This thesis presents methods for multiscale statistical inference on random fields on a regular two-dimensional lattice. There are two distinct concepts of scale that are used in the thesis. The first one is connected to the computer vision community's understanding of scale-space as a family of smooths of a digital image, with fine structure being revealed at low levels of smoothing and the coarser ...

Practical applications of microwave imaging often require the solution of inverse scattering problems with inhomogeneous backgrounds. Toward this end, a novel inversion strategy, which combines the multiscaling (MS) regularization scheme and the difference contraction integral equation (DCIE) formulation, is proposed. Such an integrated approach mitigates the nonlinearity and the ill-posedness of ...

This study was performed with the three main goals. The first of which includes the implementation of “Eulerian Video Magnification” for the normal videos to observe the subtle changes that cannot be seen through the naked eyes. The second goal was to implement interpolation on thermal infrared videos. Finally, the third goal is to combine both the videos to amplify complex variations to reveal ...

<b>Objectives:</b> To examine the association between multisite musculoskeletal pain in adolescence and mental health disorders in young adulthood. <br><b>Design and setting: </b>Data were obtained from a linkage between the Norwegian Patient Registry (2008 – 2012) and the Norwegian Arctic Adolescent Health Study, a school-based survey conducted among 10th grade students in North Norway (2003 – ...

<p><i>Background:</i> Self-harm and suicidal behaviour commonly debuts and increases during adolescence. Suicidal behaviour is a major public health concern and is associated with later suicidal behaviour, mental health disorders and poor functioning in adulthood. Musculoskeletal pain also increases during adolescence and multisite pain is associated with increased disability and psychosocial problems. ...

We report on a prototype system helping actors on a stage to interact and perform with actors on other stages as if they were on the same stage. At each stage four 3D cameras tiled back to back for an almost 360 degree view, continuously record actors. The system processes the recorded data on-the-fly to discover actions by actors that it should react to, and it streams data about actors and their ...

This thesis addresses two approaches for change detection from multipolarization, multilooked SAR images: a post-classification comparison and a direct change detection. We consider the complete workflow associated with performing post-classification change detection from time series of multipolarization SAR (PolSAR) images acquired with different imaging geometries and polarimetric configurations. ...

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A series of column leaching experiments were performed to understand the leaching behavior of Co, Fe and Ni in Ballangen mine tailings. Multivariate statistical approaches to evaluate potential risk variations in leachate quality and identifies temperature effects on their leaching behavior. Results from column leaching test indicated that the mobility of showed higher temperature may encourage ...

The heavy-tailed Multivariate Normal Inverse Gaussian (MNIG) distribution is a recent variance-mean mixture of a multivariate Gaussian with a univariate inverse Gaussian distribution. Due to the complexity of the likelihood function, parameter estimation by direct maximization is exceedingly difficult. To overcome this problem, we propose a fast and accurate multivariate ExpectationMaximization (EM) ...