Parametric and Nonparametric Inference for Statistical Dynamic Shape Analysis with Applications - Couverture souple

Brombin, Chiara; Fontanella, Laura; Fontanella, Lara; Ippoliti, Luigi; Salmaso, Luigi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319263102 ISBN 13 : 9783319263106

Editeur : Springer, 2016

Synopsis

This book considers specific inferential issues arising from the analysis of dynamic shapes with the attempt to solve the problems at hand using probability models and nonparametric tests. The models are simple to understand and interpret and provide a useful tool to describe the global dynamics of the landmark configurations. However, because of the non-Euclidean nature of shape spaces, distributions in shape spaces are not straightforward to obtain.

The book explores the use of the Gaussian distribution in the configuration space, with similarity transformations integrated out. Specifically, it works with the offset-normal shape distribution as a probability model for statistical inference on a sample of a temporal sequence of landmark configurations. This enables inference for Gaussian processes from configurations onto the shape space.

The book is divided in two parts, with the first three chapters covering material on the offset-normal shape distribution, and the remaining chapters covering the theory of NonParametric Combination (NPC) tests. The chapters offer a collection of applications which are bound together by the theme of this book.

They refer to the analysis of data from the FG-NET (Face and Gesture Recognition Research Network) database with facial expressions. For these data, it may be desirable to provide a description of the dynamics of the expressions, or testing whether there is a difference between the dynamics of two facial expressions or testing which of the landmarks are more informative in explaining the pattern of an expression.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Chiara Brombin is Assistant Professor in Statistics atthe Faculty of Psychology (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milano) andnational coordinator of the research project FIRB 2012 (RBFR12VHR7)"Interpreting emotions: a computational tool integrating facialexpressions and biosignals based on shape analysis and Bayesian networks".Her research interests focus on applied statistics and include nonparametricpermutation tests, statistical shape analysis, multivariate statistics, linearmixed-effect models, joint models for longitudinal and time-to-event data.

Luigi Salmaso is Full Professor of Statistics at theDepartment of Management and Engineering at University of Padova. His researchinterests include biostatistics, statistical methods for marketing research,design of experiments, nonparametric statistics and agricultural statistics.Specific topics of interests include permutation tests, resampling techniquesand ranking and selection methods.

Luigi Ippoliti is an Associate Professor in Statistics atthe University "G. d'Annunzio"of Chieti Pescara, Italy. His researchactivity is mainly focused on the analysis of multivariate processes withtemporal, spatial and spatio-temporal structures with interests in economic,environmental and Neuro-Physiological applications. 

Specific topics of interests include hierarchicalspatio-temporal models, image processing, functional data analysis and dynamicshape analysis.

Lara Fontanella is a Researcher in Statistics at theUniversity G. d'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Her research interests focusmainly on Latent Variable models and Statistical Analysis of Dynamic Shapes,with applications to environmental, neuro-physiological, social and economicdata.

Caterina Fusilli holds a Bachelor's Degree in Statisticsand Information Technologies and a Master Degree in Statistics for Biomedicine,Environment and Technology from the University "La Sapienza" of Rome. She also received thePh.D degree in Economics and Statistics from the University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti - Pescara. She is a postdoctoral research fellowin the Bioinformatic unit at the IRCCS Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza - MendelInstitute (Rome). Her research interests include the Next-GenerationSequencing, Bioinformatics, Shape Analysis, Cluster Analysis and Finite MixtureModels.                                                                                                                                          

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This book considers specific inferential issues arising from the analysis of dynamic shapes with the attempt to solve the problems at hand using probability models and nonparametric tests. The models are simple to understand and interpret and provide a useful tool to describe the global dynamics of the landmark configurations. However, because of the non-Euclidean nature of shape spaces, distributions in shape spaces are not straightforward to obtain.

The book explores the use of the Gaussian distribution in the configuration space, with similarity transformations integrated out. Specifically, it works with the offset-normal shape distribution as a probability model for statistical inference on a sample of a temporal sequence of landmark configurations. This enables inference for Gaussian processes from configurations onto the shape space.

The book is divided in two parts, with the first three chapters covering material on the offset-normal shape distribution, and the remaining chapters covering the theory of NonParametric Combination (NPC) tests. The chapters offer a collection of applications which are bound together by the theme of this book.

They refer to the analysis of data from the FG-NET (Face and Gesture Recognition Research Network) database with facial expressions. For these data, it may be desirable to provide a description of the dynamics of the expressions, or testing whether there is a difference between the dynamics of two facial expressions or testing which of the landmarks are more informative in explaining the pattern of an expression.                                                                                                                      

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319263102
• ISBN 13: 9783319263106
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 115
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