Projective shape consists of the information about a configuration of points that is invariant under projective transformations. It is an important tool in machine vision to pick out features that are invariant to the choice of camera view. The simplest example is the cross ratio for a set of...

In certain multivariate problems the full probability density has an awkward normalizing constant, but the conditional and/or marginal distributions may be much more tractable. In this paper we investigate the use of composite likelihoods instead of the full likelihood. For closed exponential...

Gneiting (2002) proposed a nonseparable covariance model for spatial-temporal data. In the present paper we show that in certain circumstances his model possesses a counterintuitive dimple. In some cases, the magnitude of the dimple can be nontrivial. Copyright 2011, Oxford University Press.

An important problem in shape analysis is to match configurations of points in space after filtering out some geometrical transformation. In this paper we introduce hierarchical models for such tasks, in which the points in the configurations are either unlabelled or have at most a partial...