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The self-join finds all objects in a dataset that are within a search distance, epsilon, of each other; therefore, the self-join is a building block of many algorithms. We advance a GPU-accelerated self-join algorithm targeted towards high…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Michael Gowanlock , Ben Karsin

We introduce FastGraph, a novel GPU-optimized k-nearest neighbor algorithm specifically designed to accelerate graph construction in low-dimensional spaces (2-10 dimensions), critical for high-performance graph neural networks. Our method…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Aarush Agarwal , Raymond He , Jan Kieseler , Matteo Cremonesi , Shah Rukh Qasim

The dominant 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) acceleration methods fail to properly regulate the number of Gaussians during training, causing redundant computational time overhead. In this paper, we propose FastGS, a novel, simple, and general…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shiwei Ren , Tianci Wen , Yongchun Fang , Biao Lu

In this paper, we develop a novel method for fast geodesic distance queries. The key idea is to embed the mesh into a high-dimensional space, such that the Euclidean distance in the high-dimensional space can induce the geodesic distance in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Qianwei Xia , Juyong Zhang , Zheng Fang , Jin Li , Mingyue Zhang , Bailin Deng , Ying He

Machine learning has been progressively generalised to operate within non-Euclidean domains, but geometrically accurate methods for learning on surfaces are still falling behind. The lack of closed-form Riemannian operators, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hippolyte Verninas , Caner Korkmaz , Stefanos Zafeiriou , Tolga Birdal , Simone Foti

Embedding undirected graphs in a Euclidean space has many computational benefits. FastMap is an efficient embedding algorithm that facilitates a geometric interpretation of problems posed on undirected graphs. However, Euclidean distances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Sriram Gopalakrishnan , Liron Cohen , Sven Koenig , T. K. Satish Kumar

The field of remote sensing is nowadays faced with huge amounts of data. While this offers a variety of exciting research opportunities, it also yields significant challenges regarding both computation time and space requirements. In…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Malte von Mehren , Fabian Gieseke , Jan Verbesselt , Sabina Rosca , Stéphanie Horion , Achim Zeileis

Deep neural networks have revolutionized 3D point cloud processing, yet efficiently handling large and irregular point clouds remains challenging. To tackle this problem, we introduce FastPoint, a novel software-based acceleration technique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Donghyun Lee , Dawoon Jeong , Jae W. Lee , Hongil Yoon

Solving inverse problems and achieving statistical rigour in landscape evolution models requires running many model realizations. Parallel computation is necessary to achieve this in a reasonable time. However, no previous algorithm is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Richard Barnes

Image feature point matching is a key step in Structure from Motion(SFM). However, it is becoming more and more time consuming because the number of images is getting larger and larger. In this paper, we proposed a GPU accelerated image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Tao Xu , Kun Sun , Wenbing Tao

The self-join finds all objects in a dataset within a threshold of each other defined by a similarity metric. As such, the self-join is a building block for the field of databases and data mining, and is employed in Big Data applications.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Michael Gowanlock , Ben Karsin

The DBSCAN method for spatial clustering has received significant attention due to its applicability in a variety of data analysis tasks. There are fast sequential algorithms for DBSCAN in Euclidean space that take $O(n\log n)$ work for two…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Yiqiu Wang , Yan Gu , Julian Shun

Visual SLAM systems combine visual tracking with global loop closure to maintain a consistent map and accurate localization. Loop closure is a computationally expensive process as we need to search across the whole map for matches. This…

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are high performance co-processors originally intended to improve the use and quality of computer graphics applications. Once, researchers and practitioners noticed the potential of using GPU for general…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-07-12 K. Parand , Saeed Zafarvahedian , Sayyed A. Hossayni

The Convex Hull algorithm is one of the most important algorithms in computational geometry, with many applications such as in computer graphics, robotics, and data mining. Despite the advances in the new algorithms in this area, it is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Roberto Carrasco , Héctor Ferrada , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Nancy Hitschfeld

This paper presents a GPU-accelerated implementation of two-dimensional Smart Laplacian smoothing. This implementation is developed under the guideline of our paradigm for accelerating Laplacianbased mesh smoothing [13]. Two types of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-25 Kunyang Zhao , Gang Mei , Nengxiong Xu , Jiayin Zhang

Computing geodesic distances on 3D surfaces is fundamental to many tasks in 3D vision and geometry processing, with deep connections to tasks such as shape correspondence. Recent learning-based methods achieve strong performance but rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yohanes Yudhi Adikusuma , Qixing Huang , Ying He

The computation of geodesic distances is an important research topic in Geometry Processing and 3D Shape Analysis as it is a basic component of many methods used in these areas. In this work, we present a minimalistic parallel algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Luciano A. Romero Calla , Lizeth J. Fuentes Perez , Anselmo A. Montenegro

The escalating adoption of diffusion models for applications such as image generation demands efficient parallel inference techniques to manage their substantial computational cost. However, existing diffusion parallelism inference schemes…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Han Liang , Jiahui Zhou , Zicheng Zhou , Xiaoxi Zhang , Xu Chen

We equip dynamic geometry software (DGS) with a user-friendly method that enables massively parallel calculations on the graphics processing unit (GPU). This interplay of DGS and GPU opens up various applications in education and…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Aaron Montag , Jürgen Richter-Gebert