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In this paper, we introduce a generalized asymmetric fronts propagation model based on the geodesic distance maps and the Eikonal partial differential equations. One of the key ingredients for the computation of the geodesic distance map is…

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We study the discretization of the Escape Time problem: find the length of the shortest path joining an arbitrary point of a domain, to the domain's boundary. Path length is measured locally via a Finsler metric, potentially asymmetric and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-20 Jean-Marie Mirebeau

First-arrival traveltime computation is crucial for many applications such as traveltime tomography, Kirchhoff migration, etc. There exist two major issues in conventional eikonal solvers: the source singularity issue and insufficient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Kai Gao , Lianjie Huang

The geodesic model based on the eikonal partial differential equation (PDE) has served as a fundamental tool for the applications of image segmentation and boundary detection in the past two decades. However, the existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Da Chen , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Huazhong Shu , Laurent D. Cohen

A deep learning approach to numerically approximate the solution to the Eikonal equation is introduced. The proposed method is built on the fast marching scheme which comprises of two components: a local numerical solver and an update…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Moshe Lichtenstein , Gautam Pai , Ron Kimmel

Seismic traveltime tomography represents a popular and useful tool for unravelling the structure of the subsurface across the scales. In this work we address the case where the forward model is represented by the eikonal equation and derive…

Geophysics · Physics 2025-08-21 Andrea Zunino , Scott Keating , Andreas Fichtner

Computing distances on Riemannian manifolds is a challenging problem with numerous applications, from physics, through statistics, to machine learning. In this paper, we introduce the metric-constrained Eikonal solver to obtain continuous,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Daniel Kelshaw , Luca Magri

We introduce Equivariant Neural Eikonal Solvers, a novel framework that integrates Equivariant Neural Fields (ENFs) with Neural Eikonal Solvers. Our approach employs a single neural field where a unified shared backbone is conditioned on…

The traveltime of compressional (P) and shear (S) waves have proven essential in many applications of earthquake and exploration seismology. An accurate and efficient traveltime computation for P and S waves is crucial for the success of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Ali Can Bekar , Erdogan Madenci , Ehsan Haghighat , Umair bin Waheed , Tariq Alkhalifah

Simulation of fluid flows is crucial for modeling physical phenomena like meteorology, aerodynamics, and biomedicine. Classical numerical solvers often require fine spatiotemporal grids to satisfy stability, consistency, and convergence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Mengtao Yan , Qi Wang , Haining Wang , Ruizhi Chengze , Yi Zhang , Hongsheng Liu , Zidong Wang , Fan Yu , Qi Qi , Hao Sun

We present a computational method for extreme-scale simulations of incompressible turbulent wall flows at high Reynolds numbers. The numerical algorithm extends a popular method for solving second-order finite differences Poisson/Helmholtz…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-07 Rafael Diez Sanhueza , Jurriaan Peeters , Pedro Costa

Anisotropic diffusion processes with a diffusion tensor are important in image analysis, physics, and engineering. However, their numerical approximation has a strong impact on dissipative artefacts and deviations from rotation invariance.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Karl Schrader , Joachim Weickert , Michael Krause

The concept of physics-informed neural networks has become a useful tool for solving differential equations due to its flexibility. There are a few approaches using this concept to solve the eikonal equation which describes the…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-12-14 Serafim Grubas , Anton Duchkov , Georgy Loginov

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) present two main directions: feed-forward models offer fast inference in sparse-view settings, while per-scene optimization yields high-quality renderings but is computationally expensive. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yueh-Cheng Liu , Jozef Hladký , Matthias Nießner , Angela Dai

In this chapter, we give an overview of part of our previous work based on the minimal path framework and the Eikonal partial differential equation (PDE). We show that by designing adequate Riemannian and Randers geodesic metrics the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Da Chen , Laurent D. Cohen

We present a novel differentiable grid-based representation for efficiently solving differential equations (DEs). Widely used architectures for neural solvers, such as sinusoidal neural networks, are coordinate-based MLPs that are both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Navami Kairanda , Shanthika Naik , Marc Habermann , Avinash Sharma , Christian Theobalt , Vladislav Golyanik

In this article, we introduce a finite element method designed for the robust computation of approximate signed distance functions to arbitrary boundaries in two and three dimensions. Our method employs a novel prediction-correction…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Amina El Bachari , Johann Rannou , Vladislav A. Yastrebov , Pierre Kerfriden , Susanne Claus

We solve the anisotropic diffusion equation in 2D, where the dominant direction of diffusion is defined by a vector field which does not conform to a Cartesian grid. Our method uses operator splitting to separate the diffusion perpendicular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-29 Dean Muir , Kenneth Duru , Matthew Hole , Stuart Hudson

We present a family of fast and accurate Dijkstra-like solvers for the eikonal equation and factored eikonal equation which compute solutions on a regular grid by solving local variational minimization problems. Our methods converge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Samuel F. Potter , Maria K. Cameron

The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is fundamental to scientific and engineering computing. In the presence of strong anisotropy, material heterogeneity, and complex geometries, however, classical iterative…

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