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Running time of the light field depth estimation algorithms is typically high. This assessment is based on the computational complexity of existing methods and the large amounts of data involved. The aim of our work is to develop a simple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Yuriy Anisimov , Oliver Wasenmüller , Didier Stricker

One of the continuing challenges in cosmology has been to determine the large-scale space-time metric from observations with a minimum of assumptions -- without, for instance, assuming that the universe is almost…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. E. Araujo , W. R. Stoeger

Fitting an unknown number of hyperplanes to data is a fundamental yet challenging problem in machine learning, characterized by its non-convexity, non-differentiability, and unknown model order. Existing approaches often struggle with local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhiqin Cheng , Yu Zhan , Mingjin Zhang , Lingbo Liu , Liang Lin

Due to the rapid development of panorama cameras, the task of estimating panorama depth has attracted significant attention from the computer vision community, especially in applications such as robot sensing and autonomous driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Qingsong Yan , Qiang Wang , Kaiyong Zhao , Jie Chen , Bo Li , Xiaowen Chu , Fei Deng

We consider fits to two or more datasets for which results from the sa me experiment share a common systematic uncertainty in addition to their individ ual statistical errors. This is important in extracting the maximum information from a…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-09-29 Roger John Barlow

Pathfinding in Euclidean space is a common problem faced in robotics and computer games. For long-distance navigation on the surface of the earth or in outer space however, approximating the geometry as Euclidean can be insufficient for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Volodymyr Rospotniuk , Rupert Small

We present a novel algorithm to compute multi-scale curvature fields on triangle meshes. Our algorithm is based on finding robust mean curvatures using the ball neighborhood, where the radius of a ball corresponds to the scale of the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-11-01 Patrick Seemann , Simon Fuhrmann , Stefan Guthe , Fabian Langguth , Michael Goesele

We present a numerical technique for solving evolution equations, as the wave equation, in the description of rotating astrophysical compact objects in comoving coordinates, which avoids the problems associated with the light cylinder. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Silvano Bonazzola , José-Luis Jaramillo , Jerome Novak

This paper proposes a sketching strategy based on spherical designs, which is applied to the classical spherical basis function approach for massive spherical data fitting. We conduct theoretical analysis and numerical verifications to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Shao-Bo Lin , Di Wang , Ding-Xuan Zhou

Most of the calculations in standard sphere decoders are redundant, in the sense that they either calculate quantities that are never used or calculate some quantities more than once. A new method, which is applicable to lattices as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-07 Arash Ghasemmehdi , Erik Agrell

Recent works by the second author and Maxwell et al. have shown that the Einstein-scalar field conformal constraint equations are highly complex and generally intractable, even in the vacuum case. In this article, to gain a clearer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Philippe Castillon , Cang Nguyen-The

As the spherical object can be seen everywhere, we should extract the ellipse image accurately and fit it by implicit algebraic curve in order to finish the 3D reconstruction. In this paper, we propose a new ellipse fitting algorithm which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Shenghui Xu

Two averaging algorithms are considered which are intended for choosing an optimal plane and an optimal circle approximating a group of points in three-dimensional Euclidean space.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

Author developed a uniform model for different spaces where distance and angle measure kinds are parameters. This model is calculus centric, but can also be used in theoretical research. It is useful in the following domains: deduction of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Alexandru Popa

For the accurate representation and reconstruction of band-limited signals on the sphere, an optimal-dimensionality sampling scheme has been recently proposed which requires the optimal number of samples equal to the number of degrees of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Wajeeha Nafees , Zubair Khalid , Rodney A. Kennedy , Jason D. McEwen

Object cross-identification in multiple observations is often complicated by the uncertainties in their astrometric calibration. Due to the lack of standard reference objects, an image with a small field of view can have significantly…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Tamas Budavari , Stephen H. Lubow

Image feature matching plays a vital role in many computer vision tasks. Although many image feature detection and matching techniques have been proposed over the past few decades, it is still time-consuming to match feature points in two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Chin-Hung Teng , Ben-Jian Dong

Computing spherical harmonic decompositions is a ubiquitous technique that arises in a wide variety of disciplines and a large number of scientific codes. Because spherical harmonics are defined by integrals over spheres, however, one must…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 David R. Fiske

This paper is related to our previous works [1][2] on the error estimate of the averaging technique, for systems with one fast angular variable. In the cited references, a general method (of mixed analytical and numerical type) has been…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-02-22 Carlo Morosi , Livio Pizzocchero

Structural quantities such as order parameters and correlation functions are often employed to gain insight into the physical behavior and properties of condensed matter systems. While standard quantities for characterizing structure exist,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Aaron S. Keys , Christopher R. Iacovella , Sharon C. Glotzer