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In this article, we study the geodesic problem in a generalized metric space, in which the distance function satisfies a relaxed triangle inequality $d(x,y)\leq \sigma (d(x,z)+d(z,y))$ for some constant $\sigma \geq 1$, rather than the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2009-05-27 Qinglan Xia

Global Route-Planning Algorithms (GRPA) are required to compute paths between several points located on Earth's surface. A geodesic algorithm is employed as an auxiliary tool, increasing the precision of distance calculations. This work…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-17 William C. da Rosa , Iury V. de Bessa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

The real symplectic Stiefel manifold is the manifold of symplectic bases of symplectic subspaces of a fixed dimension. It features in a large variety of applications in physics and engineering. In this work, we study this manifold with the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Thomas Bendokat , Ralf Zimmermann

In this paper, we develop a novel method for fast geodesic distance queries. The key idea is to embed the mesh into a high-dimensional space, such that the Euclidean distance in the high-dimensional space can induce the geodesic distance in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Qianwei Xia , Juyong Zhang , Zheng Fang , Jin Li , Mingyue Zhang , Bailin Deng , Ying He

A methodology is developed for data analysis based on empirically constructed geodesic metric spaces. For a probability distribution, the length along a path between two points can be defined as the amount of probability mass accumulated…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Kei Kobayashi , Henry P. Wynn

Geodesic distance, commonly called shortest path length, has proved useful in a great variety of disciplines. It has been playing a significant role in search engine at present and so attracted considerable attention at the last few…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Xudong Luo , Fei Ma , Wentao Xu

We propose a general convex optimization problem for computing regularized geodesic distances. We show that under mild conditions on the regularizer the problem is well posed. We propose three different regularizers and provide analytical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Michal Edelstein , Nestor Guillen , Justin Solomon , Mirela Ben-Chen

Deep metric learning (DML) aims to minimize empirical expected loss of the pairwise intra-/inter- class proximity violations in the embedding space. We relate DML to feasibility problem of finite chance constraints. We show that minimizer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Yeti Z. Gurbuz , Ogul Can , A. Aydin Alatan

Leveraging geodesic distances and the geometrical information they convey is key for many data-oriented applications in imaging. Geodesic distance computation has been used for long for image segmentation using Image based metrics. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Nicolas Makaroff , Théo Bertrand , Laurent D. Cohen

Elastic geodesic grids deploy from flat to spatial configurations via complex nonlinear motion that is difficult to represent robustly for simulation. We present a geometric guidance framework that discretizes deployment as synchronized,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Stefan Pillwein , Alexander Hentschel , Markus Lukacevic , Przemyslaw Musialski

In this paper, we present a new method for computing approximate geodesic distances. We introduce the wave method for approximating geodesic distances from a point on a manifold mesh. Our method involves the solution of two linear systems…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-12-09 Ayushi Sinha , Michael Kazhdan

Geometry problem solving, a crucial aspect of mathematical reasoning, is vital across various domains, including education, the assessment of AI's mathematical abilities, and multimodal capability evaluation. The recent surge in deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jianzhe Ma , Wenxuan Wang , Qin Jin

The theory of geodesic regression aims to find a geodesic curve which is an optimal fit to a given set of data. In this article we restrict ourselves to the Riemannian manifold of positive definite operators (matrices) on a Hilbert space of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Frank Hansen

Comparing and computing distances between phylogenetic trees are important biological problems, especially for models where edge lengths play an important role. The geodesic distance measure between two phylogenetic trees with edge lengths…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-05 Megan Owen , J. Scott Provan

In this work, we present a novel iterative deep Ritz method (IDRM) for solving a general class of elliptic problems. It is inspired by the iterative procedure for minimizing the loss during the training of the neural network, but at each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Tianhao Hu , Bangti Jin , Fengru Wang

This work considers stochastic Galerkin approximations of linear elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) with stochastic forcing terms and stochastic diffusion coefficients, that cannot be bounded uniformly away from zero and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Fabio Musco , Andrea Barth

In this work, we introduce the problem of scenic routes among points in Rd. The key development is the nature of the problem in terms of both defining the concept of scenic points and scenic routes and then coming up with algorithms that…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Kamalakar Karlapalem

In the present work, we study the optimal control paths in the Zermelo navigation problem from the geometric and differential equations point of view rather than the optimal control point of view, where the latter has been carried out in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Zohreh Fathia , Behroz Bidabad

Geodesic models are known as an efficient tool for solving various image segmentation problems. Most of existing approaches only exploit local pointwise image features to track geodesic paths for delineating the objective boundaries.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Li Liu , Da Chen , Minglei Shu , Laurent D. Cohen

This survey gives a brief overview of theoretically and practically relevant algorithms to compute geodesic paths and distances on three-dimensional surfaces. The survey focuses on polyhedral three-dimensional surfaces.

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-10-23 Anil Maheshwari , Stefanie Wuhrer