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This research proposes a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) data processing method for non-destructive detection of tunnel lining internal defects, called defect segmentation. To perform this critical step of automatic tunnel lining detection,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Senlin Yang , Zhengfang Wang , Jing Wang , Anthony G. Cohn , Jiaqi Zhang , Peng Jiang , Peng Jiang , Qingmei Sui

Topological data analysis (TDA) is a relatively new field that is gaining rapid adoption due to its robustness and ability to effectively describe complex datasets by quantifying geometric information. In imaging contexts, TDA typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Aaryam Sharma

Topological data analysis (TDA) has emerged as one of the most promising techniques to reconstruct the unknown shapes of high-dimensional spaces from observed data samples. TDA, thus, yields key shape descriptors in the form of persistent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-15 Wei Guo , Krithika Manohar , Steven L. Brunton , Ashis G. Banerjee

Topological methods can provide a way of proposing new metrics and methods of scrutinising data, that otherwise may be overlooked. In this work, a method of quantifying the shape of data, via a topic called topological data analysis will be…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-09-25 Tristan Gowdridge , Nikolaos Dervilis , Keith Worden

In this paper, we adapt the Faster-RCNN framework for the detection of underground buried objects (i.e. hyperbola reflections) in B-scan ground penetrating radar (GPR) images. Due to the lack of real data for training, we propose to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Minh-Tan Pham , Sébastien Lefèvre

Tree roots detection is a popular application of the Ground-penetrating radar (GPR). Normally, the ground surface above the tree roots is assumed to be flat, and standard processing methods based on hyperbolic fitting are applied to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Wenhao Luo , Yee Hui Lee , Lai Fern Ow , Mohamed Lokman Mohd Yusof , Abdulkadir C. Yucel

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) is the collection of mathematical tools that capture the structure of shapes in data. Despite computational topology and computational geometry, the utilization of TDA in time series and signal processing is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Shafie Gholizadeh , Wlodek Zadrozny

Inferring topological and geometrical information from data can offer an alternative perspective on machine learning problems. Methods from topological data analysis, e.g., persistent homology, enable us to obtain such information,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-19 Christoph Hofer , Roland Kwitt , Marc Niethammer , Andreas Uhl

Exploiting internal spatial geometric constraints of sparse LiDARs is beneficial to depth completion, however, has been not explored well. This paper proposes an efficient method to learn geometry-aware embedding, which encodes the local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Wenchao Du , Hu Chen , Hongyu Yang , Yi Zhang

RGB-based surface anomaly detection methods have advanced significantly. However, certain surface anomalies remain practically invisible in RGB alone, necessitating the incorporation of 3D information. Existing approaches that employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Vitjan Zavrtanik , Matej Kristan , Danijel Skočaj

A DNN architecture referred to as GPRInvNet was proposed to tackle the challenges of mapping the ground-penetrating radar (GPR) B-Scan data to complex permittivity maps of subsurface structures. The GPRInvNet consisted of a trace-to-trace…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Bin Liu , Yuxiao Ren , Hanchi Liu , Hui Xu , Zhengfang Wang , Anthony G. Cohn , Peng Jiang

The surge of data available on the Internet has driven the adoption of a wide range of computational methods for analyzing and extracting insights from large-scale data. Among these, Machine Learning (ML) has become a central paradigm,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Adaku Uchendu , Thai Le

The forward full-wave modeling of ground-penetrating radar (GPR) facilitates the understanding and interpretation of GPR data. Traditional forward solvers require excessive computational resources, especially when their repetitive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-05 Qiqi Dai , Yee Hui Lee , Hai-Han Sun , Jiwei Qian , Genevieve Ow , Mohamed Lokman Mohd Yusof , Abdulkadir C. Yucel

In this paper, a new classification model based on covariance matrices is built in order to classify buried objects. The inputs of the proposed models are the hyperbola thumbnails obtained with a classical Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Douba Jafuno , Ammar Mian , Guillaume Ginolhac , Nickolas Stelzenmuller

Topological Data Analysis (TDA) provides tools to describe the shape of data, but integrating topological features into deep learning pipelines remains challenging, especially when preserving local geometric structure rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Elena Xinyi Wang , Arnur Nigmetov , Dmitriy Morozov

Ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a mature geophysical method that has gained increasing popularity in planetary science over the past decade. GPR has been utilised both for Lunar and Martian missions providing pivotal information regarding…

This survey provides a comprehensive exploration of applications of Topological Data Analysis (TDA) within neural network analysis. Using TDA tools such as persistent homology and Mapper, we delve into the intricate structures and behaviors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Rubén Ballester , Carles Casacuberta , Sergio Escalera

Classical topological descriptors used in topological data analysis (TDA) are invariant under permutations of spatial axes and therefore cannot represent the loading direction, which is essential for modeling anisotropic mechanical…

Topological data analysis (TDA) offers novel mathematical tools for deep learning. Inspired by Carlsson et al., this study designs topology-aware convolutional kernels that significantly improve speech recognition networks. Theoretically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Zhiwang Yu

The Mapper algorithm, a technique within topological data analysis (TDA), constructs a simplified graphical representation of high-dimensional data to uncover its underlying shape and structural patterns. The algorithm has attracted…

General Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Vine Nwabuisi Madukpe , Bright Chukwuma Ugoala , Nur Fariha Syaqina Zulkepli