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We present an efficient convolution kernel for Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on unstructured grids using parameterized differential operators while focusing on spherical signals such as panorama images or planetary signals. To this…

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Metamorphism is a recently introduced integral transform, which is useful in solving partial differential equations. Basic properties of metamorphism can be verified by direct calculations. In this paper we present metamorphism as a sort of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-09 Taghreed Alqurashi , Vladimir V. Kisil

We present an exact, closed-form expression for the Newtonian potential of the characteristic function associated with two overlapping discs in the plane. This setting naturally arises when discretising nonlocal interaction terms present in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Andrés Miniguano-Trujillo

We extend so-called slit-slide-sew bijections to constellations and quasiconstellations. We present an involution on the set of hypermaps given with an orientation, one distinguished corner, and one distinguished edge leading away from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Jérémie Bettinelli , Dimitri Korkotashvili

In contrast to the somewhat abstract, group theoretical approach adopted by many papers, our work provides a new and more intuitive derivation of steerable convolutional neural networks in $d$ dimensions. This derivation is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Soumyabrata Kundu , Risi Kondor

A new derivative, called deformable derivative, is introduced here which is equivalent to ordinary derivative in the sense that one implies other. The deformable derivative is defined using limit approach like that of ordinary one but with…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2017-05-03 Fahed Zulfeqarr , Amit Ujlayan , Priyanka Ahuja

Convolution is an integral operation that defines how the shape of one function is modified by another function. This powerful concept forms the basis of hierarchical feature learning in deep neural networks. Although performing convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Sameera Ramasinghe , Salman Khan , Nick Barnes , Stephen Gould

In this paper, a new variant to fractional signal processing is proposed known as the Reduced Order Fractional Fourier Transform. Various properties satisfied by its transformation kernel is derived. The properties associated with the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-18 Sanjay Kumar

Many flexible parameterizations exist to represent data on the sphere. In addition to the venerable spherical harmonics, we have the Slepian basis, harmonic splines, wavelets and wavelet-like Slepian frames. In this paper we focus on the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-06-14 Frederik J. Simons , Ignace Loris , Eugene Brevdo , Ingrid C. Daubechies

We discuss how the kernel convolution approach can be used to accurately approximate the spatial covariance model on a sphere using spherical distances between points. A detailed derivation of the required formulas is provided. The proposed…

Computation · Statistics 2017-01-13 Alexander Gribov , Konstantin Krivoruchko

Traditionally, different types of feature operators (e.g., convolution, self-attention and involution) utilize different approaches to extract and aggregate the features. Resemblance can be hardly discovered from their mathematical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Zhicheng Cai

We describe the construction of a spherical wavelet analysis through the inverse stereographic projection of the Euclidean planar wavelet framework, introduced originally by Antoine and Vandergheynst and developed further by Wiaux et al.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-28 J. D. McEwen , M. P. Hobson , D. J. Mortlock , A. N. Lasenby

We propose a novel approach for performing convolution of signals on curved surfaces and show its utility in a variety of geometric deep learning applications. Key to our construction is the notion of directional functions defined on the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Adrien Poulenard , Maks Ovsjanikov

In this paper the conformal Dirac operator on the sphere is defined to be operating on the space of square-integrable Clifford algebra-valued functions. The spinorial Laplacian of order d>0 is defined and used to establish Sobolev embedding…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2015-05-27 Brett Pansano

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

We revisit the computation of the phase of the Dirac fermion scattering operator in external gauge fields. The computation is through a parallel transport along the path of time evolution operators. The novelty of the present paper compared…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jouko Mickelsson

Spherical data is found in many applications. By modeling the discretized sphere as a graph, we can accommodate non-uniformly distributed, partial, and changing samplings. Moreover, graph convolutions are computationally more efficient than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Michaël Defferrard , Nathanaël Perraudin , Tomasz Kacprzak , Raphael Sgier

We study the spherical slice transform which assigns to a function on the $n$-dimensional unit sphere the integrals of that function over cross-sections of the sphere by $k$-dimensional affine planes passing through the north pole. These…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-03 Boris Rubin

Self Attraction and Loading (SAL), which includes the deformation of the solid Earth under the load of the ocean tide and the self-gravitation of the so-deformed Earth as well as of the ocean tides themselves, is an important term to…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Anthony Chen , He Wang , Brian Arbic , Robert Krasny

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been providing the state-of-the-art performance for learning-related problems involving 2D/3D images in Euclidean space. However, unlike in the Euclidean space, the shapes of many structures in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Fenqiang Zhao , Shunren Xia , Zhengwang Wu , Dingna Duan , Li Wang , Weili Lin , John H Gilmore , Dinggang Shen , Gang Li