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In the recent years, Riemannian shape analysis of curves and surfaces has found several applications in medical image analysis. In this paper we present a numerical discretization of second order Sobolev metrics on the space of regular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-07-01 Martin Bauer , Martins Bruveris , Philipp Harms , Jakob Møller-Andersen

Data visualizations summarize high-dimensional distributions in two or three dimensions. Dimensionality reduction entails a loss of information, and what is preserved differs between methods. Existing methods preserve the local or the…

Computation · Statistics 2021-07-05 Andrew D Zaharia , Anish S Potnis , Alexander Walther , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

A main goal in the field of statistical shape analysis is to define computable and informative metrics on spaces of immersed manifolds, such as the space of curves in a Euclidean space. The approach taken in the elastic shape analysis…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-09-21 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Eric Klassen , Sebastian Kurtek , Tom Needham , Thomas Pierron

Data uniformity is a concept associated with several semantic data characteristics such as lack of features, correlation and sample bias. This article introduces a novel measure to assess data uniformity and detect uniform pointsets on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Panagiotis Sidiropoulos

This note corrects a technical error in Guardiola (2020, Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications), presents updated derivations, and offers an extended discussion of the properties of the spherical Dirichlet distribution.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-06 Jose H Guardiola

Density-based clustering methodology has been widely considered in the statistical literature for classifying Euclidean observations. However, this approach has not been contemplated for directional data yet. In this work, directional…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-03-07 Paula Saavedra-Nieves , Martín Fernández-Pérez

In this paper optimal designs for regression problems with spherical predictors of arbitrary dimension are considered. Our work is motivated by applications in material sciences, where crystallographic textures such as the missorientation…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-31 Holger Dette , Maria Konstantinou , Kirsten Schorning , Josua Gösmann

Spherically embedded time series are time series with values naturally residing on or can be equivalently mapped to the sphere. Despite their ubiquity in diverse scientific fields, these data frequently exhibit complex non-stationarity…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-07 Jiazhen Xu , Han Lin Shang

Utilizing recently developed abstract notions of sectional curvature, we introduce a method for constructing a curvature-based geometric profile of discrete metric spaces. The curvature concept that we use here captures the metric relations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Charlotte Beylier , Parvaneh Joharinad , Jürgen Jost , Nahid Torbati

In this paper, we propose a novel method for transforming data into a low-dimensional space optimized for one-class classification. The proposed method iteratively transforms data into a new subspace optimized for ellipsoidal encapsulation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Fahad Sohrab , Jenni Raitoharju , Alexandros Iosifidis , Moncef Gabbouj

Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have become popular to encode image information. Accounting for the geometry of the Riemannian manifold of SPD matrices has proven key to the success of many algorithms. However, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Sadeep Jayasumana , Richard Hartley , Mathieu Salzmann , Hongdong Li , Mehrtash Harandi

In Riemannian computing applications, it is crucial to map manifold data to a Euclidean domain, where vector space arithmetic is available, and back. Classical manifold theory guarantees the existence of such mappings, called charts and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Ralf Zimmermann

This paper proposes a sketching strategy based on spherical designs, which is applied to the classical spherical basis function approach for massive spherical data fitting. We conduct theoretical analysis and numerical verifications to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Shao-Bo Lin , Di Wang , Ding-Xuan Zhou

In modern mathematical and theoretical physics various generalizations, in particular supersymmetric or quantum, of Riemann surfaces and complex algebraic curves play a prominent role. We show that such supersymmetric and quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-23 Paweł Ciosmak , Leszek Hadasz , Masahide Manabe , Piotr Sułkowski

This paper studies how to generalize Tukey's depth to problems defined in a restricted space that may be curved or have boundaries, and to problems with a nondifferentiable objective. First, using a manifold approach, we propose a broad…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-05-05 Yiyuan She , Shao Tang , Jingze Liu

In this article, we study rectifying curves in arbitrary dimensional Euclidean space. A curve is said to be a rectifying curve if, in all points of the curve, the orthogonal complement of its normal vector contains a fixed point. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Stijn Cambie , Wendy Goemans , Iris Van den Bussche

We further research on the accelerated optimization phenomenon on Riemannian manifolds by introducing accelerated global first-order methods for the optimization of $L$-smooth and geodesically convex (g-convex) or $\mu$-strongly g-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-16 David Martínez-Rubio

How to measure the complexity of a finite set of vectors embedded in a multidimensional space? This is a non-trivial question which can be approached in many different ways. Here we suggest a set of data complexity measures using universal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Andrei Zinovyev , Evgeny Mirkes

Principal curve is a well-known statistical method oriented in manifold learning using concepts from differential geometry. In this paper, we propose a novel metric-based principal curve (MPC) method that learns one-dimensional manifold of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-20 Eliuvish Cuicizion

There is a growing interest in developing covariance functions for processes on the surface of a sphere due to wide availability of data on the globe. Utilizing the one-to-one mapping between the Euclidean distance and the great circle…

Applications · Statistics 2015-04-09 Jaehong Jeong , Mikyoung Jun