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Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

Path signatures have been proposed as a powerful representation of paths that efficiently captures the path's analytic and geometric characteristics, having useful algebraic properties including fast concatenation of paths through tensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Motoya Ohnishi , Iretiayo Akinola , Jie Xu , Ajay Mandlekar , Fabio Ramos

Landmark-based human action recognition in videos is a challenging task in computer vision. One key step is to design a generic approach that generates discriminative features for the spatial structure and temporal dynamics. To this end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Weixin Yang , Terry Lyons , Hao Ni , Cordelia Schmid , Lianwen Jin

Signature is widely used in human daily lives, and serves as a supplementary characteristic for verifying human identity. However, there is rare work of verifying signature. In this paper, we propose a few deep learning architectures to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Zihan Zeng , Jing Tian

Biometrics systems have been used in a wide range of applications and have improved people authentication. Signature verification is one of the most common biometric methods with techniques that employ various specifications of a signature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Mohsen Fayyaz , Mohammad Hajizadeh_Saffar , Mohammad Sabokrou , Mahmood Fathy

Network models have been widely used to study diverse systems and analyze their dynamic behaviors. Given the structural variability of networks, an intriguing question arises: Can we infer the type of system represented by a network based…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Gonzalo Travieso , Joao Merenda , Odemir M. Bruno

In the last decade, the concept of path signature has achieved significant success in data science applications. It offers a powerful set of features that effectively capture and describe the characteristics of paths or sequential data.…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2025-01-13 Ilya Chevyrev , Joscha Diehl , Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard , Nikolas Tapia

We define a characteristic function for probability measures on the signatures of geometric rough paths. We determine sufficient conditions under which a random variable is uniquely determined by its expected signature, thus partially…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-05-19 Ilya Chevyrev , Terry Lyons

Online goal recognition in continuous domains poses two central challenges: efficiently encoding large trajectories and effectively comparing them. Recent work addresses these challenges by using custom state-space representations and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Douglas Tesch , Nathan Gavenski , Leonardo Amado , Odinaldo Rodrigues , Felipe Meneguzzi

Over the past decade, the importance of the 1D signature which can be seen as a functional defined along a path, has been pivotal in both path-wise stochastic calculus and the analysis of time series data. By considering an image as a…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Joscha Diehl , Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard , Fabian Harang , Samy Tindel

The signature is a representation of a path as an infinite sequence of its iterated integrals. Under certain assumptions, the signature characterizes the path, up to translation and reparameterization. Therefore, a crucial question of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-09-20 Adeline Fermanian , Jiawei Chang , Terry Lyons , Gérard Biau

The expected signature maps a collection of data streams to a lower dimensional representation, with a remarkable property: the resulting feature tensor can fully characterize the data generating distribution. This "model-free" embedding…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-29 Lorenzo Lucchese , Mikko S. Pakkanen , Almut E. D. Veraart

Central to rough path theory is the signature transform of a path, an infinite series of tensors given by the iterated integrals of the underlying path. The signature poses an effective way to capture sequentially ordered information,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Daniil Shmelev , Cristopher Salvi

Parallel transport, or path development, provides a rich characterization of paths which preserves the underlying algebraic structure of concatenation. The path signature is universal among such maps: any (translation-invariant) parallel…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-02 Darrick Lee

This paper establishes a comprehensive concentration theory for truncated signatures of Gaussian rough paths. The signature of a path, defined as the collection of all iterated integrals, provides a complete description of its geometric…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-11 Atef Lechiheb

The sequence of moments of a vector-valued random variable can characterize its law. We study the analogous problem for path-valued random variables, that is stochastic processes, by using so-called robust signature moments. This allows us…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Ilya Chevyrev , Harald Oberhauser

In stochastic analysis, a standard method to study a path is to work with its signature. This is a sequence of tensors of different order that encode information of the path in a compact form. When the path varies, such signatures…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-25 Laura Colmenarejo , Francesco Galuppi , Mateusz Michałek

The signature of a path is a sequence of tensors whose entries are iterated integrals, playing a key role in stochastic analysis and applications. The set of all signature tensors at a particular level gives rise to the universal signature…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Carlos Améndola , Francesco Galuppi , Ángel David Ríos Ortiz , Pierpaola Santarsiero , Tim Seynnaeve

We introduce a new feature map for barcodes that arise in persistent homology computation. The main idea is to first realize each barcode as a path in a convenient vector space, and to then compute its path signature which takes values in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-28 Ilya Chevyrev , Vidit Nanda , Harald Oberhauser

The aim of this article is to provide a simple sampling procedure to reconstruct any monotone path from its signature. For every N, we sample a lattice path of N steps with weights given by the coefficient of the corresponding word in the…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-15 Jiawei Chang , Nick Duffield , Hao Ni , Weijun Xu