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We propose a new space-variant anisotropic regularisation term for variational image restoration, based on the statistical assumption that the gradients of the target image distribute locally according to a bivariate generalised Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Luca Calatroni , Alessandro Lanza , Monica Pragliola , Fiorella Sgallari

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 spite of being an integral part of bundle adjustment and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Gabriel Moreira , Manuel Marques , João Paulo Costeira

We construct spherical wavelets based on approximate identities that are directional, i.e. not rotation-invariant, and have an adaptive angular selectivity. The problem of how to find a proper representation of distinct kinds of details of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2018-04-10 Ilona Iglewska-Nowak

This paper proposes parametric and non-parametric hypothesis testing algorithms for detecting anisotropy -- rotational variance of the covariance function in random fields. Both algorithms are based on resampling mechanisms, which enable…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-06-08 Assaf Rabinowicz , Saharon Rosset

Understanding the orientation of geological structures is crucial for analyzing the complexity of the Earths' subsurface. For instance, information about geological structure orientation can be incorporated into local anisotropic…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-09-10 Ali Gholami , Silvia Gazzola

In many computer vision and shape analysis tasks, practitioners are interested in learning from the shape of the object in an image, while disregarding the object's orientation. To this end, it is valuable to define a rotation-invariant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-26 Adele Myers , Nina Miolane

A method for particle orientation tracking is developed and demonstrated specifically for anisotropic particles. Using (high-speed) multi-camera recordings of anisotropic particles from different viewpoints, we reconstruct the 3D location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Mees M. Flapper , Elian Bernard , Sander G. Huisman

Imaging through scattering media is a useful and yet demanding task since it involves solving for an inverse mapping from speckle images to object images. It becomes even more challenging when the scattering medium undergoes dynamic…

Machine learning methods for computational imaging require uncertainty estimation to be reliable in real settings. While Bayesian models offer a computationally tractable way of recovering uncertainty, they need large data volumes to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-24 Francesco Tonolini , Jack Radford , Alex Turpin , Daniele Faccio , Roderick Murray-Smith

Image registration is an essential process for aligning features of interest from multiple images. With the recent development of deep learning techniques, image registration approaches have advanced to a new level. In this work, we present…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Ruixiong Wang , Alin Achim , Renata Raele-Rolfe , Qiao Tong , Dylan Bergen , Chrissy Hammond , Stephen Cross

Classically, anisotropic surface wave tomography is treated as an optimisation problem where it proceeds through a linearised two-step approach. It involves the construction of 2D group or phase velocity maps for each considered period,…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-12-08 John Keith Magali

We present the first part of an efficient framework for nonlinear beam dynamics, termed Approximate Invariant Analysis (AIA). The framework is based on the construction of approximate invariants~[Y.~Li, D.~Xu, and Y.~Hao, Phys.\ Rev.\…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Yongjun Li , Sergei Nagaitsev , Derong Xu , Yue Hao , Chad Mitchell

Image registration is a fundamental task that aligns anatomical structures between images. While CNNs perform well, they lack rotation equivariance - a rotated input does not produce a correspondingly rotated output. This hinders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Arghavan Rezvani , Kun Han , Anthony T. Wu , Pooya Khosravi , Xiaohui Xie

Angular x-ray cross-correlation analysis (AXCCA) is a technique which allows quantitative measurement of the angular anisotropy of x-ray diffraction patterns and provides insights into the orientational order in the system under…

Diffeomorphic deformable image registration is one of the crucial tasks in medical image analysis, which aims to find a unique transformation while preserving the topology and invertibility of the transformation. Deep convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Ameneh Sheikhjafari , Michelle Noga , Kumaradevan Punithakumar , Nilanjan Ray

A spatial point pattern is called anisotropic if its spatial structure depends on direction. Several methods for anisotropy analysis have been introduced in the literature. In this paper, we give an overview of nonparametric methods for…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-01 Tuomas Rajala , Claudia Redenbach , Aila Särkkä , Martina Sormani

State-of-the-art deep learning systems often require large amounts of data and computation. For this reason, leveraging known or unknown structure of the data is paramount. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are successful examples of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Carlos Esteves

Omnidirectional cameras are widely used in such areas as robotics and virtual reality as they provide a wide field of view. Their images are often processed with classical methods, which might unfortunately lead to non-optimal solutions as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-27 Renata Khasanova , Pascal Frossard

Volumetric image compression has become an urgent task to effectively transmit and store images produced in biological research and clinical practice. At present, the most commonly used volumetric image compression methods are based on…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Dongmei Xue , Haichuan Ma , Li Li , Dong Liu , Zhiwei Xiong

Manipulation and re-use of images in scientific publications is a concerning problem that currently lacks a scalable solution. Current tools for detecting image duplication are mostly manual or semi-automated, despite the availability of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-18 M. Cicconet , H. Elliott , D. L. Richmond , D. Wainstock , M. Walsh