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Persistent Homology (PH) offers stable, multi-scale descriptors of intrinsic shape structure by capturing connected components, loops, and voids that persist across scales, providing invariants that complement purely geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Prachi Kudeshia , Jiju Poovvancheri , Amr Ghoneim , Dong Chen

Persistent homology, while ostensibly measuring changes in topology, captures multiscale geometrical information. It is a natural tool for the analysis of point patterns. In this paper we explore the statistical power of the (persistent…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-10-12 Vanessa Robins , Katharine Turner

Persistent homology tracks topological features across geometric scales, encoding birth and death of cycles as barcodes. We develop a complementary theory where the filtration parameter is algebraic precision rather than geometric scale.…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Robert Ghrist , Cassie Ding

Persistent homology is a method for probing topological properties of point clouds and functions. The method involves tracking the birth and death of topological features (2000) as one varies a tuning parameter. Features with short…

Computational topology has recently known an important development toward data analysis, giving birth to the field of topological data analysis. Topological persistence, or persistent homology, appears as a fundamental tool in this field.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-05-28 Frédéric Chazal , Marc Glisse , Catherine Labruère , Bertrand Michel

The relationship between the macroscopic response of the slope and the macrostructure of the force chain network under the action of the metal plate was studied by the particle discrete element method and the persistent homology. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-20 Shengdong Zhang , Shihui You , Longfei Chen , Xiaofei Liu

In this paper, we apply persistent entropy, a novel topological statistic, for characterization of images of epithelial tissues. We have found out that persistent entropy is able to summarize topological and geometric information encoded by…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-19 N. Atienza , L. M. Escudero , M. J. Jimenez , M. Soriano-Trigueros

In this work we use the persistent homology method, a technique in topological data analysis (TDA), to extract essential topological features from the data space and combine them with deep learning features for classification tasks. In TDA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Mariana Dória Prata Lima , Gilson Antonio Giraldi , Gastão Florêncio Miranda Junior

Interacting, self-propelled particles such as epithelial cells can dynamically self-organize into complex multicellular patterns, which are challenging to classify without a priori information. Classically, different phases and phase…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-19 Dhananjay Bhaskar , William Y. Zhang , Ian Y. Wong

Link prediction is an important learning task for graph-structured data. In this paper, we propose a novel topological approach to characterize interactions between two nodes. Our topological feature, based on the extended persistent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Zuoyu Yan , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Chao Chen

Persistent homology is a popular tool in Topological Data Analysis. It provides numerical characteristics of data sets which reflect global geometric properties. In order to be useful in practice, for example for feature generation in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Boris Goldfarb

Persistent homology provides information about the lifetime of homology classes along a filtration of cell complexes. Persistence barcode is a graphical representation of such information. A filtration might be determined by time in a set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Rocio Gonzalez-Diaz , Maria-Jose Jimenez , Belen Medrano

The Vietoris-Rips filtration is a versatile tool in topological data analysis. It is a sequence of simplicial complexes built on a metric space to add topological structure to an otherwise disconnected set of points. It is widely used…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-03-07 Donald R. Sheehy

Persistence diagrams are useful displays that give a summary information regarding the topological features of some phenomenon. Usually, only one persistence diagram is available, and replicated persistence diagrams are needed for…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2019-05-16 Sarit Agami

Topological methods are very rarely used in structural health monitoring (SHM), or indeed in structural dynamics generally, especially when considering the structure and topology of observed data. Topological methods can provide a way of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Dervilis , Keith Worden

Topological features based on persistent homology capture high-order structural information so as to augment graph neural network methods. However, computing extended persistent homology summaries remains slow for large and dense graphs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Zuoyu Yan , Tengfei Ma , Liangcai Gao , Zhi Tang , Yusu Wang , Chao Chen

Persistent homology is a topological data analysis tool that has been widely generalized, extending its scope beyond the field of topology. Among its extensions, steady and ranging persistence were developed to study a wide variety of graph…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Yann-Situ Gazull

Topological data analysis can reveal higher-order structure beyond pairwise connections between vertices in complex networks. We present a new method based on discrete Morse theory to study topological properties of unweighted and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Harish Kannan , Emil Saucan , Indrava Roy , Areejit Samal

The problem of finding suitable point embedding or geometric configurations given only Euclidean distance information of point pairs arises both as a core task and as a sub-problem in a variety of machine learning applications. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Ipsita Ghosh , Abiy Tasissa , Christian Kümmerle

We present a new method for the statistical process control of lattice structures using tools from Topological Data Analysis. Motivated by applications in additive manufacturing, such as aerospace components and biomedical implants, where…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-15 Yulin An , Xueqi Zhao , Enrique del Castillo