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We present a new flexible wavefront propagation algorithm for the boundary value problem for sub-Riemannian (SR) geodesics in the roto-translation group $SE(2) = \mathbb{R}^2 \rtimes S^1$ with a metric tensor depending on a smooth external…
In order to detect salient lines in spherical images, we consider the problem of minimizing the functional $\int \limits_0^l C(\gamma(s)) \sqrt{\xi^2 + k_g^2(s)} \, {\rm d}s$ for a curve $\gamma$ on a sphere with fixed boundary points and…
We introduce a data-driven version of the plus Cartan connection on the homogeneous space $\mathbb{M}_2$ of 2D positions and orientations. We formulate a theorem that describes all shortest and straight curves (parallel velocity and…
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We introduce the convex bundle method to solve convex, non-smooth optimization problems on Riemannian manifolds of bounded sectional curvature. Each step of our method is based on a model that involves the convex hull of previously…
Capsule Networks (CapsNets) show exceptional graph representation capacity via dynamic routing and vectorized hierarchical representations, but they model the complex geometries of real\-world graphs poorly by fixed\-curvature space due to…
If a piece of the contour of a picture is missing to the eye vision, then the brain tends to complete it using some kind of sub-Riemannian geodesics of the unit tangent bundle of the plane, R2xS1. These geodesics can be obtained by lifting…
We propose a Fast Marching based implementation for computing sub-Riemanninan (SR) geodesics in the roto-translation group SE(2), with a metric depending on a cost induced by the image data. The key ingredient is a Riemannian approximation…
We propose an improved strategy for point sources tracking in a temporal stack through an off-the-grid fashion, inspired by the Benamou-Brenier regularisation in the literature. We define a lifting of the problem in the higher-dimensional…
We describe how to approximate the Riemann curvature tensor as well as sectional curvatures on possibly infinite-dimensional shape spaces that can be thought of as Riemannian manifolds. To this end, we extend the variational time…
Motivated by the computational difficulties incurred by popular deep learning algorithms for the generative modeling of temporal densities, we propose a cheap alternative which requires minimal hyperparameter tuning and scales favorably to…
This paper presents an overview of recent developments in the analysis of shapes such as curves and surfaces through Riemannian metrics. We show that several constructions of metrics on spaces of submanifolds can be unified through the…
It is proven that encoding images and videos through Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices, and considering the Riemannian geometry of the resulting space, can lead to increased classification performance. Taking into account manifold…
This study aims to better understand the functional geometry of the motor cortex, starting from different sources of experimental evidence. Recent studies have proved that cells of the primary motor cortex (M1) are sensitive to short hand…
We consider the problem $\mathbf{P_{curve}}$ of minimizing $\int \limits_0^L \sqrt{\xi^2 + \kappa^2(s)} \, {\rm d}s$ for a curve $\mathbf{x}$ on $\mathbb R$ with fixed boundary points and directions. Here the total length $L\geq 0$ is free,…
This paper provides theoretical and computational developments in statistical shape analysis of shape graphs, and demonstrates them using analysis of complex data from retinal blood-vessel (RBV) networks. The shape graphs are represented by…
Projection-based model reduction is among the most widely adopted methods for constructing parametric Reduced-Order Models (ROM). Utilizing the snapshot data from solving full-order governing equations, the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition…
We formulate and solve a regression problem with time-stamped distributional data. Distributions are considered as points in the Wasserstein space of probability measures, metrized by the 2-Wasserstein metric, and may represent images,…
This article concerns the predictive modeling for spatio-temporal data as well as model interpretation using data information in space and time. We develop a novel approach based on supervised dimension reduction for such data in order to…