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Earth's forests play an important role in the fight against climate change, and are in turn negatively affected by it. Effective monitoring of different tree species is essential to understanding and improving the health and biodiversity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Venkatesh Ramesh , Arthur Ouaknine , David Rolnick

The unordered tree edit distance is a natural metric to compute distances between trees without intrinsic child order, such as representations of chemical molecules. While the unordered tree edit distance is MAX SNP-hard in principle, it is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Benjamin Paaßen

A merge tree is a fundamental topological structure used to capture the sub-level set (and similarly, super-level set) topology in scalar data analysis. The interleaving distance is a theoretically sound, stable metric for comparing merge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Althaf P , Amit Chattopadhyay , Osamu Saeki

In this work we present a novel approach for computing correspondences between non-rigid objects, by exploiting a reduced representation of deformation fields. Different from existing works that represent deformation fields by training a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ramana Sundararaman , Riccardo Marin , Emanuele Rodola , Maks Ovsjanikov

In distance query reconstruction, we wish to reconstruct the edge set of a hidden graph by asking as few distance queries as possible to an oracle. Given two vertices $u$ and $v$, the oracle returns the shortest path distance between $u$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Paul Bastide , Carla Groenland

This paper introduces decorated merge trees (DMTs) as a novel invariant for persistent spaces. DMTs combine both $\pi_0$ and $H_n$ information into a single data structure that distinguishes filtrations that merge trees and persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Justin Curry , Haibin Hang , Washington Mio , Tom Needham , Osman Berat Okutan

We propose to use a simulation driven inverse inference approach to model the dynamics of tree branches under manipulation. Learning branch dynamics and gaining the ability to manipulate deformable vegetation can help with occlusion-prone…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Jayadeep Jacob , Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay , Jason Williams , Paulo Borges , Fabio Ramos

We introduce a decomposition method for the distributed calculation of exact Euclidean Minimum Spanning Trees in high dimensions (where sub-quadratic algorithms are not effective), or more generalized geometric-minimum spanning trees of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Richard Lettich

Trees have long been used as a graphical representation of species relationships. However complex evolutionary events, such as genetic reassortments or hybrid speciations which occur commonly in viruses, bacteria and plants, do not fit into…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-07-24 Sebastien Roch , Kun-Chieh Wang

In graph theory, a tree is one of the more popular families of graphs with a wide range of applications in computer science as well as many other related fields. While there are several distance measures over the set of all trees, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Lev Yohananov , Eitan yaakobi

Rotation distances measure the differences in structure between rooted ordered binary trees. The one-dimensional skeleta of associahedra are rotation graphs, where two vertices representing trees are connected by an edge if they differ by a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Sean Cleary , Haris Nadeem

There is growing interest in automating agricultural tasks that require intricate and precise interaction with specialty crops, such as trees and vines. However, developing robotic solutions for crop manipulation remains a difficult…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Chung Hee Kim , Moonyoung Lee , Oliver Kroemer , George Kantor

In this paper, we present a flexible and probabilistic framework for tracking topological features in time-varying scalar fields using merge trees and partial optimal transport. Merge trees are topological descriptors that record the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mingzhe Li , Xinyuan Yan , Lin Yan , Tom Needham , Bei Wang

Graph Edit Distance (GED) measures the (dis-)similarity between two given graphs, in terms of the minimum-cost edit sequence that transforms one graph to the other. However, the exact computation of GED is NP-Hard, which has recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Eeshaan Jain , Indradyumna Roy , Saswat Meher , Soumen Chakrabarti , Abir De

Decompositional parameters such as treewidth are commonly used to obtain fixed-parameter algorithms for NP-hard graph problems. For problems that are W[1]-hard parameterized by treewidth, a natural alternative would be to use a suitable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Cornelius Brand , Esra Ceylan , Christian Hatschka , Robert Ganian , Viktoriia Korchemna

Graph Edit Distance (GED) is a popular similarity measurement for pairwise graphs and it also refers to the recovery of the edit path from the source graph to the target graph. Traditional A* algorithm suffers scalability issues due to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Runzhong Wang , Tianqi Zhang , Tianshu Yu , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang

Time-varying connectivity of triangle mesh sequences leads to substantial difficulties in their processing. Unlike editing sequences with constant connectivity, editing sequences with varying connectivity requires addressing the problem of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Filip Hácha , Jan Dvořák , Zuzana Káčereková , Libor Váša

Tree embedding has been a fundamental method in algorithm design with wide applications. We focus on the efficiency of building tree embedding in various computational settings under high-dimensional Euclidean $\mathbb{R}^d$. We devise a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Gramoz Goranci , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Peter Kiss , Qihao Kong , Yi Qian , Eva Szilagyi

In well-studied graph modification problems, adding and deleting vertices and edges are used as graph editing operations. We propose a model for graph modification on geometric intersection graphs called Geometric Graph Edit Distance that…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Nicolás Honorato-Droguett , Kazuhiro Kurita , Tesshu Hanaka , Hirotaka Ono

Distance transformation is an image processing technique used for many different applications. Related to a binary image, the general idea is to determine the distance of all background points to the nearest object point (or vice versa). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Tilo Strutz