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Fractal geometry proved to be an effective mathematical tool for exploring real geographical space based on digital maps and remote sensing images. Whether the fractal theory tool can be applied to abstract geographical space has not been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-06 Yanguang Chen

Intrinsic dimension and differential entropy estimators are studied in this paper, including their systematic bias. A pragmatic approach for joint estimation and bias correction of these two fundamental measures is proposed. Shared steps on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-01 Jugurta Montalvão , Jânio Canuto , Luiz Miranda

The real-life data have a complex and non-linear structure due to their nature. These non-linearities and the large number of features can usually cause problems such as the empty-space phenomenon and the well-known curse of dimensionality.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Kadir Özçoban , Murat Manguoğlu , Emrullah Fatih Yetkin

The improved city clustering algorithm can be used to identify urban boundaries on a digital map, and the results are a set of isolines. The relationships between the urban measurements within the variable boundaries follow allometric…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-07-02 Yanguang Chen , Yihan Wang , Xijing Li

The main goal of this paper has a double purpose. On the one hand, we propose a new definition in order to compute the fractal dimension of a subset respect to any fractal structure, which completes the theory of classical box-counting…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-23 M. Fernández-Martínez , M. A Sánchez-Granero

It is shown that fractal dimension can be estimated seeking a solution of functional equation defined for areas of coverages of different scales. The method proposed is compared with widely known way to estimate fractal dimension via linear…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-16 Dmitry Zhabin

Information about intrinsic dimension is crucial to perform dimensionality reduction, compress information, design efficient algorithms, and do statistical adaptation. In this paper we propose an estimator for the intrinsic dimension of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-09 Paulo Serra , Michel Mandjes

This work proposes a novel technique for the numerical calculus of the fractal dimension of fractal objects which can be represented as a closed contour. The proposed method maps the fractal contour onto a complex signal and calculates its…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2012-01-17 João B. Florindo , Odemir M. Bruno

There are various notions of dimension in fractal geometry to characterise (random and non-random) subsets of $\mathbb R^d$. In this expository text, we discuss their analogues for infinite subsets of $\mathbb Z^d$ and, more generally, for…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-12 Markus Heydenreich

The box-counting (BC) algorithm is applied to calculate fractal dimensions of four fractal sets. The sets are contaminated with an additive noise with amplitude $\gamma = 10^{-5} \div 10^{-1}$. The accuracy of calculated numerical values of…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-12-23 A. Z. Gorski , M. Stroz , P. Oswiecimka , J. Skrzat

This paper deals with an estimating of the Fractal Dimension of a hydrometeorology variables like an Air temperature or humidity at a different sites in a landscape (and will be further evaluated from the land use point of view). Three…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-12-04 Jakub Jura , Aleš Antonín Kuběna , Martina Mironovová

We examine Frostman-type characterisations and other extremal measure criteria for a range of fractal dimensions of sets. In particular we derive properties of the less familiar modified lower box dimension and upper correlation dimension.…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Kenneth J. Falconer , Shuqin Zhang

This work presents a new Visual Basic 6.0 application for estimating the fractal dimension of images, based on an optimized version of the box-counting algorithm. Following the attempt to separate the real information from noise, we…

Computational Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 I. V. Grossu , C. Besliu , M. V. Rusu , Al. Jipa , C. C. Bordeianu , D. Felea , E. Stan , T. Esanu

It is a standard assumption that datasets in high dimension have an internal structure which means that they in fact lie on, or near, subsets of a lower dimension. In many instances it is important to understand the real dimension of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-21 James A. D. Binnie , Paweł Dłotko , John Harvey , Jakub Malinowski , Ka Man Yim

The area-perimeter scaling can be employed to evaluate the fractal dimension of urban boundaries. However, the formula in common use seems to be not correct. By means of mathematical method, a new formula of calculating the boundary…

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

Fractal dimension is an effective scaling exponent of characterizing scale-free phenomena such as cities. Urban growth can be described with time series of fractal dimension of urban form. However, how to explain the factors behind fractal…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-21 Yanguang Chen

Homogeneity and isotropy of the universe at sufficiently large scales is a fundamental premise on which modern cosmology is based. Fractal dimensions of matter distribution is a parameter that can be used to test the hypothesis of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-10 J. S. Bagla , Jaswant Yadav , T. R. Seshadri

Developing a robust generalization measure for the performance of machine learning models is an important and challenging task. A lot of recent research in the area focuses on the model decision boundary when predicting generalization. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Valeri Alexiev

If our aesthetic preferences are affected by fractal geometry of nature, scaling regularities would be expected to appear in all art forms, including music. While a variety of statistical tools have been proposed to analyze time series in…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2023-04-05 John McDonough , Andrzej Herczyński

We endeavour to estimate numerous multi-dimensional means of various probability distributions on a common space based on independent samples. Our approach involves forming estimators through convex combinations of empirical means derived…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-11 Gilles Blanchard , Jean-Baptiste Fermanian , Hannah Marienwald