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The present work shows a novel fractal dimension method for shape analysis. The proposed technique extracts descriptors from the shape by applying a multiscale approach to the calculus of the fractal dimension of that shape. The fractal…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-03 André R. Backes , João B. Florindo , Odemir M. Bruno

A gray-level image texture descriptors based on fractal dimension estimation is proposed in this work. The proposed method estimates the fractal dimension using probability (Voss) method. The descriptors are computed applying a multiscale…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-05-15 J. B. Florindo , O. M. Bruno

A method is described for calculating the approximate fractal dimension from a set of N values y sampled from a waveform between time zero and t. The waveform was subjected to a double linear transformation that maps it into a unit square.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-03-30 Carlos Sevcik

We present a general theory of fractal transformations and show how it leads to a new type of method for filtering and transforming digital images. This work substantially generalizes earlier work on fractal tops. The approach involves…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2011-02-17 Michael F. Barnsley , Brendan Harding , Konstantin Igudesman

Many 0/1 datasets have a very large number of variables; on the other hand, they are sparse and the dependency structure of the variables is simpler than the number of variables would suggest. Defining the effective dimensionality of such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Nikolaj Tatti , Taneli Mielikainen , Aristides Gionis , Heikki Mannila

An algorithm for calculating generalized fractal dimension of a time series using the general information function is presented. The algorithm is based on a strings sort technique and requires $O(N \log_2 N)$ computations. A rough estimate…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-31 Yosef Ashkenazy

Scale invariance of intrinsic patterns is an important concept in geology that can be observed in numerous geological objects and phenomena. These geological objects and phenomena are described as containing statistically selfsimilar…

Geophysics · Physics 2018-02-20 Adewale Amosu , Hamdi Mahmood , Paul Ofoche , Mohamed Imsalem

While the numerical methods which utilizes partitions of equal-size, including the box-counting method, remain the most popular choice for computing the generalized dimension of multifractal sets, two mass- oriented methods are investigated…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-01-22 Yui Shiozawa , Bruce N. Miller , Jean-Louis Rouet

This study builds a bridge between two well-studied but distant topics: fractal dimension and Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS). DGGSs are used as covering sets for geospatial vector data to calculate the Minkowski-Bouligand dimension.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Pramit Ghosh

The purpose of this paper is to study the fractal phenomena in large data sets and the associated questions of dimension reduction. We examine situations where the classical Principal Component Analysis is not effective in identifying the…

Shape is one of the most important visual attributes to characterize objects, playing a important role in pattern recognition. There are various approaches to extract relevant information of a shape. An approach widely used in shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-01-17 André Ricardo Backes , Odemir Martinez Bruno

We propose that the recently defined persistent homology dimensions are a practical tool for fractal dimension estimation of point samples. We implement an algorithm to estimate the persistent homology dimension, and compare its performance…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Jonathan Jaquette , Benjamin Schweinhart

This work is an analytical and numerical study of the composition of several fractals into one and of the relation between the composite dimension and the dimensions of the component fractals. In the case of composition of standard IFS with…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-20 Yann Lanoiselee , Laurent Nivanen , Aziz El Kaabouchi , Qiuping A. Wang

A multifractal analysis is performed on a three-dimensional grayscale image associated with a complex system. First, a procedure for generating 3D synthetic images (2D image stacks) of a complex structure exhibiting multifractal behaviour…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-11 Lorenzo Milazzo

Covering a network with the minimum possible number of boxes can reveal interesting features for the network structure, especially in terms of self-similar or fractal characteristics. Considerable attention has been recently devoted to this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Chaoming Song , Lazaros K. Gallos , Shlomo Havlin , Hernan A. Makse

Our first experience of dimension typically comes in the intuitive Euclidean sense: a line is one dimensional, a plane is two-dimensional, and a volume is three-dimensional. However, following the work of Mandelbrot \cite{mandelbrot},…

Physics Education · Physics 2022-09-05 Charles E. Creffield

In recent work, various fractal image coding methods are reported, which adopt the self-similarity of images to compress the size of images. However, till now, no solutions for the security of fractal encoded images have been provided. In…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2007-11-26 Shiguo Lian

In this report we present experimental results using \emph{Haussdorf-Besicovich} fractal dimension for performing morphological galaxy classification. The fractal dimension is a topological, structural and spatial property that give us…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Jorge de la Calleja , Elsa M. de la Calleja , Hugo Jair Escalante

We study algorithmic problems on subsets of Euclidean space of low fractal dimension. These spaces are the subject of intensive study in various branches of mathematics, including geometry, topology, and measure theory. There are several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Anastasios Sidiropoulos , Vijay Sridhar

Fractal geometry provides a powerful tool for scale-free spatial analysis of cities, but the fractal dimension calculation results always depend on methods and scopes of study area. This phenomenon has been puzzling many researchers. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-07 Yanguang Chen