Wednesday, February 13, 2013

1302.2758 (J. -L. Starck et al.)

Sparsity and the Bayesian Perspective    [PDF]

J. -L. Starck, D. L. Donoho, M. J. Fadili, A. Rassat
Sparsity has been recently introduced in cosmology for weak-lensing and CMB data analysis for different applications such as denoising, component separation or inpainting (i.e. filling the missing data or the mask). Although it gives very nice numerical results, CMB sparse inpainting has been severely criticized by top researchers in cosmology, based on arguments derived from a Bayesian perspective. Trying to understand their point of view, we realize that interpreting a regularization penalty term as a prior in a Bayesian framework can lead to erroneous conclusions. This paper is by no means against the Bayesian approach, which has proven to be very useful for many applications, but warns about a Bayesian-only interpretation in data analysis, which can be misleading in some cases.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2758

No comments:

Post a Comment