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The Gaussian process (GP) is a widely used probabilistic machine learning method with implicit uncertainty characterization for stochastic function approximation, stochastic modeling, and analyzing real-world measurements of nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-14 Mark D. Risser , Marcus M. Noack , Hengrui Luo , Ronald Pandolfi

The accurate reconstruction of dynamic street scenes is critical for applications in autonomous driving, augmented reality, and virtual reality. Traditional methods relying on dense point clouds and triangular meshes struggle with moving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Peizhen Zheng , Dongjing Jiang , Qingchong Jiao , Redouane EL Bouchtaoui , Flynnwell Jianfei Zhang

The emergence of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has greatly accelerated the rendering speed of novel view synthesis. Unlike neural implicit representations like Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) that represent a 3D scene with position and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tong Wu , Yu-Jie Yuan , Ling-Xiao Zhang , Jie Yang , Yan-Pei Cao , Ling-Qi Yan , Lin Gao

This paper presents a framework to represent high-fidelity pointcloud sensor observations for efficient communication and storage. The proposed approach exploits Sparse Gaussian Process to encode pointcloud into a compact form. Our approach…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Mahmoud Ali , Lantao Liu

Point cloud denoising is a fundamental and crucial challenge in real-world point cloud applications. Existing quantitative evaluation metrics for point cloud denoising methods are implemented in a supervised manner, which requires both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zhiyong Su , Jincan Wu , Yonghui Liu , Zheng Li , Weiqing Li

For a wide range of clinical applications, such as adaptive treatment planning or intraoperative image update, feature-based deformable registration (FDR) approaches are widely employed because of their simplicity and low computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-17 Siming Bayer , Ute Spiske , Jie Luo , Tobias Geimer , William M. Wells , Martin Ostermeier , Rebecca Fahrig , Arya Nabavi , Christoph Bert , Ilker Eyupoglo , Andreas Maier

Gaussian processes (GPs) are a powerful tool for probabilistic inference over functions. They have been applied to both regression and non-linear dimensionality reduction, and offer desirable properties such as uncertainty estimates,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-01 Yarin Gal , Mark van der Wilk , Carl E. Rasmussen

This paper presents a new variable selection approach integrated with Gaussian process (GP) regression. We consider a sparse projection of input variables and a general stationary covariance model that depends on the Euclidean distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Chiwoo Park , David J. Borth , Nicholas S. Wilson , Chad N. Hunter

We propose a Standing Wave Decomposition (SWD) approximation to Gaussian Process regression (GP). GP involves a costly matrix inversion operation, which limits applicability to large data analysis. For an input space that can be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-19 Chi-Ken Lu , Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang , Patrick Shafto

Off-the-shelf Gaussian Process (GP) covariance functions encode smoothness assumptions on the structure of the function to be modeled. To model complex and non-differentiable functions, these smoothness assumptions are often too…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-12 Roberto Calandra , Jan Peters , Carl Edward Rasmussen , Marc Peter Deisenroth

This paper is concerned with a state-space approach to deep Gaussian process (DGP) regression. We construct the DGP by hierarchically putting transformed Gaussian process (GP) priors on the length scales and magnitudes of the next level of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-24 Zheng Zhao , Muhammad Emzir , Simo Särkkä

Subspace-valued functions arise in a wide range of problems, including parametric reduced order modeling (PROM). In PROM, each parameter point can be associated with a subspace, which is used for Petrov-Galerkin projections of large system…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Ruda Zhang , Simon Mak , David Dunson

Gaussian process ($GP$) regression is a widely used non-parametric modeling tool, but its cubic complexity in the training size limits its use on massive data sets. A practical remedy is to predict using only the nearest neighbours of each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-09 Robert Allison , Tomasz Maciazek , Anthony Stephenson

Most of the existing robotic exploration schemes use occupancy grid representations and geometric targets known as frontiers. The occupancy grid representation relies on the assumption of independence between grid cells and ignores…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Maani Ghaffari Jadidi , Jaime Valls Miro , Gamini Dissanayake

Embodied intelligence requires precise reconstruction and rendering to simulate large-scale real-world data. Although 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently demonstrated high-quality results with real-time performance, it still faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Haodong Xiang , Xinghui Li , Kai Cheng , Xiansong Lai , Wanting Zhang , Zhichao Liao , Long Zeng , Xueping Liu

Both in terrestrial and extraterrestrial environments, the precise and informative model of the ground and the surface ahead is crucial for navigation and obstacle avoidance. The ground surface is not always flat and it may be sloped, bumpy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Pouria Mehrabi , Hamid D. Taghirad

In simulation-based engineering design with time-consuming simulators, Gaussian process (GP) models are widely used as fast emulators to speed up the design optimization process. In its most commonly used form, the input of GP is a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Xi Chen , Yashika Sharma , Hao Helen Zhang , Xin Hao , Qiang Zhou

Dense point cloud generation from a sparse or incomplete point cloud is a crucial and challenging problem in 3D computer vision and computer graphics. So far, the existing methods are either computationally too expensive, suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Abol Basher , Jani Boutellier

We present Rad-GS, a 4D radar-camera SLAM system designed for kilometer-scale outdoor environments, utilizing 3D Gaussian as a differentiable spatial representation. Rad-GS combines the advantages of raw radar point cloud with Doppler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Renxiang Xiao , Wei Liu , Yuanfan Zhang , Yushuai Chen , Jinming Chen , Zilu Wang , Liang Hu

Recently, 3D Gaussian splatting (3D-GS) has gained popularity in novel-view scene synthesis. It addresses the challenges of lengthy training times and slow rendering speeds associated with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs). Through rapid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Sharath Girish , Kamal Gupta , Abhinav Shrivastava