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Light Reflectance Characteristics and Remote Sensing of Waterlettuce
Waterlettuce (
Pistia stratiotes
L.) is a free-floating exotic
aquatic weed that often invades and clogs waterways in the
southeastern United States. A study was conducted to evaluate
the potential of using remote sensing technology to distinguish
infestations of waterlettuce in Texas waterways. Field
reflectance measurements showed that waterlettuce had
higher visible green reflectance than associated plant species.
Waterlettuce could be detected in both aerial color- infrared
(CIR) photography and videography where it had
light pink to pinkish-white image tonal responses. Computer
analysis of CIR photographic and videographic images had
overall accuracy assessments of 86% and 84%, respectively. (PDF contains 6 pages.
Sequential Monte Carlo with transformations
This paper examines methodology for performing Bayesian inference sequentially on a sequence of posteriors on spaces of different dimensions. For this, we use sequential Monte Carlo samplers, introducing the innovation of using deterministic transformations to move particles effectively between target distributions with different dimensions. This approach, combined with adaptive methods, yields an extremely flexible and general algorithm for Bayesian model comparison that is suitable for use in applications where the acceptance rate in reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo is low. We use this approach on model comparison for mixture models, and for inferring coalescent trees sequentially, as data arrives
Cool for Cats
The iconic Schr\"odinger's cat state describes a system that may be in a
superposition of two macroscopically distinct states, for example two clearly
separated oscillator coherent states. Quite apart from their role in
understanding the quantum classical boundary, such states have been suggested
as offering a quantum advantage for quantum metrology, quantum communication
and quantum computation. As is well known these applications have to face the
difficulty that the irreversible interaction with an environment causes the
superposition to rapidly evolve to a mixture of the component states in the
case that the environment is not monitored. Here we show that by engineering
the interaction with the environment there exists a large class of systems that
can evolve irreversibly to a cat state. To be precise we show that it is
possible to engineer an irreversible process so that the steady state is close
to a pure Schr\"odinger's cat state by using double well systems and an
environment comprising two-photon (or phonon) absorbers. We also show that it
should be possible to prolong the lifetime of a Schr\"odinger's cat state
exposed to the destructive effects of a conventional single-photon decohering
environment. Our protocol should make it easier to prepare and maintain
Schr\"odinger cat states which would be useful in applications of quantum
metrology and information processing as well as being of interest to those
probing the quantum to classical transition.Comment: 10 pages, 7 figures. Significantly updated version with supplementary
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Online bayesian inference in some time-frequency representations of non-stationary processes
The use of Bayesian inference in the inference of time-frequency representations has, thus far, been limited to offline analysis of signals, using a smoothing spline based model of the time-frequency plane. In this paper we introduce a new framework that allows the routine use of Bayesian inference for online estimation of the time-varying spectral density of a locally stationary Gaussian process. The core of our approach is the use of a likelihood inspired by a local Whittle approximation. This choice, along with the use of a recursive algorithm for non-parametric estimation of the local spectral density, permits the use of a particle filter for estimating the time-varying spectral density online. We provide demonstrations of the algorithm through tracking chirps and the analysis of musical data
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Rare event ABC-SMC
Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is a well-established family of Monte
Carlo methods for performing approximate Bayesian inference in the case where
an ``implicit'' model is used for the data: when the data model can be
simulated, but the likelihood cannot easily be pointwise evaluated. A
fundamental property of standard ABC approaches is that the number of Monte
Carlo points required to achieve a given accuracy scales exponentially with the
dimension of the data. Prangle et al. (2018) proposes a Markov chain Monte
Carlo (MCMC) method that uses a rare event sequential Monte Carlo (SMC)
approach to estimating the ABC likelihood that avoids this exponential scaling,
and thus allows ABC to be used on higher dimensional data. This paper builds on
the work of Prangle et al. (2018) by using the rare event SMC approach within
an SMC algorithm, instead of within an MCMC algorithm. The new method has a
similar structure to SMC (Chopin et al., 2013), and requires less tuning
than the MCMC approach. We demonstrate the new approach, compared to existing
ABC-SMC methods, on a toy example and on a duplication-divergence random graph
model used for modelling protein interaction networks
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