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Density estimation for compound cox processes on hyperspheres

F Chatelain, N Le Bihan, JH Manton

Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics | SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG | Published : 2017

Abstract

Cox multiple scattering processes on hyperspheres are a class of doubly stochastic Poisson processes that can be used to describe scattering phenomenon in Physics (optics, micro-waves, acoustics, etc.). In this article, we present an EM (Expectation Maximization) technique to estimate the concentration parameter of a Compound Cox process with values on hyperspheres. The proposed algorithm is based on an approximation formula for multiconvolution of von Mises Fisher densities on spheres of any dimension.

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