We introduce Coherent Point Drift (CPD), a novel probabilistic method for nonrigid registration of point sets. The registration is treated as a Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimation ...
Abstract. This paper studies photon-limited spectral intensity estimation and proposes a spatially and spectrally adaptive, nonparametric method for estimating spectral intensities...
The expectation maximization (EM) algorithm is a popular algorithm for parameter estimation in models with hidden variables. However, the algorithm has several non-trivial limitat...
The choice of the best-suited statistical distribution for modeling data is not a trivial issue. Unless a sound theoretical background exists for selecting a particular distributi...
This paper describes a hybrid parsing method for Japanese which uses both a hand-crafted grammar and a statistical technique. The key feature of our system is that in order to est...