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Most 3D shape analysis methods use triangular meshes to discretize both the shape and functions on it as piecewise linear functions. With this representation, shape analysis requires fine meshes to represent smooth shapes and geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 V. Estellers , F. R. Schmidt , D. Cremers

Minimizing the Mumford-Shah functional is frequently used for smoothing signals or time series with discontinuities. A significant limitation of the standard Mumford-Shah model is that linear trends -- and in general polynomial trends -- in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-08 Martin Storath , Lukas Kiefer , Andreas Weinmann

Segmentation is the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple segments (sets of pixels). Such common segmentation tasks including segmenting written text or segmenting tumors from healthy brain tissue in an MRI image, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-07-18 Rami Cohen

Chemical accuracy serves as an important metric for assessing the effectiveness of the numerical method in Kohn--Sham density functional theory. It is found that to achieve chemical accuracy, not only the Kohn--Sham wavefunctions but also…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Yang Kuang , Yedan Shen , Guanghui Hu

We investigate discrete spin transformations, a geometric framework to manipulate surface meshes by controlling mean curvature. Applications include surface fairing -- flowing a mesh onto say, a reference sphere -- and mesh extrusion --…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Loic Le Folgoc , Daniel C. Castro , Jeremy Tan , Bishesh Khanal , Konstantinos Kamnitsas , Ian Walker , Amir Alansary , Ben Glocker

This paper is devoted to the approximation of differentiable semialgebraic functions by Nash functions. Approximation by Nash functions is known for semialgebraic functions defined on an affine Nash manifold M, and here we extend it to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2013-07-03 Elías Baro , José F. Fernando , Jesús M. Ruiz

We propose novel smooth approximations to the classical rounding function, suitable for differentiable optimization and machine learning applications. Our constructions are based on two approaches: (1) localized sigmoid window functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Stanislav Semenov

Given cell-average data values of a piecewise smooth bivariate function $f$ within a domain $\Omega$, we look for a piecewise adaptive approximation to $f$. We are interested in an explicit and global (smooth) approach. Bivariate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Sergio Amat , David Levin , Juan Ruiz-Alvarez , Dionisio F. Yáñez

We propose a patchwise local Fourier extension method for approximating smooth functions on general two dimensional domains with curved boundaries. The domain is embedded into a Cartesian background grid and decomposed into rectangular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Zhenyu Zhao , Yanfei Wang

An adaptive refinement strategy, based on an equilibrated flux a posteriori error estimator, is proposed in the context of defeaturing problems. Defeaturing consists of removing features from complex domains to simplify mesh generation and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Annalisa Buffa , Denise Grappein , Rafael Vázquez

A second-order face-centred finite volume strategy on general meshes is proposed. The method uses a mixed formulation in which a constant approximation of the unknown is computed on the faces of the mesh. Such information is then used to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-01 Matteo Giacomini , Ruben Sevilla

We present a new iterative technique based on radial basis function (RBF) interpolation and smoothing for the generation and smoothing of curvilinear meshes from straight-sided or other curvilinear meshes. Our technique approximates the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Vidhi Zala , Varun Shankar , Shankar P. Sastry , Robert M. Kirby

Image segmentation and image restoration are two important topics in image processing with great achievements. In this paper, we propose a new multiphase segmentation model by combining image restoration and image segmentation models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-12 Xiaohao Cai

Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) methods have shown great promise in handling data-scarce scenarios, particularly in medical image segmentation tasks. However, most existing FSS architectures lack sufficient interpretability and fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shengdong Zhang , Fan Jia , Xiang Li , Hao Zhang , Jun Shi , Liyan Ma , Shihui Ying

Hyperspectral images provide a rich representation of the underlying spectrum for each pixel, allowing for a pixel-wise classification/segmentation into different classes. As the acquisition of labeled training data is very time-consuming,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Jan-Christopher Cohrs , Chandrajit Bajaj , Benjamin Berkels

We propose a new approach for controlling the characteristics of certain mesh faces during optimization of high-order curved meshes. The practical goals are tangential relaxation along initially aligned curved boundaries and internal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Z. Tomov

In this paper we propose an algorithm for the detection of edges in images that is based on topological asymptotic analysis. Motivated from the Mumford--Shah functional, we consider a variational functional that penalizes oscillations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-06-12 E. Beretta , M. Grasmair , M. Muszkieta , O. Scherzer

Deformations of the computational mesh arising from optimization routines usually lead to decrease of mesh quality or even destruction of the mesh. We propose a theoretical framework using pre-shapes to generalize classical shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Daniel Luft , Volker Schulz

A common numerical task is to represent functions which are highly spatially anisotropic, and to solve differential equations related to these functions. One way such anisotropy arises is that information transfer along one spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-04 Ben F McMillan

We propose a novel mesh refinement scheme based on signal processing for boundary integral simulations of inviscid droplet dynamics with axial symmetry. A key idea is to directly access the Fourier coefficients of a principal curvature as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Kazuki Koga