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We propose a novel method to fit and segment multi-structural data via convex relaxation. Unlike greedy methods --which maximise the number of inliers-- this approach efficiently searches for a soft assignment of points to models by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Paul Amayo , Pedro Pinies , Lina M. Paz , Paul Newman

We consider the problem of establishing dense correspondences within a set of related shapes of strongly varying geometry. For such input, traditional shape matching approaches often produce unsatisfactory results. We propose an ensemble…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Oliver Burghard , Alexander Berner , Michael Wand , Niloy Mitra , Hans-Peter Seidel , Reinhard Klein

This paper proposes a general fixture layout design framework that directly integrates the system equation with the convex relaxation method. Note that the optimal fixture design problem is a large-scale combinatorial optimization problem,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Zhen Zhong , Shancong Mou , Jeffrey H. Hunt , Jianjun Shi

Dictionary learning is a versatile method to produce an overcomplete set of vectors, called atoms, to represent a given input with only a few atoms. In the literature, it has been used primarily for tasks that explore its powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Alexander Köhler , Michael Breuß

In the optimization of convex domains under a PDE constraint numerical difficulties arise in the approximation of convex domains in $\mathbb{R}^3$. Previous research used a restriction to rotationally symmetric domains to reduce shape…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Sören Bartels , Hedwig Keller , Gerd Wachsmuth

We present a novel and effective binary representation for convex shapes. We show the equivalence between the shape convexity and some properties of the associated indicator function. The proposed method has two advantages. Firstly, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Shousheng Luo , Xue-Cheng Tai , Yang Wang

This paper describes Convex, a convex optimization modeling framework in Julia. Convex translates problems from a user-friendly functional language into an abstract syntax tree describing the problem. This concise representation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Madeleine Udell , Karanveer Mohan , David Zeng , Jenny Hong , Steven Diamond , Stephen Boyd

CVXR is an R package that provides an object-oriented modeling language for convex optimization, similar to CVX, CVXPY, YALMIP, and Convex.jl. It allows the user to formulate convex optimization problems in a natural mathematical syntax…

Computation · Statistics 2021-01-01 Anqi Fu , Balasubramanian Narasimhan , Stephen Boyd

This paper develops a general framework for solving a variety of convex cone problems that frequently arise in signal processing, machine learning, statistics, and other fields. The approach works as follows: first, determine a conic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-12-20 Stephen R. Becker , Emmanuel J. Candès , Michael Grant

Higher-dimensional orthogonal packing problems have a wide range of practical applications, including packing, cutting, and scheduling. Previous efforts for exact algorithms have been unable to avoid structural problems that appear for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Sandor P. Fekete , Joerg Schepers

Numerous tasks in imaging and vision can be formulated as variational problems over vector-valued maps. We approach the relaxation and convexification of such vectorial variational problems via a lifting to the space of currents. To that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Thomas Möllenhoff , Daniel Cremers

Optimization problems with convex quadratic cost and polyhedral constraints are ubiquitous in signal processing, automatic control and decision-making. We consider here an enlarged problem class that allows to encode logical conditions and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-09 Alberto De Marchi

The affine inverse eigenvalue problem consists of identifying a real symmetric matrix with a prescribed set of eigenvalues in an affine space. Due to its ubiquity in applications, various instances of the problem have been widely studied in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Utkan Candogan , Yong Sheng Soh , Venkat Chandrasekaran

In this paper, we propose a new Fully Composite Formulation of convex optimization problems. It includes, as a particular case, the problems with functional constraints, max-type minimization problems, and problems of Composite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-24 Nikita Doikov , Yurii Nesterov

Given an infeasible, unbounded, or pathological convex optimization problem, a natural question to ask is: what is the smallest change we can make to the problem's parameters such that the problem becomes solvable? In this paper, we address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Shane Barratt , Guillermo Angeris , Stephen Boyd

Geometric modeling by constraints, whose applications are of interest to communities from various fields such as mechanical engineering, computer aided design, symbolic computation or molecular chemistry, is now integrated into standard…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Samy Ait-Aoudia , Adel Moussaoui , Khaled Abid , Dominique Michelucci

Most image labeling problems such as segmentation and image reconstruction are fundamentally ill-posed and suffer from ambiguities and noise. Higher order image priors encode high level structural dependencies between pixels and are key to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-09-08 Alexander Shekhovtsov , Pushmeet Kohli , Carsten Rother

This work addresses arbitrary convex vector optimization problems, which constitute a general framework for multi-criteria decision-making in diverse real-world applications. Due to their complexity, such problems are typically tackled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-31 Daniel Dörfler , Rebecca Köhler , Andreas Löhne

We introduce a convex optimization modeling framework that transforms a convex optimization problem expressed in a form natural and convenient for the user into an equivalent cone program in a way that preserves fast linear transforms in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Steven Diamond , Stephen Boyd

Recently, data-driven techniques have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in addressing challenges related to MR imaging inverse problems. However, these methods still exhibit certain limitations in terms of interpretability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Huayu Wang , Chen Luo , Taofeng Xie , Qiyu Jin , Guoqing Chen , Zhuo-Xu Cui , Dong Liang