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In this paper, we introduce an extension of smoothing on Reeb graphs, which we call truncated smoothing; this in turn allows us to define a new family of metrics which generalize the interleaving distance for Reeb graphs. Intuitively, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Erin Wolf Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Tim Ophelders

One of the prevailing ideas in geometric and topological data analysis is to provide descriptors that encode useful information about hidden objects from observed data. The Reeb graph is one such descriptor for a given scalar function. The…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-09-29 Ulrich Bauer , Xiaoyin Ge , Yusu Wang

We consider the Reeb graph of a thickening of points sampled from an unknown space. Our main contribution is a framework to transfer reconstruction results similar to the well-known work of Niyogi, Smale, and Weinberger to the setting of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Håvard Bakke Bjerkevik , Nello Blaser , Lars M. Salbu

Reeb graphs provide a method for studying the shape of a manifold by encoding the evolution and arrangement of level sets of a simple Morse function defined on the manifold. Since their introduction in computer graphics they have been…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Barbara Di Fabio , Claudia Landi

Reeb graphs are simple topological descriptors with applications in many areas like topological data analysis and computational geometry. Despite their prevalence, visualization of Reeb graphs has received less attention. In this paper, we…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Erin Chambers , Brittany Terese Fasy , Erfan Hosseini Sereshgi , Maarten Löffler

The Reeb graph is a construction that studies a topological space through the lens of a real valued function. It has widely been used in applications, however its use on real data means that it is desirable and increasingly necessary to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2015-08-11 Ulrich Bauer , Elizabeth Munch , Yusu Wang

The Reeb graph is a construction which originated in Morse theory to study a real valued function defined on a topological space. More recently, it has been used in various applications to study noisy data which creates a desire to define a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Vin de Silva , Elizabeth Munch , Amit Patel

As graphical summaries for topological spaces and maps, Reeb graphs are common objects in the computer graphics or topological data analysis literature. Defining good metrics between these objects has become an important question for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Mathieu Carrière , Steve Oudot

The Reeb graph of a scalar function defined on a domain gives a topologically meaningful summary of that domain. Reeb graphs have been shown in the past decade to be of great importance in geometric processing, image processing, computer…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Mustafa Hajij , Paul Rosen

A Reeb graph is a graphical representation of a scalar function on a topological space that encodes the topology of the level sets. A Reeb space is a generalization of the Reeb graph to a multiparameter function. In this paper, we propose…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Qingsong Wang , Guanqun Ma , Raghavendra Sridharamurthy , Bei Wang

Reeb graphs are a fundamental structure for analyzing the topological and geometric properties of scalar fields. Comparing Reeb graphs is crucial for advancing research in this domain, yet existing metrics are often computationally…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Erin W. Chambers , Guangyu Meng

The Reeb space of a smooth function is a topological and combinatoric object and fundamental and important in understanding topological and geometric properties of the manifold of the domain. It is the graph and a topological space endowed…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-29 Naoki Kitazawa

We study the probabilistic convergence between the mapper graph and the Reeb graph of a topological space $\mathbb{X}$ equipped with a continuous function $f: \mathbb{X} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. We first give a categorification of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Adam Brown , Omer Bobrowski , Elizabeth Munch , Bei Wang

The persistence diagram (PD) is an increasingly popular topological descriptor. By encoding the size and prominence of topological features at varying scales, the PD provides important geometric and topological information about a space.…

Reeb graphs are an important tool for abstracting and representing the topological structure of a function defined on a manifold. We have identified three properties for faithfully representing Reeb graphs in a visualization: they should be…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Sefat E. Rahman , Tushar M. Athawale , Paul Rosen

In this paper, we study the construction and transformation of two-dimensional persistent graphs. Persistence is a generalization to directed graphs of the undirected notion of rigidity. In the context of moving autonomous agent formations,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Julien M. Hendrickx , Baris Fidan , Changbin Yu , Brian D. O. Anderson , Vincent D. Blondel

We give a new answer to so-called realization problems of graphs as Reeb graphs of smooth functions with prescribed preimages of regular values having nice structures. We present a best possible answer for functions on 3-dimensional closed…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Naoki Kitazawa

Finding patterns in graphs is a fundamental problem in databases and data mining. In many applications, graphs are temporal and evolve over time, so we are interested in finding durable patterns, such as triangles and paths, which persist…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Pankaj K. Agarwal , Xiao Hu , Stavros Sintos , Jun Yang

The Reeb graph of a smooth function is a graph being a natural quotient space of the manifold of the domain and the space of all connected components of preimages. Such a combinatorial and topological object roughly and compactly represents…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-08-10 Naoki Kitazawa

In this paper, we consider the Visibility Graph Recognition and Reconstruction problems in the context of terrains. Here, we are given a graph $G$ with labeled vertices $v_0, v_1, \ldots, v_{n-1}$ such that the labeling corresponds with a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Safwa Ameer , Matt Gibson-Lopez , Erik Krohn , Sean Soderman , Qing Wang
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