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Cellular structures manifest their outstanding mechanical properties in many biological systems. One key challenge for designing and optimizing these geometrically complicated structures lies in devising an effective geometric…

Geometric Deep Learning has recently made striking progress with the advent of continuous Deep Implicit Fields. They allow for detailed modeling of watertight surfaces of arbitrary topology while not relying on a 3D Euclidean grid,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Edoardo Remelli , Artem Lukoianov , Stephan R. Richter , Benoît Guillard , Timur Bagautdinov , Pierre Baque , Pascal Fua

Voronoi tessellations have been used to model the geometric arrangement of cells in morphogenetic or cancerous tissues, however so far only with flat hypersurfaces as cell-cell contact borders. In order to reproduce the experimentally…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-12-02 Martin Bock , Amit Kumar Tyagi , Jan-Ulrich Kreft , Wolfgang Alt

Multi-robot systems have increasingly become instrumental in tackling search and coverage problems. However, the challenge of optimizing task efficiency without compromising task success still persists, particularly in expansive,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xinyi Wang , Jiwen Xu , Chuanxiang Gao , Yizhou Chen , Jihan Zhang , Chenggang Wang , Ben M. Chen

In this paper, we review the computational aspects of a multiscale dissipative particle dynamics model for complex fluid simulations based on the feature-rich geometry of the Voronoi tessellation. The geometrical features of the model are…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 G. De Fabritiis , P. V. Coveney

Nearest neighbor (NN) problem is an important scientific problem. The NN query, to find the closest one to a given query point among a set of points, is widely used in applications such as density estimation, pattern classification,…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Yang Li , Gang Liu , Junbin Gao , Zhenwen He , Mingyuan Bai , Chengjun Li

Computing the Fr\'{e}chet distance for surfaces is a surprisingly hard problem and the only known algorithm is limited to computing it between flat surfaces. We adapt this algorithm to create one for computing the Fr\'{e}chet distance for a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2011-03-16 Atlas F. Cook , Anne Driemel , Sariel Har-Peled , Jessica Sherette , Carola Wenk

Solving continuous Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) is challenging, particularly for high-dimensional continuous action spaces. To alleviate this difficulty, we propose a new sampling-based online POMDP solver, called…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Marcus Hoerger , Hanna Kurniawati , Dirk Kroese , Nan Ye

We present a learning-based method, namely GeoUDF,to tackle the long-standing and challenging problem of reconstructing a discrete surface from a sparse point cloud.To be specific, we propose a geometry-guided learning method for UDF and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Siyu Ren , Junhui Hou , Xiaodong Chen , Ying He , Wenping Wang

Meshes composed of well-centered simplices have nice orthogonal dual meshes (the dual Voronoi diagram). This is useful for certain numerical algorithms that prefer such primal-dual mesh pairs. We prove that well-centered meshes also have…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-01-25 Evan VanderZee , Anil N. Hirani , Damrong Guoy , Edgar Ramos

We introduce a new approach for identifying and characterizing voids within two-dimensional (2D) point distributions through the integration of Delaunay triangulation and Voronoi diagrams, combined with a Minimal Distance Scoring algorithm.…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Netzer Moriya

I present a regression algorithm that provides a continuous, piecewise-smooth function approximating scattered data. It is based on composing and blending linear functions over Voronoi cells, and it scales to high dimensions. The algorithm…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Shankar Prasad Sastry

This article provides numerical evidence that under volume constraint the ball is the set which maximizes the perimeter of the least-perimeter partition into cells with prescribed areas. We introduce a numerical maximization algorithm which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-08 Beniamin Bogosel , Edouard Oudet

Topological maps are more suitable than metric maps for robotic exploration tasks. However, real-time updating of accurate and detail-rich environmental topological maps remains a challenge. This paper presents a topological map updating…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yanbin Li , Canran Xiao , Shenghai Yuan , Peilai Yu , Ziruo Li , Zhiguo Zhang , Wenzheng Chi , Wei Zhang

Optimal surface segmentation is a state-of-the-art method used for segmentation of multiple globally optimal surfaces in volumetric datasets. The method is widely used in numerous medical image segmentation applications. However, nodes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Abhay Shah , Michael D. Abramoff , Xiaodong Wu

Every real algebraic variety determines a Voronoi decomposition of its ambient Euclidean space. Each Voronoi cell is a convex semialgebraic set in the normal space of the variety at a point. We compute the algebraic boundaries of these…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2018-11-21 Diego Cifuentes , Kristian Ranestad , Bernd Sturmfels , Madeleine Weinstein

Deep learning has been used as a powerful tool for various tasks in computer vision, such as image segmentation, object recognition and data generation. A key part of end-to-end training is designing the appropriate encoder to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Qing Fang

The Voronoi tessellation is a natural way of space segmentation, which has many applications in various fields of science and technology, as well as in social sciences and visual art. The varieties of the Voronoi tessellation methods are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-04 Irina Vavilova , Andrii Elyiv , Daria Dobrycheva , Olga Melnyk

In this paper we are concerned with finding the vertices of the Voronoi cell of a Euclidean lattice. Given a basis of a lattice, we prove that computing the number of vertices is a #P-hard problem. On the other hand we describe an algorithm…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-04 Mathieu Dutour Sikiric , Achill Schuermann , Frank Vallentin

The Voronoi diagrams are an important tool having theoretical and practical applications in a large number of fields. We present a new procedure, implemented as a set of CUDA kernels, which detects, in a general and efficient way,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-03-08 Massimo Bernaschi , Matteo Lulli , Mauro Sbragaglia