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We describe a accurate and fast pixel-based statistical method to interpolate fields of arbitrary spin on the sphere. We call this method Fast and Lean Interpolation on the Sphere (FLINTS). The method predicts the optimal interpolated…

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We propose a novel approach which employs random sampling to generate an accurate non-uniform mesh for numerically solving Partial Differential Equation Boundary Value Problems (PDE-BVP's). From a uniform probability distribution U over a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-03-29 David Bortz , Andrew Christlieb

Beam combiners are important components of an optical/infrared astrophysical interferometer, with many variants as to how to optimally combine two or more beams of light to fringe-track and obtain the complex fringe visibility. One such…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-16 Jonah T. Hansen , Michael J. Ireland , Andrew Ross-Adams , Simon Gross , Tiphaine Lagadec , Tony Travouillon , Joice Mathew

We introduce a novel type of approximation spaces for functions with values in a nonlinear manifold. The discrete functions are constructed by piecewise polynomial interpolation in a Euclidean embedding space, and then projecting pointwise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Philipp Grohs , Hanne Hardering , Oliver Sander , Markus Sprecher

Recently, medical image synthesis gains more and more popularity, along with the rapid development of generative models. Medical image synthesis aims to generate an unacquired image modality, often from other observed data modalities.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-04 Zhe Xiong , Qiaoqiao Ding , Xiaoqun Zhang

A numerical tool relying on sharp Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is developed for the analysis of aerospace applications. The method, which is conceived for application using segregated solvers relying on implicit time discretization, uses…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-02-25 M. A. Chemak , E. Constant , M. Meldi

Denoising diffusion models have driven significant progress in the field of Bayesian inverse problems. Recent approaches use pre-trained diffusion models as priors to solve a wide range of such problems, only leveraging inference-time…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-06 Yazid Janati , Badr Moufad , Mehdi Abou El Qassime , Alain Durmus , Eric Moulines , Jimmy Olsson

A fast and reliable algorithm for the optimal interpolation of scattered data on the torus by multivariate trigonometric polynomials is presented. The algorithm is based on a variant of the conjugate gradient method in combination with the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Stefan Kunis , Daniel Potts

Given only a collection of points sampled from a Riemannian manifold embedded in a Euclidean space, in this paper we propose a new method to solve elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) supplemented with boundary conditions. Notice…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-29 Ryan Vaughn , Tyrus Berry , Harbir Antil

We are presenting an Internal Linear Combination (ILC) CMB map, in which the foreground is reduced through harmonic variance minimization. We have derived our method by converting a general form of pixel-space approach into spherical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Jaiseung Kim , Pavel Naselsky , Per Rex Christensen

In this paper we propose an approach for computing multiple high-quality near-isometric dense correspondences between a pair of 3D shapes. Our method is fully automatic and does not rely on user-provided landmarks or descriptors. This…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Jing Ren , Simone Melzi , Maks Ovsjanikov , Peter Wonka

Immersed boundary methods are high-order accurate computational tools used to model geometrically complex problems in computational mechanics. While traditional finite element methods require the construction of high-quality boundary-fitted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jennifer E. Fromm , Nils Wunsch , Kurt Maute , John A. Evans , Jiun-Shyan Chen

This paper investigates a variational model for splines in the image metamorphosis model for the smooth interpolation of key frames in the space of images. The Riemannian manifold of images based on the metamorphosis model defines shortest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-28 Jorge Justiniano , Marko Rajković , Martin Rumpf

Text-driven image style transfer has seen remarkable progress with methods leveraging cross-modal embeddings for fast, high-quality stylization. However, most existing pipelines assume a \emph{single} textual style prompt, limiting the…

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Quantitative MRI methods that estimate multiple physical parameters simultaneously often require the fitting of a computational complex signal model defined through the Bloch equations. Repeated Bloch simulations can be avoided by matching…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Willem van Valenberg , Stefan Klein , Frans M. Vos , Kirsten Koolstra , Lucas J. van Vliet , Dirk H. J. Poot

Mesh processing pipelines are mature, but adapting them to newer non-mesh surface representations -- which enable fast rendering with compact file size -- requires costly meshing or transmitting bulky meshes, negating their core benefits…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yuta Noma , Zhecheng Wang , Chenxi Liu , Karan Singh , Alec Jacobson

Accurate interpolation and approximation techniques for functions with discontinuities are key tools in many applications as, for instance, medical imaging. In this paper, we study an RBF type method for scattered data interpolation that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-08 Stefano De Marchi , Wolfgang Erb , Francesco Marchetti , Emma Perracchione , Milvia Rossini

Motivated by geometry processing for surfaces with non-trivial topology, we study discrete harmonic maps between closed surfaces of genus at least two. Harmonic maps provide a natural framework for comparing surfaces by minimizing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Zhipeng Zhu , Wai Yeung Lam , Lok Ming Lui

B\'ezier curves provide the basic building blocks of graphic design in 2D. In this paper, we port B\'ezier curves to manifolds. We support the interactive drawing and editing of B\'ezier splines on manifold meshes with millions of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Claudio Mancinelli , Giacomo Nazzaro , Fabio Pellacini , Enrico Puppo

We propose a novel meshless method to compute harmonic maps and conformal maps for surfaces embedded in the Euclidean 3-space, using point cloud data only. Given a surface, or a point cloud approximation, we simply use the standard cubic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Tianqi Wu , Shing-Tung Yau