# Vers une vision robuste de l'inférence géométrique

Abstract : It is primordial to establish effective and robust methods to extract pertinent information from datasets. We focus on datasets that can be represented as point clouds in some metric space, e.g. Euclidean space R^d; and that are generated according to some distribution. Of the natural questions that may arise when one has access to data, three are addressed in this thesis. The first question concerns the comparison of two sets of points. How to decide whether two datasets have been generated according to similar distributions? We build a statistical test allowing to one to decide whether two point clouds have been generated from distributions that are equal (up to some rigid transformation e.g. symmetry, translation, rotation...).The second question is about the decomposition of a set of points into clusters. Given a point cloud, how does one make relevant clusters? Often, it consists of selecting a set of k representatives, and associating every point to its closest representative (in some sense to be defined). We develop methods suited to data sampled according to some mixture of k distributions, possibly with outliers. Finally, when the data can not be grouped naturally into $k$ clusters, e.g. when they are generated in a close neighborhood of some sub-manifold in R^d, a more relevant question is the following. How to build a system of $k$ representatives, with k large, from which it is possible to recover the sub-manifold? This last question is related to the problems of quantization and compact set inference. To address it, we introduce and study a modification of the $k$-means method adapted to the presence of outliers, in the context of quantization. The answers we bring in this thesis are of two types, theoretical and algorithmic. The methods we develop are based on continuous objects built from distributions and sub-measures. Statistical studies allow us to measure the proximity between the empirical objects and the continuous ones. These methods are easy to implement in practice, when samples of points are available. The main tool in this thesis is the function distance-to-measure, which was originally introduced to make topological data analysis work in the presence of outliers.
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Claire Brécheteau. Vers une vision robuste de l'inférence géométrique. Géométrie métrique [math.MG]. Université Paris-Saclay, 2018. Français. ⟨NNT : 2018SACLS334⟩. ⟨tel-01897787v2⟩

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