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We introduce an algorithm for the efficient computation of the continuous Haar transform of 2D patterns that can be described by polygons. These patterns are ubiquitous in VLSI processes where they are used to describe design and mask…

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The demand for realistic virtual immersive audio continues to grow, with Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) playing a key role. HRTFs capture how sound reaches our ears, reflecting unique anatomical features and enhancing spatial…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Xuyi Hu , Jian Li , Lorenzo Picinali , Aidan O. T. Hogg

This paper proposes a deep learning architecture that attains statistically significant improvements over traditional algorithms in Poisson image denoising espically when the noise is strong. Poisson noise commonly occurs in low-light and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Po-Yu Liu , Edmund Y. Lam

Photon-limited imaging arises when the number of photons collected by a sensor array is small relative to the number of detector elements. Photon limitations are an important concern for many applications such as spectral imaging, night…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Joseph Salmon , Zachary Harmany , Charles-Alban Deledalle , Rebecca Willett

High-contrast imaging of exoplanets hinges on powerful post-processing methods to denoise the data and separate the signal of a companion from its host star, which is typically orders of magnitude brighter. Existing post-processing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-05 Timothy D. Gebhard , Markus J. Bonse , Sascha P. Quanz , Bernhard Schölkopf

X-ray spectral imaging provides quantitative imaging of trace elements in biological sample with high sensitivity. We propose a novel algorithm to promote the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of X-ray spectral images that have low photon counts.…

Medical Physics · Physics 2013-04-02 Feng Zhu , Binjie Qin , Weiyue Feng , Huajian Wang , Shaosen Huang , Yisong Lv , Yong Chen

We develop a new test of local bias, by constructing a locally biased halo density field from sampling the dark matter-halo distribution. Our test differs from conventional tests in that it preserves the full scatter in the bias relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-06 Kwan Chuen Chan , Roman Scoccimarro

Working from a Poisson-Gaussian noise model, a multi-sample extension of the Photon Counting Histogram Expectation Maximization (PCH-EM) algorithm is derived as a general-purpose alternative to the Photon Transfer (PT) method. This…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-03-08 Aaron J. Hendrickson , David P. Haefner , Stanley H. Chan , Nicholas R. Shade , Eric R. Fossum

Next-generation particle accelerators demand advanced beam-diagnostic capabilities to ensure high performance, operational reliability, and sustainable machine operation. Increasing beam intensities and stored energies make the precise…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Francis René Osswald , Mohammed Chahbaoui , Xinyi Liang

In applied settings, tests of hypothesis where a nuisance parameter is only identifiable under the alternative often reduces into one of Testing One Hypothesis Multiple times (TOHM). Specifically, a fine discretization of the space of the…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-06 Sara Algeri , David A. van Dyk

A simple pseudo-Hamiltonian formulation is proposed for the linear inhomogeneous systems of ODEs. In contrast to the usual Hamiltonian mechanics, our approach is based on the use of non-stationary Poisson brackets, i.e. corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. G. Kupriyanov , S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov

In recent work (Seljak, Hamaus and Desjacques 2009) it was found that weighting central halo galaxies by halo mass can significantly suppress their stochasticity relative to the dark matter, well below the Poisson model expectation. In this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Nico Hamaus , Uros Seljak , Vincent Desjacques , Robert E. Smith , Tobias Baldauf

We introduce the Poisson tensor completion (PTC) estimator that exploits inter-sample relationships to compute a low-rank Poisson tensor decomposition of the frequency histogram for samples of a multivariate distribution. Our crucial…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Daniel M. Dunlavy , Richard B. Lehoucq , Carolyn D. Mayer , Arvind Prasadan

We propose a data-dependent denoising procedure to restore noisy images. Different from existing denoising algorithms which search for patches from either the noisy image or a generic database, the new algorithm finds patches from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Enming Luo , Stanley H. Chan , Truong Q. Nguyen

Low-resolution and signal-dependent noise distribution in positron emission tomography (PET) images makes denoising process an inevitable step prior to qualitative and quantitative image analysis tasks. Conventional PET denoising methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-14 Awais Mansoor , Ulas Bagci , Daniel J. Mollura

A variety of filters with track-before-detect (TBD) strategies have been developed and applied to low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) scenarios, including the probability hypothesis density (PHD) filter. Assumptions of the standard point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Haiyi Mao , Cong Peng , Yue Liu , Jinping Tang , Hua Peng , Wei Yi

Factor analysis has proven to be a relevant tool for extracting tissue time-activity curves (TACs) in dynamic PET images, since it allows for an unsupervised analysis of the data. Reliable and interpretable results are possible only if…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-27 Yanna Cruz Cavalcanti , Thomas Oberlin , Nicolas Dobigeon , Cédric Févotte , Simon Stute , Maria-Joao Ribeiro , Clovis Tauber

The past decade has witnessed a surge of endeavors in statistical inference for high-dimensional sparse regression, particularly via de-biasing or relaxed orthogonalization. Nevertheless, these techniques typically require a more stringent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-29 Yang Li , Zemin Zheng , Jia Zhou , Ziwei Zhu

Cosmological covariance matrices are fundamental for parameter inference, since they are responsible for propagating uncertainties from the data down to the model parameters. However, when data vectors are large, in order to estimate…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-13 Natalí S. M. de Santi , L. Raul Abramo

This letter presents a novel hybrid method that leverages deep learning to exploit the multi-resolution analysis capability of the wavelets, in order to denoise a photoplethysmography (PPG) signal. Under the proposed method, a noisy PPG…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Rabia Ahmed , Ahsan Mehmood , Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman , Octavia A. Dobre