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Locating Fréchet means with application to shape spaces

Part of: Geometric probability and stochastic geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Huiling Le
Huiling Le*
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
*
∗ Postal address: School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Email address: huiling.le@nottingham.ac.uk
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Abstract

We use Jacobi field arguments and the contraction mapping theorem to locate Fréchet means of a class of probability measures on locally symmetric Riemannian manifolds with non-negative sectional curvatures. This leads, in particular, to a method for estimating Fréchet mean shapes, with respect to the distance function ρ determined by the induced Riemannian metric, of a class of probability measures on Kendall's shape spaces. We then combine this with the technique of ‘horizontally lifting’ to the pre-shape spheres to obtain an algorithm for finding Fréchet mean shapes, with respect to ρ, of a class of probability measures on Kendall's shape spaces in terms of the vertices of random shapes. This gives us, for example, an algorithm for finding Fréchet mean shapes of samples of configurations on the plane which is expressed directly in terms of the vertices.

Keywords

Kendall's shape spaceFréchet mean shapepre-shape sphereJacobi fieldLipschitz conditioncontraction mappinghorizontal lift

MSC classification

Primary: 60D05: Geometric probability and stochastic geometry
Type
Stochastic Geometry and Statistical Applications
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 324 - 338
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 2001 

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