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Convolutional networks are successful due to their equivariance/invariance under translations. However, rotatable data such as images, volumes, shapes, or point clouds require processing with equivariance/invariance under rotations in cases…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Luca Della Libera , Vladimir Golkov , Yue Zhu , Arman Mielke , Daniel Cremers

We present a rotation-equivariant unsupervised learning framework for the sparse deconvolution of non-negative scalar fields defined on the unit sphere. Spherical signals with multiple peaks naturally arise in Diffusion MRI (dMRI), where…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Axel Elaldi , Neel Dey , Heejong Kim , Guido Gerig

Spherical equivariant graph neural networks (EGNNs) provide a principled framework for learning on three-dimensional molecular and biomolecular systems, where predictions must respect the rotational symmetries inherent in physics. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sophia Tang

Euclidean deep learning is often inadequate for addressing real-world signals where the representation space is irregular and curved with complex topologies. Interpreting the geometric properties of such feature spaces has become paramount…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Ramzan Basheer , Deepak Mishra

One of basic difficulties of machine learning is handling unknown rotations of objects, for example in image recognition. A related problem is evaluation of similarity of shapes, for example of two chemical molecules, for which direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Jarek Duda

Translating or rotating an input image should not affect the results of many computer vision tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are already translation equivariant: input image translations produce proportionate feature map…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Daniel E. Worrall , Stephan J. Garbin , Daniyar Turmukhambetov , Gabriel J. Brostow

We introduce a rotation-invariant representation of planar shapes. In particular, this representation encodes shapes as vectors such that the Euclidean distance between them serves as a valid shape distance. For standardized, star-shaped…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Hamid Shafieasl , Jeff M. Phillips

We discuss how the kernel convolution approach can be used to accurately approximate the spatial covariance model on a sphere using spherical distances between points. A detailed derivation of the required formulas is provided. The proposed…

Computation · Statistics 2017-01-13 Alexander Gribov , Konstantin Krivoruchko

This survey is devoted to recent developments in the statistical analysis of spherical data, with a view to applications in Cosmology. We will start from a brief discussion of Cosmological questions and motivations, arguing that most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-28 Javier Carrón Duque , Domenico Marinucci

This paper develops the theory behind the bispectrum, a concept that is well established in statistical signal processing but not, until recently, extended to computer vision as a source of frequency-domain invariants. Recent papers on…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2012-02-15 Ramakrishna Kakarala

Vector spherical harmonics on the unit sphere of $\mathbb{R}^3$ have broad applications in geophysics, quantum mechanics and astrophysics. In the representation of a tangent vector field, one needs to evaluate the expansion and the Fourier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-25 Quoc T. Le Gia , Ming Li , Yu Guang Wang

The modern data analyst must cope with data encoded in various forms, vectors, matrices, strings, graphs, or more. Consequently, statistical and machine learning models tailored to different data encodings are important. We focus on data…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-05-03 Suvrit Sra

This paper develops a rotation-invariant needlet convolution for rotation group SO(3) to distill multiscale information of spherical signals. The spherical needlet transform is generalized from $\mathbb{S}^2$ onto the SO(3) group, which…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Kai Yi , Jialin Chen , Yu Guang Wang , Bingxin Zhou , Pietro Liò , Yanan Fan , Jan Hamann

Harmonic inversion has already been proven to be a powerful tool for the analysis of quantum spectra and the periodic orbit orbit quantization of chaotic systems. The harmonic inversion technique circumvents the convergence problems of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Weibert , J. Main , G. Wunner

We present a comprehensive construction of scalar, vector and tensor harmonics on maximally symmetric three-dimensional spaces. Our formalism relies on the introduction of spin-weighted spherical harmonics and a generalized helicity basis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-25 Cyril Pitrou , Thiago S. Pereira

Spherical harmonics are a favorable technique for 3D representation, employing a frequency-based approach through the spherical harmonic transform (SHT). Typically, SHT is performed using equiangular sampling grids. However, these grids are…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Zikuan Li , Anyi Huang , Wenru Jia , Qiaoyun Wu , Mingqiang Wei , Jun Wang

Spherical Harmonic Gaussian type orbitals and Slater functions can be expressed using spherical coordinates or a linear combinations of the appropriate Cartesian functions. General expressions for the transformation coefficients between the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-21 Chiara Ribaldone , Jacques Kontak Desmarais

In this paper, we report on very efficient algorithms for the spherical harmonic transform (SHT). Explicitly vectorized variations of the algorithm based on the Gauss-Legendre quadrature are discussed and implemented in the SHTns library…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Nathanaël Schaeffer

A suitable feature representation that can both preserve the data intrinsic information and reduce data complexity and dimensionality is key to the performance of machine learning models. Deeply rooted in algebraic topology, persistent…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2018-11-02 Chi Seng Pun , Kelin Xia , Si Xian Lee

The introduction of convolutional layers greatly advanced the performance of neural networks on image tasks due to innately capturing a way of encoding and learning translation-invariant operations, matching one of the underlying symmetries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Nicholas Guttenberg , Nathaniel Virgo , Olaf Witkowski , Hidetoshi Aoki , Ryota Kanai