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A new line of research uses compression methods to measure the similarity between signals. Two signals are considered similar if one can be compressed significantly when the information of the other is known. The existing compression-based…
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We present a way to use Topological Data Analysis (TDA) for machine learning tasks on grayscale images. We apply persistent homology to generate a wide range of topological features using a point cloud obtained from an image, its natural…
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