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An efficient iterative Earth Mover's Distance (iEMD) algorithm for visual tracking is proposed in this paper. The Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) is used as the similarity measure to search for the optimal template candidates in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-04-10 Gang Yao , Ashwin Dani

In recent years, the Vision Transformer (ViT) has garnered significant attention within the computer vision community. However, the core component of ViT, Self-Attention, lacks explicit spatial priors and suffers from quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang , Mingrui Chen , Hongmin Liu , Ran He

This paper introduces a novel framework for continuous 3D trajectory optimization in cluttered environments, leveraging online neural Euclidean Signed Distance Fields (ESDFs). Unlike prior approaches that rely on discretized ESDF grids with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Guillermo Gil , Jose Antonio Cobano , Luis Merino , Fernando Caballero

In this paper, a new fast algorithm for path planning and a collision prediction framework for two dimensional dynamically changing environments are introduced. The method is called Time Distance (TD) and benefits from the space-time space…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Ali Analooee , Shahram Azadi , Reza Kazemi

For two multisets $S$ and $T$ of points in $[\Delta]^2$, such that $|S| = |T|= n$, the earth-mover distance (EMD) between $S$ and $T$ is the minimum cost of a perfect bipartite matching with edges between points in $S$ and $T$, i.e.,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Arman Yousefi , Rafail Ostrovsky

The Earth Mover Distance (EMD) between two sets of points $A, B \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ with $|A| = |B|$ is the minimum total Euclidean distance of any perfect matching between $A$ and $B$. One of its generalizations is asymmetric EMD,…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Dhruv Rohatgi

Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) is an important similarity measure between two distributions, used in computer vision and many other application domains. However, its exact calculation is computationally and memory intensive, which hinders its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Guangyu Meng , Ruyu Zhou , Liu Liu , Peixian Liang , Fang Liu , Danny Chen , Michael Niemier , X. Sharon Hu

Although several self-indexes for highly repetitive text collections exist, developing an index and search algorithm with editing operations remains a challenge. Edit distance with moves (EDM) is a string-to-string distance measure that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-04-11 Yoshimasa Takabatake , Kenta Nakashima , Tetsuji Kuboyama , Yasuo Tabei , Hiroshi Sakamoto

As neural networks are increasingly being applied to real-world applications, mechanisms to address distributional shift and sequential task learning without forgetting are critical. Methods incorporating network expansion have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Vinay Kumar Verma , Kevin J Liang , Nikhil Mehta , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

The performances of the routing protocols are important since they compute the primary path between source and destination. In addition, routing protocols need to detect failure within a short period of time when nodes move to start…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-08-09 Radwan abujassar , Mohammed ghanbari

We introduce NeuralVDB, which improves on an existing industry standard for efficient storage of sparse volumetric data, denoted VDB [Museth 2013], by leveraging recent advancements in machine learning. Our novel hybrid data structure can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Doyub Kim , Minjae Lee , Ken Museth

Handling clustering problems are important in data statistics, pattern recognition and image processing. The mean-shift algorithm, a common unsupervised algorithms, is widely used to solve clustering problems. However, the mean-shift…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Le You , Han Jiang , Jinyong Hu , Chorng Chang , Lingxi Chen , Xintong Cui , Mengyang Zhao

We consider the classical tree edit distance between ordered labeled trees, which is defined as the minimum-cost sequence of node edit operations that transform one tree into another. The state-of-the-art solutions for the tree edit…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Mateusz Pawlik , Nikolaus Augsten

This paper addresses the problem of trajectory planning for information gathering with a dynamic and resolution-varying sensor footprint. Ergodic planning offers a principled framework that balances exploration (visiting all areas) and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Ziyue Zheng , Yongce Liu , Hesheng Wang , Zhongqiang Ren

In modern relational machine learning it is common to encounter large graphs that arise via interactions or similarities between observations in many domains. Further, in many cases the target entities for analysis are actually signals on…

We present fVDB, a novel GPU-optimized framework for deep learning on large-scale 3D data. fVDB provides a complete set of differentiable primitives to build deep learning architectures for common tasks in 3D learning such as convolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Francis Williams , Jiahui Huang , Jonathan Swartz , Gergely Klár , Vijay Thakkar , Matthew Cong , Xuanchi Ren , Ruilong Li , Clement Fuji-Tsang , Sanja Fidler , Eftychios Sifakis , Ken Museth

Online state-time trajectory planning in highly dynamic environments remains an unsolved problem due to the unpredictable motions of moving obstacles and the curse of dimensionality from the state-time space. Existing state-time planners…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Delong Zhu , Tong Zhou , Jiahui Lin , Yuqi Fang , Max Q. -H. Meng

Estimating the difference between quantum data is crucial in quantum computing. However, as typical characterizations of quantum data similarity, the trace distance and quantum fidelity are believed to be exponentially-hard to evaluate in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 Ranyiliu Chen , Zhixin Song , Xuanqiang Zhao , Xin Wang

We propose a novel distance to calculate distance between high dimensional vector pairs, utilizing vector quantization generated encodings. Vector quantization based methods are successful in handling large scale high dimensional data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-21 Shicong Liu , Junru Shao , Hongtao Lu

The Earth Mover's Distance (EMD) computes the optimal cost of transforming one distribution into another, given a known transport metric between them. In deep learning, the EMD loss allows us to embed information during training about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Manuel Martinez , Monica Haurilet , Ziad Al-Halah , Makarand Tapaswi , Rainer Stiefelhagen