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We propose a new method for shape recognition and retrieval based on dynamic programming. Our approach uses the dynamic programming algorithm to compute the optimal score and to find the optimal alignment between two strings. First, each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Noreddine Gherabi , Bahaj Mohamed

The problem of the optimal approximation of circular arcs by parametric polynomial curves is considered. The optimality relates to the curvature error. Parametric polynomial curves of low degree are used and a geometric continuity is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ema Češek , Aleš Vavpetič

We address here the problem of generating random graphs uniformly from the set of simple connected graphs having a prescribed degree sequence. Our goal is to provide an algorithm designed for practical use both because of its ability to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Fabien Viger , Matthieu Latapy

The aim of this paper is to present a new method of approximation of planar data set using only arcs or segments. The first problem we are trying to solve is the following: the CNC machines can work only with simple curves (arcs or…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-25 Maurizio Scarparo

We present a new circular-arc cartogram model in which countries are drawn as polygons with circular arcs instead of straight-line segments. Given a political map and values associated with each country in the map, a cartogram is a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-12-07 Jan-Hinrich Kämper , Stephen G. Kobourov , Martin Nöllenburg

We use some fundamental ideas from complex analysis to create symmetric images and animations. Using a domain coloring algorithm, we generate mappings to the entire complex plane or the hyperbolic upper half-plane. The resulting designs can…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-27 Emily J. Gullerud , James S. Walker

Line art is arguably one of the fundamental and versatile modes of expression. We propose a pipeline for a robot to look at a grayscale line art and redraw it. The key novel elements of our pipeline are: a) we propose a novel task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Raghav Brahmadesam Venkataramaiyer , Subham Kumar , Vinay P. Namboodiri

We introduce a fast, high-precision algorithm for calculating intersections between great circle arcs and lines of constant latitude on the unit sphere. We first propose a simplified intersection point formula with improved speed and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Hongyu Chen , Paul A. Ullrich , Julian Panetta

Plotting solution sets for particular equations may be complicated by the existence of turning points. Here we describe an algorithm which not only overcomes such problematic points, but does so in the most general of settings. Applications…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-07-05 Steven Pollack , Daniel Badali , Jonathan Pollack

Automatic circle detection in digital images has received considerable attention over the last years in computer vision as several efforts have aimed for an optimal circle detector. This paper presents an algorithm for automatic detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Erik Cuevas , Noe Ortega , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez

The path tracing method generates incoherent rays by randomly sampling directions. This randomness makes it unsuitable for modern processor architectures that rely on coherence to achieve optimal performance. Many efforts have been made to…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Fengqi Liu , Zaonan Tan , Weilai Xiang , Chenhao Lu , Dan Li , Xu Gong , Yulong Shi , Songnan Shi , Qilong Kou , Bo Hu

We describe a system that lets a designer interactively draw patterns of strokes in the picture plane, then guide the synthesis of similar patterns over new picture regions. Synthesis is based on an initial user-assisted analysis phase in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2008-03-25 Pascal Barla , Simon Breslav , Lee Markosian , Joëlle Thollot

The crossing resolution of a non-planar drawing of a graph is the value of the minimum angle formed by any pair of crossing edges. Recent experiments have shown that the larger the crossing resolution is, the easier it is to read and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Michael A. Bekos , Henry Förster , Christian Geckeler , Lukas Holländer , Michael Kaufmann , Amadäus M. Spallek , Jan Splett

Orthogonal graph drawing has many applications, e.g., for laying out UML diagrams or cableplans. In this paper, we present a new pipeline that draws multigraphs orthogonally, using few bends, few crossings, and small area. Our pipeline…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Tim Hegemann , Alexander Wolff

A circle graph is a graph in which the adjacency of vertices can be represented as the intersection of chords of a circle. The problem of calculating the chromatic number is known to be NP-complete, even on circle graphs. In this paper, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Masato Tanaka , Tomomi Matsui

We develop a circle of ideas involving pairs of lines in the plane, intersections of hyperbolically rotated elliptical cones and the locus of the centers of rectangles inscribed in lines in the plane.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-04 Bruce Olberding , Elaine A. Walker

Graph drawing addresses the problem of finding a layout of a graph that satisfies given aesthetic and understandability objectives. The most important objective in graph drawing is minimization of the number of crossings in the drawing, as…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-01-22 Mohamed A. El-Sayed , S. Abdel-Khalek , Hanan H. Amin

Image-guided drawing can compensate for the lack of skills but often requires a significant number of repetitive strokes to create textures. Existing automatic stroke synthesis methods are usually limited to predefined styles or require…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yilan Chen , Kin Chung Kwan , Li-Yi Wei , Hongbo Fu

The simplest way to obtain continuous interpolation between two points in high dimensional space is to draw a line between them. While previous works focused on the general connectivity between model parameters, we explored linear…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Mark Rofin , Nikita Balagansky , Daniil Gavrilov

This work presents CLIPDraw, an algorithm that synthesizes novel drawings based on natural language input. CLIPDraw does not require any training; rather a pre-trained CLIP language-image encoder is used as a metric for maximizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Kevin Frans , L. B. Soros , Olaf Witkowski