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In this work we explore the use of thermodynamic length to improve the performance of experimental protocols. In particular, we implement Landauer erasure on a driven electron level in a semiconductor quantum dot, and compare the standard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Matteo Scandi , David Barker , Sebastian Lehmann , Kimberly A. Dick , Ville F. Maisi , Martí Perarnau-Llobet

Elastic geodesic grids deploy from flat to spatial configurations via complex nonlinear motion that is difficult to represent robustly for simulation. We present a geometric guidance framework that discretizes deployment as synchronized,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Stefan Pillwein , Alexander Hentschel , Markus Lukacevic , Przemyslaw Musialski

Learning in hyperbolic spaces has attracted increasing attention due to its superior ability to model hierarchical structures of data. Most existing hyperbolic learning methods use fixed distance measures for all data, assuming a uniform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Pengxiang Li , Yuwei Wu , Zhi Gao , Xiaomeng Fan , Wei Wu , Zhipeng Lu , Yunde Jia , Mehrtash Harandi

This survey gives a brief overview of theoretically and practically relevant algorithms to compute geodesic paths and distances on three-dimensional surfaces. The survey focuses on polyhedral three-dimensional surfaces.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Anil Maheshwari , Stefanie Wuhrer

A mathematical model of the heat process in one-dimensional domain governed by a cylindrical heat equation with a heat source on the axis $z=0$ and nonlinear thermal coefficients is considered. The developed model is particularly applicable…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Julieta Bollati , Adriana C. Briozzo , Stanislav N. Kharin , Targyn A. Nauryz

In this paper, we leverage the properties of non-Euclidean Geometry to define the Geodesic distance (GD) on the space of statistical manifolds. The Geodesic distance is a real and intuitive similarity measure that is a good alternative to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Zakariae Abbad , Ahmed Drissi El Maliani , Said Ouatik El Alaoui , Mohammed El Hassouni

In this work, the geodesic equations and their numerical solution in Cartesian coordinates on an oblate spheroid, presented by Panou and Korakitis (2017), are generalized on a triaxial ellipsoid. A new exact analytical method and a new…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-11-09 G. Panou , R. Korakitis

The minimal geodesic models based on the Eikonal equations are capable of finding suitable solutions in various image segmentation scenarios. Existing geodesic-based segmentation approaches usually exploit image features in conjunction with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Da Chen , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Minglei Shu , Xuecheng Tai , Laurent D. Cohen

We study planar domains $G$ equipped with a hyperbolic type metric and approximate geodesics that join two points $x,y \in G$ and their lengths. We present an algorithm that enables one to approximate the shortest distance in polygonal…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Shuliang Gao , Anni Hakanen , Antti Rasila , Matti Vuorinen

We present an efficient dynamic data structure that supports geodesic nearest neighbor queries for a set $S$ of point sites in a static simple polygon $P$. Our data structure allows us to insert a new site in $S$, delete a site from $S$,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-18 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Lars Arge , Frank Staals

Geodesic shooting has been successfully applied to diffeo-morphic registration of point sets. Exact computation of the geodesicshooting between point sets, however, requiresO(N2) calculations each time step on the number of points in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Jiancong Wang , Long Xie , Paul Yushkevich , James Gee

The algorithms given in Karney, J. Geodesy 87, 43-55 (2013), to compute geodesics on terrestrial ellipsoids are extended to apply to ellipsoids of revolution with arbitrary eccentricity. For the direct and inverse geodesic problems, this…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Charles F. F. Karney

We provide an accurate verification method for solutions of heat equations with a superlinear nonlinearity. The verification method numerically proves the existence and local uniqueness of the exact solution in a neighborhood of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-01 Akitoshi Takayasu , Makoto Mizuguchi , Takayuki Kubo , Shin'ichi Oishi

There are many numerical methods for solving partial different equations (PDEs) on manifolds such as classical implicit, finite difference, finite element, and isogeometric analysis methods which aim at improving the interoperability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-17 Wenrui Hao , Jonathan D. Hauenstein , Margaret H. Regan , Tingting Tang

We present two algorithms for computing the geodesic distance between phylogenetic trees in tree space, as introduced by Billera, Holmes, and Vogtmann (2001). We show that the possible combinatorial types of shortest paths between two trees…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-08 Megan Owen

Integral equation based numerical methods are directly applicable to homogeneous elliptic PDEs, and offer the ability to solve these with high accuracy and speed on complex domains. In this paper, extensions to problems with inhomogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-22 Fredrik Fryklund , Mary Catherine A. Kropinski , Anna-Karin Tornberg

Computing geodesic distances on 3D surfaces is fundamental to many tasks in 3D vision and geometry processing, with deep connections to tasks such as shape correspondence. Recent learning-based methods achieve strong performance but rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yohanes Yudhi Adikusuma , Qixing Huang , Ying He

It has been shown beneficial for many types of data which present an underlying hierarchical structure to be embedded in hyperbolic spaces. Consequently, many tools of machine learning were extended to such spaces, but only few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Clément Bonet , Laetitia Chapel , Lucas Drumetz , Nicolas Courty

When the variations of surface temperature are measured both spatially and temporally, analytical expressions that correctly account for multi-dimensional transient conduction can be applied. To enhance the accessibility of these accurate…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-12-03 David Buttsworth , Timothy Buttsworth

This thesis presents important insights and concepts related to the topic of the extraction of geometric primitives from the edge contours of digital images. Three specific problems related to this topic have been studied, viz., polygonal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-17 Dilip K. Prasad