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Interpolation and smoothing using cubic and generalized splines are fundamental tools in data analysis and statistical modeling. Recently, fast computational algorithms were developed for natural $L$-splines of order four, which arise as…

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In this paper we investigate the problem of interpolating a B-spline curve network, in order to create a surface satisfying such a constraint and defined by blending functions spanning the space of bivariate $C^1$ quadratic splines on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-21 Catterina Dagnino , Paola Lamberti , Sara Remogna

This paper investigates a variational model for splines in the image metamorphosis model for the smooth interpolation of key frames in the space of images. The Riemannian manifold of images based on the metamorphosis model defines shortest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Jorge Justiniano , Marko Rajković , Martin Rumpf

Approximating complex curves with simple parametric curves is widely used in CAGD, CG, and CNC. This paper presents an algorithm to compute a certified approximation to a given parametric space curve with cubic B-spline curves. By…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-03-05 Liyong Shen , Chunming Yuan , Xiao-Shan Gao

Splines are one of the main methods of mathematically representing complicated shapes, which have become the primary technique in the fields of Computer Graphics (CG) and Computer-Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) for modeling complex surfaces.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Soroosh Tayebi Arasteh , Adam Kalisz

In the classical theory of cubic interpolation splines there exists an algorithm which works with only $O\left( n\right)$ arithmetic operations. Also, the smoothing cubic splines may be computed via the algorithm of Reinsch which reduces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Ognyan Kounchev , Hermann Render , Tsvetomir Tsachev

The symplectic Stiefel manifold, denoted by $\mathrm{Sp}(2p,2n)$, is the set of linear symplectic maps between the standard symplectic spaces $\mathbb{R}^{2p}$ and $\mathbb{R}^{2n}$. When $p=n$, it reduces to the well-known set of $2n\times…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Bin Gao , Nguyen Thanh Son , P. -A. Absil , Tatjana Stykel

Reformulating computer vision problems over Riemannian manifolds has demonstrated superior performance in various computer vision applications. This is because visual data often forms a special structure lying on a lower dimensional space…

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B\'ezier curves provide the basic building blocks of graphic design in 2D. In this paper, we port B\'ezier curves to manifolds. We support the interactive drawing and editing of B\'ezier splines on manifold meshes with millions of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Claudio Mancinelli , Giacomo Nazzaro , Fabio Pellacini , Enrico Puppo

{\em Riemannian cubics} are curves in a manifold $M$ that satisfy a variational condition appropriate for interpolation problems. When $M$ is the rotation group SO(3), Riemannian cubics are track-summands of {\em Riemannian cubic splines},…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-14 Lyle Noakes

In this paper, the construction of $C^{1}$ cubic quasi-interpolants on a three-direction mesh of $\RR^{2}$ is addressed. The quasi-interpolating splines are defined by directly setting their Bernstein-B\'{e}zier coefficients relative to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-05-01 Domingo Barrera , Salah Eddargani , María José Ibáñez , Sara Remogna

We present a semi-Lagrangian method for the numerical resolution of Vlasov-type equations on multi-patch meshes. Following N. Crouseilles et al. [A parallel Vlasov solver based on local cubic spline interpolation on patches. Journal of…

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In this relation I present a technique of construction and fast evaluation of a family of cubic polynomials for analytic smoothing and graphical rendering of particles trajectories for flows in a generic geometry. The principal result of…

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We propose a stochastic variance-reduced cubic regularized Newton algorithm to optimize the finite-sum problem over a Riemannian submanifold of the Euclidean space. The proposed algorithm requires a full gradient and Hessian update at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Dewei Zhang , Sam Davanloo Tajbakhsh

We present some algorithms that provide useful topological information about curves in surfaces. One of the main algorithms computes the geometric intersection number of two properly embedded 1-manifolds $C_1$ and $C_2$ in a compact…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Marc Lackenby

We formalize a technique for embedding Riemann sufraces properly into \C^2, and we generalize all known embedding results to allow interpolation on prescribed discrete sequences.

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Frank Kutzschebauch , Erik Low , Erlend Fornaess Wold

Quantum splines are curves in a Hilbert space or, equivalently, in the corresponding Hilbert projective space, which generalize the notion of Riemannian cubic splines to the quantum domain. In this paper, we present a generalization of this…

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We consider optimization problems on manifolds with equality and inequality constraints. A large body of work treats constrained optimization in Euclidean spaces. In this work, we consider extensions of existing algorithms from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-26 Changshuo Liu , Nicolas Boumal

The adaptive cubic regularization algorithm employing the inexact gradient and Hessian is proposed on general Riemannian manifolds, together with the iteration complexity to get an approximate second-order optimality under certain…

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