'… this is an excellent text that will benefit many students in computer science, mathematics, and physics … A significant plus of the book is the library of MATLAB codes and datasets available for download from the authors' site.' Alexander Tzanov, Computing Reviews
This book introduces in a systematic manner a general nonparametric theory of statistics on manifolds, with emphasis on manifolds of shapes. The theory has important and varied applications in medical diagnostics, image analysis, and machine vision. An early chapter of examples establishes the effectiveness of the new methods and demonstrates how they outperform their parametric counterparts. Inference is developed for both intrinsic and extrinsic Fréchet means of probability distributions on manifolds, then applied to shape spaces defined as orbits of landmarks under a Lie group of transformations - in particular, similarity, reflection similarity, affine and projective transformations. In addition, nonparametric Bayesian theory is adapted and extended to manifolds for the purposes of density estimation, regression and classification. Ideal for statisticians who analyze manifold data and wish to develop their own methodology, this book is also of interest to probabilists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and morphometricians with mathematical training.
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1. Introduction; 2. Examples; 3. Location and spread on metric spaces; 4. Extrinsic analysis on manifolds; 5. Intrinsic analysis on manifolds; 6. Landmark-based shape spaces; 7. Kendall's similarity shape spaces Σkm; 8. The planar shape space Σk2; 9. Reflection similarity shape spaces RΣkm; 10. Stiefel manifolds; 11. Affine shape spaces AΣkm; 12. Real projective spaces and projective shape spaces; 13. Nonparametric Bayes inference; 14. Regression, classification and testing; i. Differentiable manifolds; ii. Riemannian manifolds; iii. Dirichlet processes; iv. Parametric models on Sd and Σk2; References; Subject index.
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A systematic introduction to a general nonparametric theory of statistics on manifolds, with emphasis on manifolds of shapes.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781107019584
Publisert
2012-04-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
520 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
252