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We investigate regularizations of distributional sections of vector bundles by means of nets of smooth sections that preserve the main regularity properties of the original distributions (singular support, wavefront set, Sobolev…
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Manifolds occur naturally as configuration spaces of robotic systems. They provide global descriptions of local coordinate systems that are common tools in expressing positions of robots. The purpose of this survey is threefold. Firstly, we…
Many known Radon-type transforms of symmetric (radial or zonal) functions are represented by one-dimensional Riemann-Liouville fractional integrals or their modifications. The present article contains new examples of such transforms in the…
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In this paper, we construct round fold maps or stable fold maps with concentric singular value sets introduced by the author on smooth bundles over spheres or bundles over more general manifolds. The class of round fold maps includes…
We revisit the spherical Radon transform, also called the Funk-Radon transform, viewing it as an axisymmetric convolution on the sphere. Viewing the spherical Radon transform in this manner leads to a straightforward derivation of its…
A detailed study of uniformly regular Riemannian manifolds and manifolds with singular ends is carried out in this paper. Such classes of manifolds are of fundamental importance for a Sobolev space solution theory for parabolic evolution…
Geometric frameworks for analyzing curves are common in applications as they focus on invariant features and provide visually satisfying solutions to standard problems such as computing invariant distances, averaging curves, or registering…
In this paper, we obtain Pizzetti-type formulae on regions of the the unit sphere $\mathbb{S}^{m-1}$ of $\mathbb{R}^m$, and study their applications to the problem of inverting the spherical Radon transform. In particular, we approach…
Manifold-valued measurements exist in numerous applications within computer vision and machine learning. Recent studies have extended Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) to manifolds, and concomitantly, normalization techniques have also been…
The use of orthonormal wavelet basis functions for solving singular integral scattering equations is investigated. It is shown that these basis functions lead to sparse matrix equations which can be solved by iterative techniques. The…
This review paper is intended to give a useful guide for those who want to apply discrete wavelets in their practice. The notion of wavelets and their use in practical computing and various applications are briefly described, but rigorous…
In this article, we develop a general method for constructing wavelets {|det A_j|^{1/2} g(A_jx-x_{j,k}): j in J, k in K}, on irregular lattices of the form X={x_{j,k} in R^d: j in J, k in K}, and with an arbitrary countable family of…
We present a novel analysis of a Radon transform, $R$, which maps an $L^2$ function of compact support to its integrals over smooth surfaces of revolution with centers on an embedded hypersurface in $\mathbb{R}^n$. Using microlocal…
In this paper we consider the so-called crystallographic Radon transform (or crystallographic $X$-ray transform) and totally geodesic Radon transform on the group of rotations SO(3). As we show both of these transforms naturally appear in…
We study integral transforms mapping a function on the Euclidean space to the family of its integration on some hypersurfaces, that is, a function of hypersurfaces. The hypersurfaces are given by the graphs of functions with fixed axes of…
We derive explicit formulas for the reconstruction of a function from its integrals over a family of spheres, or for the inversion of the spherical mean Radon transform. Such formulas are important for problems of thermo- and photo-…
We study the spherical slice transform which assigns to a function on the $n$-dimensional unit sphere the integrals of that function over cross-sections of the sphere by $k$-dimensional affine planes passing through the north pole. These…