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Adaptive sampling results in dramatic improvements in the recovery of sparse signals in white Gaussian noise. A sequential adaptive sampling-and-refinement procedure called Distilled Sensing (DS) is proposed and analyzed. DS is a form of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-05-31 Jarvis Haupt , Rui Castro , Robert Nowak

In this paper, we study the problem of adaptive estimation of the spectral density of a stationary Gaussian process. For this purpose, we consider a wavelet-based method which combines the ideas of wavelet approximation and estimation by…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Jérémie Bigot , Rolando Biscay Lirio , Jean-Michel Loubes , Lilian Muniz Alvarez

We introduce a new multi-dimensional nonlinear embedding -- Piecewise Flat Embedding (PFE) -- for image segmentation. Based on the theory of sparse signal recovery, piecewise flat embedding with diverse channels attempts to recover a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Chaowei Fang , Zicheng Liao , Yizhou Yu

Nonsmooth functions have been used to model discrete-continuous phenomena such as contact mechanics, and are also prevalent in neural network formulations via activation functions such as ReLU. At previous AD conferences, Griewank et al.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Yulan Zhang , Kamil A. Khan

Standard Adjacency Spectral Embedding (ASE) relies on a global low-rank assumption often incompatible with the sparse, transitive structure of real-world networks, causing local geometric features to be 'smeared'. To address this, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-13 Hannah Sansford , Nick Whiteley , Patrick Rubin-Delanchy

Synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) measures a scene from multiple views in order to increase the resolution of reconstructed imagery. Image reconstruction methods for SAS coherently combine measurements to focus acoustic energy onto the scene.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-19 Albert W. Reed , Juhyeon Kim , Thomas Blanford , Adithya Pediredla , Daniel C. Brown , Suren Jayasuriya

(abridged) Imaging observations are generally affected by a fluctuating background of speckles, a particular problem when detecting faint stellar companions at small angular separations. Knowing the distribution of the speckle intensities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael P. Fitzgerald , James R. Graham

Image segmentation techniques are predominately based on parameter-laden optimization. The objective function typically involves weights for balancing competing image fidelity and segmentation regularization cost terms. Setting these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-06-24 Josna Rao , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Abugharbieh

Functional Spectral Imaging (FSI) models image formation as the recovery of tissue surrogates such as density and stiffness from spectral perturbations of a self-adjoint elliptic operator. Rather than relying on reflectivity or relaxation…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Cesar Mello Fernando Medina da Cunha

Accurate fitting formulae to the synchrotron function, $F(x)$, and its complementary function, $G(x)$, are performed and presented. The corresponding relative errors are less than $0.26\%$ and $0.035\%$ for $F(x) $ and $G(x)$, respectively.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 M. Fouka , S. Ouichaoui

We consider the problem of estimating a function $s$ on $[-1,1]^{k}$ for large values of $k$ by looking for some best approximation by composite functions of the form $g\circ u$. Our solution is based on model selection and leads to a very…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-01-29 Yannick Baraud , Lucien Birgé

Near-optimal computational complexity of an adaptive stochastic Galerkin method with independently refined spatial meshes for elliptic partial differential equations is shown. The method takes advantage of multilevel structure in expansions…

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This paper develops a unified and computationally efficient method for change-point estimation along the time dimension in a non-stationary spatio-temporal process. By modeling a non-stationary spatio-temporal process as a piecewise…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-10-09 Zifeng Zhao , Ting Fung Ma , Wai Leong Ng , Chun Yip Yau

In this work we construct Gaussian beam approximations to solutions of the high frequency Helmholtz equation with a localized source. Under the assumption of non-trapping rays we show error estimates between the exact outgoing solution and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-05 Hailiang Liu , James Ralston , Olof Runborg , Nicolay M. Tanushev

We consider the problem of finding optimal piecewise constant approximations of one-dimensional signals. These approximations should consist of a specified number of segments (samples) and minimise the mean squared error to the original…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-12 Leif Bergerhoff , Joachim Weickert , Yehuda Dar

The ensemble Kalman inversion (EKI) for the solution of Bayesian inverse problems of type $y = A u +\varepsilon$, with $u$ being an unknown parameter, $y$ a given datum, and $\varepsilon$ measurement noise, is a powerful tool usually…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-16 Leon Bungert , Philipp Wacker

For beamforming ultrasound (US) signals, typically a spatially constant speed-of-sound (SoS) is assumed to calculate delays. As SoS in tissue may vary relatively largely, this approximation may cause wavefront aberrations, thus degrading…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-12 Richard Rau , Dieter Schweizer , Valery Vishnevskiy , Orcun Goksel

In this paper, we apply the Feature Space Decomposition (FSD) method developed in [LS24, GLS25, LSSW26, ALSS26] to obtain, under fairly general conditions, matching upper and lower bounds for the population excess risk of spectral methods…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Guillaume Lecué , Zhifan Li , Zong Shang

We propose a novel model for decomposing grayscale images into three distinct components: the structural part, representing sharp boundaries and regions with strong light-to-dark transitions; the smooth part, capturing soft shadows and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Roy Y. He , Hao Liu

The main theme of this paper is error analysis for approximations derived from two variants of dimensional decomposition of a multivariate function: the referential dimensional decomposition (RDD) and analysis-of-variance dimensional…

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