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A novel approach to approximate solutions of Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs) by Deep Neural Networks is derived and analysed. The architecture is inspired by the notion of Deep Operator Networks (DeepONets), which is based on…

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We consider stochastic algorithms derived from methods for solving deterministic optimization problems, especially comparison-based algorithms derived from stochastic approximation algorithms with a constant step-size. We develop a…

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A fundamental problem in computer vision is boundary estimation, where the goal is to delineate the boundary of objects in an image. In this paper, we propose a method which jointly incorporates geometric and topological information within…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-06 Hengrui Luo , Justin Strait

Understanding how pore structure influences flow and transport behaviour in granular materials is essential for addressing a wide range of geotechnical, hydraulic, and environmental challenges. These processes are largely shaped by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-12-01 Jie Qi , Wenbin Fei , Guillermo A. Narsilio

Image processing researchers commonly assert that "median filtering is better than linear filtering for removing noise in the presence of edges." Using a straightforward large-$n$ decision-theory framework, this folk-theorem is seen to be…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Ery Arias-Castro , David L. Donoho

Morphogenesis emerges from dynamic feedback among geometry, mechanics, and chemistry; however, disentangling these contributions in living systems remains challenging. Here, we focus on the interplay between geometry and mechanics by…

Wavelet frame systems are known to be effective in capturing singularities from noisy and degraded images. In this paper, we introduce a new edge driven wavelet frame model for image restoration by approximating images as piecewise smooth…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-26 Jae Kyu Choi , Bin Dong , Xiaoqun Zhang

Active contour models have been widely used in image segmentation, and the level set method (LSM) is the most popular approach for solving the models, via implicitly representing the contour by a level set function. However, the LSM suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Jun Ma , Dong Wang , Xiao-Ping Wang , Xiaoping Yang

The decomposition of complex structures into simpler substructures is a powerful technique with a wide range of applications. We study the computation of decompositions in the context of programmable matter. The amoebot model is a…

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Applying deep learning to investigate topological phase transitions (TPTs) becomes a useful method due to not only its ability to recognize patterns but also its statistical excellency to examine the amount of information carried by…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-07-26 Ming-Chiang Chung , Tsung-Pao Cheng , Guang-Yu Huang , Yuan-Hong Tsai

We present a generic framework for modelling three-dimensional deformable shells of active matter that captures the orientational dynamics of the active particles and hydrodynamic interactions on the shell and with the surrounding…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-11-20 Luuk Metselaar , Julia M. Yeomans , Amin Doostmohammadi

Dynamic MRI may capture temporal anatomical changes in soft tissue organs with high contrast but the obtained sequences usually suffer from limited volume coverage which makes the high resolution reconstruction of organ shape trajectories a…

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Density-equalizing map (DEM) serves as a powerful technique for creating shape deformations with the area changes reflecting an underlying density function. In recent decades, DEM has found widespread applications in fields such as data…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yanwen Huang , Lok Ming Lui , Gary P. T. Choi

This chapter provides an overview of state-of-the-art adaptive finite element methods (AFEMs) for the numerical solution of second-order elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs), where the primary focus is on the optimal interplay of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Philipp Bringmann , Ani Miraçi , Dirk Praetorius

We propose the first metric learning system for the recognition of great ape behavioural actions. Our proposed triple stream embedding architecture works on camera trap videos taken directly in the wild and demonstrates that the utilisation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Otto Brookes , Majid Mirmehdi , Hjalmar Kühl , Tilo Burghardt

We derive and numerically solve a surface active nematodynamics model. We validate the numerical approach on a sphere and analyse the influence of hydrodynamics on the oscillatory motion of topological defects. For ellipsoidal surfaces the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-07 Michael Nestler , Axel Voigt

Deformable shape modeling approaches that describe objects in terms of their medial axis geometry (e.g., m-reps [Pizer et al., 2003]) yield rich geometrical features that can be useful for analyzing the shape of sheet-like biological…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Paul A. Yushkevich , Ahmed Aly , Jiancong Wang , Long Xie , Robert C. Gorman , Laurent Younes , Alison Pouch

Affine correspondences have received significant attention due to their benefits in tasks like image matching and pose estimation. Existing methods for extracting affine correspondences still have many limitations in terms of performance;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Pengju Sun , Banglei Guan , Zhenbao Yu , Yang Shang , Qifeng Yu , Daniel Barath

This article is a survey on the topic of polynomial amoebas. We review results of papers written on the topic with an emphasis on its computational aspects. Polynomial amoebas have numerous applications in various domains of mathematics and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2023-05-02 Vitaly A. Krasikov

This report describes the experimental analysis of proposed underwater image enhancement algorithms based on partial differential equations (PDEs). The algorithms perform simultaneous smoothing and enhancement due to the combination of both…

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