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Longitudinal low-dose CT follow-ups vary in noise, reconstruction kernels, and registration quality. These differences destabilize subtraction images and can trigger false new lesion alarms. We present TopoGate, a lightweight model that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-23 Seungik Cho

Robust and semiparametric statistics are of the same historical origin and largely employ the same locally asymptotically normal framework. In our talk, we consider he following more intrinsic connections of both fields: 1) Robust influence…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-06-25 Helmut Rieder

In this work, we develop a novel technique for reconstructing images from projection-based nano- and microtomography. Our contribution focuses on enhancing reconstruction quality, particularly for specimen composed of homogeneous material…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Anuraag Mishra , Andrea Gilch , Benjamin Apeleo Zubiri , Jan Rolfes , Frauke Liers

Many statistical $M$-estimators are based on convex optimization problems formed by the combination of a data-dependent loss function with a norm-based regularizer. We analyze the convergence rates of projected gradient and composite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-07-26 Alekh Agarwal , Sahand N. Negahban , Martin J. Wainwright

Topological consistency plays a crucial role in the task of boundary segmentation for reticular images, such as cell membrane segmentation in neuron electron microscopic images, grain boundary segmentation in material microscopic images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chuni Liu , Boyuan Ma , Xiaojuan Ban , Yujie Xie , Hao Wang , Weihua Xue , Jingchao Ma , Ke Xu

We implement a simple, main beam correction in the maximum-likelihood, parametric component separation approach, which allows on accounting for different beamwidths of input maps at different frequencies without any preprocessing. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-19 Arianna Rizzieri , Josquin Errard , Radek Stompor

Unlike broken time-reversal symmetric (TRS) systems with a defined Chern number, directly measuring the bulk $Z_{2}$ invariant and Berry curvature (if nonzero) in topological insulators and their higher-order topological families remains an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Pok Man Chiu

We study harmonic map regression, a nonparametric estimator for manifold-valued responses, that penalizes the empirical Fr\'echet risk by the Dirichlet energy. By connecting penalized regression to the theory of harmonic maps, the estimator…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Xiaoyu Chen

This paper considers the design of structures made of engineered materials, accounting for uncertainty in material properties. We present a topology optimization approach that optimizes the structural shape and topology at the macroscale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-27 Subhayan De , Kurt Maute , Alireza Doostan

We consider the problem of 3D shape reconstruction from multi-modal data, given uncertain calibration parameters. Typically, 3D data modalities can be in diverse forms such as sparse point sets, volumetric slices, 2D photos and so on. To…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Moshe Eliasof , Andrei Sharf , Eran Treister

We employ electric circuit networks to study topological states of matter in non-Hermitian systems enriched by parity-time symmetry $\mathcal{PT}$ and chiral symmetry anti-$\mathcal{PT}$ ($\mathcal{APT}$). The topological structure…

We consider a class of statistical inverse problems involving the estimation of a regression operator from a Polish space to a separable Hilbert space, where the target lies in a vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert space induced by an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-28 Jia-Qi Yang , Lei Shi

This paper concerns a fast, one-step iterative technique of imaging extended perfectly conducting cracks with Dirichlet boundary condition. In order to reconstruct the shape of cracks from scattered field data measured at the boundary, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Won-Kwang Park

This article deals with a particular class of shape and topology optimization problems: the optimized design is a region $G$ of the boundary $\partial \Omega$ of a given domain $\Omega$, which supports a particular type of boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Eric Bonnetier , Carlos Brito-Pacheco , Charles Dapogny , Rafael Estevez

This paper develops a novel mathematical framework for collaborative learning by means of geometrically inspired kernel machines which includes statements on the bounds of generalisation and approximation errors, and sample complexity. For…

We present a novel method for reconstructing the shape of an object from measured gradient data. A certain class of optical sensors does not measure the shape of an object, but its local slope. These sensors display several advantages,…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Svenja Ettl , Jürgen Kaminski , Markus C. Knauer , Gerd Häusler

We present a robust method to find region-level correspondences between shapes, which are invariant to changes in geometry and applicable across multiple shape representations. We generate simplified shape graphs by jointly decomposing the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yanir Kleiman , Maks Ovsjanikov

This paper focuses on the statistical analysis of shapes of data objects called shape graphs, a set of nodes connected by articulated curves with arbitrary shapes. A critical need here is a constrained registration of points (nodes to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shenyuan Liang , Mauricio Pamplona Segundo , Sathyanarayanan N. Aakur , Sudeep Sarkar , Anuj Srivastava

Quantum state tomography is the standard technique for reconstructing a quantum state from experimental data. In the regime of finite statistics, experimental data cannot give perfect information about the quantum state. A common way to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Carlos de Gois , Matthias Kleinmann

The problem of finding suitable point embedding or geometric configurations given only Euclidean distance information of point pairs arises both as a core task and as a sub-problem in a variety of machine learning applications. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ipsita Ghosh , Abiy Tasissa , Christian Kümmerle