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An innovative method based on the traversal of rays, originating from detected particles, through a three-dimensional grid of voxels is presented. The methodology has as main advantage that the outcome of the method is independent of the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-07 Mickael Bourgoin , Sander Huisman

Seeking the convex hull of an object is a very fundamental problem arising from various tasks. In this work, we propose two variational convex hull models using level set representation for 2-dimensional data. The first one is an exact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Lingfeng Li , Shousheng Luo , Xue-Cheng Tai , Jiang Yang

We consider consecutive random subdivision of polygons described as follows. Given an initial convex polygon with $d\ge 3$ edges, we choose a point at random on each edge, such that the proportions in which these points divide edges are…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Nguyen Tuan Minh , Stanislav Volkov

With the use of deep learning in many areas, how to improve this technology or how to develop the structure used more effectively and in a shorter time is an issue that is of interest to many people working in this field. Many studies are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Yunus Camgözlü , Yakup Kutlu

Voronoi diagrams appear in many areas in science and technology and have numerous applications. They have been the subject of extensive investigation during the last decades. Roughly speaking, they are a certain decomposition of a given…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Daniel Reem

Given two point sets in the plane, we study the minimization of the bottleneck distance between a point set B and an equally-sized subset of a point set A under translations. We relate this problem to a Voronoi-type diagram and derive…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2014-12-04 Matthias Henze , Rafel Jaume

The Voronoi diagram-based dual-front active contour models are known as a powerful and efficient way for addressing the image segmentation and domain partitioning problems. In the basic formulation of the dual-front models, the evolving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Da Chen , Jack Spencer , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Ke Chen , Minglei Shu , Laurent D. Cohen

We define a new framework that unifies the filtration and mapper approaches from TDA, and present efficient algorithms to compute it. Termed the box filtration of a PCD, we grow boxes (hyperrectangles) that are not necessarily centered at…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Enrique Alvarado , Prashant Gupta , Bala Krishnamoorthy

The Vietoris-Rips filtration is a versatile tool in topological data analysis. It is a sequence of simplicial complexes built on a metric space to add topological structure to an otherwise disconnected set of points. It is widely used…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-07 Donald R. Sheehy

We envision programmable matter as a system of nano-scale agents (called particles) with very limited computational capabilities that move and compute collectively to achieve a desired goal. We use the geometric amoebot model as our…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Joshua J. Daymude , Robert Gmyr , Kristian Hinnenthal , Irina Kostitsyna , Christian Scheideler , Andréa W. Richa

In this work, we use a moving Voronoi and sharp interface approach for simulating two-phase flows. At every time step, the mesh is generated anew from Voronoi seeds that behave as material points. The paper is a continuation of our previous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Ondřej Kincl , Ilya Peshkov , Walter Boscheri

We describe the development of a new software tool, called "Pomelo", for the calculation of Set Voronoi diagrams. Voronoi diagrams are a spatial partition of the space around the particles into separate Voronoi cells, e.g. applicable to…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-02-16 Simon Weis , Philipp W. A. Schönhöfer , Fabian M. Schaller , Matthias Schröter , Gerd E. Schröder-Turk

A key property of the Delaunay filtration is that it is topologically (i.e., weakly) equivalent to the offset (union-of-balls) filtration. Recently, this filtration has been extended to point clouds equipped with an $\mathbb{R}$-valued…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ángel Javier Alonso , Michael Kerber , Tung Lam , Michael Lesnick , Abhishek Rathod

This work proposes a new formulation to the long-standing problem of convex decomposition through learning feature fields, enabling the first feed-forward model for open-world convex decomposition. Our method produces high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Yuezhi Yang , Qixing Huang , Mikaela Angelina Uy , Nicholas Sharp

In spite of considerable progress, computing curvature in Volume of Fluid (VOF) methods continues to be a challenge. The goal is to develop a function or a subroutine that returns the curvature in computational cells containing an interface…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Yinghe Qi , Jiacai Lu , Ruben Scardovelli , Stephane Zaleski , Gretar Tryggvason

Locating the center of convex objects is important in both image processing and unsupervised machine learning/data clustering fields. The automated analysis of biological images uses both of these fields for locating cell nuclei and for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-12 James Kapaldo , Xu Han , Domingo Mery

We propose a new method for the numerical computation of the cut locus of a compact submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^3$ without boundary. This method is based on a convex variational problem with conic constraints, with proven convergence. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-18 François Générau , Édouard Oudet , Bozhidar Velichkov

Purpose: The purpose of this work is to investigate the hypothesis that uniform sampling measurements that are endowed with antipodal symmetry play an important role when the raw data and image data are related through the Fourier…

Medical Physics · Physics 2014-01-15 Cheng Guan Koay

Physical systems are frequently modeled as sets of points in space, each representing the position of an atom, molecule, or mesoscale particle. As many properties of such systems depend on the underlying ordering of their constituent…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-18 Emanuel A. Lazar , Jian Han , David J. Srolovitz

We demonstrate an object tracking method for 3D images with fixed computational cost and state-of-the-art performance. Previous methods predicted transformation parameters from convolutional layers. We instead propose an architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Daniel Moyer , Esra Abaci Turk , P Ellen Grant , William M. Wells , Polina Golland