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In this paper, we investigate the matrix estimation problem in the multi-response regression model with measurement errors. A nonconvex error-corrected estimator based on a combination of the amended loss function and the nuclear norm…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

Multireference alignment (MRA) problem is to estimate an underlying signal from a large number of noisy circularly-shifted observations. The existing methods are always proposed under the hypothesis of a single Gaussian noise. However, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Cuicui Zhao , Jun Liu , Xinqi Gong

A rigid motion in $\mathbb{R}^d$ consists of a proper rotation and a translation, and it can be represented as a matrix in $\mathbb{R}^{(d+1)\times (d+1)}$. The problem of rigid motion synchronization aims to estimate a collection of rigid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Ziyue Zhao , Huikang Liu , Man-Chung Yue

Multireference alignment (MRA) is the problem of estimating a signal from many noisy and cyclically shifted copies of itself. In this paper, we consider an extension called heterogeneous MRA, where $K$ signals must be estimated, and each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Nicolas Boumal , Tamir Bendory , Roy R. Lederman , Amit Singer

A cornerstone of geometric reconstruction, rotation averaging seeks the set of absolute rotations that optimally explains a set of measured relative orientations between them. In addition to being an integral part of bundle adjustment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Gabriel Moreira , Manuel Marques , João Paulo Costeira

This paper investigates a rotatable antenna (RA) assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) network, where multiple users offload their computation tasks to an edge server equipped with an RA array under a time-division multiple access protocol.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ji Wang , Hao Chen , Yixuan Li , Jun Zhang , Xingwang Li , Ming Zeng , Octavia A. Dobre

Rotation estimation plays a fundamental role in computer vision and robot tasks, and extremely robust rotation estimation is significantly useful for safety-critical applications. Typically, estimating a rotation is considered a non-linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yinlong Liu , Tianyu Huang , Zhi-Xin Yang

Motivated by structural biology applications, we study the projected multi-reference alignment (MRA) model, in which an unknown signal is observed through noisy samples, each generated by applying a random cyclic shift followed by a fixed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Amnon Balanov , Josh Katz , Tamir Bendory , Dan Edidin

Range-only (RO) pose estimation involves determining a robot's pose over time by measuring the distance between multiple devices on the robot, known as tags, and devices installed in the environment, known as anchors. The nonconvex nature…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Abhishek Goudar , Frederike Dümbgen , Timothy D. Barfoot , Angela P. Schoellig

High-dimensional matrix regression has been studied in various aspects, such as statistical properties, computational efficiency and application to specific instances including multivariate regression, system identification and matrix…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-03-06 Xin Li , Dongya Wu

In this paper we propose a real-time and robust solution to large-scale multiple rotation averaging. Until recently, Multiple rotation averaging problem had been solved using conventional iterative optimization algorithms. Such methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Joshua Thorpe , Ruwan Tennakoon , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

Conventional antenna arrays rely primarily on digital beamforming for spatial control. While adding more elements can narrow beamwidth and suppress interference, such scaling incurs prohibitive hardware and power costs. Rotatable antennas…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-29 Xingxiang Peng , Qingqing Wu , Ziyuan Zheng , Wen Chen , Yanze Zhu , Ying Gao

Regularized regression problems are ubiquitous in statistical modeling, signal processing, and machine learning. Sparse regression in particular has been instrumental in scientific model discovery, including compressed sensing applications,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-09 Peng Zheng , Travis Askham , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz , Aleksandr Y. Aravkin

Rotation Averaging is a non-convex optimization problem that determines orientations of a collection of cameras from their images of a 3D scene. The problem has been studied using a variety of distances and robustifiers. The intrinsic (or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Kyle Wilson , David Bindel

While matrix variate regression models have been studied in many existing works, classical statistical and computational methods for the analysis of the regression coefficient estimation are highly affected by high dimensional and noisy…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-17 Hsin-Hsiung Huang , Feng Yu , Xing Fan , Teng Zhang

Rotating Synthetic Aperture Radar (ROSAR) can generate a 360$^\circ$ image of its surrounding environment using the collected data from a single moving track. Due to its non-linear track, the Back-Projection Algorithm (BPA) is commonly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Wei Zhao , Cai Wen , Quan Yuan , Rong Zheng

We consider a statistical inverse learning problem, where we observe the image of a function $f$ through a linear operator $A$ at i.i.d. random design points $X_i$, superposed with an additive noise. The distribution of the design points is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-15 Gilles Blanchard , Nicole Mücke

This paper studies an optimization problem on the sum of traces of matrix quadratic forms in $m$ semi-orthogonal matrices, which can be considered as a generalization of the synchronization of rotations. While the problem is nonconvex, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-13 Joong-Ho Won , Teng Zhang , Hua Zhou

We present the first algorithm to efficiently compute certifiably optimal solutions to range-aided simultaneous localization and mapping (RA-SLAM) problems. Robotic navigation systems increasingly incorporate point-to-point ranging sensors,…

Rotatable antenna (RA) provides additional spatial degrees of freedom (DoFs) for communication systems by enabling per-antenna dynamic boresight adjustment, which is attractive for fairness-oriented multicast transmission. This letter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Weihua Zhu , Beixiong Zheng , Lipeng Zhu , Jie Tang , Yong Zeng