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Nonparametric Density Estimation on Homogeneous Spaces in High Level Image Analysis.

  • Jeff Lee
  • , Robert Paige
  • , Vic Patrangenaru
  • , Frits H. Ruymgaart

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Abstract

Thelandmarkdatareductionapproachinhighlevelimageanalysishasledtosignificantprogresstoscenerecognitionviastatisticalshapeanalysis(DrydenandMardia,1998).Whileanumberoffamiliesofsimilarityshapedensitieshaveprovenusefulindataanalysis,onlyafewpara-metricmodelshavebeenconsideredonlyrecentlyinthecontextofprojectiveshape(MardiaandPatrangenaru,2004),oraffineshape.Shapespacesofinteresthavethegeometricstructureofsymmetricspaces:planarsimilarityshapespacesarecomplexprojectivespaces(Kendall,1984),affineshapespacesarerealGrassmannmanifolds(Sparr,1992),andspacesofplanarprojectiveshapesofconfigurationsofpointsingeneralpositionareproductsofrealprojectivespaces(MardiaandPatrangenaru,2004).Therefore,datadrivendensityestimationofshapes,regardedaspointsonsymmetricspacesandarisingfromdigitizinglandmarksinimages,isnecessary.Recently,Pelletier(2004)consideredkerneldensityestimationon"general”Rie-mannianmanifolds;hisresultshoweverholdonlyinhomogeneousspaces.Thisissufficientforimageanalysis,sinceanysymmetricspaceishomogeneous.PelletierestimatorsgeneralizethedensityestimatorsoncertainhomogeneousspacesintroducedbyRuymgaart(1989),byH.Hendriks,J.H.M.JanssenandRuymgaart(1993),andbyLeeandRuymgaart(1998).Inthispaper,weproposeaclassofadjustedPelletierdensityestimators,onhomogeneousspaces,thatconvergeuniformlyandalmostsurelyatthesamerateasnaivekerneldensityestimatorsonEuclideanspaces

Original languageAmerican English
JournalBioinformatics, Images, and Wavelets
StatePublished - Jan 1 2004

Disciplines

  • Mathematics
  • Statistics and Probability

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