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The Euler characteristic transform (ECT) is a simple to define yet powerful representation of shape. The idea is to encode an embedded shape using sub-level sets of a a function defined based on a given direction, and then returning the…
The weighted Euler characteristic transform (WECT) is a new tool for extracting shape information from data equipped with a weight function. Image data may benefit from the WECT where the intensity of the pixels are used to define the…
The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) has proven to be a powerful representation, combining geometrical and topological characteristics of shapes and graphs. However, the ECT was hitherto unable to learn task-specific representations. We…
The Euler characteristic transform (ECT) is an integral transform used widely in topological data analysis. Previous efforts by Curry et al. and Ghrist et al. have independently shown that the ECT is injective on all compact definable sets.…
The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is a robust method for shape classification. It takes an embedded shape and, for each direction, computes a piecewise constant function representing the Euler Characteristic of the shape's sublevel…
The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) of Turner et al. provides a way to statistically analyze non-diffeomorphic shapes without relying on landmarks. In applications, this transform is typically approximated by a discrete set of…
The Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) is an efficiently-computable geometrical-topological invariant that characterizes the global shape of data. In this paper, we introduce the Local Euler Characteristic Transform ($\ell$-ECT), a novel…
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