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Most of the known methods for estimating the fractal dimension of fractal sets are based on the evaluation of a single geometric characteristic, e.g. the volume of its parallel sets. We propose a method involving the evaluation of several…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Evgeny Spodarev , Peter Straka , Steffen Winter

Fractal dimension is widely adopted in spatial databases and data mining, among others as a measure of dataset skewness. State-of-the-art algorithms for estimating the fractal dimension exhibit linear runtime complexity whether based on…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-05-27 Christos Attikos , Michael Doumpos

Spatial patterns and processes of cities can be described with various entropy functions. However, spatial entropy always depends on the scale of measurement, and it is difficult to find a characteristic value for it. In contrast, fractal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-19 Yanguang Chen , Jiejing Wang , Jian Feng

This study uses the link between extreme value laws and dynamical systems theory to show that important dynamical quantities as the correlation dimension, the entropy and the Lyapunov exponents can be obtained by fitting observables…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-05-23 Davide Faranda , Sandro Vaienti

We propose that the recently defined persistent homology dimensions are a practical tool for fractal dimension estimation of point samples. We implement an algorithm to estimate the persistent homology dimension, and compare its performance…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Jonathan Jaquette , Benjamin Schweinhart

Fractal dimension is defined on the base of entropy, including macro state entropy and information entropy. The generalized correlation dimension of multifractals is based on Renyi entropy. However, the mathematical transform from entropy…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-17 Yanguang Chen

Our goal in this paper is to develop an effective estimator of fractal dimension. We survey existing ideas in dimension estimation, with a focus on the currently popular method of Grassberger and Procaccia for the estimation of correlation…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-01-17 Shohei Hidaka , Neeraj Kashyap

Fractal geometry provides a powerful tool for scale-free spatial analysis of cities, but the fractal dimension calculation results always depend on methods and scopes of study area. This phenomenon has been puzzling many researchers. This…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-07 Yanguang Chen

We study algorithmic problems on subsets of Euclidean space of low fractal dimension. These spaces are the subject of intensive study in various branches of mathematics, including geometry, topology, and measure theory. There are several…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Anastasios Sidiropoulos , Vijay Sridhar

A type of fractal dimension definition is based on the generalized entropy function. Both entropy and fractal dimension can be employed to characterize complex spatial systems such as cities and regions. Despite the inherent connect between…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-17 Yanguang Chen , Linshan Huang

The statistical precision of a chord method for estimating fractal dimension from a correlation integral is derived. The optimal chord length is determined, and a comparison is made to other estimators. These calculations use the…

comp-gas · Physics 2019-06-05 James Theiler , Turab Lookman

The conventional mathematical methods are based on characteristic length, while urban form has no characteristic length in many aspects. Urban area is a measure of scale dependence, which indicates the scale-free distribution of urban…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-17 Yanguang Chen

Modern datasets often contain high-dimensional features exhibiting complex dependencies. To effectively analyze such data, dimensionality reduction methods rely on estimating the dataset's intrinsic dimension (id) as a measure of its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Dhruv Gupta , Aditya Nagarsekar , Vraj Shah , Sujith Thomas

Urban form has been empirically demonstrated to be of scaling invariance and can be described with fractal geometry. However, the rational range of fractal dimension value and the relationships between various fractal indicators of cities…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-12-20 Yanguang Chen

The purpose of this paper is to study the fractal phenomena in large data sets and the associated questions of dimension reduction. We examine situations where the classical Principal Component Analysis is not effective in identifying the…

The fractal structure of real world objects is often analyzed using digital images. In this context, the compression fractal dimension is put forward. It provides a simple method for the direct estimation of the dimension of fractals stored…

Graphics · Computer Science 2016-08-15 P. Chamorro-Posada

The fractal or Hausdorff dimension is a measure of roughness (or smoothness) for time series and spatial data. The graph of a smooth, differentiable surface indexed in $\mathbb{R}^d$ has topological and fractal dimension $d$. If the surface…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-03-17 Tilmann Gneiting , Hana Ševčíková , Donald B. Percival

Many 0/1 datasets have a very large number of variables; on the other hand, they are sparse and the dependency structure of the variables is simpler than the number of variables would suggest. Defining the effective dimensionality of such a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Nikolaj Tatti , Taneli Mielikainen , Aristides Gionis , Heikki Mannila

Perfect fractals are mathematical objects that, because they are generated by recursive processes, have self-similarity and infinite complexity. In particular, they also have a fractional dimension. Although several proposals for the study…

Physics Education · Physics 2018-04-04 P. V. S. Souza , R. L. Alves , W. F. Balthazar

Entropy is one of physical bases for fractal dimension definition, and the generalized fractal dimension was defined by Renyi entropy. Using fractal dimension, we can describe urban growth and form and characterize spatial complexity. A…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-11-17 Yanguang Chen
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