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Spherical images taken in all directions (360 degrees) allow representing the surroundings of the subject and the space itself, providing an immersive experience to the viewers. Generating a spherical image from a single…

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In this paper we carry out an information-theoretic analysis of the $D$-dimensional rigid rotator by studying the entropy and complexity measures of its wavefunctions, which are controlled by the hyperspherical harmonics. These measures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 J. S. Dehesa , A. Guerrero , P. Sánchez-Moreno

We develop an efficient numerical scheme for the 3D mean-field spherical dynamo equation. The scheme is based on a semi-implicit discretization in time and a spectral method in space based on the divergence-free spherical harmonic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-04 Ting cheng , Lina Ma , Jie Shen

This paper provides a survey of spherical designs and their applications, with a particular emphasis on the perspective of ``numerical analysis''. A set \(X_N\) of \(N\) points on the unit sphere \(\mathbb{S}^d\) is called a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Congpei An , Xiaosheng Zhuang

The regular polyhedra have the highest order of 3D symmetries and are exceptionally at- tractive templates for (self)-assembly using minimal types of building blocks, from nano-cages and virus capsids to large scale constructions like glass…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Muhibur Rasheed , Chandrajit Bajaj

This work investigates use of equivariant neural networks as efficient and high-performance frameworks for image reconstruction and denoising in nuclear medicine. Our work aims to tackle limitations of conventional Convolutional Neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Amirreza Hashemi , Yuemeng Feng , Arman Rahmim , Hamid Sabet

We investigate numerical methods for wave equations in $n+2$ spacetime dimensions, written in spherical coordinates, decomposed in spherical harmonics on $S^n$, and finite-differenced in the remaining coordinates $r$ and $t$. Such an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-11 Carsten Gundlach , Jose M. Martin-Garcia , David Garfinkle

The spherical harmonics $Y_{\ell m}(\theta,\varphi)$ are complex-valued functions on the surface of a sphere, and have found widespread application in physics and astronomy. Every physics students knows them from quantum mechanics and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Bjoern Malte Schaefer

The inverse scattering problem is of critical importance in a number of fields, including medical imaging, sonar, sensing, non-destructive evaluation, and several others. The problem of interest can vary from detecting the shape to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Doga Dikbayir , Abdel Alsnayyan , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Balasubramaniam Shanker , Hasan Metin Aktulga

Atmospheric turbulence in long-range imaging significantly degrades the quality and fidelity of captured scenes due to random variations in both spatial and temporal dimensions. These distortions present a formidable challenge across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zhicheng Zou , Nantheera Anantrasirichai

Satellites mapping the spatial variations of the gravitational or magnetic fields of the Earth or other planets ideally fly on polar orbits, uniformly covering the entire globe. Thus, potential fields on the sphere are usually expressed in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-17 Frederik J. Simons , F. A. Dahlen

We propose SHARC, a novel framework that synthesizes arbitrary, genus-agnostic shapes by means of a collection of Spherical Harmonic (SH) representations of distance fields. These distance fields are anchored at optimally placed reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Panagiotis Sapoutzoglou , George Terzakis , Maria Pateraki

Positional encodings are a common component of neural scene reconstruction methods, and provide a way to bias the learning of neural fields towards coarser or finer representations. Current neural surface reconstruction methods use a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Thomas Walker , Octave Mariotti , Amir Vaxman , Hakan Bilen

One of basic difficulties of machine learning is handling unknown rotations of objects, for example in image recognition. A related problem is evaluation of similarity of shapes, for example of two chemical molecules, for which direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Jarek Duda

We study inversion of the spherical Radon transform with centers on a sphere (the data acquisition set). Such inversions are essential in various image reconstruction problems arising in medical, radar and sonar imaging. In the case of…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-09-25 Gaik Ambartsoumian , Rim Gouia-Zarrad , Venkateswaran P. Krishnan , Souvik Roy

In a previous study, we presented a construction of spherical 3-designs. In the current study, using this construction, we present new optimal antipodal spherical codes in the space of spherical harmonics. Our construction is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-23 Tsuyoshi Miezaki

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a cornerstone of the Deep Learning toolbox and have led to many breakthroughs in Artificial Intelligence. These networks have mostly been developed for regular Euclidean domains such as those…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Nathanaël Perraudin , Michaël Defferrard , Tomasz Kacprzak , Raphael Sgier

In the field of image processing, applying intricate semantic modifications within existing images remains an enduring challenge. This paper introduces a pioneering framework that integrates viewpoint information to enhance the control of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Jinbin Bai , Zhen Dong , Aosong Feng , Xiao Zhang , Tian Ye , Kaicheng Zhou

Spherical $t$-designs on $\mathbb{S}^{d}\subset\mathbb{R}^{d+1}$ provide $N$ nodes for an equal weight numerical integration rule which is exact for all spherical polynomials of degree at most $t$. This paper considers the generation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-07 Robert S. Womersley

Although 3D shape matching and interpolation are highly interrelated, they are often studied separately and applied sequentially to relate different 3D shapes, thus resulting in sub-optimal performance. In this work we present a unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Dongliang Cao , Marvin Eisenberger , Nafie El Amrani , Daniel Cremers , Florian Bernard