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To investigate the topological structure of planar polygon decomposition on trapezoids, which is formed by height functions. We use the oriented Reeb graph of the function with a marked vertex. We describe all possible optimal Reeb graphs…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2024-04-11 Oleksandr Pryshliak , Karolina Haieva

Color maps are a commonly used visualization technique in which data are mapped to optical properties, e.g., color or opacity. Color maps, however, do not explicitly convey structures (e.g., positions and scale of features) within data.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Tushar M. Athawale , Bryan Triana , Tanmay Kotha , Dave Pugmire , Paul Rosen

Since its introduction as a computable approximation of the Reeb graph, the Mapper graph has become one of the most popular tools from topological data analysis for performing data visualization and inference. However, finding an…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-06-04 Ziyad Oulhaj , Mathieu Carrière , Bertrand Michel

A Reeb space is defined as the space of all the connected components of inverse images of a smooth map, which is a fundamental tool in studying smooth manifolds using generic smooth maps whose codimensions are not positive such as Morse…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-05-29 Naoki Kitazawa

We introduce Reeb complexes in order to capture how generators of homology flow along sections of a real valued continuous function. This intuition suggests a close relation of Reeb complexes to established methods in topological data…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2022-02-01 Melvin Vaupel , Erik Hermansen , Paul Trygsland

Given a map $f:X \to M$ from a topological space $X$ to a metric space $M$, a decorated Reeb space consists of the Reeb space, together with an attribution function whose values recover geometric information lost during the construction of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Justin Curry , Washington Mio , Tom Needham , Osman Berat Okutan , Florian Russold

Classes of branched surfaces extend the classes of surfaces or 2-dimensional manifolds satisfying suitable properties and defined in various manners. Reeb spaces of smooth maps of suitable classes into surfaces whose codimensions are…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Naoki Kitazawa

Mapper is an algorithm that summarizes the topological information contained in a dataset and provides an insightful visualization. It takes as input a point cloud which is possibly high-dimensional, a filter function on it and an open…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-03-12 Bishal Deb , Ankita Sarkar , Nupur Kumari , Akash Rupela , Piyush Gupta , Balaji Krishnamurthy

Let $f: \mathbb{R}^3 \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ be a scalar field. An isosurface is a piecewise linear approximation of a level set $f^{-1}(\sigma)$ for some $\sigma \in \mathbb{R}$ built from some regular grid sampling of $f$. Isosurfaces…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Devin Zhao , Rephael Wenger

The Reeb graph is a construction which originated in Morse theory to study a real valued function defined on a topological space. More recently, it has been used in various applications to study noisy data which creates a desire to define a…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Vin de Silva , Elizabeth Munch , Amit Patel

Geometric relational embeddings map relational data as geometric objects that combine vector information suitable for machine learning and structured/relational information for structured/relational reasoning, typically in low dimensions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Bo Xiong , Mojtaba Nayyeri , Ming Jin , Yunjie He , Michael Cochez , Shirui Pan , Steffen Staab

Reeb graphs provide a method for studying the shape of a manifold by encoding the evolution and arrangement of level sets of a simple Morse function defined on the manifold. Since their introduction in computer graphics they have been…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Barbara Di Fabio , Claudia Landi

The Reeb space of a continuous map is the space of all (elements representing) connected components of preimages endowed with the quotient topology induced from the natural equivalence relation on the domain. These objects are strong tools…

General Topology · Mathematics 2021-06-15 Naoki Kitazawa

In this paper we introduce a novel family of attributed graphs for the purpose of shape discrimination. Our graphs typically arise from variations on the Mapper graph construction, which is an approximation of the Reeb graph for point cloud…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2023-07-03 Justin Curry , Washington Mio , Tom Needham , Osman Berat Okutan , Florian Russold

Reeb spaces of real-valued functions on manifolds are the spaces of all connected components (contours) of level sets and endowed with the natural quotient topology. They have been fundamental and strong tools in investigating manifolds via…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Naoki Kitazawa

In graph learning, maps between graphs and their subgraphs frequently arise. For instance, when coarsening or rewiring operations are present along the pipeline, one needs to keep track of the corresponding nodes between the original and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Marco Pegoraro , Riccardo Marin , Arianna Rampini , Simone Melzi , Luca Cosmo , Emanuele Rodolà

The cell complex structure is one of the most fundamental structures in topology and combinatorics, the Morse decomposition of a dynamical system analyzes the global gradient behavior, and the Reeb graph of a function is an elementary tool…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-31 Tomoo Yokoyama

Reeb graphs are an important tool for abstracting and representing the topological structure of a function defined on a manifold. We have identified three properties for faithfully representing Reeb graphs in a visualization: they should be…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Sefat E. Rahman , Tushar M. Athawale , Paul Rosen

Unsupervised feature learning often finds low-dimensional embeddings that capture the structure of complex data. For tasks for which prior expert topological knowledge is available, incorporating this into the learned representation may…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Robin Vandaele , Bo Kang , Jefrey Lijffijt , Tijl De Bie , Yvan Saeys

In this work a novel approach is presented for the isogeometric Boundary Element analysis of domains that contain inclusions with different elastic properties than the ones used for computing the fundamental solutions. In addition the…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Gernot Beer , Benjamin Marussig , Jürgen Zechner , Christian Dünser , Thomas-Peter Fries