Automatic Music Transcription (AMT) consists in automatically estimating the notes in an audio recording, through three attributes: onset time, duration and pitch. Probabilistic Latent Component Analysis (PLCA) has become very popular for this task. PLCA is a spectrogram factorization method, able to model a magnitude spectrogram as a linear combination of spectral vectors from a dictionary. Su...

It is difficult to accurately estimate the rates of rape and domestic violence due to the sensitive nature of these crimes. There is evidence that bias in estimating the crime rates from survey data may arise because some women respondents are “gagged” in reporting some types of crimes by the use of a telephone rather than a personal interview, and by the presence of a spouse during the intervi...

Motivation: Cellular Electron CryoTomography (CECT) is an emerging 3D imaging technique that visualizes subcellular organization of single cells at sub-molecular resolution and in near-native state. CECT captures large numbers of macromolecular complexes of highly diverse structures and abundances. However, the structural complexity and imaging limits complicate the systematic de novo structura...

In the context of environmental monitoring and natural or industrial disaster management, change-detection methods represent powerful tools for studying and mapping the evolution of the Earth’s surface. In order to optimize the accuracy of the change maps, a multiscale approach can be adopted, that jointly exploits observations at coarser scales (to globally identify changed areas and gain robu...

This paper addresses the parameter estimation problem of an interval-based hybrid dynamical system (interval system). The interval system has a two-layer architecture that comprises a finite state automaton and multiple linear dynamical systems. The automaton controls the activation timing of the dynamical systems based on a stochastic transition model between intervals. Thus, the interval syst...

We derive and analyse robust optimization schemes for noisy vector quantization on the basis of deterministic annealing. Starting from a cost function for central clustering that incorporates distortions from channel noise we develop a soft topographic vector quantization algorithm (STVQ) which is based on the maximum entropy principle and which performs a maximum-likelihood estimate in an expe...

Deconvolution consists in estimating the input of a linear and invariant system from its output knowing its Impulse Response Function (IRF). When the IRF of the system is unknown, we are face to Blind Deconvolution. This inverse problem is ill-posed and needs prior information to obtain a satisfactory solution. Regularization theory, well known for simple deconvolution, is no more enough to obt...

In this studywe analyzed a series of terrestrial LiDAR point clouds acquired over a cliff in Puigcercos (Catalonia, Spain). The objective was to detect and extract individual rockfall events that occurred during a time span of six months and to investigate their spatial distribution. To this end local and global cluster algorithms were applied. First we used the nearest neighbor clutter removal...

KTH, Division of Neuronic Engineering, have a finite element model of the head. However, this model does not contain detailed modeling of the brain. This thesis project consists of finding a method to extract brain tissues from T1-weighted MR images of the head. The method should be automatic to be suitable for patient individual modeling. A summary of the most common segmentation methods is pr...

Dynamic networks are a general language for describing time-evolving complex systems, and have long been an interesting research area. It is a fundamental research question to model time varying network parameters. However, due to difficulties in modeling functional network parameters, there is little progress in the current literature to effectively model time varying network parameters. In th...