Fibre-generated point processes and fields of orientations

DOI10.1214/12-AOAS553zbMATH Open1254.62101arXiv1109.0701MaRDI QIDQ714358FDOQ714358

Authors: Bryony J. Hill, Wilfrid S. Kendall, E. Thönnes 

Publication date: 21 October 2012

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper introduces a new approach to analyzing spatial point data clustered along or around a system of curves or "fibres." Such data arise in catalogues of galaxy locations, recorded locations of earthquakes, aerial images of minefields and pore patterns on fingerprints. Finding the underlying curvilinear structure of these point-pattern data sets may not only facilitate a better understanding of how they arise but also aid reconstruction of missing data. We base the space of fibres on the set of integral lines of an orientation field. Using an empirical Bayes approach, we estimate the field of orientations from anisotropic features of the data. We then sample from the posterior distribution of fibres, exploring models with different numbers of clusters, fitting fibres to the clusters as we proceed. The Bayesian approach permits inference on various properties of the clusters and associated fibres, and the results perform well on a number of very different curvilinear structures.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0701

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zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain Monte Carloempirical Bayesearthquakesfingerprintstensor fieldsspatial point processesfibre processesfield of orientationsspatial birth-death process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Numerical analysis or methods applied to Markov chains (65C40) Point processes (e.g., Poisson, Cox, Hawkes processes) (60G55) Geostatistics (86A32) Empirical decision procedures; empirical Bayes procedures (62C12)

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