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Feature tracking in time-varying scalar fields is a fundamental task in scientific computing. Topological descriptors, which summarize important features of data, have proved to be viable tools to facilitate this task. The merge tree is a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Son Le Thanh , Tino Weinkauf

Merge trees, a type of topological descriptor, serve to identify and summarize the topological characteristics associated with scalar fields. They present a great potential for the analysis and visualization of time-varying data. First,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Lin Yan , Talha Bin Masood , Farhan Rasheed , Ingrid Hotz , Bei Wang

Merge trees are fundamental structures in topological data analysis. Interleaving distance is a widely accepted metric for comparing merge trees, with applications in visualization and scientific computing. While a greedy algorithm exists…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Elena Farahbakhsh Touli , Talha Bin Masood

Topological data analysis is a powerful tool for describing topological signatures in real world data. An important challenge in topological data analysis is matching significant topological signals across distinct systems. In geometry and…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Stephen Y Zhang , Michael P H Stumpf , Tom Needham , Agnese Barbensi

Comparative analysis of scalar fields is an important problem with various applications including feature-directed visualization and feature tracking in time-varying data. Comparing topological structures that are abstract and succinct…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Raghavendra Sridharamurthy , Vijay Natarajan

Topological structures such as the merge tree provide an abstract and succinct representation of scalar fields. They facilitate effective visualization and interactive exploration of feature-rich data. A merge tree captures the topology of…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Raghavendra Sridharamurthy , Talha Bin Masood , Adhitya Kamakshidasan , Vijay Natarajan

Optimal transport provides a metric which quantifies the dissimilarity between probability measures. For measures supported in discrete metric spaces, finding the optimal transport distance has cubic time complexity in the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Samantha Chen , Puoya Tabaghi , Yusu Wang

Morse complexes and Morse-Smale complexes are topological descriptors popular in topology-based visualization. Comparing these complexes plays an important role in their applications in feature correspondences, feature tracking, symmetry…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mingzhe Li , Carson Storm , Austin Yang Li , Tom Needham , Bei Wang

Merge trees are a type of topological descriptors that record the connectivity among the sublevel sets of scalar fields. They are among the most widely used topological tools in visualization. In this paper, we are interested in sketching a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Mingzhe Li , Sourabh Palande , Lin Yan , Bei Wang

Temporal sequences of terrains arise in various application areas. To analyze them efficiently, one generally needs a suitable abstraction of the data as well as a method to compare and match them over time. In this paper we consider merge…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Thijs Beurskens , Tim Ophelders , Bettina Speckmann , Kevin Verbeek

Physical phenomena in science and engineering are frequently modeled using scalar fields. In scalar field topology, graph-based topological descriptors such as merge trees, contour trees, and Reeb graphs are commonly used to characterize…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Lin Yan , Yusu Wang , Elizabeth Munch , Ellen Gasparovic , Bei Wang

Geometric graphs appear in many real-world data sets, such as road networks, sensor networks, and molecules. We investigate the notion of distance between embedded graphs and present a metric to measure the distance between two geometric…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Erin Wolf Chambers , Elizabeth Munch , Sarah Percival , Xinyi Wang

In this work, Transition Probability Matrix (TPM) is proposed as a new method for extracting the features of nodes in the graph. The proposed method uses random walks to capture the connectivity structure of a node's close neighborhood. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Sarmad N. Mohammed , Semra Gündüç

Inspired by studies on the airports' network and the physical Internet, we propose a general model of weighted networks via an optimization principle. The topology of the optimal network turns out to be a spanning tree that minimizes a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Marc Barthelemy , Alessandro Flammini

Merge trees are a type of graph-based topological summary that tracks the evolution of connected components in the sublevel sets of scalar functions. They enjoy widespread applications in data analysis and scientific visualization. In this…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Ellen Gasparovic , Elizabeth Munch , Steve Oudot , Katharine Turner , Bei Wang , Yusu Wang

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 study the interleaving distance between merge trees from a combinatorial point of view. We use a particular type of matching between trees to obtain a novel formulation of the distance. With such formulation, we tackle the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Matteo Pegoraro

Partial graph matching extends traditional graph matching by allowing some nodes to remain unmatched, enabling applications in more complex scenarios. However, this flexibility introduces additional complexity, as both the subset of nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Gathika Ratnayaka , James Nichols , Qing Wang

In this work, we propose trait-based merge trees a generalization of merge trees to feature level sets, targeting the analysis of tensor field or general multi-variate data. For this, we employ the notion of traits defined in attribute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jochen Jankowai , Talha Bin Masood , Ingrid Hotz

Edit distances between merge trees of scalar fields have many applications in scientific visualization, such as ensemble analysis, feature tracking or symmetry detection. In this paper, we propose branch mappings, a novel approach to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Florian Wetzels , Heike Leitte , Christoph Garth
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