node to decide autonomously whether it is a boundary node, based solely on connectivity information…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-10 Dennis Schieferdecker , Markus Völker , Dorothea Wagner

Regionalization aims to partition a spatial domain into contiguous regions that share similar characteristics, enabling more effective spatial analysis, policy making, and resource management. Existing approaches for spatial regionalization…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-07 Jiayu Weng , Alec Kirkley

This work presents a novel approach for \textit{bearing rigidity} analysis and control in multi-robot networks with sensing constraints and dynamic topology. By decomposing the system's framework into \textit{subframeworks}, we express…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 J. Francisco Presenza , Ignacio Mas , J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin , Juan I. Giribet