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This paper presents a new mesh segmentation method that integrates geometrical and topological features through a flexible Reeb graph representation. The algorithm consists of three phases: construction of the Reeb graph using the improved…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Florian Beguet , Sandrine Lanquetin , Romain Raffin

We present a new certified and complete algorithm to compute arrangements of real planar algebraic curves. Our algorithm provides a geometric-topological analysis of the decomposition of the plane induced by a finite number of algebraic…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2011-03-25 Eric Berberich , Pavel Emeliyanenko , Alexander Kobel , Michael Sagraloff

As graphical summaries for topological spaces and maps, Reeb graphs are common objects in the computer graphics or topological data analysis literature. Defining good metrics between these objects has become an important question for…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Mathieu Carrière , Steve Oudot

Simple polyhedra are $2$-dimensional polyhedra and important objects in low-dimensional geometry and in the applications of {\it fold} maps, defined as smooth maps regarded as higher dimensional variants of Morse functions. For example,…

General Topology · Mathematics 2022-08-29 Naoki Kitazawa

We discuss reconstructing smooth real algebraic maps onto curves whose Reeb graph is as prescribed. This can be contributed to real algebraic geometry, especially in explicit examples in real algebraic geometry in a new way. The Reeb graph…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Naoki Kitazawa

Reeb graphs are widely used in a range of fields for the purposes of analyzing and comparing complex spaces via a simpler combinatorial object. Further, they are closely related to extended persistence diagrams, which largely but not…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Rehab Alharbi , Erin Wolf Chambers , Elizabeth Munch

We present a novel certified and complete algorithm to compute arrangements of real planar algebraic curves. It provides a geometric-topological analysis of the decomposition of the plane induced by a finite number of algebraic curves in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-01-13 Eric Berberich , Pavel Emeliyanenko , Alexander Kobel , Michael Sagraloff

Searching topological similarity between a pair of shapes or data is an important problem in data analysis and visualization. The problem of computing similarity measures using scalar topology has been studied extensively and proven useful…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Tripti Agarwal , Yashwanth Ramamurthi , Amit Chattopadhyay

The Reeb graph has been utilized in various applications including the analysis of scalar fields. Recently, research has been focused on using topological signatures such as the Reeb graph to compare multiple scalar fields by defining…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Brian Bollen , Erin Chambers , Joshua A. Levine , Elizabeth Munch

This is a note on the graphs of two smooth real-valued functions in the plane with no intersection and the natural map onto the region surrounded by them with the canonical projection to the line composed, yielding its Reeb space. The Reeb…

General Topology · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Naoki Kitazawa

The Reeb space of a smooth function is a topological and combinatoric object and fundamental and important in understanding topological and geometric properties of the manifold of the domain. It is the graph and a topological space endowed…

General Topology · Mathematics 2024-12-29 Naoki Kitazawa

The construction of Mapper has emerged in the last decade as a powerful and effective topological data analysis tool that approximates and generalizes other topological summaries, such as the Reeb graph, the contour tree, split, and joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Mustafa Hajij , Basem Assiri , Paul Rosen

Reeb spaces of continuous real-valued functions on topological spaces are fundamental and strong tools in investigating the spaces. The Reeb space is the natural quotient space of the space of the domain represented by connected components…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Naoki Kitazawa

We study the probabilistic convergence between the mapper graph and the Reeb graph of a topological space $\mathbb{X}$ equipped with a continuous function $f: \mathbb{X} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$. We first give a categorification of the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2020-08-17 Adam Brown , Omer Bobrowski , Elizabeth Munch , Bei Wang

Boundary representation (B-rep) is the industry standard for computer-aided design (CAD). While deep learning shows promise in processing B-rep models, existing methods suffer from a representation gap: continuous approaches offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuanxu Sun , Yuezhou Ma , Haixu Wu , Guanyang Zeng , Muye Chen , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

This work proposes a method for effectively computing manipulation paths to rearrange similar objects in a cluttered space. The solution can be used to place similar products in a factory floor in a desirable arrangement or for retrieving a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-04-29 Athanasios Krontiris , Rahul Shome , Andrew Dobson , Andrew Kimmel , Issac Yochelson , Kostas Bekris

The bipartite graph is a ubiquitous data structure that can model the relationship between two entity types: for instance, users and items, queries and webpages. In this paper, we study the problem of ranking vertices of a bipartite graph,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Xiangnan He , Ming Gao , Min-Yen Kan , Dingxian Wang

Constructing Morse functions and their higher dimensional versions or fold maps is fundamental, important and challenging in investigating the topologies and the differentiable structures of differentiable manifolds via Morse functions,…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2020-11-12 Naoki Kitazawa

The Reeb space of a smooth map whose codimension is minus is the space defined as the space of all connected components of inverse images. For generic maps such as Morse functions and their higher dimensional versions, they are polyhedra…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-01-17 Naoki Kitazawa

Merge trees, contour trees, and Reeb graphs are graph-based topological descriptors that capture topological changes of (sub)level sets of scalar fields. Comparing scalar fields using their topological descriptors has many applications in…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Fangfei Lan , Salman Parsa , Bei Wang