We consider a parametric deformation model for distributions. More precisely, we assume we observe J samples of random variables which are warped from an unknown distribution template. We tackle in this paper the problem of estimating the individual deformation parameters. For this, we construct a registering criterion based on the Wasserstein distance to quantify the alignment of the distributions. We prove consistency of the empirical estimators.
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