Dan Cornford

Publication List Details

Period

1999 - 2009

Number

31

Co-Authors

Optimal Experimental Design for Heteroscedastic Gaussian Process Emulators (2009)

Boukouvalas, Alexis; Aston University; Boukouva@aston.ac.uk, Cornford, Dan; Aston University; D.Cornford@aston.ac.uk

A wide range of real-world applications are increasingly using stochastic, or random output, simulators to assist in decision and policy making. As such models become increasingly complex,...

Variational Inference in Reduced Order Dynamical Models (2009)

Cornford, Dan; NCRG, Aston University; D.cornford@aston.ac.uk, Shen, Yuan; NCRG, Aston University; Y.shen2@aston.ac.uk, Opper, Manfred; Artificial Intelligence Group, TU Berlin; Opperm@cs.tu-berlin.de

Dynamical systems arise across a range of application domains, from systems biology, to weather forecasting. To study such systems it is necessary to build models to represent the important processes...

some (2009)

Dan Cornford, Lehel Csató, David J. Evans

analysis of the scatterometer wind retrieval inverse problem:

A comparison of variational and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for inference in partially observed stochastic dynamic systems. (2009)

Shen, Yuan, Archambeau, Cedric, Cornford, Dan, Opper, Manfred, Shawe-Taylor, John, Barillec, Remi

In recent years we have developed a novel variational method for partially observed systems governed by stochastic differential equations. In this paper we provide a comparison of the Variational...

inverse problems: some new approaches (2008)

Dan Cornford, Lehel Csató, David J. Evans

Proofs subject to correction. Not to be reproduced without permission. Confidential until read to the Society. Contributions to the discussion must not exceed 400 words. Contributions longer than 400...

Sparse, Sequential Bayesian Geostatistics (2008)

Dan Cornford, Lehel Csato

spatial statistics, space-time modelling and data assimilation. Lehel Csato is a post-doc in the same group working on an EPSRC grant (GR/R61857/01) looking at applying sparse sequential Gaussian...

Variational Inference in Stochastic Dynamic Environmental Models (2008)

Dan Cornford, John Shawe-taylor, Ian Roulstone, Peter Clark

The improvements in computational power that are anticipated over the next decade will enable the development of models that permit the study of emergent behaviour of complex interacting systems,...

Bayesian Inference for Wind Field Retrieval Abstract (2008)

Ian T. Nabney, Dan Cornford

In many problems in spatial statistics it is necessary to infer a global problem solution by combining local models. A principled approach to this problem is to develop a global probabilistic model...

Abstract (2008)

Cédric Archambeau, Yuan Shen, Dan Cornford, John Shawe-taylor

Diffusion processes are a family of continuous-time continuous-state stochastic processes that are in general only partially observed. The joint estimation of the forcing parameters and the system...

Variational Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Inference in Partially Observed Nonlinear Diffusions. (2008)

Shen, Yuan, Archambeau, Cedric, Cornford, Dan, Opper, Manfred

In this paper, we develop a set of novel Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms for Bayesian inference in partially observed non-linear diffusion processes. The Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms we...

Variational Inference for Diffusion Processes (2007)

Archambeau, Cedric, Opper, Manfred, Shen, Yuan, Cornford, Dan, Shawe-Taylor, John

Diffusion processes are a family of continuous-time continuous-state stochastic processes that are in general only partially observed. The joint estimation of the forcing parameters and the system...

Geographic Information Systems (2007)

Dan Cornford

We live in a world that is increasingly dominated by Information Technology, where databases are continually being created and expanding. However data 6 = information, so as computer scientists one...

1 Improved Multi-beam Neural Network Scatterometer Forward Models (2007)

Dan Cornford, Ian T. Nabney, Guillaume Ramage

Current methods for retrieving near surface winds from scatterometer observations over the ocean surface require a foward sensor model which maps the wind vector to the measured backscatter. This...

Evaluation of Variational and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Inference in Partially Observed Stochastic Dynamic Systems (2007)

Shen, Yuan, Archambeau, Cedric, Cornford, Dan, Opper, Manfred, Shawe-Taylor, John, Barillec, Remi

In recent work we have developed a novel variational inference method for partially observed systems governed by stochastic differential equations. In this paper we provide a comparison of the...

Evaluation of Variational and Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Inference in Partially Observed Stochastic Dynamic Systems (2007)

Shen, Yuan, Archambeau, Cedric, Cornford, Dan, Opper, Manfred, Shawe-Taylor, John, Barillec, Remi

In recent work we have developed a novel variational inference method for partially observed systems governed by stochastic differential equations. In this paper we provide a comparison of the...

Gaussian Process Approximations of Stochastic Differential Equations (2007)

Archambeau, Cedric, Cornford, Dan, Opper, Manfred, Shawe-Taylor, John

Stochastic differential equations arise naturally in a range of contexts, from financial to environmental modeling. Current solution methods are limited in their representation of the posterior...

Gaussian Process Approximations of Stochastic Differential Equation (2007)

Archambeau, Cedric, Cornford, Dan, Opper, Manfred, Shawe-Taylor, John

Stochastic differential equations arise naturally in a range of contexts, from financial to environmental modeling. Current solution methods are limited in their representation of the posterior...

Variational Inference for Diffusion Processes (2007)

Archambeau, Cedric, Opper, Manfred, Shen, Yuan, Cornford, Dan, Shawe-Taylor, John

Diffusion processes are a family of continuous-time continuous-state stochastic processes that are in general only partly observed. The joint estimation of the forcing parameters and the system noise...

Gaussian process approximations of stochastic differential equations (2007)

Cédric Archambeau, Dan Cornford, D. Lawrence, Anton Schwaighofer, Joaquin Quiñonero C

Stochastic differential equations arise naturally in a range of contexts, from financial to environmental modeling. Current solution methods are limited in their representation of the posterior...

Gaussian Process Approximations of Stochastic Differential Equations (2006)

Archambeau, Cedric, Cornford, Dan, Opper, Manfred, Shawe-Taylor, John

Stochastic differential equations arise naturally in a range of contexts, from financial to environmental modelling. Current solution methods are based on a range of strong and weak approximation...

Contents (2005)

Dan Cornford

We live in a world that is increasingly dominated by Information Technology, where databases are continually being created and expanding. However data � = information, so as computer scientists one...

Contents (2005)

Dan Cornford

We live in a world that is increasingly dominated by Information Technology, where databases are continually being created and expanding. However data � = information, so as computer scientists one...

Bayesian Analysis of the Scatterometer Wind Retrieval inverse Problem: Some new Approaches (2004)

Cornford, Dan, Csato, Lehel, Evans, David J, Opper, Manfred

The retrieval of wind vectors from satellite observed radar backscatter can be seen as a non-linear inverse problem. A common approach to solving inverse problems is the Bayesian framework: to infer...

Graphics OUTPUT Description Pattern Recognition Data Processing (2004)

Dan Cornford

This course is meant as an introduction to computer graphics, which covers a large body of work. The intention is to give a solid grounding in basic 2D computer graphics and introduce the concepts...

Improved neural network scatterometer forward models (2001)

Dan Cornford, Ian T. Nabney, Guillaume Ramage

Abstract. Current retrieval methods for wind vectors from scatterometer observations over the ocean surface requires a sensor model relating the measured backscatter to the wind vector. The...

Online learning of wind-field models (2001)

Lehel Csató, Dan Cornford

Abstract. We study online approximations to Gaussian process models for spatially distributed systems. We apply our method to the prediction of wind fields over the ocean surface from scatterometer...

Bayesian inference for wind field retrieval (2000)

Dan Cornford, Ian T. Nabney

In many problems in spatial statistics it is necessary to infer a global problem solution by combining local models. A principled approach to this problem is to develop a global probabilistic model...

Adding Constrained Discontinuities to Gaussian Process Models of Wind Fields (1999)

Dan Cornford, Ian T. Nabney

Accepted NIPS98 Gaussian Processes provide good prior models for spatial data, but can be too smooth. In many physical situations there are discontinuities along bounding surfaces, for example fronts...

Bayesian analysis of the scatterometer wind retrieval inverse problem: some new approaches

Dan Cornford, Lehel Csató, David J. Evans, Manfred Opper

The retrieval of wind vectors from satellite scatterometer observations is a non-linear inverse problem. A common approach to solving inverse problems is to adopt a Bayesian framework and to infer...