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We introduce ellipsoidal filtration, a novel method for persistent homology, and demonstrate its effectiveness in denoising recurrent signals. Unlike standard Rips filtrations, which use isotropic neighbourhoods and ignore the signal's…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Omer Bahadir Eryilmaz , Cihan Katar , Max A. Little

High-accuracy prediction of the physical properties of amorphous materials is challenging in condensed-matter physics. A promising method to achieve this is machine-learning potentials, which is an alternative to computationally demanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Emi Minamitani , Ippei Obayashi , Koji Shimizu , Satoshi Watanabe

Despite advances in feature representation, leveraging geometric relations is crucial for establishing reliable visual correspondences under large variations of images. In this work we introduce a Hough transform perspective on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Juhong Min , Minsu Cho

Building upon [2308.02636], we investigate the constraining power of persistent homology on cosmological parameters and primordial non-Gaussianity in a likelihood-free inference pipeline utilizing machine learning. We evaluate the ability…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-22 Juan Calles , Jacky H. T. Yip , Gabriella Contardo , Jorge Noreña , Adam Rouhiainen , Gary Shiu

Persistent homology is a natural tool for probing the topological characteristics of weighted graphs, essentially focusing on their $0$-dimensional homology. While this area has been substantially studied, we present a new approach to…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Omer Bobrowski , Primoz Skraba

Deep Matching (DM) is a popular high-quality method for quasi-dense image matching. Despite its name, however, the original DM formulation does not yield a deep neural network that can be trained end-to-end via backpropagation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-13 James Thewlis , Shuai Zheng , Philip H. S. Torr , Andrea Vedaldi

Supervised training of neural networks for classification is typically performed with a global loss function. The loss function provides a gradient for the output layer, and this gradient is back-propagated to hidden layers to dictate an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-09 Arild Nøkland , Lars Hiller Eidnes

Thresholding--the pruning of nodes or edges based on their properties or weights--is an essential preprocessing tool for extracting interpretable structure from complex network data, yet existing methods face several key limitations.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Adam Schroeder , Russell Funk , Jingyi Guan , Taylor Okonek , Lori Ziegelmeier

Pathological lung segmentation (PLS) is an important, yet challenging, medical image application due to the wide variability of pathological lung appearance and shape. Because PLS is often a pre-requisite for other imaging analytics,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-09 Adam P. Harrison , Ziyue Xu , Kevin George , Le Lu , Ronald M. Summers , Daniel J. Mollura

While standard persistent homology has been successful in extracting information from metric datasets, its applicability to more general data, e.g. directed networks, is hindered by its natural insensitivity to asymmetry. We study a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2017-04-17 Samir Chowdhury , Facundo Mémoli

Delineation of curvilinear structures is an important problem in Computer Vision with multiple practical applications. With the advent of Deep Learning, many current approaches on automatic delineation have focused on finding more powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Agata Mosinska , Pablo Marquez-Neila , Mateusz Kozinski , Pascal Fua

Persistent homology is a method for computing the topological features present in a given data. Recently, there has been much interest in the integration of persistent homology as a computational step in neural networks or deep learning. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Padraig Corcoran , Bailin Deng

Long lived topological features are distinguished from short lived ones (considered as topological noise) in simplicial complexes constructed from complex networks. A new topological invariant, persistent homology, is determined and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Danijela Horak , Slobodan Maletic , Milan Rajkovic

Persistent homology is a technique recently developed in algebraic and computational topology well-suited to analysing structure in complex, high-dimensional data. In this paper, we exposit the theory of persistent homology from first…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-30 Matthew Pietrosanu

The Persistent Homology Transform (PHT) summarizes a shape in $\mathbb{R}^m$ by collecting persistence diagrams obtained from linear height filtrations in all directions on $\mathbb{S}^{m-1}$. It enjoys strong theoretical guarantees,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Michael Kerber , Elena Xinyi Wang

Persistent homology, an algebraic method for discerning structure in abstract data, relies on the construction of a sequence of nested topological spaces known as a filtration. Two-parameter persistent homology allows the analysis of data…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Anway De , Thong Vo , Matthew Wright

Traditional deep learning relies on end-to-end backpropagation for training, but it suffers from drawbacks such as high memory consumption and not aligning with biological neural networks. Recent advancements have introduced locally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Junhao Su , Chenghao He , Feiyu Zhu , Xiaojie Xu , Dongzhi Guan , Chenyang Si

Persistence diagrams have been widely used to quantify the underlying features of filtered topological spaces in data visualization. In many applications, computing distances between diagrams is essential; however, computing these distances…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Yu Qin , Brittany Terese Fasy , Carola Wenk , Brian Summa

Persistent (co)homology is a central construction in topological data analysis, where it is used to quantify prominence of features in data to produce stable descriptors suitable for downstream analysis. Persistence is challenging to…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

Graph Signal Processing deals with the problem of analyzing and processing signals defined on graphs. In this paper, we introduce a novel filtering method for graph-based signals by employing ideas from topological data analysis. We begin…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Matias de Jong van Lier , Sebastián Elías Graiff Zurita , Shizuo Kaji