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We introduce a new method for the reconstruction of a function from linear measurements by means of oblique projections. The space spanned by the measurement vectors may be different from the subspace in which the function is reconstructed.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-09 Peter Berger , Karlheinz Gröchenig

Superquadrics provide a compact representation of common shapes and have been used both for object/surface modelling in computer graphics and as object-part representation in computer vision and robotics. Superquadrics refer to a family of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-15 Paulo Ferreira

Statistical models with constrained probability distributions are abundant in machine learning. Some examples include regression models with norm constraints (e.g., Lasso), probit, many copula models, and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA).…

Computation · Statistics 2015-06-22 Shiwei Lan , Babak Shahbaba

The concern of the present work is the introduction of a very efficient Asymptotic Preserving scheme for the resolution of highly anisotropic diffusion equations. The characteristic features of this scheme are the uniform convergence with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-08 Pierre Degond , Alexei Lozinski , Jacek Narski , Claudia Negulescu

Randomly sampling points on surfaces is an essential operation in geometry processing. This sampling is computationally straightforward on explicit meshes, but it is much more difficult on other shape representations, such as widely-used…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Selena Ling , Abhishek Madan , Nicholas Sharp , Alec Jacobson

Cosmological emulators of observables such as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) spectra and matter power spectra commonly use training data sampled from a Latin hypercube. This method often incurs high computational costs by covering…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-03 Andreas Nygaard , Emil Brinch Holm , Steen Hannestad , Thomas Tram

Most of existing superpixel methods are designed to segment standard planar images as pre-processing for computer vision pipelines. Nevertheless, the increasing number of applications based on wide angle capture devices, mainly generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Rémi Giraud , Rodrigo Borba Pinheiro , Yannick Berthoumieu

The parameterization of closed surfaces typically requires either multiple charts or a non-planar domain to achieve a seamless global mapping. In this paper, we propose a numerical framework for the seamless parameterization of genus-zero…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Shu-Yung Liu , Mei-Heng Yueh

We begin by studying the surface area of an ellipsoid in n-dimensional Euclidean space as the function of the lengths of the semi-axes. We write down an explicit formula as an integral over the unit sphere in n-dimensions and use this…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Igor Rivin

Harmonic decomposition of surfaces, such as spherical and spheroidal harmonics, is used to analyze morphology, reconstruct, and generate surface inclusions of particulate microstructures. However, obtaining high-quality meshes of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Mahmoud Shaqfa

We introduce persistence spheres, a novel functional representation of persistence diagrams. Unlike existing embeddings (such as persistence images, landscapes, or kernel methods), persistence spheres provide a bi-continuous mapping: they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Matteo Pegoraro

The paper presents high-order accurate, energy-, and entropy-stable discretizations constructed from summation-by-parts (SBP) operators. Notably, the discretizations assemble global SBP operators and use continuous solutions, unlike…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-13 Jason E. Hicken

Approximating a function with a finite series, e.g., involving polynomials or trigonometric functions, is a critical tool in computing and data analysis. The construction of such approximations via now-standard approaches like least squares…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Dihan Dai , Yekaterina Epshteyn , Akil Narayan

Creating spherical initial conditions in smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations that are spherically conformal is a difficult task. Here, we describe two algorithmic methods for evenly distributing points on surfaces, that when paired…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-06 Cody Raskin , J. Michael Owen

The light field faithfully records the spatial and angular configurations of the scene, which facilitates a wide range of imaging possibilities. In this work, we propose an LF synthesis algorithm which renders high quality novel LF views…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Jie Chen , Lap-Pui Chau , Junhui Hou

Consider the problem of inverse scattering of time-harmonic point sources from an infinite, penetrable rough interface with bounded obstacles buried in the lower half-space, where the interface is assumed to be a local perturbation of a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-02 Jianliang Li , Jiaqing Yang , Bo Zhang

We study two different methods for inferring the parameters of a spheroid distribution from planar sections of a stationary spatial system of spheroids: one method first unfolds non-parametrically the joint size-shape-orientation…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-09 Markus Baaske , Felix Ballani , Alexandra Illgen

The breaks and truncations in the luminosity profile of face-on spiral galaxies offer valuable insights in their formation history. The traditional method of deriving the surface photometry profile for face-on galaxies is to use elliptical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-15 S. P. C. Peters , P. C. van der Kruit , R. S. de Jong

A sphere is a fundamental geometric object widely used in (computer aided) geometric design. It possesses rational parameterizations but no parametric polynomial parameterization exists. The present study provides an approach to the optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-27 Aleš Vavpetič , Emil Žagar

We introduce a new Partition of Unity Method for the numerical homogenization of elliptic partial differential equations with arbitrarily rough coefficients. We do not restrict to a particular ansatz space or the existence of a finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-04 Daniel Peterseim , Patrick Henning , Philipp Morgenstern