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We consider the problem of estimating filamentary structure from planar point process data. We make some connections with computational geometry and we develop nonparametric methods for estimating the filaments. We show that, under weak…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Christopher R. Genovese , Marco Perone-Pacifico , Isabella Verdinelli , Larry Wasserman

Context. Filamentary structures appear to be ubiquitous in the interstellar medium. Being able to detect and characterize them is the first step toward understanding their origin, their evolution, and their role in the Galactic cycle of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-14 J. -S. Carrière , L. Montier , K. Ferrière , I. Ristorcelli

We use a suite of high resolution molecular cloud simulations carried out with the moving mesh code Arepo to explore the nature of star-forming filaments. The simulated filaments are identified and categorised from column density maps in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Rowan J. Smith , Simon C. O. Glover , Ralf. S. Klessen

The detection and characterization of filamentary structures in the cosmic web allows cosmologists to constrain parameters that dictates the evolution of the Universe. While many filament estimators have been proposed, they generally lack…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-07 Yen-Chi Chen , Shirley Ho , Peter E. Freeman , Christopher R. Genovese , Larry Wasserman

Point clouds have been a recent interest for ray tracing-based radio channel characterization, as sensors such as RGB-D cameras and laser scanners can be utilized to generate an accurate virtual copy of a physical environment. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Niklas Vaara , Pekka Sangi , Miguel Bordallo López , Janne Heikkilä

Filaments play a crucial role in providing the necessary environmental conditions for star formation, actively participating in the process. To facilitate the identification and analysis of filaments, we introduce DPConCFil (Directional and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-10 Yu Jiang

As the environment harbouring the majority of galaxies, filaments are thought to play a key role in the co-evolution of galaxies and the cosmic web. In this first part of a series to understand the link between galaxies and filaments…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 Yannick M. Bahe , Pascale Jablonka

Far-infrared imaging surveys of Galactic star-forming regions with Herschel have shown that a substantial part of the cold interstellar medium appears as a fascinating web of omnipresent filamentary structures. This highly anisotropic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 A. Men'shchikov

The cosmic web that characterizes the large-scale structure of the Universe can be quantified by a variety of methods. For example, large redshift surveys can be used in combination with point process algorithms to extract long curvilinear…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Noam I. Libeskind , Elmo Tempel , Yehuda Hoffman , R. Brent Tully , Helene Courtois

The relative orientation between filamentary structures in molecular clouds and the ambient magnetic field provides insight into filament formation and stability. To calculate the relative orientation, a measurement of filament orientation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 C. -E. Green , J. R. Dawson , M. R. Cunningham , P. A. Jones , G. Novak , L. M. Fissel

We introduce an estimator for the curvature of curves and surfaces by using finite sample points drawn from sampling a probability distribution that has support on the curve or surface. First we give an algorithm for estimation of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-03 R. Mirzaie

High quality upsampling of sparse 3D point clouds is critically useful for a wide range of geometric operations such as reconstruction, rendering, meshing, and analysis. In this paper, we propose a data-driven algorithm that enables an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Wentai Zhang , Haoliang Jiang , Zhangsihao Yang , Soji Yamakawa , Kenji Shimada , Levent Burak Kara

We quantify the performance of mass mapping techniques on mock imaging and gravitational lensing data of galaxy clusters. The optimum method depends upon the scientific goal. We assess measurements of clusters' radial density profiles,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-29 Sut-Ieng Tam , Richard Massey , Mathilde Jauzac , Andrew Robertson

The universe in large scales is structured as a network known as cosmic web. Filaments are one of the structural components of this web, which can be introduced as a novel probe to study the formation and evolution of structures and as a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-16 Mohammad Ansari Fard , Sina Taamoli , Shant Baghram

We discuss the problem of extending data mining approaches to cases in which data points arise in the form of individual graphs. Being able to find the intrinsic low-dimensionality in ensembles of graphs can be useful in a variety of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-12 Karthikeyan Rajendran , Assimakis A. Kattis , Alexander Holiday , Risi Kondor , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

We propose to apply a marked point process to automatically delineate filaments of the large-scale structure in redshift catalogues. We illustrate the feasibility of the idea on an example of simulated catalogues, describe the procedure,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Radu S. Stoica , Vicent J. Martinez , Jorge Mateu , Enn Saar

Discrete point cloud objects lack sufficient shape descriptors of 3D geometries. In this paper, we present a novel method for aggregating hypothetical curves in point clouds. Sequences of connected points (curves) are initially grouped by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Tiange Xiang , Chaoyi Zhang , Yang Song , Jianhui Yu , Weidong Cai

Learning and analyzing 3D point clouds with deep networks is challenging due to the sparseness and irregularity of the data. In this paper, we present a data-driven point cloud upsampling technique. The key idea is to learn multi-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Lequan Yu , Xianzhi Li , Chi-Wing Fu , Daniel Cohen-Or , Pheng-Ann Heng

Here we use data from multi-scale galactic MHD simulations to observe filaments and star forming clumps on 10's of pc scales and investigate flow rate relationships along, and onto filaments as well as flows towards the clumps. Using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 M. R. A. Wells , R. Pillsworth , H. Beuther , R. E. Pudritz , E. W. Koch

Data mining techniques, including clustering and classification tasks, for the automatic information extraction from large datasets are increasingly demanded in several scientific fields. In particular, in the astrophysical field, large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. Frailis , A. De Angelis , V. Roberto