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An intuitive design method is proposed for generating developable ruled B-spline surfaces from a sequence of straight line segments indicating the surface shape. The first and last line segments are enforced to be the head and tail ruling…

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Persistent homology, a technique from computational topology, has recently shown strong empirical performance in the context of graph classification. Being able to capture long range graph properties via higher-order topological features,…

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We present a novel approach for generating isotropic surface triangle meshes directly from unoriented 3D point clouds, with the mesh density adapting to the estimated local feature size (LFS). Popular reconstruction pipelines first…

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This article studies the robust version of persistent homology based on trimming methodology to capture the geometric feature through support of the data in presence of outliers. Precisely speaking, the proposed methodology works when the…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-01 Tuhin Subhra Mahato , Subhra Sankar Dhar

Controlling structural complexity, particularly the number of holes, remains a fundamental challenge in topology optimization, with significant implications for both theoretical analysis and manufacturability. Most existing approaches rely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Gengchen Li , Depeng Gao , Wenliang Yin , Hongwei Lin

Direct B-Rep generation is increasingly important in CAD workflows, eliminating costly modeling sequence data and supporting complex features. A key challenge is modeling joint distribution of the misaligned geometry and topology. Existing…

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The reconstruction of real-world surfaces is on high demand in various applications. Most existing reconstruction approaches apply 3D scanners for creating point clouds which are generally sparse and of low density. These points clouds will…

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Accurate delineation of fine-scale structures is a very important yet challenging problem. Existing methods use topological information as an additional training loss, but are ultimately making pixel-wise predictions. In this paper, we…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-04 Xiaoling Hu , Dimitris Samaras , Chao Chen

Thin surfaces, such as the leaves of a plant, pose a significant challenge for implicit surface reconstruction techniques, which typically assume a closed, orientable surface. We show that by approximately interpolating a point cloud of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Riley M. Whebell , Timothy J. Moroney , Ian W. Turner , Ravindra Pethiyagoda , Scott W. McCue

Geometry and topology constitute complementary descriptors of three-dimensional shape, yet existing benchmark datasets primarily capture geometric information while neglecting topological structure. This work addresses this limitation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Prachi Kudeshia , Jiju Poovvancheri

Hyperuniformity, the suppression of density fluctuations at large length scales, is observed across a wide variety of domains, from cosmology to condensed matter and biological systems. Although the standard definition of hyperuniformity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-07 Marco Salvalaglio , Dominic J. Skinner , Jörn Dunkel , Axel Voigt

Preprocessing a 2D image often produces a noisy cloud of interest points. We study the problem of counting holes in unorganized clouds in the plane. The holes in a given cloud are quantified by the topological persistence of their boundary…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Vitaliy Kurlin

Predicting the macroscopic properties of thin fiber-based porous materials from their microscopic morphology remains challenging because of the structural heterogeneity of these materials. In this study, computational fluid dynamics…

Persistent homology, a powerful mathematical tool for data analysis, summarizes the shape of data through tracking topological features across changes in different scales. Classical algorithms for persistent homology are often constrained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-28 Bernardo Ameneyro , George Siopsis , Vasileios Maroulas

We present an end-to-end framework for generating artist-style meshes from noisy or incomplete point clouds, such as those captured by real-world sensors like LiDAR or mobile RGB-D cameras. Artist-created meshes are crucial for commercial…

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With the development of 3D sensing technologies, point clouds have attracted increasing attention in a variety of applications for 3D object representation, such as autonomous driving, 3D immersive tele-presence and heritage reconstruction.…

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Persistent homology is a topological feature used in a variety of applications such as generating features for data analysis and penalizing optimization problems. We develop an approach to accelerate persistent homology computations…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-01-19 Yuan Luo , Bradley J. Nelson

Persistence diagrams play a fundamental role in Topological Data Analysis where they are used as topological descriptors of filtrations built on top of data. They consist in discrete multisets of points in the plane $\mathbb{R}^2$ that can…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Frédéric Chazal , Vincent Divol

We define persistent homology groups over any set of spaces which have inclusions defined so that the corresponding directed graph between the spaces is acyclic, as well as along any subgraph of this directed graph. This method…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Erin Wolf Chambers , David Letscher