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We present an approach for multi-robot consistent distributed localization and semantic mapping in an unknown environment, considering scenarios with classification ambiguity, where objects' visual appearance generally varies with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Vladimir Tchuiev , Vadim Indelman

The concept of continuous-time trajectory representation has brought increased accuracy and efficiency to multi-modal sensor fusion in modern SLAM. However, regardless of these advantages, its offline property caused by the requirement of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Chanoh Park , Peyman Moghadam , Soohwan Kim , Alberto Elfes , Clinton Fookes , Sridha Sridharan

The determinantal point process (DPP) is an elegant probabilistic model of repulsion with applications in various machine learning tasks including summarization and search. However, the maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference for DPP which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Laming Chen , Guoxin Zhang , Hanning Zhou

Inverse problems have many applications in science and engineering. In Computer vision, several image restoration tasks such as inpainting, deblurring, and super-resolution can be formally modeled as inverse problems. Recently, methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Sai Bharath Chandra Gutha , Ricardo Vinuesa , Hossein Azizpour

Millimeter-wave radar provides robust perception in visually degraded environments. However, radar-inertial state estimation is inherently susceptible to drift. Because radar yields only sparse, body-frame velocity measurements, it provides…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ali Alridha Abdulkarim , Mikhail Litvinov , Dzmitry Tsetserukou

Maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference is a fundamental computational paradigm for statistical inference. In the setting of graphical models, MAP inference entails solving a combinatorial optimization problem to find the most likely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Jonathan N. Lee , Aldo Pacchiano , Michael I. Jordan

This paper proposes a parallel-in-time method for computing continuous-time maximum-a-posteriori (MAP) trajectory estimates of the states of partially observed stochastic differential equations (SDEs), with the goal of improving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hassan Razavi , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Simo Särkkä

Gibbs sampling is a workhorse for Bayesian inference but has several limitations when used for parameter estimation, and is often much slower than non-sampling inference methods. SAME (State Augmentation for Marginal Estimation)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Huasha Zhao , Biye Jiang , John Canny

Mapping expansive regions is an arduous and often times incomplete when performed by a single agent. In this paper we illustrate an extension of \texttt{Full SLAM} \cite{Dellaert06ijrr} and \cite{dong}, which ensures smooth maps with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Karthik Paga , Joe Phaneuf , Adam Driscoll , David Evans

In ill-posed dynamic inverse problems expected spatial features and temporal correlation between frames can be leveraged to improve the quality of the computed solution, in particular when the available data are limited and the…

Even if path planning can be solved using standard techniques from dynamic programming and control, the problem can also be approached using probabilistic inference. The algorithms that emerge using the latter framework bear some appealing…

Recent works on deep conditional random fields (CRF) have set new records on many vision tasks involving structured predictions. Here we propose a fully-connected deep continuous CRF model for both discrete and continuous labelling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen

We consider the problem of estimating a spatially varying density function, motivated by problems that arise in large-scale radiological survey and anomaly detection. In this context, the density functions to be estimated are the background…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-11-17 Wesley Tansey , Alex Athey , Alex Reinhart , James G. Scott

Generative models based on flow matching have attracted significant attention for their simplicity and superior performance in high-resolution image synthesis. By leveraging the instantaneous change-of-variables formula, one can directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yasi Zhang , Peiyu Yu , Yaxuan Zhu , Yingshan Chang , Feng Gao , Ying Nian Wu , Oscar Leong

Modern deep learning models are over-parameterized, where different optima can result in widely varying generalization performance. The Sharpness-Aware Minimization (SAM) technique modifies the fundamental loss function that steers gradient…

Maximum a posteriori (MAP) inference in discrete-valued Markov random fields is a fundamental problem in machine learning that involves identifying the most likely configuration of random variables given a distribution. Due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Jonathan N. Lee , Aldo Pacchiano , Peter Bartlett , Michael I. Jordan

This monograph is about discrete energy minimization for discrete graphical models. It considers graphical models, or, more precisely, maximum a posteriori inference for graphical models, purely as a combinatorial optimization problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Bogdan Savchynskyy

We propose an unsupervised real-time dense depth completion from a sparse depth map guided by a single image. Our method generates a smooth depth map while preserving discontinuity between different objects. Our key idea is a Binary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-17 Yasuhiro Yao , Menandro Roxas , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Shingo Ando , Jun Shimamura , Takeshi Oishi

We recently proposed DOVER-Lap, a method for combining overlap-aware speaker diarization system outputs. DOVER-Lap improved upon its predecessor DOVER by using a label mapping method based on globally-informed greedy search. In this paper,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Desh Raj , Sanjeev Khudanpur

Computation methods for solving entropy-regularized reward optimization -- a class of problems widely used for fine-tuning generative models -- have advanced rapidly. Among those, Adjoint Matching (AM, Domingo-Enrich et al., 2025) has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-17 Oswin So , Brian Karrer , Chuchu Fan , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Guan-Horng Liu