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This paper concerns models and convergence principles for dealing with stochasticity in a wide range of algorithms arising in nonlinear analysis and optimization in Hilbert spaces. It proposes a flexible geometric framework within which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Patrick L. Combettes , Javier I. Madariaga

We present robust algorithms for set operations and Euclidean transformations of curved shapes in the plane using approximate geometric primitives. We use a refinement algorithm to ensure consistency. Its computational complexity is…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Victor Milenkovic , Elisha Sacks , Steven Trac

New algorithms are devised for finding the maxima of multidimensional point samples, one of the very first problems studied in computational geometry. The algorithms are very simple and easily coded and modified for practical needs. The…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2009-10-09 Wei-Mei Chen , Hsien-Kuei Hwang , Tsung-Hsi Tsai

Starting with the irreducible triangulations of a fixed surface and splitting vertices, all the triangulations of the surface up to a given number of vertices can be generated. The irreducible triangulations have previously been determined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Thom Sulanke

This paper is a companion paper to [Lipman and Daubechies 2011]. We provide numerical procedures and algorithms for computing the alignment of and distance between two disk type surfaces. We provide a convergence analysis of the discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-02-18 Yaron Lipman , Jesus Puente , Ingrid Daubechies

The abundance of data has given machine learning considerable momentum in natural sciences and engineering, though modeling of physical processes is often difficult. A particularly tough problem is the efficient representation of geometric…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Andreas Mayr , Sebastian Lehner , Arno Mayrhofer , Christoph Kloss , Sepp Hochreiter , Johannes Brandstetter

Microstructures, characterized by intricate structures at the microscopic scale, hold the promise of important disruptions in the field of mechanical engineering due to the superior mechanical properties they offer. One fundamental…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Qiang Zou , Guoyue Luo

In the calculation of thermodynamic properties and three dimensional structures of macromolecules, such as proteins, it is important to have a good algorithm for computing solvent accessible surface area of macromolecules. Here we propose a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Shura Hayryan , Chin-Kun Hu , Jaroslav Skřivánek , Edik Hayryan , Imrich Pokorny

The purpose of this paper is, first, to give an algorithm that enables to obtain the lines of curvature on parametric hypersurfaces in Euclidean 4-space, and then, to obtain the curvatures of such lines by using the extended Darboux frame…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Fatih Çelik , Mustafa Düldül

In this article we describe an algorithm that can be applied for the generation of various classes of maps on orientable surfaces. It uses existing generators for abstract graphs and combines them with an efficient embedding and isomorphism…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-30 Gunnar Brinkmann

Geometric algebra is an optimal frame work for calculating with vectors. The geometric algebra of a space includes elements that represent all the its subspaces (lines, planes, volumes, ...). Conformal geometric algebra expands this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-07 Eckhard Hitzer

Two averaging algorithms are considered which are intended for choosing an optimal plane and an optimal circle approximating a group of points in three-dimensional Euclidean space.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ruslan Sharipov

We exploit level set topology optimization to find the optimal material distribution for metamaterial-based heat manipulators. The level set function, geometry, and solution field are parameterized using the non-uniform rational B-spline…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Chintan Jansari , Stéphane P. A. Bordas , Elena Atroshchenko

Based on Nielsen fixed point theory and Gr\"{o}bner-Shirshov basis, we obtain a simple method to compute geometric intersection numbers and self-intersection geometric numbers of loops on surfaces.

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Ying Gu , Xuezhi Zhao

Geometry processing of 3D objects is of primary interest in many areas of computer vision and graphics, including robot navigation, 3D object recognition, classification, feature extraction, etc. The recent introduction of cheap range…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-20 Gerasimos Arvanitis

The object recognition is a complex problem in the image processing. Mathematical morphology is Shape oriented operations, that simplify image data, preserving their essential shape characteristics and eliminating irrelevancies. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-28 R. P. Prakash , Keerthana S. Prakash , V. P. Binu

Some methods based on simple regularizing geometric element transformations have heuristically been shown to give runtime efficient and quality effective smoothing algorithms for meshes. We describe the mathematical framework and a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Dimitris Vartziotis , Benjamin Himpel

In this work, a 2D contour generation algorithm is proposed for irregular regions. The contour of the physical domain is approximated by mesh segments using the known coordinates of the contour. For this purpose, the algorithm uses a…

We describe a new algorithm to compute the geometric intersection number between two curves, given as edge vectors on an ideal triangulation. Most importantly, this algorithm runs in polynomial time in the bit-size of the two edge vectors.…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-05-12 Mark C. Bell , Richard C. H. Webb

Surface parametrization is a crucial part in various fields, having applications in computer graphic, medical imaging, scientific computing and computational engineering. The majority of surface parametrization approaches are performed on…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ka Ho Lai , Lok Ming Lui