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Fractals are geometric shapes that can display complex and self-similar patterns found in nature (e.g., clouds and plants). Recent works in visual recognition have leveraged this property to create random fractal images for model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Cheng-Hao Tu , Hong-You Chen , David Carlyn , Wei-Lun Chao

By approximating posterior distributions with weighted samples, particle filters (PFs) provide an efficient mechanism for solving non-linear sequential state estimation problems. While the effectiveness of particle filters has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Xiongjie Chen , Yunpeng Li

What is a diffusion model actually doing when it turns noise into a photograph? We show that the deterministic DDIM reverse chain operates as a Partitioned Iterated Function System (PIFS) and that this framework serves as a unified design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ann Dooms

We investigate the use of iterated function system (IFS) models for data analysis. An IFS is a discrete dynamical system in which each time step corresponds to the application of one of a finite collection of maps. The maps, which represent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-05-01 Zachary Alexander , Elizabeth Bradley , Joshua Garland , James D. Meiss

A method to construct fractal surfaces by recurrent fractal curves is provided. First we construct fractal interpolation curves using a recurrent iterated functions system(RIFS) with function scaling factors and estimate their box-counting…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-08-13 Chol-hui Yun , Hyong-chol O. , Hui-chol Choi

Fractal interpolation functions (FIFs) developed through iterated function systems (IFSs) prove more versatile than classical interpolants. However, the applications of FIFs in the domain of `shape preserving interpolation' are not fully…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-30 A. K. B. Chand , P. Viswanathan

We consider a construction of recurrent fractal interpolation surfaces with function vertical scaling factors and estimation of their box-counting dimension. A recurrent fractal interpolation surface (RFIS) is an attractor of a recurrent…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2013-07-12 Chol-Hui Yun , Hui-Chol Choi , Hyong-Chol O

In the first section we review recent results on the harmonic analysis of fractals generated by iterated function systems with emphasis on spectral duality. Classical harmonic analysis is typically based on groups whereas the fractals are…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , Steen Pedersen

Differentiable rendering is an essential operation in modern vision, allowing inverse graphics approaches to 3D understanding to be utilized in modern machine learning frameworks. Explicit shape representations (voxels, point clouds, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Tristan Aumentado-Armstrong , Stavros Tsogkas , Sven Dickinson , Allan Jepson

In nature, there are many phenomena with both irregularity and uncertainty. Therefore, a fuzzy-valued fractal interpolation is more useful for modeling them than fuzzy interpolation or fractal interpolation. We construct fractal…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-08-05 CholHui Yun , Hyang Choe , MiGyong Ri

We consider finite approximations of a fractal generated by an iterated function system of affine transformations on $\mathbb{R}^d$ as a discrete set of data points. Considering a signal supported on this finite approximation, we propose a…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Calvin Hotchkiss , Eric S. Weber

In this paper we examine a number of models that generate random fractals. The models are studied using the tools of computational complexity theory from the perspective of parallel computation. Diffusion limited aggregation and several…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Machta , R. Greenlaw

We introduce differentiable indirection -- a novel learned primitive that employs differentiable multi-scale lookup tables as an effective substitute for traditional compute and data operations across the graphics pipeline. We demonstrate…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Sayantan Datta , Carl Marshall , Derek Nowrouzezahrai , Zhao Dong , Zhengqin Li

Iterated Graph Systems (IGS) transplant ideas from fractal geometry into graph theory. Building on this framework, we extend Edge IGS from the primitive to the reducible setting. Within this broader context, we formulate rigorous…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Nero Ziyu Li , Frank Xin Hu , Thomas Britz

This paper is the first paper of three papers in a series, which intend to provide a systematic treatment for the space-filling curves of self-similar sets. In the present paper, we introduce a notion of \emph{linear graph-directed IFS}…

General Topology · Mathematics 2016-07-20 Hui Rao , Shu-Qin Zhang

This article aims to study fractal interpolation functions corresponding to a sequence of iterated function systems (IFSs). For a suitable choice of a sequence of IFS parameters, the corresponding non-stationary fractal function is a better…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Anarul Islam Mondal , Sangita Jha

The attractors of iterated function systems are usually obtained as the Hausdorff limit of any non-empty compact subset under iteration. In this note we show that an iterated function system on a boundedly compact metric space has compact,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-10-31 Şahin Koçak

Deterministic and random fractals, within the framework of Iterated Function Systems, have been used to model and study a wide range of phenomena across many areas of science and technology. However, for many applications deterministic…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Michael Barnsley , John E. Hutchinson , Örjan Stenflo

We present a modular differentiable renderer design that yields performance superior to previous methods by leveraging existing, highly optimized hardware graphics pipelines. Our design supports all crucial operations in a modern graphics…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-11-09 Samuli Laine , Janne Hellsten , Tero Karras , Yeongho Seol , Jaakko Lehtinen , Timo Aila

Differentiable rendering is a technique that aims to invert the rendering process to enable optimizing rendering parameters from a set of images. In this article, we present a differentiable volume rendering solution called DiffTetVR for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Christoph Neuhauser