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We present an unsupervised data-driven approach for non-rigid shape matching. Shape matching identifies correspondences between two shapes and is a fundamental step in many computer vision and graphics applications. Our approach is designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Aymen Merrouche , Joao Regateiro , Stefanie Wuhrer , Edmond Boyer

Continuum robots possess high flexibility and redundancy, making them well suited for safe interaction in complex environments, yet their continuous deformation and nonlinear dynamics pose fundamental challenges to perception, modeling, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Peng Yu , Xin Wang , Ning Tan

This paper is concerned with the discretization error analysis of semilinear Neumann boundary control problems in polygonal domains with pointwise inequality constraints on the control. The approximations of the control are piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-12 Johannes Pfefferer , Klaus Krumbiegel

Segmenting overlapping cytoplasm of cells in cervical smear images is a clinically essential task, for quantitatively measuring cell-level features in order to diagnose cervical cancer. This task, however, remains rather challenging, mainly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Youyi Song , Lei Zhu , Baiying Lei , Bin Sheng , Qi Dou , Jing Qin , Kup-Sze Choi

The purpose of this work is the development of space-time discretization schemes for phase-field optimal control problems. Specifically in the optimal control minimization problem, a tracking-type cost functional is minimized to steer the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Denis Khimin , Marc C. Steinbach , Thomas Wick

We develop a statistically robust framework for reconstructing metal--semiconductor contact regions using topological gradients. The inverse problem is formulated as the identification of an unknown contact region from boundary measurements…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-05 Lekbir Afraites , Aissam Hadri , Mourad Hrizi , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago

We address an optimal control problem governed by a system coupling a Brinkman-type momentum equation for the velocity field with a sixth-order Cahn-Hilliard equation for the phase variable, incorporating curvature effects in the free…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Pierluigi Colli , Gianni Gilardi , Andrea Signori , Jürgen Sprekels

We present a phase field model for vesicle growth or shrinkage induced by an osmotic pressure due to a chemical potential gradient. The model consists of an Allen-Cahn equation describing the evolution of phase field and a Cahn-Hilliard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Xiaoxia Tang , Shuwang Li , John S. Lowengrub , Steven M. Wise

The availability of affordable and portable depth sensors has made scanning objects and people simpler than ever. However, dealing with occlusions and missing parts is still a significant challenge. The problem of reconstructing a (possibly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Or Litany , Alex Bronstein , Michael Bronstein , Ameesh Makadia

This paper is concerned with the motion of a time dependent hypersurface that evolves by mean curvature flow with a a volume constraint. Phase field approximation of this motion leads to the well known nonlocal Allen--Cahn equation. Here we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-04-02 Elie Bretin , Morgan Brassel

We developed a conformal map technique to analyze the attenuation of edge modes propagating along imperfect boundaries. In systems where the potential energy exhibits conformal invariance, the conformal transformation can straighten the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-12 Grigor Adamyan

The formation of codimension-one interfaces for multi-well gradient-driven problems is well-known and established in the scalar case, where the equation is often referred to as the Allen-Cahn equation. The proofs rely for a large on a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-03-24 Fabrice Bethuel

The $L^2$ gradient flow of the Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional leads to the Allen Cahn equation that is widely used for modeling phase separation. Machine learning methods for solving the Allen-Cahn equation in its strong form suffer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Revanth Mattey , Susanta Ghosh

Segmenting an image into multiple components is a central task in computer vision. In many practical scenarios, prior knowledge about plausible components is available. Incorporating such prior knowledge into models and algorithms for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-08 Loic A. Royer , David L. Richmond , Carsten Rother , Bjoern Andres , Dagmar Kainmueller

We introduce a data-driven approach to complete partial 3D shapes through a combination of volumetric deep neural networks and 3D shape synthesis. From a partially-scanned input shape, our method first infers a low-resolution -- but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Angela Dai , Charles Ruizhongtai Qi , Matthias Nießner

This article is devoted to the study of certain models for phase transitions involving nonlocal energies. A first part is concerned with to the asymptotic analysis of a system of fractional elliptic equations of Allen-Cahn type as a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Thomas Gabard , Vincent Millot

The paper is concerned with a node-based, gradient-driven, continuous adjoint two-phase flow procedure to optimize the shapes of free-floating vessels and discusses three topics. First, we aim to convey that elements of a Cahn-Hilliard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-10 Niklas Kühl , Thanh Tung Nguyen , Michael Palm , Dirk Jürgens , Thomas Rung

In general, standard necessary optimality conditions cannot be formulated in a straightforward manner for semi-smooth shape optimization problems. In this paper, we consider shape optimization problems constrained by variational…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-17 Daniel Luft , Volker H. Schulz , Kathrin Welker

Informed learning is an emerging field in machine learning that aims to compensate for insufficient data with prior knowledge. Shape knowledge covers many types of prior knowledge concerning the relationship of a function's output with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-26 Miltiadis Poursanidis , Patrick Link , Jochen Schmid , Uwe Teicher

Inverse Stefan problem arising in modeling of laser ablation of biomedical tissues is analyzed, where information on the coefficients, heat flux on the fixed boundary, and density of heat sources are missing and must be found along with the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-10-25 Ugur G. Abdulla , Jonathan Goldfarb