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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Ben Weinkove

The work lays the foundations of the theory of changeable sets. In author opinion, this theory, in the process of it's development and improvement, can become one of the tools of solving the sixth Hilbert problem least for physics of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-07-18 Ya. I. Grushka

Nearly convex sets play important roles in convex analysis, optimization and theory of monotone operators. We give a systematic study of nearly convex sets, and construct examples of subdifferentials of lower semicontinuous convex functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Sarah M. Moffat , Walaa M. Moursi , Xianfu Wang

We study a combinatorial notion where given a set of lattice points one takes the set of all sums of subsets of a fixed size, and we ask if the given set comes from a convex lattice polytope whether the resulting set also comes from a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Alexander Lemmens

We develop a sketching algorithm to find the point on the convex hull of a dataset, closest to a query point outside it. Studying the convex hull of datasets can provide useful information about their geometric structure and their…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-03-30 Roozbeh Yousefzadeh

We contribute a first design space on visualizations in motion and the design of a pilot study we plan to run in the fall. Visualizations can be useful in contexts where either the observation is in motion or the whole visualization is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Lijie Yao , Anastasia Bezerianos , Petra Isenberg

Visual place recognition is a fundamental capability for the localization of mobile robots. It places image retrieval in the practical context of physical agents operating in a physical world. It is an active field of research and many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Stefan Schubert , Peer Neubert

Visual attributes are great means of describing images or scenes, in a way both humans and computers understand. In order to establish a correspondence between images and to be able to compare the strength of each property between images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yaser Souri , Erfan Noury , Ehsan Adeli

In this paper we introduce an enhanced notion of extremal systems for sets in locally convex topological vector spaces and obtain efficient conditions for set extremality in the convex case. Then we apply this machinery to deriving new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-03 Boris Mordukhovich , Nguyen Mau Nam

Computer vision helps machines or computer to see like humans. Computer Takes information from the images and then understands of useful information from images. Gesture recognition and movement recognition are the current area of research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Anitta D , Annis Fathima A

Place recognition is one of the most fundamental topics in computer vision and robotics communities, where the task is to accurately and efficiently recognize the location of a given query image. Despite years of wisdom accumulated in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Zhiqiang Zeng , Jian Zhang , Xiaodong Wang , Yuming Chen , Chaoyang Zhu

We present a framework to obtain valid inequalities for a reverse convex set: the set of points in a polyhedron that lie outside a given open convex set. Reverse convex sets arise in many models, including bilevel optimization and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-02 Eli Towle , James Luedtke

A set in the Euclidean plane is said to be biconvex if, for some angle $\theta\in[0,\pi/2)$, all its sections along straight lines with inclination angles $\theta$ and $\theta+\pi/2$ are convex sets (i.e, empty sets or segments).…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-06-23 Alejandro Cholaquidis , Antonio Cuevas

An algorithm which computes a solution of a set optimization problem is provided. The graph of the objective map is assumed to be given by finitely many linear inequalities. A solution is understood to be a set of points in the domain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-29 Andreas Löhne , Carola Schrage

A point visibility graph is a graph induced by a set of points in the plane where the vertices of the graph represent the points in the point set and two vertices are adjacent if and only if no other point from the point set lies on the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Anne-Sophie Himmel , Clemens Hoffmann , Pascal Kunz , Vincent Froese , Manuel Sorge

In nearest-neighbor classification problems, a set of $d$-dimensional training points are given, each with a known classification, and are used to infer unknown classifications of other points by using the same classification as the nearest…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-13 David Eppstein

We consider the set of points chosen randomly, independently and uniformly in the $d$-dimensional spherical layer. A set of points is called $1$-convex if all its points are vertices of the convex hull of this set. In \cite{3} an estimate…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-14 Sergey Sidorov

In this survey paper, we present open problems and conjectures on visibility graphs of points, segments and polygons along with necessary backgrounds for understanding them.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Subir Kumar Ghosh , Partha Pratim Goswami

This paper considers the problem of smoothing convex functions and sets, seeking the nearest smooth convex function or set to a given one. For convex cones and sublinear functions, a full characterization of the set of all optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Thabo Samakhoana , Benjamin Grimmer

This work proposes an algorithm to bound the minimum distance between points on trajectories of a dynamical system and points on an unsafe set. Prior work on certifying safety of trajectories includes barrier and density methods, which do…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-16 Jared Miller , Mario Sznaier