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Real data often contain anomalous cases, also known as outliers. These may spoil the resulting analysis but they may also contain valuable information. In either case, the ability to detect such anomalies is essential. A useful tool for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-13 Peter J. Rousseeuw , Mia Hubert

Classification of high-dimensional spectroscopic data is a common task in analytical chemistry. Well-established procedures like support vector machines (SVMs) and partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA) are the most common…

Applications · Statistics 2021-01-29 Andrea Cappozzo , Ludovic Duponchel , Francesca Greselin , Thomas Brendan Murphy

The problem of robust mean estimation in high dimensions is studied, in which a certain fraction (less than half) of the datapoints can be arbitrarily corrupted. Motivated by compressive sensing, the robust mean estimation problem is…

Applications · Statistics 2022-12-08 Aditya Deshmukh , Jing Liu , Venugopal V. Veeravalli

Outlier detection in a large-scale database is a significant and complex issue in knowledge discovering field. As the data distributions are obscure and uncertain in high dimensional space, most existing solutions try to solve the issue…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Zhana Bao

The presence of outliers (anomalous values) in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data and the misspecification in statistical image models may result in inaccurate inferences. To avoid such issues, the Rayleigh regression model based on a…

Applications · Statistics 2022-08-02 B. G. Palm , F. M. Bayer , R. Machado , M. I. Pettersson , V. T. Vu , R. J. Cintra

High-dimensional data poses unique challenges in outlier detection process. Most of the existing algorithms fail to properly address the issues stemming from a large number of features. In particular, outlier detection algorithms perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Firuz Kamalov , Ho Hon Leung

Outlier detection is a technique in data mining that aims to detect unusual or unexpected records in the dataset. Existing outlier detection algorithms have different pros and cons and exhibit different sensitivity to noisy data such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Yuanyuan Wei , Julian Jang-Jaccard , Fariza Sabrina , Timothy McIntosh

This work introduces the Matrix Minimum Covariance Determinant (MMCD) method, a novel robust location and covariance estimation procedure designed for data that are naturally represented in the form of a matrix. Unlike standard robust…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-03-17 Marcus Mayrhofer , Una Radojičić , Peter Filzmoser

Estimating confidence intervals in small or noisy datasets is a challenge in biomolecular research when data contain outliers or high variability. We introduce a robust method combining a hybrid bootstrap procedure with Steiner's most…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2025-11-04 Victor V. Golovko

Task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging (task fMRI) is a non-invasive technique that allows identifying brain regions whose activity changes when individuals are asked to perform a given task. This contributes to the understanding…

Outlier detection is a critical task in data mining, aimed at identifying objects that significantly deviate from the norm. Semi-supervised methods improve detection performance by leveraging partially labeled data but typically overlook…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Baiyang Chen , Zhong Yuan , Zheng Liu , Dezhong Peng , Yongxiang Li , Chang Liu , Guiduo Duan

Harmonization methods such as ComBat and its variants are widely used to mitigate diffusion MRI (dMRI) site-specific biases. However, ComBat assumes that subject distributions exhibit a Gaussian profile. In practice, patients with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Yoan David , Pierre-Marc Jodoin , Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative , The TRACK-TBI Investigators

Considering a common case where measurements are obtained from independent sensors, we present a novel outlier-robust filter for nonlinear dynamical systems in this work. The proposed method is devised by modifying the measurement model and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Aamir Hussain Chughtai , Muhammad Tahir , Momin Uppal

Data cubes are multidimensional databases, often built from several separate databases, that serve as flexible basis for data analysis. Surprisingly, outlier detection on data cubes has not yet been treated extensively. In this work, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Lara Kuhlmann , Daniel Wilmes , Emmanuel Müller , Markus Pauly , Daniel Horn

Outliers are the points which are different from or inconsistent with the rest of the data. They can be novel, new, abnormal, unusual or noisy information. Outliers are sometimes more interesting than the majority of the data. The main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Singh Vijendra , Pathak Shivani

Image matching is a fundamental and critical task of multisource remote sensing image applications. However, remote sensing images are susceptible to various noises. Accordingly, how to effectively achieve accurate matching in noise images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yuan Li , Dapeng Wu , Yaping Cui , Peng He , Yuan Zhang , Ruyan Wang

Robust estimation of the covariance matrix and detection of outliers remain major challenges in statistical data analysis, particularly when the proportion of contaminated observations increases with the size of the dataset. Outliers can…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-08 Paul Guillot , Antoine Godichon-Baggioni , Stéphane Robin , Laure Sansonnet

When applying a statistical method in practice it often occurs that some observations deviate from the usual assumptions. However, many classical methods are sensitive to outliers. The goal of robust statistics is to develop methods that…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-08-06 Mia Hubert , Peter J. Rousseeuw , Stefan Van Aelst

This work presents a novel and effective method for fitting multidimensional ellipsoids to scattered data in the contamination of noise and outliers. We approach the problem as a Bayesian parameter estimate process and maximize the…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-07-30 Zhao Mingyang , Jia Xiaohong , Ma Lei , Shi Yuke , Jiang Jingen , Li Qizhai , Yan Dong-Ming , Huang Tiejun

In this article, we consider the problem of outlier-robust state estimation where the measurement noise can be correlated. Outliers in data arise due to many reasons like sensor malfunctioning, environmental behaviors, communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Aamir Hussain Chughtai , Muhammad Tahir , Momin Uppal