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Yuichi Tanaka

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arXiv2021

Structure-Aware Multi-Hop Graph Convolution for Graph Neural Networks

In this paper, we propose a spatial graph convolution (GC) to classify signals on a graph. Existing GC methods are limited to using the structural information in the feature space. Additionally, the single step of GCs only uses features on the one-hop neighboring nodes from the target node. In this paper, we propose two methods to improve the performance of GCs: 1) Utilizing structural information in the feature space, and 2) exploiting the multi-hop information in one GC step. In the first method, we define three structural features in the feature space: feature angle, feature distance, and relational embedding. The second method aggregates the node-wise features of multi-hop neighbors in a GC. Both methods can be simultaneously used. We also propose graph neural networks (GNNs) integrating the proposed GC for classifying nodes in 3D point clouds and citation networks. In experiments, the proposed GNNs exhibited a higher classification accuracy than existing methods.

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arXiv2020

Graph Blind Deconvolution with Sparseness Constraint

We propose a blind deconvolution method for signals on graphs, with the exact sparseness constraint for the original signal. Graph blind deconvolution is an algorithm for estimating the original signal on a graph from a set of blurred and noisy measurements. Imposing a constraint on the number of nonzero elements is desirable for many different applications. This paper deals with the problem with constraints placed on the exact number of original sources, which is given by an optimization problem with an $\ell_0$ norm constraint. We solve this non-convex optimization problem using the ADMM iterative solver. Numerical experiments using synthetic signals demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

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arXiv2020

Sampling Signals on Graphs: From Theory to Applications

The study of sampling signals on graphs, with the goal of building an analog of sampling for standard signals in the time and spatial domains, has attracted considerable attention recently. Beyond adding to the growing theory on graph signal processing (GSP), sampling on graphs has various promising applications. In this article, we review current progress on sampling over graphs focusing on theory and potential applications. Although most methodologies used in graph signal sampling are designed to parallel those used in sampling for standard signals, sampling theory for graph signals significantly differs from the theory of Shannon--Nyquist and shift-invariant sampling. This is due in part to the fact that the definitions of several important properties, such as shift invariance and bandlimitedness, are different in GSP systems. Throughout this review, we discuss similarities and differences between standard and graph signal sampling and highlight open problems and challenges.

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arXiv2020

CoronaSurveys: Using Surveys with Indirect Reporting to Estimate the Incidence and Evolution of Epidemics

The world is suffering from a pandemic called COVID-19, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. National governments have problems evaluating the reach of the epidemic, due to having limited resources and tests at their disposal. This problem is especially acute in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Hence, any simple, cheap and flexible means of evaluating the incidence and evolution of the epidemic in a given country with a reasonable level of accuracy is useful. In this paper, we propose a technique based on (anonymous) surveys in which participants report on the health status of their contacts. This indirect reporting technique, known in the literature as network scale-up method, preserves the privacy of the participants and their contacts, and collects information from a larger fraction of the population (as compared to individual surveys). This technique has been deployed in the CoronaSurveys project, which has been collecting reports for the COVID-19 pandemic for more than two months. Results obtained by CoronaSurveys show the power and flexibility of the approach, suggesting that it could be an inexpensive and powerful tool for LMICs.

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arXiv2020

Eigendecomposition-Free Sampling Set Selection for Graph Signals

This paper addresses the problem of selecting an optimal sampling set for signals on graphs. The proposed sampling set selection (SSS) is based on a localization operator that can consider both vertex domain and spectral domain localization. We clarify the relationships among the proposed method, sensor position selection methods in machine learning, and conventional SSS methods based on graph frequency. In contrast to the conventional graph signal processing-based approaches, the proposed method does not need to compute the eigendecomposition of a variation operator, while still considering (graph) frequency information. We evaluate the performance of our approach through comparisons of prediction errors and execution time.

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arXiv2019

Generalized Sampling on Graphs With Subspace and Smoothness Priors

We propose a framework for generalized sampling of graph signals that parallels sampling in shift-invariant (SI) subspaces. This framework allows for arbitrary input signals, which are not constrained to be bandlimited. Furthermore, the sampling and reconstruction filters may be different. We present design methods of the correction filter that compensate for these differences and lead to closed form expressions in the graph frequency domain. In this study, we consider two priors on graph signals: The first is a subspace prior, where the signal is assumed to lie in a periodic graph spectrum (PGS) subspace. The PGS subspace is proposed as a counterpart of the SI subspace used in standard sampling theory. The second is a smoothness prior that imposes a smoothness requirement on the graph signal. We suggest the use of recovery techniques for when the recovery filter can be optimized and under a setting in which a predefined filter must be used. Sampling is performed in the graph frequency domain, which is a counterpart of "sampling by modulation" used in SI subspaces. We compare our approach with existing sampling techniques on graph signal processing. The effectiveness of the proposed generalized sampling approach is validated numerically through several experiments.

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arXiv2019

Two-Channel Critically-Sampled Graph Filter Banks With Spectral Domain Sampling

We propose two-channel critically-sampled filter banks for signals on undirected graphs that utilize spectral domain sampling. Unlike conventional approaches based on vertex domain sampling, our transforms have the following desirable properties: 1) perfect reconstruction regardless of the characteristics of the underlying graphs and graph variation operators and 2) a symmetric structure; i.e., both analysis and synthesis filter banks are built using similar building blocks. Along with the structure of the filter banks, this paper also proves the general criterion for perfect reconstruction and theoretically shows that the vertex and spectral domain sampling coincide for a special case. The effectiveness of our approach is evaluated by comparing its performance in nonlinear approximation and denoising with various conventional graph transforms.

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arXiv2018

M-Channel Critically Sampled Spectral Graph Filter Banks With Symmetric Structure

This paper proposes a class of $M$-channel spectral graph filter banks with a symmetric structure, that is, the transform has sampling operations and spectral graph filters on both the analysis and synthesis sides. The filter banks achieve maximum decimation, perfect recovery, and orthogonality. Conventional spectral graph transforms with decimation have significant limitations with regard to the number of channels, the structures of the underlying graph, and their filter design. The proposed transform uses sampling in the graph frequency domain. This enables us to use any variation operators and apply the transforms to arbitrary graphs even when the filter banks have symmetric structures. We clarify the perfect reconstruction conditions and show design examples. An experiment on graph signal denoising conducted to examine the performance of the proposed filter bank is described.

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arXiv2018

Spectral Domain Sampling of Graph Signals

Sampling methods for graph signals in the graph spectral domain are presented. Though conventional sampling of graph signals can be regarded as sampling in the graph vertex domain, it does not have the desired characteristics in regard to the graph spectral domain. With the proposed methods, the down- and upsampled graph signals inherit the frequency domain characteristics of the sampled signals defined in the time/spatial domain. The properties of the sampling effects were evaluated theoretically in comparison with those obtained with the conventional sampling method in the vertex domain. Various examples of signals on simple graphs enable precise understanding of the problem considered. Fractional sampling and Laplacian pyramid representation of graph signals are potential applications of these methods.

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arXiv2018

Graph Spectral Image Processing

Recent advent of graph signal processing (GSP) has spurred intensive studies of signals that live naturally on irregular data kernels described by graphs (e.g., social networks, wireless sensor networks). Though a digital image contains pixels that reside on a regularly sampled 2D grid, if one can design an appropriate underlying graph connecting pixels with weights that reflect the image structure, then one can interpret the image (or image patch) as a signal on a graph, and apply GSP tools for processing and analysis of the signal in graph spectral domain. In this article, we overview recent graph spectral techniques in GSP specifically for image / video processing. The topics covered include image compression, image restoration, image filtering and image segmentation.

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arXiv2017

Fast Singular Value Shrinkage with Chebyshev Polynomial Approximation Based on Signal Sparsity

We propose an approximation method for thresholding of singular values using Chebyshev polynomial approximation (CPA). Many signal processing problems require iterative application of singular value decomposition (SVD) for minimizing the rank of a given data matrix with other cost functions and/or constraints, which is called matrix rank minimization. In matrix rank minimization, singular values of a matrix are shrunk by hard-thresholding, soft-thresholding, or weighted soft-thresholding. However, the computational cost of SVD is generally too expensive to handle high dimensional signals such as images; hence, in this case, matrix rank minimization requires enormous computation time. In this paper, we leverage CPA to (approximately) manipulate singular values without computing singular values and vectors. The thresholding of singular values is expressed by a multiplication of certain matrices, which is derived from a characteristic of CPA. The multiplication is also efficiently computed using the sparsity of signals. As a result, the computational cost is significantly reduced. Experimental results suggest the effectiveness of our method through several image processing applications based on matrix rank minimization with nuclear norm relaxation in terms of computation time and approximation precision.

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