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This paper presents a method for computing two-dimensional constant mean curvature surfaces. The method in question uses the variational aspect of the problem to implement an efficient algorithm. In principle it is a flow like method in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jan Metzger

Many applications of geometry modeling and computer graphics necessite accurate curvature estimations of curves on the plane or on manifolds. In this paper, we define the notion of the discrete geodesic curvature of a geodesic polygon on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Aziz Ikemakhen , Mohamed Bellaihou

Over the past decades, the concept "partial smoothness" has been playing as a powerful tool in several fields involving nonsmooth analysis, such as nonsmooth optimization, inverse problems and operation research, etc. The essence of partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Ziqi Qin , Jingwei Liang

We present a novel approach for high-order accurate numerical differentiation on unstructured meshes of quadrilateral elements. To differentiate a given function, an auxiliary function with greater smoothness properties is defined which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-11 Yulong Pan , Per-Olof Persson

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a family of methods that embed a given set of points into a simple, usually flat, domain. The points are assumed to be sampled from some metric space, and the mapping attempts to preserve the distances…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-03-05 Yonathan Aflalo , Anastasia Dubrovina , Ron Kimmel

In this paper we present a new multilevel quasi-interpolation algorithm for smooth periodic functions using scaled Gaussians as basis functions. Recent research in this area has focussed upon implementations using basis function with finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-14 Simon Hubbert , Jeremy Levesley

Image smoothing is a fundamental procedure in applications of both computer vision and graphics. The required smoothing properties can be different or even contradictive among different tasks. Nevertheless, the inherent smoothing nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Wei Liu , Pingping Zhang , Yinjie Lei , Xiaolin Huang , Jie Yang , Michael Ng

This paper studies well-defindness and convergence of subdivision schemes which operate on Riemannian manifolds with nonpositive sectional curvature. These schemes are constructed from linear ones by replacing affine averages by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Svenja Hüning , Johannes Wallner

For strongly convex objectives that are smooth, the classical theory of gradient descent ensures linear convergence relative to the number of gradient evaluations. An analogous nonsmooth theory is challenging. Even when the objective is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-19 X. Y. Han , Adrian S. Lewis

Randomly sampling points on surfaces is an essential operation in geometry processing. This sampling is computationally straightforward on explicit meshes, but it is much more difficult on other shape representations, such as widely-used…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Selena Ling , Abhishek Madan , Nicholas Sharp , Alec Jacobson

For continuous functions, midpoint convexity characterizes convex functions. By considering discrete versions of midpoint convexity, several types of discrete convexities of functions, including integral convexity, L$^\natural$-convexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Akihisa Tamura , Kazuya Tsurumi

In this work, standard methods of the mixed thin-shell foramlism are refined using the framework of Colombeau's theory of generalized functions. To this end, systematic use is made of smooth generalized functions, in particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-07 Albert Huber

The total generalized variation extends the total variation by incorporating higher-order smoothness. Thus, it can also suffer from similar discretization issues related to isotropy. Inspired by the success of novel discretization schemes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-17 Lea Bogensperger , Antonin Chambolle , Alexander Effland , Thomas Pock

Hermite interpolation property is desired in applied and computational mathematics. Hermite and vector subdivision schemes are of interest in CAGD for generating subdivision curves and in computational mathematics for building Hermite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Bin Han

In this paper, we extend the previous convergence results for the generalized alternating projection method applied to subspaces in [arXiv:1703.10547] to hold also for smooth manifolds. We show that the algorithm locally behaves similarly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-10 Mattias Fält , Pontus Giselsson

In the realm of computer-aided design (CAD) software, the intersection of B-spline surfaces stands as a fundamental operation. Despite the extensive history of surface intersection algorithms, the challenge of handling complex intersection…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chenming Gao , Hongwei Lin , Gengchen Li

Subdivision schemes are iterative methods for the design of smooth curves and surfaces. Any linear subdivision scheme can be identified by a sequence of Laurent polynomials, also called subdivision symbols, which describe the linear rules…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-14 Costanza Conti , Luca Gemignani , Lucia Romani

Geometric objects are primarily represented using curves and surfaces and the subdivision schemes are the basic tools for these representations. This study is based on a new thought that there is a special relation between the binary and…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2023-05-15 Rabia Hameed , Sidra Nosheen

Decentralized optimization is widely used in different fields of study such as distributed learning, signal processing, and various distributed control problems. In these types of problems, nodes of the network are connected to each other…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-10 Alexander Rogozin , Nhat Trung Nguyen , Hamed Azami Zenuzagh , Alexander Gasnikov

We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kosala Bandara , Thomas Rüberg , Fehmi Cirak