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We introduce a new geometric framework for the set of symmetric positive-definite (SPD) matrices, aimed to characterize deformations of SPD matrices by individual scaling of eigenvalues and rotation of eigenvectors of the SPD matrices. To…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2018-06-29 Sungkyu Jung , Armin Schwartzman , David Groisser

Symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices are useful for capturing second-order statistics of visual data. To compare two SPD matrices, several measures are available, such as the affine-invariant Riemannian metric, Jeffreys divergence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Anoop Cherian , Panagiotis Stanitsas , Mehrtash Harandi , Vassilios Morellas , Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos

In the domain of pattern recognition, using the SPD (Symmetric Positive Definite) matrices to represent data and taking the metrics of resulting Riemannian manifold into account have been widely used for the task of image set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Kai-Xuan Chen , Xiao-Jun Wu

Recent research has shown that alignment between the structure of graph data and the geometry of an embedding space is crucial for learning high-quality representations of the data. The uniform geometry of Euclidean and hyperbolic spaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Wei Zhao , Federico Lopez , J. Maxwell Riestenberg , Michael Strube , Diaaeldin Taha , Steve Trettel

The numerical range of a matrix is studied geometrically via the cone of positive semidefinite matrices (or semidefinite cone for short). In particular it is shown that the feasible set of a two-dimensional linear matrix inequality (LMI),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-04-08 Didier Henrion

The numerical range of a matrix is studied geometrically via the cone of positive semidefinite matrices (or semidefinite cone for short). In particular it is shown that the feasible set of a two-dimensional linear matrix inequality (LMI),…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-12-10 Didier Henrion

The Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have received wide attention for data representation in many scientific areas. Although there are many different attempts to develop effective deep architectures for data processing on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Ziheng Chen , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Rui Wang , Zhiwu Huang , Josef Kittler

The space of embedded submanifolds plays an important role in applications such as computational anatomy and shape analysis. We can define two different classes on Riemannian metrics on this space: so-called outer metrics are metrics that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-09-19 Martins Bruveris

Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have been used in many fields of medical data analysis. Many Riemannian metrics have been defined on this manifold but the choice of the Riemannian structure lacks a set of principles that could…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-10 Yann Thanwerdas , Xavier Pennec

Homogeneous geodesics of homogeneous Finsler metrics derived from two or more Riemannian geodesic orbit metrics are investigated. For a broad newly defined family of positively related Riemannian geodesic orbit metrics, geodesic lemma is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Teresa Arias-Marco , Zdenek Dusek

The paper generalizes Thompson and Hilbert metric to the space of spectral densities. The resulting complete metric space has the differentiable structure of a Finsler manifold with explicit geodesics. The resulting distances are filtering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Giacomo Baggio , Augusto Ferrante , Rodolphe Sepulchre

Representing images and videos with Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices, and considering the Riemannian geometry of the resulting space, has been shown to yield high discriminative power in many visual recognition tasks.…

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We introduce the manifold of {\it restricted} $n\times n$ positive semidefinite matrices of fixed rank $p$, denoted $S(n,p)^{*}$. The manifold itself is an open and dense submanifold of $S(n,p)$, the manifold of $n\times n$ positive…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2023-04-04 A. Martina Neuman , Yuying Xie , Qiang Sun

Circular and non-flat data distributions are prevalent across diverse domains of data science, yet their specific geometric structures often remain underutilized in machine learning frameworks. A principled approach to accounting for the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-25 Thibault de Surrel , Fabien Lotte , Sylvain Chevallier , Florian Yger

Correlation matrices are used in many domains of neurosciences such as fMRI, EEG, MEG. However, statistical analyses often rely on embeddings into a Euclidean space or into Symmetric Positive Definite matrices which do not provide intrinsic…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Yann Thanwerdas , Xavier Pennec

We explore the connection between two problems that have arisen independently in the signal processing and related fields: the estimation of the geometric mean of a set of symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices and their approximate…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-05-28 Marco Congedo , Bijan Afsari , Alexandre Barachant , Maher Moakher

In this paper we describe an approach to complex Finsler metrics suitable to deal with global questions, and stressing the similarities between hermitian and complex Finsler metrics. Let $F$ be a smooth complex Finsler metric on a complex…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Marco Abate , Giorgio Patrizio

Manifold learning is a fundamental task at the core of data analysis and visualisation. It aims to capture the simple underlying structure of complex high-dimensional data by preserving pairwise dissimilarities in low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Thomas Dagès , Simon Weber , Daniel Cremers , Ron Kimmel

Learning faithful graph representations as sets of vertex embeddings has become a fundamental intermediary step in a wide range of machine learning applications. We propose the systematic use of symmetric spaces in representation learning,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Federico López , Beatrice Pozzetti , Steve Trettel , Michael Strube , Anna Wienhard