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In this paper, we present a robust spherical harmonics approach for the classification of point cloud-based objects. Spherical harmonics have been used for classification over the years, with several frameworks existing in the literature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Ayman Mukhaimar , Ruwan Tennakoon , Chow Yin Lai , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

Accurate lighting estimation is challenging yet critical to many computer vision and computer graphics tasks such as high-dynamic-range (HDR) relighting. Existing approaches model lighting in either frequency domain or spatial domain which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Fangneng Zhan , Changgong Zhang , Wenbo Hu , Shijian Lu , Feiying Ma , Xuansong Xie , Ling Shao

3D image processing constitutes nowadays a challenging topic in many scientific fields such as medicine, computational physics and informatics. Therefore, development of suitable tools that guaranty a best treatment is a necessity.…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Malika Jallouli , Wafa Bel Hadj Khalifa , Anouar Ben Mabrouk , Mohamed Ali Mahjoub

The shapelets method for image analysis is based upon the decomposition of localised objects into a series of orthogonal components with convenient mathematical properties. We extend the "Cartesian shapelet" formalism from earlier work, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Richard Massey , Alexandre Refregier

We develop a sampling scheme on the sphere that permits accurate computation of the spherical harmonic transform and its inverse for signals band-limited at $L$ using only $L^2$ samples. We obtain the optimal number of samples given by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-25 Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful strategy for representation learning under limited annotation regimes, yet its effectiveness remains highly sensitive to many factors, especially the nature of the target task. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jorge Quesada , Ghassan AlRegib

We consider gradient-based optimisation of wide, shallow neural networks, where the output of each hidden node is scaled by a positive parameter. The scaling parameters are non-identical, differing from the classical Neural Tangent Kernel…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-19 Francois Caron , Fadhel Ayed , Paul Jung , Hoil Lee , Juho Lee , Hongseok Yang

This paper investigates the nonparametric estimation of a heteroskedastic variance function on the sphere in a regression framework, assuming the variance belongs to a Besov regularity class. A needlet-based estimator is proposed, combining…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Claudio Durastanti , Radomyra Shevchenko

This paper introduces NN-STNE, a neural network using t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) as a hidden layer to reduce input dimensions by mapping long time-series data into shapelet membership probabilities. A Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zhicong Xian , Tabish Chaudhary , Jürgen Bock

We develop an algorithm for single-image superresolution of remotely sensed data, based on the discrete shearlet transform. The shearlet transform extracts directional features of signals, and is known to provide near-optimally sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Wojciech Czaja , James M. Murphy , Daniel Weinberg

We present spatial-Slepian transform~(SST) for the representation of signals on the sphere to support localized signal analysis. We use well-optimally concentrated Slepian functions, obtained by solving the Slepian spatial-spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-01 Adeem Aslam , Zubair Khalid

Many representation systems on the sphere have been proposed in the past, such as spherical harmonics, wavelets, or curvelets. Each of these data representations is designed to extract a specific set of features, and choosing the best fixed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 Florent Sureau , Felix Voigtlaender , Malte Wust , Jean-Luc Starck , Gitta Kutyniok

This paper is concerned with density estimation of directional data on the sphere. We introduce a procedure based on thresholding on a new type of spherical wavelets called {\it needlets}. We establish a minimax result and prove its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-04-30 P. Baldi , G. Kerkyacharian , D. Marinucci , D. Picard

For the representation of spin-$s$ band-limited functions on the sphere, we propose a sampling scheme with optimal number of samples equal to the number of degrees of freedom of the function in harmonic space. In comparison to the existing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-06 Usama Elahi , Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

Due to the current lack of large-scale datasets at the million-scale level, tasks involving panoramic images predominantly rely on existing two-dimensional pre-trained image benchmark models as backbone networks. However, these networks are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jingguo Liu , Han Yu , Shigang Li , Jianfeng Li

A fast and exact algorithm is developed for the spin +-2 spherical harmonics transforms on equi-angular pixelizations on the sphere. It is based on the Driscoll and Healy fast scalar spherical harmonics transform. The theoretical exactness…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. Wiaux , L. Jacques , P. Vandergheynst

Learning from limited data is challenging because data scarcity leads to a poor generalization of the trained model. A classical global pooled representation will probably lose useful local information. Many few-shot learning methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Haoxing Chen , Huaxiong Li , Yaohui Li , Chunlin Chen

Spherical $t$-design is a finite subset on sphere such that, for any polynomial of degree at most $t$, the average value of the integral on sphere can be replaced by the average value at the finite subset. It is well-known that an…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2013-08-26 Eiichi Bannai , Takayuki Okuda , Makoto Tagami

Satellites mapping the spatial variations of the gravitational or magnetic fields of the Earth or other planets ideally fly on polar orbits, uniformly covering the entire globe. Thus, potential fields on the sphere are usually expressed in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-17 Frederik J. Simons , F. A. Dahlen

Theories of localised pattern formation are important to understand a broad range of natural patterns, but are less well-understood than more established mechanisms of domain-filling pattern formation. Here, we extend recent work on pattern…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-22 Andrew L. Krause , Václav Klika , Edgardo Villar-Sepúlveda , Alan R. Champneys , Eamonn A. Gaffney