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A numerically efficient, accurate, and easily implemented integration scheme over convex Voronoi polyhedra (VP) is presented for use in {\it ab-initio} electronic-structure calculations. We combine a weighted Voronoi tessellation with…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-12-25 Aftab Alam , S. N. Khan , Brian G. Wilson , D. D. Johnson

The Voronoi Density Estimator (VDE) is an established density estimation technique that adapts to the local geometry of data. However, its applicability has been so far limited to problems in two and three dimensions. This is because…

We report experimentally and in theory on the detection of edge information in digital images using ultrafast spiking optical artificial neurons towards convolutional neural networks (CNNs). In tandem with traditional convolution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-21 Joshua Robertson , Yahui Zhang , Matej Hejda , Andrew Adair , Julian Bueno , Shuiying Xiang , Antonio Hurtado

votess is a library for computing parallel 3D Voronoi tessellations on heterogeneous platforms, from CPUs and GPUs, to future accelerator architectures. To do so, it leverages the SYCL abstraction layer to achieve portability and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-13 Samridh Dev Singh , Chris Byrohl , Dylan Nelson

We develop a set of heuristic arguments to explain several results on planar Poisson-Voronoi tessellations that were derived earlier at the cost of considerable mathematical effort. The results concern Voronoi cells having a large number n…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 H. J. Hilhorst

Anomaly detection aims to identify data instances that deviate significantly from majority of data, which has been widely used in fraud detection, network security, and industrial quality control. Existing methods struggle with datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Yang Cao , Sikun Yang , Xuyun Zhang , Yujiu Yang

In this article, we investigate vacuum leakage detection problems in composite manufacturing. Our approach uses Voronoi diagrams, a well-known structure in discrete geometry. The Voronoi diagram of the vacuum connection positions partitions…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Christoph Brauer , Arne Hindersmann , Timo de Wolff

Cellular structures manifest their outstanding mechanical properties in many biological systems. One key challenge for designing and optimizing these geometrically complicated structures lies in devising an effective geometric…

Poisson Voronoi tessellations have been used in modeling many types of systems across different sciences, from geography and astronomy to telecommunications. The existing literature on the statistical properties of Poisson Voronoi cells is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Konstantinos Koufos , Carl P. Dettmann

In this research, we propose a novel technique for visualizing nonstationarity in geostatistics, particularly when confronted with a single realization of data at irregularly spaced locations. Our method hinges on formulating a statistic…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-29 ShengLi Tzeng , Bo-Yu Chen , Hsin-Cheng Huang

Under the assumption of a void-filled Universe we investigate if the characteristic scale of voids can be determined from existing surveys. We use the Voronoi tessellation to create mock surveys and study the properties of the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Dalia S. Goldwirth , Luiz Nicolaci da Costa , Rien Van de Weygaert

Topology optimization is able to maximally leverage the high DOFs and mechanical potentiality of porous foams but faces three fundamental challenges: conforming to free-form outer shapes, maintaining geometric connectivity between adjacent…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Ming Li , Jingqiao Hu , Wei Chen , Weipeng Kong , Jin Huang

A Voronoi diagram is a basic geometric structure that partitions the space into regions associated with a given set of sites, such that all points in a region are closer to the corresponding site than to all other sites. While being…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Tobias Friedrich , Maximilian Katzmann , Leon Schiller

This paper introduces a new approach toward characterizing local structural features of two-dimensional particle systems. The approach can accurately identify and characterize defects in high-temperature crystals, distinguish a wide range…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-14 Emanuel A. Lazar , Jiayin Lu , Chris H. Rycroft , Deborah Schwarcz

Poisson point processes provide a versatile framework for modeling the distributions of random points in space. When the space is partitioned into cells, each associated with a single generating point from the Poisson process, there appears…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Jaume Anguera Peris , Joakim Jaldén

The point inclusion tests for polygons, in other words the point-in-polygon (PIP) algorithms, are fundamental tools for many scientific fields related to computational geometry, and they have been studied for a long time. The PIP algorithms…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Rahman Salim Zengin , Volkan Sezer

Characterizing the spacing of primary dendrite arms in directionally-solidified microstructures is an important step for developing process-structure-property relationships by enabling the quantification of (i) the influence of processing…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-09-02 M. A. Tschopp , J. D. Miller , A. L. Oppedal , K. N. Solanki

We describe a new algorithm for computing the Voronoi diagram of a set of $n$ points in constant-dimensional Euclidean space. The running time of our algorithm is $O(f \log n \log \Delta)$ where $f$ is the output complexity of the Voronoi…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-04-03 Gary L. Miller , Donald R. Sheehy

Winner-takes-all training is a simple learning paradigm, which handles ambiguous tasks by predicting a set of plausible hypotheses. Recently, a connection was established between Winner-takes-all training and centroidal Voronoi…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Victor Letzelter , David Perera , Cédric Rommel , Mathieu Fontaine , Slim Essid , Gael Richard , Patrick Pérez

We stress the importance of stochastic geometry as a branch of mathematical statistics particularly suited to model and investigate nontrivial spatial patterns. One of its key concepts, Voronoi tessellations, represents a versatile and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rien van de Weygaert