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Neural implicit representation of geometric shapes has witnessed considerable advancements in recent years. However, common distance field based implicit representations, specifically signed distance field (SDF) for watertight shapes or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yujie Lu , Long Wan , Nayu Ding , Yulong Wang , Shuhan Shen , Shen Cai , Lin Gao

We introduce the Push-Forward Signed Distance Morphometric (PF-SDM) for shape quantification in biomedical imaging. The PF-SDM compactly encodes geometric and topological properties of closed shapes, including their skeleton and symmetries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Roua Rouatbi , Juan-Esteban Suarez Cardona , Alba Villaronga-Luque , Jesse V. Veenvliet , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

We consider the curves whose all normal planes are at the same distance from a fixed point and obtain some characterizations of them in the 3-dimensional Euclidean space.

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Yasemin Alagoz

Metric graphs are ubiquitous in science and engineering. For example, many data are drawn from hidden spaces that are graph-like, such as the cosmic web. A metric graph offers one of the simplest yet still meaningful ways to represent the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Tamal K. Dey , Dayu Shi , Yusu Wang

Localization of a robotic system within a previously mapped environment is important for reducing estimation drift and for reusing previously built maps. Existing techniques for geometry-based localization have focused on the description of…

Learning node representations is a fundamental problem in graph machine learning. While existing embedding methods effectively preserve local similarity measures, they often fail to capture global functions like graph distances. Inspired by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 My Le , Luana Ruiz , Souvik Dhara

We introduce a rotation-invariant representation of planar shapes. In particular, this representation encodes shapes as vectors such that the Euclidean distance between them serves as a valid shape distance. For standardized, star-shaped…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hamid Shafieasl , Jeff M. Phillips

Neural signed distance functions (SDFs) have shown powerful ability in fitting the shape geometry. However, inferring continuous signed distance fields from discrete unoriented point clouds still remains a challenge. The neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Shengtao Li , Ge Gao , Yudong Liu , Ming Gu , Yu-Shen Liu

In this paper we consider adaptive sampling's local-feature size, used in surface reconstruction and geometric inference, with respect to an arbitrary landmark set rather than the medial axis and relate it to a path-based adaptive metric on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Nicholas J. Cavanna , Donald R. Sheehy

This paper proposes a new set of conditions for exactly representing collision avoidance constraints within optimization-based motion planning algorithms. The conditions are continuously differentiable and therefore suitable for use with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-21 James Guthrie

We describe new approaches for distances between pairs of 2-dimensional surfaces (embedded in 3-dimensional space) that use local structures and global information contained in inter-structure geometric relationships. We present algorithms…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-30 D. Boyer , Y. Lipman , E. St. Clair , J. Puente , T. Funkhouser , B. Patel , J. Jernvall , I. Daubechies

The concept of natural pseudo-distance has proven to be a powerful tool for measuring the dissimilarity between topological spaces endowed with continuous real-valued functions. Roughly speaking, the natural pseudo-distance is defined as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-06-26 Andrea Cerri , Barbara Di Fabio

Here a new notion of fractional length of a smooth curve, which depends on a parameter $\sigma$, is introduced that is analogous to the fractional perimeter functional of sets that has been studied in recent years. It is shown that in an…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Brian Seguin

Visual localization is a useful alternative to standard localization techniques. It works by utilizing cameras. In a typical scenario, features are extracted from captured images and compared with geo-referenced databases. Location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-28 Li Weng , Valerie Gouet-Brunet , Bahman Soheilian

In this paper, we revisit the notion of length measures associated to planar closed curves. These are a special case of area measures of hypersurfaces which were introduced early on in the field of convex geometry. The length measure of a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-10-28 Nicolas Charon , Thomas Pierron

We provide a new angle and obtain new results on a class of metrics on length-normalized curves in $d$ dimensions, represented by their unit tangents expressed as a function of arc-length, which are functions from the unit interval to the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-08 Laurent Younes

Anatomical structures such as the hippocampus, liver, and bones can be analyzed as orientable, closed surfaces. This permits the computation of volume, surface area, mean curvature, Gaussian curvature, and the Euler-Poincar\'e…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Bryce A Besler , Tannis D. Kemp , Andrew S. Michalski , Nils D. Forkert , Steven K. Boyd

Geometric frameworks for analyzing curves are common in applications as they focus on invariant features and provide visually satisfying solutions to standard problems such as computing invariant distances, averaging curves, or registering…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-24 Perrine Chassat , Juhyun Park , Nicolas Brunel

We propose a differentiable sphere tracing algorithm to bridge the gap between inverse graphics methods and the recently proposed deep learning based implicit signed distance function. Due to the nature of the implicit function, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Shaohui Liu , Yinda Zhang , Songyou Peng , Boxin Shi , Marc Pollefeys , Zhaopeng Cui

We propose a geometric method for quantifying the difference between parametrized curves in Euclidean space by introducing a distance function on the space of parametrized curves up to rigid transformations (rotations and translations).…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-09-12 Jaap Eldering , Joris Vankerschaver