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We present an isogeometric analysis technique that builds on manifold-based smooth basis functions for geometric modelling and analysis. Manifold-based surface construction techniques are well known in geometric modelling and a number of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Musabbir Majeed , Fehmi Cirak

An isogeometric boundary element method for problems in elasticity is presented, which is based on an independent approximation for the geometry, traction and displacement field. This enables a flexible choice of refinement strategies,…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-02-04 Benjamin Marussig , Jürgen Zechner , Gernot Beer , Thomas-Peter Fries

The topological derivative represents the sensitivity of a domain-dependent functional with respect to a local perturbation of the domain and is a valuable tool in topology optimization. Motivated by an application from electrical…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Peter Gangl , Samuel Amstutz

The objective of this study is to address the difficulty of simplifying the geometric model in which a differential problem is formulated, also called defeaturing, while simultaneously ensuring that the accuracy of the solution is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-09 Jochen Hinz , Ondine Chanon , Alessandra Arrigoni , Annalisa Buffa

An accurate implicit description of geometries is enabled by the level-set method. Level-set data is given at the nodes of a higher-order background mesh and the interpolated zero-level sets imply boundaries of the domain or interfaces…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-06-05 T. P. Fries , S. Omerović , D. Schöllhammer , J. Steidl

When modeling scientific and industrial problems, geometries are typically modeled by explicit boundary representations obtained from computer-aided design software. Unfitted (also known as embedded or immersed) finite element methods offer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Pere A. Martorell , Santiago Badia

The great advances of learning-based approaches in image processing and computer vision are largely based on deeply nested networks that compose linear transfer functions with suitable non-linearities. Interestingly, the most frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Peter Ochs , Tim Meinhardt , Laura Leal-Taixe , Michael Moeller

The work explores a specific scenario for structural computational optimization based on the following elements: (a) a relaxed optimization setting considering the ersatz (bi-material) approximation, (b) a treatment based on a nonsmoothed…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-08-06 J. Oliver , D. Yago , J. Cante , O. Lloberas-Valls

To exploit the advantageous properties of isogeometric analysis (IGA) in a scan-based setting, it is important to extract a smooth geometric domain from the scan data (e.g., voxel data). IGA-suitable domains can be constructed by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-23 S. C. Divi , C. V. Verhoosel , F. Auricchio , A. Reali , E. H. van Brummelen

Topological correctness plays a critical role in many image segmentation tasks, yet most networks are trained using pixel-wise loss functions, such as Dice, neglecting topological accuracy. Existing topology-aware methods often lack robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Laurin Lux , Alexander H. Berger , Alexander Weers , Nico Stucki , Daniel Rueckert , Ulrich Bauer , Johannes C. Paetzold

Topology optimization (TO) is a method of deriving an optimal design that satisfies a given load and boundary conditions within a design domain. This method enables effective design without initial design, but has been limited in use due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Seungyeon Shin , Dongju Shin , Namwoo Kang

Getting precise aspects of road through segmentation from remote sensing imagery is useful for many real-world applications such as autonomous vehicles, urban development and planning, and achieving sustainable development goals. Roads are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Javed Iqbal , Aliza Masood , Waqas Sultani , Mohsen Ali

Topology optimization under uncertainty (TOuU) often defines objectives and constraints by statistical moments of geometric and physical quantities of interest. Most traditional TOuU methods use gradient-based optimization algorithms and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Subhayan De , Jerrad Hampton , Kurt Maute , Alireza Doostan

In this paper we study the problem of the optimal distribution of two materials on smooth submanifolds $M$ of dimension $d-1$ in $\mathbf R^d$ without boundary by means of the topological derivative. We consider a class of shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Peter Gangl , Kevin Sturm

Real-world graphs have inherently complex and diverse topological patterns, known as topological heterogeneity. Most existing works learn graph representation in a single constant curvature space that is insufficient to match the complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zihao Guo , Qingyun Sun , Haonan Yuan , Xingcheng Fu , Min Zhou , Yisen Gao , Jianxin Li

In this study, we investigate and compare formulations for computing shape derivatives in bi-material level-set optimization with precise modeling of the interface. The level-set function is parameterized using B-splines, whose coordinates…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-10-30 Majd Kosta , Oded Amir

The use of ensemble methods to solve inverse problems is attractive because it is a derivative-free methodology which is also well-adapted to parallelization. In its basic iterative form the method produces an ensemble of solutions which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Neil K. Chada , Marco A. Iglesias , Lassi Roininen , Andrew M. Stuart

Despite topology optimization producing high-performance structures, late-stage localized revisions remain brittle: direct density-space edits (e.g., warping pixels, inserting holes, swapping infill) can sever load paths and sharply degrade…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hongrui Chen , Josephine V. Carstensen , Faez Ahmed

This article deals with a particular class of shape and topology optimization problems: the optimized design is a region $G$ of the boundary $\partial \Omega$ of a given domain $\Omega$, which supports a particular type of boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Eric Bonnetier , Carlos Brito-Pacheco , Charles Dapogny , Rafael Estevez

In this paper, we consider optimization problems with $L^0$-cost of the controls. Here, we take the support of the control as independent optimization variable. Topological derivatives of the corresponding value function with respect to…

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