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Duchon's method of thin plate splines defines a polyharmonic interpolant to scattered data values as the minimizer of a certain integral functional. For transfinite interpolation, i.e. interpolation of continuous data prescribed on curves…
Profiles of radially symmetric thin plate spline surfaces minimizing the Beppo Levi energy over a compact annulus $R_{1}\leq r\leq R_{2}$ have been studied by Rabut via reproducing kernel methods. Motivated by our recent construction of…
Modern shape design and capture techniques often lead to the geometric data presented in the form of serial rows of data points. In general, the number of data points varies from row to row. Lofted or skinned B-spline surface interpolation…
Problems involving approximation from scattered data where data is arranged quasi-uniformly have been treated by RBF methods for decades. Treating data with spatially varying density has not been investigated with the same intensity, and is…
This note concerns the interpolation problem with two parametrized families of splines related to polynomial spline interpolation. We address the questions of uniqueness and establish basic convergence rates for splines of the form $…
In this paper I uncover and explain---using contour integrals and residues---a connection between cubic splines and a popular compact finite difference formula. The connection is that on a uniform mesh the simplest Pad\'e scheme for…
In this paper, we investigate the problem of designing compact support interpolation kernels for a given class of signals. By using calculus of variations, we simplify the optimization problem from an infinite nonlinear problem to a finite…
Computing accurate splines of degree greater than three is still a challenging task in today's applications. In this type of interpolation, high-order derivatives are needed on the given mesh. As these derivatives are rarely known and are…
Interpolation by various types of splines is the standard procedure in many applications. In this paper we shall discuss harmonic spline "interpolation" (on the lines of a grid) as an alternative to polynomial spline interpolation (at…
In this paper we investigate the problem of interpolating a B-spline curve network, in order to create a surface satisfying such a constraint and defined by blending functions spanning the space of bivariate $C^1$ quadratic splines on…
In the classical theory of cubic interpolation splines there exists an algorithm which works with only $O\left( n\right)$ arithmetic operations. Also, the smoothing cubic splines may be computed via the algorithm of Reinsch which reduces…
The thin plate spline, as introduced by Duchon, interpolates a smooth surface through scattered data. It is computationally expensive when there are many data points. The finite element thin plate spline (TPSFEM) possesses similar smoothing…
The I-table contains luminous intensity values over the range of angles for the luminaires used in the road lighting in accordance with technical report CIE 121:1996. A limited number of angles causes smoothing of the luminous intensity…
In this paper a fourth order asymptotically optimal error bound for a new cubic interpolating spline function, denoted by Q-spline, is derived for the case that only function values at given points are used but not any derivative…
In CAGD the design of a surface that interpolates an arbitrary quadrilateral mesh is definitely a challenging task. The basic requirement is to satisfy both criteria concerning the regularity of the surface and aesthetic concepts. With…
In this note we prove almost sure unisolvence of RBF interpolation on randomly distributed sequences by a wide class of polyharmonic splines (including Thin-Plate Splines), without polynomial addition.
In the present paper, using S.L. Sobolev's method, interpolation spline that minimizes the expression $\int_0^1(\varphi^{(m)}(x)+\omega^2\varphi^{(m-2)}(x))^2dx$ in the $K_2(P_m)$ space are constructed. Explicit formulas for the…
We develop a local polynomial spline interpolation scheme for arbitrary spline order on bounded intervals. Our method's local formulation, effective boundary considerations and optimal interpolation error rate make it particularly useful…
The novel Locally Refined B-spline (LR B-spline) surface format is suited for representing terrain and seabed data in a compact way. It provides an alternative to the well know raster and triangulated surface representations. An LR B-spline…
Spline interpolation has been used in several applications due to its favorable properties regarding smoothness and accuracy of the interpolant. However, when there exists a discontinuity or a steep gradient in the data, some artifacts can…